It occurred to me this morning that there are enough people in the family interested in the history of our forbears that it now takes me some time to e-mail people with the new material that I discover or find out from others! I thought it might be time to start a blog so that we can all share our discoveries, post questions and so on, to share the story of the Barons.
I have named the blog "Meat on the Barons' Bones" specifically because I met a wonderful woman at the New Zealand Genealogical Society Family History Fair last weekend who sat down to listen to my talk on using the British Newspapers tab on Find My Past. I engaged her in conversation, as you do, and she said that she was not really interested in Family History! She indicated that she had come to the Fair solely to hear a speaker who had come to be one of the keynote speakers on the place of DNA in discovering the true identity of King Richard III. This non family historian was "just a bit early and thought she would listen to my talk on what can be found in newspapers"!! When I had finished she came up to me and said that my talk had inspired her to think that family history did not just have to be the dry bare bones of birth dates, and death dates but could be exciting and real!! She thought that I had put "the meat on the bones" of my family story. I hope, then, that this blog, will be the beginning of really helping other members of the family to put the meat on the bones of our family and to enjoy uncovering the stories of the lives they lived and their daily activities. Come and join me on a voyage of discovery and learn more about the meat on the bones of the Baron family!!
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