I have just been inspired to start up again on the family history. As an experiment,  I had printed off a six-generation ancestry chart from my website and noticed there were a few blank spaces waiting to be filled, so I accessed the Latter Day Saints site – www.familysearch.org –  in the vague hope of finding information which has eluded me for years.  I  have used this site before with mixed success, but I was amazed to find how efficient it now is at finding information.  I doubt whether my research skills have improved to any great extent, so I attribute the success of this attempt to this greatly improved site – so hats off to the LDS for providing this great facility, at no charge, to all and sundry.

The upshot of this is that I have extended the history of five families back a further generation – I feel like dancing a jig!  Now I have the job of putting all this information into the right places, so it’s back to work, hooray!