family trees

it's a cold monday night, the dog is asleep and lisa is away in manchester. so after making myself a nice beef rogan josh curry (pretty much from scratch-i did use curry paste though-who has the time to collect all those spices from india these days) so yeah after making a curry i sat down to dabble in more family tree stuff on the net.......and struck gold.

for those who haven't delved into your family tree i have to tell you that it really does suck you in. mine has gone in busts of activity. i started by asking my mum and then my great auntie about family stuff. it struck me that every christmas we sat around talking about .. stuff but i had never really asked seroisly about great grandparents and others and actually written things down. you always think you can do it another time but then it turns out to be too late. My auntie lucy who i had managed to talk to died last year.

so yeah first i went to london and search through all the census stuff.pretty cool. then i had a breakthrough on genes connected.co.uk when i stumbled upon a guy who i shared a great great grandad with -3rd or 4th cousin stuff. then today i was searching through some message boards when i recognised some names from my tree which filled quite a few gaps. it was funny because i had got half the story from my auntie and my mum, A great great grandmother who might have come from london turned out to be the same Martha Kezia Long from kensington (kezia-great name hey). What is really interesting is that you start to see the originof names that have been passed down through the famly. it's such a buzz when you get to add solid facts and dates to question marks on the tree.

hmm maybe i should look at my lessons for tomorrow.