Are most people not interested in family trees?

[marcie dean]

myfamily tree has several dukes in it mostly Campbell',s hamiltons, Lord Forbes and just as many people who have worked as tanners, tailors travelling ones as sheriffs running estates for their laird as in William laidlaw.who was sheriff for the dukes of Buccleuch/Scott family even found a couple of service together her surname was baron I cannot remember his name.unless it was the sameand also distillery workers who took up gsardening as a ast-time when laid off sometimes fo themselves and also for others.

[IJDisney]

Ancestors who lead very fruitful lives will always be more interesting than ones who never ventured more than a mile from their birthplace and were a labourer all their lives. Although they are still an ancestor, and they helped feed the country with their ag lab work.

Ancestors who lead very fruitful lives also tend to leave a better paper trail!

Something to bear in mind when we think about what we'll leave behind ourselves.

[marcie dean]

in reply to the person ho suggested that they should bury us with a toe stuck out just in case anyone wants to do a DNA test in future years. I have a tray which states and I quote
to my critics:
when I'm in a sober mood I worry, work and think
when i'm in a drunken mood I gamble play and dink,
 but when my moods are over.
and my time has come to pass. I hope I'm buried upside down, so the world
may kiss my ass.

[Sea Dog]

Marcie I do so like your poem.
I am new to the forum having started very late due to the fact of being told "you won't get anywhere as your grandfather was an orphan" but thirty years later I started.
Our children are not interested, they just pay me lip service when I inform them of a relation of long ago.
We are off to Northampton Thursday as I have found out that the Dixon's were in a village called Kings Cliffe and many were wood turners.
But I can at least document the information and in years to come someone might say "I'm glad old Great Grandad Dixon did that.