Spooky experiences while researching

[kerryb]

Trouble is because we are so busy doing our FH, we are making it extremely easy for our descendants.  They won't have the problems we're having if we leave all these records.

Who can we have a laugh at then??

Kerry 

[Gadget]

Ummm...............

From previous discussions we've had Kerry, we'll not have direct descendants 


Gadget

[kerryb]

LOL

I need a drink!!!!!!

It's all this talk of shorts and things!

Kerry 

[pipkim]

Trouble is because we are so busy doing our FH, we are making it extremely easy for our descendants.  They won't have the problems we're having if we leave all these records.

Who can we have a laugh at then??

Kerry 

What are our descendants going to do in their spare time, if we've done it all? 

My daughter is always asking why I'm interested in dead people and whenever I'm missing she says "Mummy is on the computer looking for dead people". I've told her when she's older she may well be interested too.

I'm still fascinated why I've ended up living only a few miles from where some of my ancestors lived for quite a while in the 1800's and probably before and my husbands family have cropped up 250miles way where I once lived and where my husband and I met by complete coincidence (which I've mentioned before somewhere  ) All quite spooky to me. 

It makes me feel quite close to some of my ancestors and I now I feel like I belong down south, even thought I still have a slight Lancashire accent.

Pipkim   

[CarolBurns]

Trouble is because we are so busy doing our FH, we are making it extremely easy for our descendants.  They won't have the problems we're having if we leave all these records.

Who can we have a laugh at then??

Kerry 

So we do the cruel thing like they did to us and hide it all !! lol

Carol

[Gadget]

Well, my great nephew and niece know that great aunty gadget is 'doing the ancestors'. In fact, the nephew wanted to know if was he xxxx  the sixth or seventh. They will indeed get all my stuff and, I hope, treasure it but, given the lack of foresight on the part of some of my parents' brothers and sisters, I'm not sure if they will.

Perhaps the best thing to do is to get it all up on a website and/or leave it all to a Family/Local History Society or Library. I've already started by publishing the odd bit in one FH Soc magazine.

Gadget

[kerryb]

That sounds like a good idea Gadget, one I shall have to follow myself.  Make sure all my hard work doesn't just get wasted.

My 11 year old nephew seems to be getting interested in FH, though as Friday night at my parents, he asked me for the web address of my website so he can study who is descended from.  He's always liked history so I hope he will get interested.

Kerry 

[Simon G.]

The only experience I've had you could describe as spooky came with my great-grandmother.  Now, my great-grandfather had left her during the 1920s 'cause while he was away (he was in the navy) she was playing around with the lodger (she had children who I've never been able to trace by the lodger).  Now something we didn't know until recently is that she had moved to number 122 Bower Street in Maidstone.
The spooky this there is...that was the house I grew up in.  She had moved out of the house long before her death, but 50-years later without any knowledge that his grandmother had owned the place my father bought the house.  That's just something that amazes me.

[MarieC]

Kerry and Gadget, lol!!!   

I was nearly doing some hysterical laughing myself when I read your posts, but what you say is too true to be funny!

I can practically hear my gggrandfather Edward Martin taunting me down the years, "Nyah nyah, ne nyah nyah!  I've covered my tracks so well that you will never find what happened to me! (Hysterical laughter!)  Trouble is, I think he's right!  He will have the last laugh!

Now is that spooky, or what??

MarieC