Editorial&Opinion: Ancestor worship; THE THIRD LEADER CHARLES NEVIN.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 25, 2006 | Copyright information

Until reasonably recently, excitement in genealogical circles was mostly confined to matters of escutcheons, pendent drops, annulets and double quatrefoils, and expressed at most by an almost imperceptibly increased tempo in page turning by gimlet-eyed people hunched over cumbersome tomes and scrolls.

Not any more. Now there's a buzz, its words are "census" and "online", genealogy has been re-branded as "family records", and, in the words of Tony Robinson, always to be ...

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