Genealogy - defined as an account of the descent of a person or family through an ancestral line, or alternatively, the investigation of pedigrees as a department of knowledge, is a high convoluting description of what, to the rest of us, is known simply as tracing the family tree.
Nostalgia, to the fore in recent years, has found a wealth of collectible interests emerging amongst a public ever eager to get hands on anything connected with the past: old postcards, postage stamps, paper ephemera, 195Os and 60s memorabilia - and family trees!
It seems that today we are not content to know just how our ancestors lived - and I mean specific ancestors, namely those whose genes, characteristics and hereditary behaviour are the sum result of our very being. We want to know exactly who those people were: where they lived; what they did for a living; whether that story of highwaymen, criminals and corrupt relatives is factual, or a figment of Grandma's over-active imagination.
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