Up a Tree

I've grown tired of running down forebears that turn out to not actually be part of the family, though I am grateful for the history I learned along the way (which, after all, is supposed to be the point of these posts). So I turned back to Sharon's side of the family, again climbing the branches of her mother's side of the tree. Along the way, I ran into the Ormsby family, whose lineage extended far into England's past -- so far that I decided to run it back as far as I could go.  At the end of the line was a fellow referred to as Orm son of Gamel. His birth is listed as being in the 10th century and his death  in the 11th before the Norman invasion, though the dates listed were approximations. His listing contained one attachment, a line drawing of a book titled The Domesday Book. We'll discuss the Domesday Book in a subsequent post, probably not the next one but the one after that - two weeks if I manage to exercise some discipline. For now, know that the book ha...