medieval cemetery discovered

During reading other genealogy blogs, I found the following article on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog.

The blog's article focused on an area of England where my own ancestors once lived, so naturally I was instantly aroused. I've only given the start of the article, but you can read more by following the link.


A large medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons has been discovered in the central English city of Leicester, the find promises to shed new light on the way people lived and died in the Middle Ages.The graveyard was probably used from the 12th century until the demolition of a church at the site in 1573.

To read the rest of this article, go here.

proof

Wouldn't you like to find that everything other people submit to those sites like ancestry.com is posted complete with sources?

All I did was follow a "hint" at ancestry, and bingo! Generation after generation of ancestors apparent popped up. With each new 5-generation chart, more climbed out of the dusty past. When the deluge slowed, the names were Roman and the dates were in the area of B.C.

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Now what self-respecting genealogist would take any of that at face value?

Infinitely disappointed, I simply started over, and decided that all those "hints" would be taken with a grain of salt until proven.

Now I know that we will never prove everything we uncover and believe to be true, but I would like to try to prove as much as possible. There's just something about having all these beautifully lengthy ancestral lines and knowing that they cannot possibly be proven. I accept that fact. Besides life is too short to spend all of it trying to prove things that are impossible.

My new goal is to prove what I can and what I can't prove, then i'll simply enjoy the possibility of it being true.


Happy Hunting!