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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 52. Future.

FUTURE 

Well firstly, I did it:- 52 stories in 52 weeks in 2021, some weeks were harder than others but over half of the posts were stories of my ancestors lives and about half again relate to the social history within those lives. Thanks to Amy Johnson Crow for providing the prompts for these posts, they have certainly concentrated the mind.

So where will I go with my family history story in 2022. I have signed up for next years 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, but I thought I would only post on weeks relevent to ancestors who's stories I have yet to write up. I see, however, that there is now a monthly theme and this may be the way I go with writing up these stories. Nevertheless there are many more people with stories to write about and hopefully others ready to be discovered. Having committed to writing weekly posts, it has encouraged me to write regularly.

One big advance, will hopefully be, that I can perhaps move further forward with my Mum's birth family. We know her mothers line, but having bought her a DNA test kit, perhaps we may be able to work out who her father's family may be.

With the upcoming publication of the 1921 census, I also hope that I may discover a little more about my Grandmother's sister, who 'ran away' from home, sometime between 1911 and the 1930's.

Another project I hope to undertake is presenting my 'bestie' with a coherent book/journal about her family history, as a present for a big birthday in 2023, this should keep me busy for a while.

I think that will be enough to commit to in the upcoming year but on a more personal level I will try to be a little more Zen, with misinformation online and incorrect tree assertions, especially on Ancestry. If others aren't bothered that they have completely followed the wrong line or parents younger than their children, then that's up to them and not for me to inwardly throw my toys out of the pram about, then expend much energy, trying to convey the errors in a pleasant and constructive approach to them.

Looking in the, hopefully, more distant future.... well my particular line in the family will die out with my sister and I. Perhaps this is part of the reason why I try to uncover those stories of those 'single' women in my tree. To all intents and purposes, that is what I will become, but there is so much more to my life and with a little digging, in the far distant future, perhaps a distant member of the family will uncover the vast richness that has been a life lived rather than just a name within the line of several generations back and whilst maintaining my maiden name, there is a dusty document out there, that will indicate that this single woman did actually have a husband, but no children.



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