Find your long lost relatives

Finding Your Ancestors…and getting to know them   by Rosamunde Bott

People are interesting. Every single person who ever lived has a story to tell. When you scratch the surface of any human being you will find a rich range of events that go to make up who that person is: a variety of happy, sad, tragic, celebratory, inspirational and all sorts of emotive happenings that create a unique individual. So when you are finding your ancestors, why be content with just names and dates?

It seems a shame that some people who trace their ancestry are only content to collect a list of names and dates, their driving force to go back as far as possible in time. While I fully understand the satisfaction of going back another generation and finding new names to add to your tree, for me, and many others, it is the mixture of this and also finding out about the history of individuals that provides the full satisfaction and excitement of tracing ancestors.

Those names on your tree were once living, breathing human beings, affected by the times and environment they lived in, and subject to all the feelings and thoughts that we are all subject to. They all had ups and downs in their lives, just like you and me. Wouldn