I’ve had this file on my computer for a while and I keep tinkering with it and then ignoring it again, but the recent talk of H5N1 virus (bird flu) particularly in the US, a country that no longer has protective health safeguards to prevent spreading their diseases to the rest of us out here in the real world, reminded me yet again how vulnerable we are to pandemics.
The #52Ancestors prompt this week is changing Names, so I’ve written about my Desrez side of the family, whose French surname has been modified and mangled by Australians, and other English speakers for the past 170 years
This weeks #52Ancestors challenge – Origins prompted me to look at the concept of foreignness.
As we approach another arbitrary temporal boundary, or New Year as some would have it, I am prompted to consider my place in the world and my responsibilities to society. So because social media reflects so much of society these days, I reflect on social media. As a member of […]
I have a letter found in my Grandfather’s desk, which illustrates the lengths to which we need to go to work out what our ancestors were doing. I guess they never imagined that we would be trawling through their letters and their lives 100 years or more after they had died, or what we’d be able to find out.
Comments in social media recently have prompted me to think about the place of Pride & Shame in genealogy.