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From: anne powley <>
Subject: Re: 1901 census (again)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 08:27:54 +1300
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Hi Alexa

It was nice to read your family history and being interested in finding out
about your ancestors at the age of eighteen, my children show no interest at
all.

Good hunting.

Anne
New Zealand.

Searching
DYE
TRIPP

JK Berman wrote:

> Alexa
> Where are your MOOREs from? I have a few on file, they married into my SMART
> line Welney/Christchurch area.
>
> Your posting is indeed a lesson to a lot of us long in the tooth
> researchers.
> Our quest is to build a picture of our ancestors, to have only half a book
> to write and yet still have your enthusiasm and determination is a great
> credit to you and I sincerely echo Lesley's comments in her posting, the
> very best of luck in your search.
>
> JKB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:05 PM
> Subject: 1901 census (again)
>
> > It may be annoying to some people on the list that we've (I'VE) been going
> on
> > and on about the 1901 census, I'm sorry if it's getting a bit old now. But
> > surely people on the list must be more understanding than most people when
> > someone gets excited about the census. It's information about our own
> > relatives, some of whom we may remember. This information has been hidden
> for
> > a hundred years, of course we're going to be impatient about it!
> >
> > I'm only eighteen and I've only been tracing my family tree for a short
> > while, but I've found that all too often people are dismissive or
> generally
> > not very understanding to the genealogist. To me it's interesting, a link
> > with history, finding out about my ancestors etc. But it's also important
> to
> > me because I only have half a family tree to trace, I never knew my
> father, I
> > don't even know my paternal grandfather's first name. So whenever I
> discover
> > a new piece of information or a new person in my tree, even though they've
> > been dead for a hundred years, it's another person to add to my already
> too
> > small family.
> >
> > This is the Norfolk genealogy mailing list, right? If we can't get excited
> > about genealogy on a genealogy mailing list....?!
> > Alexa
> >
> > Searching;
> > NEALE, BALLS, JARVIS, MOORE, HASTINGS, MOY, and GUERNEY
> >
> >


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