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Learning about your ancestors is a good way to discover yourself. You might have had a long lineage of navy men or come from a line of judges. Family interests and activities are often passed from one generation to the next, however, sometimes we never know where our family customs and traditions started. Ancestry.com takes you on a unique journey …

Born in Melbourne, Australia, on May 11, 1983, Holly Rachel Valance (born Vukadinovic) is the daughter of Rachel and Ryko Vukadinovic. Mr Vukadinovic is a well-known Serbian musician. When Holly was 12-years-old, she wanted to get a part-time job at McDonalds to earn money to buy clothes. Since she had to be 14 to work there, she turned instead to …

She was a 12-year-old girl from humble beginnings the first time she took on modeling. It turned into a momentous choice that would change her life forever. Success as a model led of course to her acting debut, as young Felicity Scully on the soap opera Neighbours. That was when she really started to get noticed. She decided to step …