Different tracks, same passion
I enjoy the thoughts and stories expressed by Diane Lindsay in every issue of Family Tree magazine. But her latest contribution in the February 2024 issue topped them all.
We have very different backgrounds, her having been born and raised in an old country, while I was born and raised in one with much less antiquity. We both share an avid interest in history. Diane found much of hers around her place of origin. My interests in the subject developed through tracing my roots in far off places.
What she had to (very expressively) say about ordinary people also fits my own ancestral families: not entirely humble, perhaps, but regular folk “eking out a hard living.” Today we are both obsessed family historians, looking at defining our present circumstances in relation to what our forebears may have experienced.
