My head is battered with geneology

[3sillydogs]

Got bitten by the bug many years ago and it has a firm grip on me, there is apparently no cure!!

Our ancestors certainly do keep us occupied, the brain cells alive and sometimes really entertained when you rattle a skeleton loose!!

[Thornwood]

After a day of searching with no results I find myself saying "does it really matter, they're dead anyway" only to find next day I'm back on the trail.

[3sillydogs]

After a day of searching with no results I find myself saying "does it really matter, they're dead anyway" only to find next day I'm back on the trail.

I feel the same when I hit a brick wall, but I'm back again trying to find something I may have missed somewhere

[WhiskyMac]

Yep .... there's always something else.

More recently looking back at the mid 1700's I have been wondering what their daily lives would have
been like .... and that's a bit of an eye opener.

 

[coombs]

The fact they are dead and one of your ancestors is what makes them so interesting. As my sig says "research the dead, forget the living" meaning many genealogists seem to pay more attention to the dead than satisfying the living such as shopping with them, doing chores etc lol.

[3sillydogs]

It is a fine line coombs  

I guess it's all in the balance, but they are fascinating, especially how very different their lives were compared to ours today.  What would they think of all our mod cons

[andrewalston]

What would they think of all our mod cons

Clarke's third law would surely apply.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   

[jaybelnz]

It is a fine line coombs  

I guess it's all in the balance, but they are fascinating, especially how very different their lives were compared to ours today.  What would they think of all our mod cons

My grandmother, at 95, was wonderstruck when we bought a dishwasher!  She told my great-aunt, her sister, that I had a magic cupboard-" You should see J's Magic cupboard!  I've never seen anything like it.  She puts the dirty dishes into a cupboard under the sink, and about an hour later, takes them out all shiny and sparkling clean"!

She had been similarly reactive when television first arrived in NZ in the 1950's! 

[Rosinish]

I know detectives who don't put this much into a working week,no wonder a lot of people drift in and out of it ;-)

It's an endurance test of a different kind which pains us in different ways but the satisfaction at the end of the hurdles is far greater than we can explain & not noticeable to the 'normal' world like losing weight would be or a medal for a marathon 

Annie