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What I like most about this obsession is...
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Georgette | Report | 15 May 2006 19:49 |
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...the little windows that it opens on History. I now get very excited about rural life in the 19th and 18th centuries, the Indian Mutiny, watchmakers and bee keepers in Lancashire, missionaries and vicars in all shapes and sizes, butchers, farmers and ag labs in Somerset and spinsters in London. Please tell me I'm not alone :os Helenx |
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HeadStone | Report | 15 May 2006 19:56 |
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Hi, I agree totally with you. As you search out your family it gives you a narrow insight into their lives and their tragedies. All the 'jobs from hell' they had, how young the children were when they started work. How the elderly were still working till they dropped. I'm glad I was not around in those days. Cheers Paul |
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Charlie chuckles | Report | 15 May 2006 20:13 |
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Even my mum-in-law,bless her at 80, thinks I'm totally obsessed! She can't see the fascination at all, opening up old scandals etc. I'll admit I'm a complete anorak and one with an extremely vivid imagination. I can just be there, feel their joys and sadnesses. I feel for their losses and can live with them in my imagination. I'm connected to them, when I stand at the side of a grave of a newly discovered great, I really do feel the connection, just like I knew them, and I wonder at how they ever coped with the hardships they lived through----B----y h----l I am an anorak--aren't I????? lol |
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Linda | Report | 15 May 2006 20:16 |
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Hated History at School. Now I want to how, why, where etc. Think they should do Genealogy at School, more Children may be more interested in History. Linda |
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Charlie chuckles | Report | 15 May 2006 20:21 |
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Totally agree, except my youngest, aged 10, thinks I'm potty looking for 'dead people' !!!! lol |
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Georgette | Report | 15 May 2006 20:23 |
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I agree. When you know that your Grt grt something lived through a particular period in History, it brings it all alive and helps you connect to that moment in time. I've also become a complete anorak and my family now knows better than to ask me how it's all going! Lol Helenx |
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Carole | Report | 15 May 2006 20:32 |
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I'm glad it's not just me. I've just been away for 4 days looking around villages where some of mine lived and died. Taking snaps of the church where my ggrandparents married and almost seeing them standing there, the strangest feeling! Carole |
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Charlie chuckles | Report | 15 May 2006 20:34 |
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It's the looks you get off the photo department when you've downloadd 10 grave photos to be printed as well --- priceless!! |
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Georgette | Report | 15 May 2006 20:40 |
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Oh yes photos of graves! that's the bit I get embarrassed about. I've just sent my poor parents off on a tour of cemeteries in Lancashire and the Isle of Man. I didn't quite know how to explain that I wanted photos of the graves :os Helenx |
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