Not been researching or checking any old papers today. Instead we've been visiting living relatives and checking they're ok. It's easy to forget about the people around us when we start delving into the past.
I wonder why that is?
I can spend hours nosing around in old records online, trying to fit pieces of the past together.
The day flies by and I find. to my surprise, that I've been so immersed in the past I've forgotten about the present.
So, today I spent a few hours here, in 2016.
But I still found my thoughts drifting back to the coal mine in 1868, or to the workhouse in 1901, and thanking my lucky stars that I was actually born in easier, happier times that my ancestors were.
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