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Bloody hell this is hard work 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 ;-)
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lol, this hobby certainly concentrates the mind far better than any teacher's "six of the best" did ;D
I don't know about you or other people, but although I knew most of my relatives I found it difficult to start collecting documentation for them. As it became easier to track them further back through the ages, I often found I'd been so absorbed following the paper trail that I'd lost track of time and only knew that I'd missed out on a night's sleep by the sound of the dawn chorus penetrating my consciousness. ;D
Have a great day
Rena
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;D ;D ;D.
Ditto Rena! Right back at the start, 15 years or so ago - and it's still a happening thing!
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Been addicted for many, many years :) And yes I do tend to lose track of time :-[.
Lots of stories about my journey and I won't bore you all with those however I often tell this one. About 15 years ago I found I could purchase and download probated Wills from National Archives at Kew. Lunchtime was looming and living on a fairly large farm in a fairly remote area, mealtimes are needed [expected :-X] to be on time. Oh why did the internet choose to drop out and then go slow during the download. I lost all track of time and eventually emerged from the farm office with the seven pages of illegible script to announce. "I have a copy of my ggggrandfather Will" to which the response was "Can we eat it for lunch". Probably not all that funny now but it was at the time.
These days I spend lots of time adding 'meat to the bones'...which I really enjoy.
Cheers
Cando
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We can take some comfort that doing mental puzzles every day staves off Alzheimer's.
So all those relatives driving us mad are actually doing us good!
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I look on geneology as an amazing journey into the past - well I was pretty good at history in bygone days.
It does become addictive but keeps the brain cells going. I have been known to go to bed and then get up when my brain will not switch off and something in the back of my mind gives me a clue to something I was looking for. Time ;) ;) what is that?
Long may the lost "rellies" keep me going.
Dorrie
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It certainly is a journey this ancestry hunting. The trouble is I tend to get sidetracked when I spot a name which could belong to another of my trees. Sometimes at the end of the day I find I have done nothing except look at something/someone I hadn't been looking for to start with !
Does that make sense ?
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It certainly is a journey this ancestry hunting. The trouble is I tend to get sidetracked when I spot a name which could belong to another of my trees. Sometimes at the end of the day I find I have done nothing except look at something/someone I hadn't been looking for to start with !
Does that make sense ?
Yes I know the feeling ;D ;D ..never mind it keeps the brain active ;)
Rosie
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It does become addictive but keeps the brain cells going. I have been known to go to bed and then get up when my brain will not switch off and something in the back of my mind gives me a clue to something I was looking for. Time ;) ;) what is that?
Me too Dorrie - that's why I keep a notebook and pen on my bedside cabinet! >:( >:(
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Got bitten by the bug many years ago and it has a firm grip on me, there is apparently no cure!! ;D ;D
Our ancestors certainly do keep us occupied, the brain cells alive and sometimes really entertained when you rattle a skeleton loose!! ;D ;D
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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.
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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 ;D ;D
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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.
;)
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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.
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It is a fine line coombs ;D
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 ;D
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What would they think of all our mod cons ;D
Clarke's third law would surely apply.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." :) :)
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It is a fine line coombs ;D
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 ;D
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! ;D ;D ;D
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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
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I think in our ancestors day they never knew any different to what they were used to and never knew that we would have all these mod cons such as dishwashers, washing machines, cookers, TV's, radios, laptops and central heating. I think they just got on with it and were used to cooking food on the fire in the fireplace using a spit to cook meat.