Yes, and slavery continues today but probably not as well organized. All the best, Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: "Bristol-District" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [B&D] Colonial Slave Registers - Ancestry On 29 Nov 2010 at 10:42, liverpud wrote: > Some registers.... sad but true. > I'm afraid that comment could be applied equally to large slices of history! Slavery always seems to arouse more emotion than most historical events, for obvious reasons, but it seems little different to me than the fate of millions of people who were slaughtered in wars. At least there are registers of some of the slaves, so we know who they were. It's often forgotten there were slaves in Britain under the Normans - it's even possible some of our ancestors were among them - but there are no records of them, as far as I'm aware. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:42:27 -0500 "liverpud" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello liverpud, > Yes, and slavery continues today but probably not as well organized. For "not as well" I suggest you read "better" since it has to avoid the gaze of the authorities. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent"