A window on my family tree

It's been a while, but I've finally published a version of the tree I've spent the last couple of years reviewing and improving. Some people have vanished, some people have appeared, and inevitably there's still work to do on it. Which is what I like about Family History -- there's always something...

It's a very satisfying feeling when you break down a brick wall... even if all this one took was 14 years of effort and finally and belatedly, the application of the FAN principle. I learned my great-grandfather's name early in my research. Following the trail laid down by my mother's birth...

I've been doing some research over the past few months that makes extensive use of the new indices recently published by the GRO of their birth and death registers for England and Wales. There are techniques available now that were not available without them.