The Importance of Sharing Your Genealogy Research
I have been researching my family tree for many years now. I began when all enquiries had to be made via regular post. It was a long process, drawn out and for the most part, totally fruitless. I had heard tell of vague relations who were interested in their family tree but it seemed that they wanted to either keep their hard work to themselves (I can understand this in a way) or never bothered communicating with anyone else.. After all, if you've managed to find a birth/marriage or death certificate and paid the fee, then there is a reluctance to offer it or the valuable information it contains, away to anyone else for free. Either that or they feel that no one else would be interested. One elderly relative had researched her entire life and had a gold mine of information. She passed away suddenly and who knows what became of her research? My father came from a really large family and although they loved each other deeply, they just didn't keep in touch. I grew up not even kn...