Gift that keeps giving
often refer to family history as the hobby (call that lifestyle!) that never stops giving. No matter how long you’ve been researching, and how thorough you think you’ve been, going back over the same ground is never wasted time. Take parish registers for instance. Once, we had to travel to see the originals in Diocesan Registries, if they had been deposited, and then only if we had a clue where to look. Archivists soon realised the precious tomes were being
