Viola; Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else who wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 or 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they were from or who their ancestors were. Keep pluggin away. Thom Sutton VIOLA HOAR <[email protected]> wrote: Hi mary, you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s getting to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE somebody in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you CLOSE UP SHOP!. Regards, Viola ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Tom, I,m viola and Would like to explain a few things to you about closing up the shop. I have been doing this for 32 years and had such a love of genealogy that I completed my fathers line which was Normans of buckinghamshire. I went all the way back to a Robert norman b. ca. 1635 which is all documented via genealogists over ther who searched Parish Registers & all concrete sources which have taken me back that far. Now I am pursuing Roberts parentage and the good thing about this is that my ancestors all began 1537 in Bletchley,Bucks (changed to fenney Stratford ) . When i do connect Robert back to Stephen Norman ca. 1536-1537 to him I will have the whole Norman line. I will not do that unless I have concret proof that Stepen & his children (who I have all their names to 1599). So you see theres only about two to fill in 1599 to ca. 1635. I have my mothers ancestry back to France 1605 (poitiers) which was fairly easy to do because it was all on Gedcom. The reason for my wanting to give it all up on the Hore, Hoare line (my husbands) is because I find Ireland (which I have traced his ancestors to) is so dammed difficult because of history and the destruction of records. BUT last week for the first time in 35 yrs I gave in to ancezstry and signed up for a monthly package Not realizing that it only gave a few things such as Censuses ,BMDs but nothing too substantial AND AND it only covered the U.K. So if you wanted to continue the trail to america it cost more money. I resent the fact that every little thing you want costs more & more. Is it all worth it? I have heard people say- look forward, not backwards and who cares about yesteryear. Anyhow, someday if there is a breakthrough on Hore, Hoare of Wexford I may pick up the challenge. Thanks for your note. My husbands cousin had even gone to Wexfored in the search for the Hore, Hoare line and did not get as far back as i did. THANKS to Cheshire Family History and some of their records and a Vanessa Dixon over there who found one ancestor in the male line that noone had even known about. THAT made my day!!! Sorry for the long e-mail but I thought I,d let you know the reason for my resignation . [email protected] Thomas Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: Viola; Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else who wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 or 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they were from or who their ancestors were. Keep pluggin away. Thom Sutton VIOLA HOAR wrote: Hi mary, you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s getting to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE somebody in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you CLOSE UP SHOP!. Regards, Viola ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message