From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 2/13/2022 3:50 AM, Colin Bignell wrote:   
   > On 12/02/2022 17:53, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:37:28 +0000, Colin Bignell    
   >> wrote:   
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   >   
   > I may, however, have mislead you about my intentions re graves. I am not   
   > planning on looking for specific grave sites. As you say, the poor   
   > (which a lot of my ancestors certainly were*) may have been buried by   
   > the Parish without markers.   
   >   
   > What I am planning to do is visit places where they lived and take   
   > photographs for my tree. In some cases the original buildings still   
   > remain (Thank you Google Street View). While there, I plan to pop into   
   > the local churchyard and have a browse through the gravestones of the   
   > right periods to see what, if anything, I can find. Obviously, having   
   > first checked for any information I can find online. I won't be downcast   
   > if I can't find anything.   
   >   
   > * As an aside, I found a couple of generations of related people had   
   > been born in a poorhouse. Further checking showed that, in both cases,   
   > their parents were the Warden and the Matron of those poorhouses.   
   >   
      
   Taking pictures of where our ancestors lived is one of the fun part of   
   the research.   
      
   One example:  I was with my mother and we were taking pictures of her   
   grandfathers home.   While we were stopped the current owner came down   
   to the road asking who we were and why were we photographing his home.   
   When he learned, we talked for about 20 minutes.  We talked about the   
   Hay fork that my mother remember riding across the barn, and found it   
   still existed but in the owner's brother's barn.   
      
   In another incidence the owner learned his home was much older than he   
   thought as a results of our conversation.   
      
     As Paul Harvey used to say; we got "The rest of the story."   
      
   I have had many nice conversation with the current owners of ancestral   
   home, who we met in a similar manner.  We have also had some interesting   
   situations, as when we did drive-by-shootings of their homes in a high   
   crime areas of Chicago.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)