Memory Tree Genealogy Journal

We're back from an absolutely fantastic week in England.  What a trip!  A few months back, some dear friends from Georgia emailed us to say they'd be living in Oxford for three months, and "would you like to visit?".  Why, of course!  One of the perks to living in Sicily is that we can easily fly from our home in Catania to many European destinations rather painlessly.  Three hours in the air, and we landed in London at Gatwick...spent the night in a very, very odd B&B literally built in the 1500s (!), and drove the next morning to Oxford by way of Windsor. Genealogically speaking, I wish we had had more time to explore some of the hometowns of ancestors on both sides of our family.  I'm very convicted at this point that I have so much work to do to identify those hometowns.  Out of the several relatives (from 4th great-grandparents onward to 12 or so generations back), I can only identify the hometowns of a small handful.  Definitely more w...

England, here we come!   "Remember Me - a Genealogy Journal" is heading to Oxford, England for a week of fun in the...well...rain and cold!  Much more fun than that, we'll visit with friends from several military moves ago.  At this point, we each have two children (!) and have aged nearly 10 years (!!).  Here's to hoping we still look the same! With better planning, I really could have made this a fantastic genealogy trip.  The fact is...the places we'd like to visit are over 2 1/2 hours driving distance from our rental cottage in Oxford.  Sans kids, this would have been doable.  BUT - with two under the age of 5, and one of them still consistently napping, we'll take a more conservative approach.  Before we move away from Europe, I'd love to return to visit Dorset (TREVETT family) and Thirsk, Yorkshire (SMITH family).  I know that many, many more of my ancestors are from the UK.  Identifying their actual birth places is on the ho...