Happy 10th Birthday B3taTen years ago today we launched B3ta (well the version of it you'd recognise). Happy birthday B3ta! As a special one off please add your memories of B3ta here. E.g. How you found the site, or an early thing you saw on the site, maybe the people you've met or how the community is/was part of your life.
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rob, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 10:24)
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8 yearsNot sure how I found this place. Highlight was a post about "black sheep in the family" - I told the story about one William Turney Morris, who came from England to Australia around 1828 - the family story was he was a "remittance man" - caught doing something naughty, and because of the family's money and influence, all charges were dropped, and they send him to the colonies, and kept sending him money so he wouldn't return. I was contacted by a history researcher from the South Coast of NSW (Australia), who was researching this person.
Turns out he was an important contributor to the development of the cattle industry there, was never send from Old blighty in disgrace - and when he died, the lawyers cheated his three kids out of all of the money.
Thanks, B3ta.
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 16:26, Reply)
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