I never realised just how lucky I am!

I was thinking this morning about Thomas KINGHORN from Carlisle and the fact that I don’t have easy access to the records that I would normally find on my doorstep. It was then that I realised just how lucky I have been with my research.

I haven’t actually counted them up but I would think that at least three quarters of my 3x great grandparents (that I have identified), were born in Sussex. This obviously makes my research a lot easier, and makes me think that researching further afield is something extraordinary.

But of course it is not, it is probably what most genealogists are doing all the time, working online, using Family History Libraries and such like. For me these are a novelty, but I would guess for most people reading this it is nothing out of the ordinary.

So I thank my ancestors for staying in Sussex and making my research that much easier, and those ancestors that didn’t come from Sussex, well I thank them for making my research a bit more of a challenge and pushing me to think more and work harder!

Just my luck!

Now I’m not normally superstitious, but I think I might be buying a lottery ticket this week after discovering these two five-leaf clovers on the piece of waste ground just outside our front door.

Not only were there these two, but on closer inspection there were another two, and at least eight or nine four-leaf examples as well. I have found four-leaf ones there before, but I think this is the first time I have ever seen a five-leaf example, let alone four of them!