I disagree. A huge part of genealogy for many people involves trying to imagine what life was like for their ancestors and what it was like to live where they lived. It's about the places as well as the family tree. For those who have never visited Leicestershire, I think threads like those of the last few days can lift Leicester from just being a name on the map. Although I grew up here, i was born in the 70s so the joy for me has been reading about what the city would have been like when my mum was growing up and later on - she moved from Wigston around the beginning of WW2, into one of the new Boot houses on Southfields Drive, and she went to Alderman Newtons. School later on. She doesn't talk about it much but I find it all fascinating. Sent from my mobile device, please excuse lack of formatting. On 17 Feb 2012, at 21:12, "terry ratcliffe" <[email protected]> wrote: > We seem to be drifting off what this site was designed for. Terry > Ratcliffe > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 527 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this 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