Researching my family tree = near impossible. With the older members of the family no longer here I can’t ask anyone and it would seem, from records, that we’re a very sporadic family. We crop up lots in one decade and then never in the hundred years before or after that. I don’t know what’s going on. I was heartened when I was looking through stuff and found my Nan had also tried to do the task I am doing. She didn’t get very far either bless her. I want to know why she was trying to, seeing as it was her husband’s family she was researching rather than her own. I miss her a lot. She was a very special Nan. My Dad is taking me to look at church records and graves next week to help me on my mission. I’m going to take her some flowers.
I think my Dad likes that I’m researching it all. It’s not often people take an interest in him and his family so it’s nice for him I suppose. Stressful for me though. The most annoying family ever. Saying that though….my family tree does now have 60 members, nearly all of them very much from the past. So I am not doing too badly.
I think the reason I am so determined to find out is because I’ve nothing else of any structure to do. I am looking for a job but even having a job won’t help my mind….I like to research and get stuck into things and find things out and this is a way of satisfying that whilst I’m not at Uni. You could also argue it’s regression….looking lots in the past to help the stresses of the present. I think I explain too many of my behaviours as regression. Maybe.
My exam results come out mid-June 
How scary. I want to know now.
I want a Domesday Book. They’re really expensive though. But I want one. Just because.
