My Soul Belongs to the Village Hall This Weekend

... At least that's what it feels like. I spent all day today setting up the local history photo exhibition and I'll spend most of tomorrow sitting with it and talking to people about it.

Can I have my life back please?

Yeah I know I'm only doing family history research and that's only like local history research but different, yes?

Well... yes... but my brain's on the family history thing at the moment and I've broken the 1600 barrier on a couple of lines. It's as much fun and much more productive than playing sudoku or solitaire on line. I'm following every line back for as far as I can go... so every generation I have twice as many relatives to follow.

Scary thought. I might only have 2 parents and 4 grandparents but I've got 64 g-g-g-g-grandparents and by the time I get ten generations back (I've got 12 generations back on the Lacey line (Christopher Lacey, Derbyshire, b.1670) and so I can reasonably hope to go to at least ten with some of the others, i think) there are 2052 of the buggers. And because I'm doing this family tree for my kids, I'm doing Best Beloved's family too, so the numbers double.  12 gens for every dividing line is 8208 relatives!

Thing is... I'm not going to run out of puzzles to do any time soon, am I? I'm currently working my way back through the Lockyer family and have some suspects as early as late 1500s.  I've not quite connected the dots yet but I'm looking at a Richard Lokier who died in 1609 in Clutton (Radstock, Somerset) within a few days of two of his daughters (plague? epidemic?). I don't know when he was born but it was obviously the 1500s since he had daughters, Edith and Christian, by 1609. It's quite amazing to think I may have found a relative who was alive when good queen Bess was on the throne and Shakespeare was already working up to inserting himself into the school curriculum.
:-)

My Soul Belongs to the Village Hall This Weekend

... At least that's what it feels like. I spent all day today setting up the local history photo exhibition and I'll spend most of tomorrow sitting with it and talking to people about it.

Can I have my life back please?

Yeah I know I'm only doing family history research and that's only like local history research but different, yes?

Well... yes... but my brain's on the family history thing at the moment and I've broken the 1600 barrier on a couple of lines. It's as much fun and much more productive than playing sudoku or solitaire on line. I'm following every line back for as far as I can go... so every generation I have twice as many relatives to follow.

Scary thought. I might only have 2 parents and 4 grandparents but I've got 64 g-g-g-g-grandparents and by the time I get ten generations back (I've got 12 generations back on the Lacey line (Christopher Lacey, Derbyshire, b.1670) and so I can reasonably hope to go to at least ten with some of the others, i think) there are 2052 of the buggers. And because I'm doing this family tree for my kids, I'm doing Best Beloved's family too, so the numbers double.  12 gens for every dividing line is 8208 relatives!

Thing is... I'm not going to run out of puzzles to do any time soon, am I? I'm currently working my way back through the Lockyer family and have some suspects as early as late 1500s.  I've not quite connected the dots yet but I'm looking at a Richard Lokier who died in 1609 in Clutton (Radstock, Somerset) within a few days of two of his daughters (plague? epidemic?). I don't know when he was born but it was obviously the 1500s since he had daughters, Edith and Christian, by 1609. It's quite amazing to think I may have found a relative who was alive when good queen Bess was on the throne and Shakespeare was already working up to inserting himself into the school curriculum.
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