Calling Fellow Young Genealogists!

[sirsimon]

I think its wonderful that more and more people are getting involved in genealogy, especially the younger generations.

Every single visit to the record offices, I have seen many elderly people, but no young adults like myself, except those on staff.

Its an odd sensation

[Guy Etchells]

I think its wonderful that more and more people are getting involved in genealogy, especially the younger generations.

Every single visit to the record offices, I have seen many elderly people, but no young adults like myself, except those on staff.

Its an odd sensation

It has always been the same, when I visited the old records offices such as Somerset House as a boy in the 1950s, I always got funny looks from the staff and visitors.

Now having aged a couple of years or so I happily give youngsters the same funny looks as you may do in 40 or 50 years.

One thing I do laugh at is when family historians say "I wish I had got interested earlier, I could have asked grandma etc. this or that. I started early and wished I could ask my great grandma etc. just the same questions, starting young doesn't solve the quest to ask an earlier generation the same questions.
Cheers
Guy

[mrs.tenacious]

One thing I do laugh at is when family historians say "I wish I had got interested earlier, I could have asked grandma etc. this or that. I started early and wished I could ask my great grandma etc. just the same questions, starting young doesn't solve the quest to ask an earlier generation the same questions.
Cheers
Guy

Thanks Guy - that's made me feel a little better!  Wise words 

[palace81]

I started my research in my early twenties, my interest started when Who Do You Think You Are started on telly.  At the time my only surviving grand-parent had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so realising that our family history was no longer just a conversation away I decided to start researching it.  And I've been doing it on and off since then, there are times where I don't do any as life takes over but I always come back to it as it's so addictive!