Trending

Ernest Hayes Almas

The picture is of my mother's father, Ernest Hayes Almas (1900-1938).

Bransdale Graves

Here is my father’s mother - Alice Annie Green standing by the graves of her grandparents, in England in 1896.

Joseph, Mary and Jesus

I have just discovered the following - and I think it's a huge advance.

red autumn leaves

So, when raking my leaves it feels like I've been learning the meaning of the word ‘eternity.

Rake House farm, Glaisdale, Yorkshire

My ancestor Elizabeth Pennock married Thomas Gatenby at Glaisdale in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in 1799. Thomas died a few years later and Elizabeth worked the farm.

Actiones nostras, quaesumus Domine, aspirando praeveni et adiuvando prosequere: ut cuncta nosta oratio et operatio a te semper incipiat et per ta coepta finiatur.

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus, how that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor – that we through His poverty might become rich. — St. Paul (2 Corinthians 8:9)

There are lots of reasons to be unhappy in life