Hi Listers   I have just counted the e-mails the Leicestershire Plus List has received from 1 February 2012. & apart from a handful of individual requests for help with their research, which as usual has been dealt with by kind persons, most of the e-mails (over 250) were on this subject - Memories.   The list has been extremely quiet for several months now & I for one have been delighted to see familiar names including their memories.   I have personally received over a dozen e-mails from Listers applauding this topic & wishing it to continue for some time.      The Victorian Letters kindly shared with us by a fellow researcher from 1st. February started the ball rolling with discussions about various dialects & phrases of Rural Leicestershire, especially the reference in the letters to 'worrit' & 'fair to middling'.   From then the discussions have widened to cover many topics which have highlighted the lives of our ancestors in living memory.   Surely this is adding yet another facet to our research & enabling us to have a much fuller picture of life in those times.      Perhaps in the coming week another topic will be received with the same enthusiasm &  our present interest in Memories will wane.     Life in the 40s, 50s & 60s was not always good & for some was very hard indeed, but even through these hardships some happy memories have surfaced.   We have all moved on in our busy lives, but hopefully not too busy to still have time to remember our past & our roots.   To just record names, dates, places of birth, marriage, death & burial, whilst accurately recording the life of our ancestors , it does not bring them to life as the recent discussions have for most of us.    May I thank you for the contributions & I will now, to the best of my ability, try & put these memories into an interesting text.   Regards to you all June Fleetwood (nee Rainbow) West Yorkshire