I really do love the age we live in, and if anything gives me hope for the future (apart from my beautiful and talented and caring children) it’s the way people can connect… people from the other side of the world can become friends, real, genuine friends without ever having actually met, face to face, in real life.
I met some of my closest friends ‘on-line’, through my love of the Mavericks and their music, but I have been in contact with other people from all over the place. I was delighted and touched to be contacted by an old friend of my father, who now lives in Australia for example. My husband who is an only child and only has four cousins, was delighted when I found some second cousins, of whom we had photos at my parents-in-law wedding and up till now were un-named small children standing by the bride.
Now, most recently, through a post I wrote here about my family tree research, I am in touch with a very, very distant relative of my husband, and a person with a great interest in family history, like me! he has very generously shared some fascinating research, with some wonderful insights into life at the end of the nineteenth century! It is so exciting, and so nice to meet a fellow-enthusiast, and friendly researcher… and a distant (very distant) cousin!
By the way, my featured photo is of my grandfather as a child, and his father and grandfather, and great-grandfather.
Lois Elsden 