On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:10:00 -0000, Edie <eamca@bigpond.com> wrote: > We who live overseas are very appreciative of any help we can receive. > We do have access to ancestry, findmypast and The genealogist, > Familysearch, > but they are not the Original Parish registers, sometimes they give an > origianl record but mostly not so. We could do with the original and > those of you on the spot have access to and have very kindly on many > occasions > gone out of your way to check for us. Hi Edie, Thanks for your response to the cautionary tale thread. I can understand that researching from overseas can be more difficult than researching here. For me, what I would find difficult is not being able to picture a place or the layout of a village, town or city from my own memories of them. It's even difficult for me to picture some ancestral places in the U.K. For instance, some of my 19th-and-early-20th century Bristol ancestors came from Exeter in Devon. I know their addresses and I have old maps of Exeter, but because I don't know the place personally, I can't picture their situation. I believe the city has changed, too, because of the Exeter Blitz in the Second World. Yet, I can quite happily picture my Bristol families in pre-war Bristol and I am more familiar, in my mind, with central Bristol streets as they were before the war than as they are now. Josephine