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Family History Presented to Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

The former Prime Minister, Julia Eileen Gillard, has a rich British, Welsh, and Scottish heritage, according to a family history study prepared for Ms Gillard by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Julia Gillard received the two leather-bound volumes containing her pedigree in a presentation at Melbourne’s Wyndham Mormon chapel at 7 pm on 1st September, 2013, a week before the federal election, before a crowd of well over 250 Church leaders and young adults.

Read more at the Australian edition of Mormon Newsroom.

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