Travelling & time travelling
Ihope that your summer is going well, even really well, perhaps with the chance to get out and about and explore. I hope you’ve managed to feed ‘body’ with cream teas from National Trust tea shops and ‘soul’ with visits to archives and historic properties, time-travelling down the streets your ancestors once walked or paying your respects at the graveyards and cemeteries in which they now lie to rest.
The path out of the pandemic is not a straight and easy one, and the woes and weird and wonderful rules under which we’ve lived for the past 18 months are sure to have put us in mind of our ancestors, and the struggles they had to deal with as well. Wayne
Shepheard’s article this month, particularly sums this up, when he writes ‘Modified ways of living and working were required that would ensure survival of people and communities’. Ring any bells, anyone? Wayne was referring to life in the late 17th and 18th centuries, but it is a sentence that could have been applied to our times just as well too couldn’t it.
We’d love to hear more about how you’re doing with your family history in the current climate, whether that’s about your experiences of getting out and about, or your preference to research from home. Do drop us a line, and happy searching. However it is that you’re going about it – enjoy!