General Chat

On page 23 of today's Daily Telegraph there is a jalf page article by Jonathan Myerson describing his efforts to trace his ancestors. It might give a little boost to the interest in geneology.

Brian, Maybe we can encourage the Telegraph to have a regular column. You fancy being a journalist?

Maybe I sometimes contribute to our local paper's letters column and have had a handful published in the Telegraph! Does it pay well? ;-))

Brian, It should pay well with the cost of the Telegraph every day!

Believe me the pay isn't too bad for writing a column - I wrote a search and reunte column for the Bristol Evening Post but found I spent more on phone calls and research than I earnt. I was successful until they moved me from Saturday to Tuesday with a new editor who wanted full surnames of those involved in adoption etc - I said I would not reveal the names as the people reading would know what I was writing about if they were related to the article. Now, no column because of my principles - adoption research is a very private thing and not one that 'the world' should be aware of unless the parties involved wanted their revelations to be known about.