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| Me with my Grandparents (Longman) |
It has been seven years since I last
undertook any meaningful research into my family's history.
I stopped because we moved to Spain and
the postal service there was not to be trusted to deliver mail, even
though it had been correctly addressed. I was concerned that any
copies of birth, marriage and death certificates that I needed to
order from the General Register Office, in the United Kingdom, would
disappear; either into someone's pocket for illegal purposes of
identity fraud; or delivered to the wrong post box; or into another
time dimension and universe.
Now as a resident back in the UK; I
believe I can rely on the Royal Mail; I have the opportunity to visit
archives when needed; the hunt has been brought out of hibernation.
The subscription to a well-known
research website has been renewed; a family-tree software program has been purchased and installed on my laptop computer; a revision of
my previous research has been carried out; a small batch of
certificates of b.m.d. have been ordered from the GRO and should
arrive in the next few days.
I hope when the copies of the
certificates arrive the information shown confirms my research: and
suspicions that I have found a couple of those 'family-skeletons'
that my predecessors didn't talk about.
I try to restrict the amount of time I
spend on research but it is so easy to loose track of time when
following up a lead to a possible new branch of the family-tree.
I hope to be able to keep you
up-to-date with my progress. Perhaps your ancestors might be linked
to mine. Do these surnames mean anything to you; Sampford, Longman,
Robins, Daley, Ruffell and Arkley: did you have relatives living in
Walthamstow, West Ham, Whitechapel, Hackney, Bishops Stortford,
Takeley or Epping from 1800 onwards?
© Elliot Sampford 2014
I tried tracing my paternal family, though somewhat half-heartedly. I got to a point when a great great grandfather seemed either to have disappeared into thin air or was a fictitious character, name-wise. Family members had fun conjuring up likely stories. Good luck with your research.
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