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All families have stories; some stories are almost myths… did my ancestors really come from Sweden? Were they really river pilots or pirates operating out of the east coast port of King’s Lynn? Some family stories are true, although some facts may be hidden; my great-grandparents loved each other across a religious divide, but where and how did they meet? Some family stories are only revealed through census records and some genealogical detective work. I want to tell the stories of my family, and others who otherwise might be lost in the past.
It’s Bank Holiday Monday… and fairly typically for England, it’s raining. However, I guess there will be plenty of people heading towards the coast, hoping that the saying ‘rain before seven, dry by eleven’ will be true… actually it often is, apparently a weather front generally takes that amount of time to pass, so although […]
MoreMy husband suggested they make a TV series about me… The things which happen to me, a combination of forgetfulness, being absent-minded, getting distracted, and unfortunate but funny mishaps I somehow managed to throw the front door key into the bushiest bushes in the front garden, bushes which also had a lot of spikes and […]
MoreThere was a girl and her family moved to a new town when she was sixteen; where she had lived before she’d had lots of friends, and lots of boy friends, but only a few ‘boyfriends’ and those little romances had been very brief and fleeting and not serious. Not knowing many people in the […]
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Lois Elsden 