Kindred Lines
“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root”
- Chinese Proverb
Whether you are starting out on your family history or you are an experienced researcher, you will often find yourself wishing that, like the popular genealogy based TV programmes, a family historian would appear out of nowhere, holding a register open at the correct page, a transcription of a will and a census record to open the way back another generation.
The reality is that the programme researchers also needed to enlist a specialist who knew how to find those records or who knew a great deal about the local area.
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About Me
I became involved in genealogy over 30 years ago when a doctor suggested that my husband’s eye condition could be hereditary. I went back three generations and found no trace of it, but by then I was hooked. I started delving into my own family history, having remembered the half written autobiography and previously unseen photos that I had found in my father’s desk after he died in 1982. My mother kept telling me to stop. She seemed to be afraid that I might reveal some family secrets but, of course, that made me more eager to find them and, the more I discovered about the lives of my ancestors, the more passionate I became about family, local and social history...