Baldock/Fagg/Small Family History

I have finally got around to updating my tree on Ancestry.co.uk ! It took a while to merge in (it has been a while since it worked in Family Tree Maker), but I got there eventually, hopefully without mistakes.

I can now make use of the ‘hint’ feature for my new data – something I find to be one of the best things about FTM. It’s a lot quicker than manually searching on their website!

Still, I will be attending some Ancestry seminars at the Who Do You Think You Are Live! exhibition in London at the end of February, so I hope to be better armed with the skills to make the most of their website.

Exhibition review at a later date ….

OK, by rights they’re relatives, not direct ancestors.

I have discovered that my gt-gt-gt-uncle, John BALDOCK (b. 1850, Womenswold, Kent) arrived in Australia in 1873, married there in 1880 and started a family. Thanks to Coral for this confirmation.

I have yet to determine the reason why he went, and have yet to expand this new branch.

Watch this space!

This evening I watched “The Lost Pyramid” on The History Channel, which was about the fourth (missing) great pyramid of Djedefra, having been found at Abu Rawash in Egypt.

Traditional speculation has suggested that Djedefra had murdered his older brother to get to the throne, married his wife (his sister), was himself murdered after around 8 years as pharoah, and that the pyramid was ransacked and destroyed because of his tyrannical reign.

Evidence now at hand turns all this on it’s head, implying he was a great ruler, who worshipped his father, Khufu, such that the Sphinx is in Djedefra’s image (not Khufu’s, as has been sometimes believed) as a tribute to his father, also burying a huge ship. A cartouche at the site of the ship bears Djedefra’s name, and census dates indicate that he actually reigned for at least two decades. The poor state of the ruins of his pyramid at Abu Rawash is now believed to be down to the Romans, who robbed the stones to build nearby, and further robbing by merchants in the mid-nineteenth century.

The lesson – never believe everything you read or hear.

History can be changed … it just takes time and evidence!