Conclusion

Can there be an appropriate conclusion to a book which exhorts you to write a family history and to publish it if you possibly can? Certainly by now I hope you will have cast aside my mocking suggestion at the start of this book that you might find the whole thing all too much for you.

 

 

Even your parents and grandparents are part of your family history! Here, the author’s parents, Sidney and Beth Titford, celebrate their diamond wedding anniversaryin 1990.

 

I’ve been gratified to find that lectures I’ve given at various Family History Society meetings over the years, and also at a conference held in New Zealand under the title of ‘Imprint 2002: Putting your family history in print’, organised by Viv Parker and Keith Vautier, have persuaded at least a handful of people to lay aside all procrastination and to start writing a book they’d long intended to tackle one day. My earnest hope is that some of the readers of this book may tread the same path.

I do think it’s important to make your family history findings widely available, and I do feel that you’d derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from doing it. Who knows, I may even have the pleasure of writing a review of your completed book one day? I do hope so.