Today is week 54 of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30 am UK time I will release the prompt for that week’s Book of Me, Written by You.
If you are new here, welcome! The details, background flyer and Face Book link to the Book of Me can be found HERE.
This week’s prompt is – School Trips
Earlier today I was reading the Lost Cousins newsletter produced by Peter Calver. In that newsletter, Peter mentioned the film Shooting the Past.
I can not tell you why I was inspired to seek the film out immediately. I usually add things like the names of films and books to a never ending list of such material, which the realist in me knows I will never get to see or read them all; not even if I live several life times. Maybe it was Peter’s sentence that it inspired him to research his own family, I don’t know, but this evening I had a date with several cups of tea and my laptop as I watched the film on YouTube.
You can read a synopsis of the film HERE. I rarely sit so attentively. I usually have to reach for a notebook to record snippets that wizz through my mind, but this evening I sat and watched this film. I can see what it was that probably made Peter start researching his ancestry. With me it was probably the early recollections of the 1977 series Roots, but this program is a close second. So much so that I nipped onto Amazon and ordered the DVD. I had to!
Go on, click the links below to see the various episodes of the film, but before you do, what was it that inspired you to research your family history?
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Or, has watching the three episodes above inspired you to start?
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My genealogical buddy friend from Down Under, +Pauleen Cass has nominated me for this.
You can read the blog post here by the co-coordinator of the event, John who blogs over at Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
I am probably the least rock star driven individual on the planet! I recognise that we each bring something to the genealogical / historical / blogging community. We each give our time and knowledge freely with the only payment being a comment, a tweet, a like or a shout out somewhere on social media. I learn’t long ago that sometimes the biggest rewards and payments are not necessarily financial.
Nominations are open until 6th September and the voting will commence after then. This is a harmless piece of genealogical fun, and therefore I will accept any votes in the spirit they are given, but we are all rock stars in my opinion.
Today is week 53 of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30 am UK time I will release the prompt for that week’s Book of Me, Written by You.
If you are new here, welcome! The details, background flyer and Face Book link to the Book of Me can be found HERE.
This week’s prompt is – Your Home Town
We all have one, perhaps it is where we were born, perhaps it where we lived for that special time in our lives, or perhaps it is where we now live.
Wherever it is, why not tell us about it.
Explain where it is, don’t forget we are across the world!
What is it that makes your “place” special?
Do you feel a nice comfy emotional connection?
I purchased this Victorian card, which dates from circa 1880, purely because the photographer was from Guildford and I had never heard of Spital Street.
It then became known as Upper High Street in 1901. In 1961, the road was formally included in the High Street and the buildings renumbered.
“In 1946, after WWII, a young Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank. She’s an ex-combat nurse, he’s been in the army as well, they’ve been separated for the last six years, and this is a second honeymoon; they’re getting re-acquainted with each other, thinking of starting a family. But one day Claire goes out walking by herself, and comes across a circle of standing stones—such circles are in fact common all over northern Britain. She walks through a cleft stone in the circle….and disappears……….”
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| Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial Taken April 2006 – Julie Goucher |
As you will see, this is a story not just of the tragedy itself, but also of loss at a personal level, grief and the need to make that special journey even if the road of that journey is a tough one.
For some reason, the program resonated with me. I fully understand the need for this tough and emotional journey and admire the courage and determination of the lady concerned.
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