Family History Trips

I know you can now sit down at your computer and access records on the internet to research your family tree, but I started out researching mine sufficiently long ago that I had to visit churches and record offices to find out the information. It's a fascinating thing to do, even if you don't find any aristocratic ancestors - it may not be 'Who do you think you are?', but it is much more personal, as it is your own history.

I try to combine some of my caravan trips with visiting places from where my ancestors originated- I visit their birthplaces, try to imagine what life was like for them all those years ago, and take photographs of the locality.

Last year when at Bladon Chains CC site, I visited Eydon, Northants, where one of my great great grandfathers was born and raised. He became a silk weaver, and moved to Norwich when a huge silk factory was opened there in the early 1800s. The following month, when at Commons Wood CC site, I visited Woolmer Green, originally a railway hamlet- another great great grandfather lived there when helping build the railways, including the nearby famous Digswell Viaduct.

Why not give it a try?