and all the world change in name places once thought of and learnt in those school lessons. How the face of this planet has changed. The Mayflower descendants of Richard Gere. Yes, I am coming back in dribs and drabs, the slavery and colonies. The Berlin Wall an example in change since my decade of birth.
How that millennium was in countdown, came and is now sixteen years ago ... and it is over a hundred years ago since my grandparents were born ... all this came up on the historical artefacts from a box still to receive when my mother in law died.
We did a lot of local history delving in the family line of my daughters roots ... we were both fascinated ... from just a box of photos, and historical documents of many relatives birth, marriage and death certificates... the common cause of death spooked my daughter ...
and ultimately opened up a world in that family history for a daughter who now has no one to tell her in her own core paternal family line ...
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