NaBloPoMo - day 02

A day of a steady decline in the weather, and as I type this at 11.40pm, it is blowing a severe gale. What started out as a beautifully sunny morning very soon deteriorated over time. Was needing to visit someone in the town, who turned out to be away - well, that's my luck, isn't it. Will need to try again at a later time. Helped a friend with a little genealogy using the Ancestry website; if you really want to use that properly, you need a paid subscription. Not everybody is prepared to shell out £11 a month for the privilege, though. Requesting birth, marriage and death certificates also costs money. Here in Lewis, a number of areas have compiled crofting histories, detailing who occupied crofts (leased patches of land) since the 18th century. It shows that families stayed on the same piece of ground for centuries.