Another kind of historical convergence
I've been working on and off for years with my friend Sara, and for a lot of it she's been gradually assembling a film connected with her family history, so I've heard a fair bit about it.
But it wasn't that long ago that we worked out that our ancestors used to live in villages not ten miles apart.
Most of my ancestry is Irish, but my mother's mother was from England, her folks coming from a Wiltshire village called Bishops Cannings, northeast of Devizes. Sara has a line of ancestry that comes from Market Lavington, to its southeast. Google says the villages are 8.9 miles apart.
But it wasn't that long ago that we worked out that our ancestors used to live in villages not ten miles apart.
Most of my ancestry is Irish, but my mother's mother was from England, her folks coming from a Wiltshire village called Bishops Cannings, northeast of Devizes. Sara has a line of ancestry that comes from Market Lavington, to its southeast. Google says the villages are 8.9 miles apart.