Monday, April 24, 2006

A Good Day for Genealogists

...But before I write about that, thank you to everyone who commented on my Sunday School question below (my blog's being naughty and won't let me comment under the comments, which is especially annoying as no-one comments on their own blog as much as I do)!! Your comments were very reassuring to me.

I'd also like to say a couple of hellos to two Sarahs: Sarah who commented on the Sunday School question and who writes a lovely, lovely blog, and to my old pal Sarah in France who will be reading this. And to anyone else who knows me.

Back to Genealogy:

I have spent far too much time over recent months tracing my roots / building my family tree / call it what you will. Today the 1841 census has been made available on line and I shall be extremely tempted to pay the subscription to www.ancestry.com so that I can take a peek into the lives of more ancestors. (I was going to entitle this post "A Good Day for Genealogists; A Great Day for Ancestry.Com).

Tempting though it is for me to use my blog to divulge details of the lives of previous Horsfields: the magnificently named Emanuel, Job, Crowther and (my favourite of all) Almond, et al, I shall refrain. Family trees, like dreams and children, are totally fascinating when, and only when, they are your own. I shall bite my tongue and say no more on a subject that calls for a very unfrequented blog of its own - maybe one day.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to ancestry.com - where's my credit card.

4 comments:

Louise said...

How bizarre, yet another coincidence! One of my Grandma's (many) siblings was a brother, Almond! How odd, but I suppose around the turn of the last century, it was probably a very fashionable name!
We cross a River Almond on the A9 near Perth and it makes me think of him (or what he may have been like) and Grandma.

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