G'day from Oz

Hi all, I'm Jan in Australia. I was born in York, lived in lancashire and now I'm here living in Oz. I started tracing my family tree and found all these place names that I had no idea of where they were. I googled and here I am.  My family are from the north of england and my in laws are from the south so I've been on a virtual tour of the whole place.  Funny when I lived in the UK I never knew of half the places.  I love social history,  researching a family tree isn't just about putting names on paper its finding out about how they lived, where they lived, the times they lived in.  I'm going to love being here.

Jan

Ji Jan... Welcome to POE from Anna and Ron. We all know it's fun searching the 130,000 plus pages of POE....we all have square bums!

I just know that you will make many good friends here in the forum, we are lucky to have such a great bunch of people in the 'family'. Don't be afraid to join in whenever you can. Today it's a bank holiday here so could be a little quiet whilst they sun themselves!

By the way, whats that in your avatar?

Hi Jan, a very warm welcome to the family of POE. 

Like you I was born in Yorkshire, lived in Cheshire & Surrey (ancestors from Yorkshire, Worcestershire & Herefordshire), husband's family from Kent & Warwickshire. 

We live in South Africa so I presume you will be also be going into Winter now?  While UK and USA head towards their Summer!

Thats the green tree frog that lives in my back garden, my son had knocked the head off a wooden balinese running duck (the loo door lock has broke so we stick the duck behind the door to keep it shut). While the glue was drying old Henry jumped on top. Luckily he didn't stick. He was quite happy to pose for photo's.

Yep, moving slowly into winter, though you wouldn't know it. Just like the best of an english summer.

I live in a pretty little heritage village in the mountains above Cairns, wildlife is plentiful. Yesterday I took photo's of a python curled up asleep in my friends gardens, I was only a couple of inches away from it.  I had to laugh yesterday as a friend told me about her walk around one of the crater lakes through the rainforest, she'd nearly done the whole walk (about 5 klms) and then a few hundred metres from the end she came across a big black snake across the path, so instead of being careful and waiting for it to pass she turned round and walked back the whole way. Come to think of it I would probably have done the same.

Hi Jan and welcome.  I too am from Arizona and it must be a lot like Oz, we have a lot of interesting snakes, both venomous and not.

On our first trip to England in 2007 we visited York.  It's my favorite place, as is the rest of North Yorkshire.  I always say I'm going to move there some day when my ship comes in lol.

I hope you love it here.