Hi John, That's an interesting piece of family history and something you could not find in Ancestry or Find My Past. That's why people should make the effort to stay in touch with our family history group (Rootsweb). I for one have met many lovely people over the years. Love the stories and how they are so willing to help each other or new comers. I learnt a lot of family history research tips moves through the kindness and patience of our list members.  By the way, I do enjoy looking up old locations in the maps I have. It gives me a great pleasure when I can be of help. See what goes around comes around.................... I think that's how they say it :)) Hopefully our favourite List will now start picking up steam. All my best  Mike Morris  Toronto Canada Ex Manchester, England.  >________________________________ > From: John Lynch <john_the_genes@btinternet.com> >To: lancsgen@rootsweb.com >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:44:43 PM >Subject: Re: [LAN] Family history > > >Absolutely. We should be looking for the facts--not judging people. They did >what they did. Just like we do. And sometimes there was a gap between what >they said and what they did. Just like there is with us. I did find myself >smiling, though, when politicians exhorted us to return to Victorian values. >Er...which Victorian values, exactly, Mr Major? The Queen's? Or my >great-granny's? <snip> > > >

Well, I agree. (When I got to Jeddah I discovered that my hotel has now fixed its wifi problems). The single most rewarding method I find is to go to the archives and sit there going through old documents, but these groups come a close second. There are so many people on here who know more than I do and they're always ready to help. I've clambered out of a number of dead ends that way. John Lynch Hi John, That's an interesting piece of family history and something you could not find in Ancestry or Find My Past. That's why people should make the effort to stay in touch with our family history group (Rootsweb). I for one have met many lovely people over the years. Love the stories and how they are so willing to help each other or new comers. I learnt a lot of family history research tips moves through the kindness and patience of our list members.  By the way, I do enjoy looking up old locations in the maps I have. It gives me a great pleasure when I can be of help. See what goes around comes around.................... I think that's how they say it :)) Hopefully our favourite List will now start picking up steam. All my best Mike Morris Toronto Canada Ex Manchester, England. 

TATTERSALL from Burnley & Pendle SUNTER from Haslingden & Blackburn originally from Yorkshire HODKINSON from Lancashire GREGORY from Westhouton & Wigan ANSELL/HANSELL from Darwen & Stevenage WHITTLE from Bolton & Darwen ORMEROD from Blackburn & Canada MORREY from Oldham, Darwen & Cheshire That should be enough to be going on with Pauline in Darwen, Lancashire

Hello Mike It is people like you that make the list special. Thank you for all that you share. I am researching our Duckworth family from Rossendale and in fact, I have been writing a book for the last four years. I hope to have it published by the end of the year after my husband and I have visited Rossendale in June. We are so excited as it is our first trip to the UK! I have traced the family back to John and Alice Duckworth from Laund in Rossendale. They were born in the 1760's. Without all the great information online this would not have been possible. I am not sure where they lived in Laund yet so more research is needed. Good luck and thank you again for your wonderful contributions Mike With kind regards Deb Duckworth Jan Juc, Victoria, Australia -----Original Message----- From: lancsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lancsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Morris Sent: Saturday, 15 February 2014 12:54 AM To: lancsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAN] Family history Hi John, That's an interesting piece of family history and something you could not find in Ancestry or Find My Past. That's why people should make the effort to stay in touch with our family history group (Rootsweb). I for one have met many lovely people over the years. Love the stories and how they are so willing to help each other or new comers. I learnt a lot of family history research tips moves through the kindness and patience of our list members.  By the way, I do enjoy looking up old locations in the maps I have. It gives me a great pleasure when I can be of help. See what goes around comes around.................... I think that's how they say it :)) Hopefully our favourite List will now start picking up steam. All my best Mike Morris Toronto Canada Ex Manchester, England.  >________________________________ > From: John Lynch <john_the_genes@btinternet.com> >To: lancsgen@rootsweb.com >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:44:43 PM >Subject: Re: [LAN] Family history > > >Absolutely. We should be looking for the facts--not judging people. >They did what they did. Just like we do. And sometimes there was a gap >between what they said and what they did. Just like there is with us. I >did find myself smiling, though, when politicians exhorted us to return to Victorian values. >Er...which Victorian values, exactly, Mr Major? The Queen's? Or my >great-granny's? <snip> > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! The list's administrator can be contacted at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message