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Discover your sporting ancestors : it was not all work and no play! / Shauna Hicks.
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TitleDiscover your sporting ancestors : it was not all work and no play! / Shauna Hicks.DescriptionHave you ever thought about what sporting activities your ancestors might have been involved with? Were they on the local cricket or football team, or did they play darts at the local pub? Were they keen anglers, swimmers or lifesavers? What about horse racing or regular track and field events? Perhaps they were good administrators and served on sporting committees rather than playing themselves. Men and women were both involved with sports and who can forget their own school sports. Many communities had a local cricket, football or other sporting team and in some cases memorabilia and/or photographs have been handed down to alert us to an ancestor's involvement in a sporting activity. We may simply discover someone's involvement when searching newspapers or perhaps there is a mention of a sporting club in a funeral notice. How do you discover more about what they did? This guide shows you where to look for more information and how to make the most of searching websites, newspapers, original records and published sources.Personal authorHicks, Shauna, authorImprintSt Agnes, SA : Unlock the Past, 2015.; ©2015.LanguageEnglishDate2015-2015Collation53 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.ISBN9781925323047Bib. formatBooksNotesIncludes bibliographical references (pages 51-52) and index.
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Discover your sporting ancestors : it was not all work and no play! / Shauna Hicks. (2015-2015). Moreton Bay Our Story, accessed 17/12/2025, https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/14571
