Thanks for this thread Foxy
I wish you well May you have a good life and I am sorry to hear of your step-dad my thoughts go out to you and the rest of your family
All the rest out there have a good life
Bye from Dave

Dear Dave,

Thanks for your kind words and thoughts.
I read somewhere that no conventional
therapy can release us from a deep and
abiding psychic pain, yet, through prayer
we can find what we can't find elsewhere:
a peace that is not of this world.

It does help.

Foxy,
A bit belated but never the less genuinely felt. I wish you and your family the best and calm acceptance, when the time comes.
The grief WILL pass and in its place will be the knowledge of the worth of the life that was, not the passing.
So long as you remember, his influence and the value of that life will continue.

May your God bless you.
Examinator and Family

PS We have in the last 14 months lost a mum and a Dad and last two weeks a brother-in-law prematurely to illness.

Dear Examinator,

Your words hugged me like a warm winter coat
in the middle of a cold winter's day.

Thank You, and my sympathies to you and your
loved ones for your loss.

I know deep in my heart that what you are saying
is true - we shall eventually have a calm
acceptance. It's just difficult at present.
Especially watching my mum...

This is a most interesting thread and I'd encourage all to go deeper into their ancestry; not only is it a fascinating study but history can come alive when you identify historical ancestors or positively relate some of them to places or events. My discovery of Robert the Bruce as an ancestor is a case in point and to date I have found Irish, Scots, English, Normans, French, Germans, Vikings, Saxons, Italians and others in the family tree. Both George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt are cousins xxxxx times removed.
Which of course doesn't make me any better or worse than I as before making my discoveries (well, maybe I do take a slightly larger hat!).

It is truly said that family trees are like peanut bushes, the best part is under the ground.