I'm sorry but I am really struggling to imagine how someone with absolutely no interest in researching their family history would be seriously upset if they found out how one of their ancestors, about whom they have no interest, died. Genealogy is the study of births marriages and deaths if you study births and marriages, you have to also study deaths. David Turnidge ----- Original Message ----- From: J K gen To: David Turnidge Cc: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Ess] Details on Certificates I would agree if this was all about choice, but it isn't. You may choose to lift the stone, but what about information going to someone who didn't make that choice? Aren't their rights not to be respected at all? JK On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:17 AM, David Turnidge <david.turnidge@virgin.net> wrote: This has been a very good discussion and just to throw in my twopenneth, I would like to say that Genealogy is a warts and all discovery into our past. If we are not prepared to view what is under the stone we shouldn't lift it. Most of us have been a lot more shocked over what we have discovered about our ancestors than just how they died. David Turnidge South Woodham Ferrers

Just because other family members don't have interest in researching their tree doesn't mean they would want to know how ancestors died... I'm the only genealogist in my family, the rest of the family have no interest in knowing everything. In fact I've found that one of my grandfather's aunts drowned on her way to school, which explains why his father was paranoid about letting them play by any bodies of water. I'm sure he would not want to be reminded of this, so I've not done so. Tony David Turnidge wrote: > I'm sorry but I am really struggling to imagine how someone with absolutely no interest in researching their family history would be seriously upset if they found out how one of their ancestors, about whom they have no interest, died. > > Genealogy is the study of births marriages and deaths if you study births and marriages, you have to also study deaths. > > David Turnidge > ----- Original Message ----- > From: J K gen > To: David Turnidge > Cc: essex-uk@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:41 PM > Subject: Re: [Ess] Details on Certificates > > > I would agree if this was all about choice, but it isn't. You may choose to lift the stone, but what about information going to someone who didn't make that choice? Aren't their rights not to be respected at all? > JK > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:17 AM, David Turnidge <david.turnidge@virgin.net> wrote: > > This has been a very good discussion and just to throw in my twopenneth, I > would like to say that Genealogy is a warts and all discovery into our past. > > If we are not prepared to view what is under the stone we shouldn't lift it. > > Most of us have been a lot more shocked over what we have discovered about > our ancestors than just how they died. > > David Turnidge > South Woodham Ferrers > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >