ending genealogy - time to move on

[forthefamily]

I'm too addicted to the research to ever give it up   

Good luck Gill with whatever you do in your future.

mab

[coombs]

I am a one person team when it comes to researching my family tree, if I go into a Record Office I look up what they have then look through the microfilm and microfiche plus all the good books on the shelves which can be transcriptions of PRs and electoral rolls. I did mention a researcher who was a bit of a con artist, picking surnames at random and not finding what I wanted. That is like a farmer or drayman who finds his assistant has put the cart before the horse and the horse will have to push it rather than pull.

So now I do all the research myself either online or in RO's.

[susie_angel]

I wish you well, I do understand. This genealogy can be as big or as small as you wish, it is also addictive ( as in my case.) I love the discovery of my roots, and the mystery of what was here before me  , the what ifs, If she had gotten married, and finding one or two skeletons. I started because my family seem to have been Pottery folk for generations, so I wanted to know a time when they weren't.

It followed a short investigation into my partners roots, he was adopted during the war. He has found out all he wanted to know, and he says similar, he is with the now.
We can t all be the same, which is why we are here, and you are moving on,

[dowdstree]

Good luck Gill for whatever you decide to do now.

I am no where near as experienced as most of our other Rootschatters as I only started serious research a couple of years ago. Amazing what I have discovered so far didn't think it would be possible. Have researched my mum's birth family and dad's family, My late husband's for my kids (with very little to go on), My present O/H for his kids and my mum's foster family who were very important to her. Feel I have achieved so much and still have more to do than I will achieve in this lifetime. I can't imagine life without genealogy now. HOOKED

Lovely helpful people here who now feel like friends (not meant to be soppy) even my O/H asks now "what are those folk talking about today?. So many topics covered.

Please look in when you have time Gill.

Dorrie

[groom]

Think you've hit the nail on the head there, Dorrie. Even if I stopped adding to my tree, I'd still have to look in on Rootschat. I've made too many friends here to just stop. 

[Blue70]

If people have done a good job at researching their family history and have acquired skills in the process it would be a shame not to use those skills to help others who are less advanced.


Blue