Have you ever tried tracing your family tree? Comments on my poem welcome – thanks?
Ancestry
Traced a tree through generations
Exposing roots, while digging deep
Kicking off on exploration
About to take gigantic leap
Like a needle in a haystack
Not knowing next what I would see
Treked the records and the cencus
In search of who and what made me
Got my fingers on the keyboard
Completing jig-saw, bit by bit
Reckoned not, achieving target
My heart would suffer direct hit
Salt of the earth were my forebears
Such poverty and hardship reigned
Laboured hard and took in laundry
T.B inflicted further pain
Rented rooms, accepting lodgers
Two rooms in home, for children ten
No use moaning, no use grumbling
For that was normal, way back then
The army solved unemployment
Three brothers off to war in France
Childhood deaths caused mountain sorrow
Workhouse beckoned, the final chance
Red light, before past is raked up
Don’t seek, if you expect to find
Bed of roses on your doorstep
Truth, colours green on novice mind
An excellent effort on a fascinating topic.
This poem gives the feel of flipping through
a history book, offering glimpses of the past
as the pictures flip by. Except in this case, the
history is one’s own.
I especially like the last 3 lines.
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Your English Ancestry by Irvine, Sherry Edition REV, 2 $21.49 Your English Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans was the first book to provide a logical research routine for family historians based in North America. Since the first edition of Your English Ancestry was published in 1993, genealogy has become even more popular, the Internet has become an important tool for many researchers, and there have been significant changes in local government and in the storage of major records in England.These changes are reflected in this new edition of Your English Ancestry. It contains additional detail on many records, a new chapter introducing early English research (before 1730), and a greatly expanded bibliography.For every type of record — civil registration, census, church records, probate, occupation, and local administration — there are clear explanations of availability and access. Each chapter concludes with a step-by-step summary |
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Ancestry’s Concise Genealogical Dictionary by Harris, Maurine; Harris, Glen Edition , 0 $20.49 Is your research time wasted looking up words like “beamster,” “grimgribber,” “anascara,” and “wainbote” in regular dictionaries? Ever heard of a “gossip's wheel” or a “shank's mare”? These and other unusual terms are defined in Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary. You will find this book a useful and entertaining reference. The authors spent years collecting, researching, and verifying definitions of terms they discovered while researching cemetery, probate, court, medical, and other records. The mystery of terms and abbreviations that many researchers face has been solved with this essential, quick-reference source geared to the needs of the genealogist. Now you can have at your fingertips accurate and easy-to-find definitions for troublesome or unfamiliar words encountered in the research process. With thousands of concise definitions, all arranged alphabetically, this dictionary is an essential for any genealogist's home, office, or briefcase. |
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Ancestry Art by Foster, Karen Edition , 0 $13.99 Ancestry Art. Foster, Karen |
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Dickens and the Workhouse (Hardcover) $57.98 It`s one of the best known scenes in all of literature–young Oliver Twist, with empty bowl in hand, asking "Please Sir. I want some more." In Dickens and the Workhouse, historian Ruth Richardson recounts how she discovered the building that was quite possibly the model for the workhouse in Dickens` classic novel. Indeed, Richardson reveals that Dickens himself lived only a few doors down from this notorious building–once as a child and once again as a young journalist. This book offers a colorful portrait of London in Dickens` time, looking at life in the streets and in the workhouse itself. Illustrated with maps, documents, photos, and illustrations, this fascinating book provides an engaging blend of history, biography and literary criticism, rooted in hitherto largely unexplored historical sources, in Dickens` own fiction and journalism, and in works of biography and criticism. Richardson`s discovery made headlines worldwide. Published on the 200th anniversary of Dickens` birth, Dickens and the Workhouse offers an intriguing glimpse of one of the great literary figures of the Victorian Age. |
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