Waterfall Family Research

Kadeena Cox I have just got back from three fabulous days at Rootstech London, which was held at the Excel centre in London's docklands. The venue was excellent with separate enclosed classrooms. There were 150 different classes aimed at all levels over the three days and the subjects ranged from DNA to Welsh research and creating research logs to migration. Each class was very well attended, with some being so full that they were turning people away. A number of the classes were recorded along with the keynote speakers and they will be added to the Rootstech website  https://www.rootstech.org/video-archive Tre Amici Each day there was a keynote speaker and they were introduced by Nick Barratt. Thursday's speaker was Dan Snow and he talked about how he was brought up with history and said he was disappointed when he went to school and had to learn other subjects. Dan Snow also said that he is now inflicting history on his own children and his two year old daughter

A few years a go, I visited the Back to Backs in Birmingham. These are restored 19th century houses set around a courtyard and were for built for the working people. The Back to Backs are owned by the National Trust and well worth a visit. On your visit you move from the 1840’s through to the 1970’s. In contrast, today I visited the Chinese Heritage Centre in Singapore, this is a Shophouse Museum and showed the living conditions of the immigrant Chinese when they arrived in Singapore. These shophouses are as the name suggests, shops on the ground floor, with housing on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building. When I visited, I discovered, that individual families would live in one room and would share the kitchen and bathroom with everyone else who lived on the floor. This could be with as many as 40 other people. One room housed a family of six. The rooms are restored to the 1950’s and on the audio tour there are memories of those who lived in the houses. This museum a