Geraldine Diana Severino (Flynn), daughter of Diana Dwan Flynn (Borlase) and Henry Leonard Flynn, was born in Sydney, Australia 0n May 31, 1942 and spent her younger years in Kensington, Sydney, NSW living with her parents and grandparents; Edward Norris Borlase and Madeliene Anne Borlase (Dwan).

Later moving to Maroubra at 15 years of age she attended Maroubra Junction Girls High School, a finishing school, and as a Junior started working in a Sydney Office. Still later she was sent by Management to the NCR College for Accounting Machine Operators. This later experience led to her working with Electronic Accounting Machines which progressed still further to working with Computers.

An opportunity came up that allowed her to work alongside Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel, as Ted’s honorary Public relations officer; work that was mainly voluntary and on Sundays, and later she was offered a full time position but at that stage was also studying at Julian Ashton Art School and preferred part time work.

While attending Julian Ashton Art School Mrs. Severino met her husband, Michele Severino, who later taught at the Art school and she went on to study for a degree at the Sydney College of the Arts.

During that time their first Daughter Skye was born, requiring her to go back to part time work and part time art school, which all came to a halt when their second daughter Danae was born. From that point Mrs. Severino went back to small, part time positions of Clerical/Accounting work.

A small, permanent part time position at the Rookwood Cemetery changed her direction completely. Among her duties of clerical and computer work, she also began doing research within the cemetery as people phoned, wrote or called in looking for deceased friends, family and loved ones. That turned up all sorts of facts regarding her own family, some known by her family and some not, looking up old cemetery books and data bases, as well as working with Society of Australian Genealogical Research materials

It proved to be a very rewarding position, and when results were found during that period of time, she began scanning photos and old documents from her own huge collection of family documents, newspaper clippings and photos; dictating that the time had come to put together and preserve her own family history.

Gathering all her papers together, with her dog, she headed up the Mid North Coast to the family beach house, hoping for peace and quiet and time to research, collate and document her family history and details for both historic and personal reasons. Since then Mrs. Severino has been an avid researcher and has contributed much to not only the preservation of her own family heritage, but has graciously and freely assisted others in that quest as well.