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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 09 March 18 10:59 GMT (UK) »
What I have a hard time grasping is how you don't wanna be friends with people who are alive. You wanna worship those that have passed on, and that's perfectly fine and great, but why do you look down on someone that is alive? Seems a bit disrespectful to the living. there has to be a balance.

I can't see anywhere on this thread where someone has said that. The whole idea of Rootschat is to find out more about our ancestors. There are lots of other media where people can contact living relatives. I think if you took time to read through some of the other threads you will find that many people on here have made contact with living relatives and have become good friends with them.
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 09 March 18 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Why are the dead so interesting...because we are nosey...and we like to find skeletons and we love a bit of scandal...it proves they were human and makes them more real  ;D
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 09 March 18 11:19 GMT (UK) »
Why are the dead so interesting...because we are nosey...and we like to find skeletons and we love a bit of scandal...it proves they were human and makes them more real  ;D
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 09 March 18 14:13 GMT (UK) »
Why are the dead so interesting...because we are nosey...and we like to find skeletons and we love a bit of scandal...it proves they were human and makes them more real  ;D
Carol

Oh yes very nosey. It doesn't matter if they died a few years ago or a few thousand years ago, they can still be interesting. I have recently discovered a direct ancestor called Stephen Borde whose family had a manor in Cuckfield, Sussex called Borde Hill. His grandfather Stephen Borde born c1490 was the brother of writer and physician Andrew Borde I think. Stephen was born c1565 and died in 1630. He was actually knighted in 1603 in Whitehall.
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NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 09 March 18 17:16 GMT (UK) »
What I have a hard time grasping is how you don't wanna be friends with people who are alive. You wanna worship those that have passed on, and that's perfectly fine and great, but why do you look down on someone that is alive? Seems a bit disrespectful to the living. there has to be a balance.

You're casting your aspersions rather widely!

Are you a mind reader?  Can you see into other people's every day lives?

I doubt it, but if you can and do, then you would know that we do not keep in touch with our kith and kin on public websites like this.  For those who live near us, we visit.  For those who live further away, we keep in touch by phone or Skype, or private email.

If you are one of the many who have made an approach to the owner of an online tree, who you suspect is a cousin, and not received a response - then join the club and lighten up and try not to accuse all and sundry of doing the same.
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 09 March 18 17:43 GMT (UK) »
Why are the dead so interesting  I thought they were dead when I first set out to discover who in my family had died in WWI.  During that first cautious step it dawned on me that I'd discoveed which line had passed down the arthritis to some of my cousins and I.  Another revelation during that initial venture was discovering my daughter's love of making and designing pottery was in her genes.  I've pinpointed the person who passed the music gene to one of my sons and a couple of 2nd cousins across the Pond.  Back in the early 1970s my OH came home and and announced he was never going to work for anyone ever again (gulp, gulp, blooty gulp).  I didn't know it at the time but I shouldn't have worried - his lines are full of people who trod the same path and made a success of it. 

My ancestors aren't dead, they're living in people that I know and love.
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 09 March 18 18:00 GMT (UK) »
What a lovely answer Rena

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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 09 March 18 19:03 GMT (UK) »
Why are the dead so interesting...because we are nosey...and we like to find skeletons and we love a bit of scandal...it proves they were human and makes them more real  ;D
Carol

Researching one branch of my family was like watching a year's worth of Eastenders on fast-forward ;D

To answer your original question coombs, I have no idea why the dead are so interesting.... but to me, there are so many interesting aspects to genealogy - following people's movements around the country, looking at changing trends of names and jobs, reading newspaper obituaries which adds more detail to people's lives.
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Re: Why are the dead so interesting?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 09 March 18 21:25 GMT (UK) »
Researching them can be very very useful.
My daughter has pernicious anaemia. she was going to have some tests done which were probably unpleasant,because the specialist said "Oh,that`s good you at least don`t have to go through that".

I had been called in to the consulting room because my daughter was not aware of our family`s health history.
When I said that a maternal  aunt,died aged 16 (1910),and my paternal GGrandmother died (1905),a nd my mother in law still alive ,had it, the specialist looked no further .
That was useful but it is more to have some connection with the people who came before us and who must have shaped our health and character traits,even just by us inheriting things from them.

I have made more contacts with cousins ,helped them as they have helped me,swapped photographs etc than ever before.
It has been most rewarding and the help and kindness  from RootsChatters has been a revelation.
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