Indignation Maximised
I’ve just had a rather indignant email via Ancestry about one of our dear old ancestors. We have linked a particular mother to this ancestor (mind you, I’m talking back to 1820′s in Wales) and that apparently has upset my dear long lost relative who has a penchant for emailing indignantly. Her indignation was outlined succinctly with “You’re wrong. Where on earth did you find that name for this person? I can assure you that was not her maiden name and she was NOT the mother of that person. Check your facts before you make these assumptions!’ Wow… indignation to the max.
So, always ready to rewrite the history books if we are proved wrong, I jumped to the link provided by this Indignant Emailer to find out what The Truth really was. Interesting to say the least. The mother provided by Indignant Emailer had a different maiden name to the mother I had researched… but surprisingly, it was the same surname as the ancestor in question’s married granddaughter. How coincidental! she says with her tongue in her cheek.
But the amazement did not stop there. Indignant Emailer had done a lot of research it seems. She’d gathered lots of sources in Ancestry from other people and had carefully and meticulously verified each and every one of them to the point where she had managed to ascertain that the mother in question lived to be at least 190 years old!!! Wow!!! I’d better get a few nice long wearing coats ready for the winters to come if I’ve got those genes floating through my veins!! How awesome. I’ll probably get to see Richard Branson start cheap flights to the Sea of Tranquility for that weekend get-away we all need. I may even get to see the Middle East become peaceful……… well, maybe I won’t live that long, but, who knows?
Yes, it appears, if I live the same sort of life that my Indignant Emailers version of my ancestor did, then I’ll not only resurrect and appear in censuses 50 years after I die, but I’ll also marry and then give birth to my own great grandfather! Ground Control to Major Tom…. take your Indignant Pill and put your logic on….. But really…. you’ve got to laugh….