Yes, I am still plodding away at digging up my mother’s family history, nothing specific to report, but noticed it is almost a year since I last wrote, so here I am. I am currently researching a great great great grandfather called Stephen Fry and his wife Mary Allen, both born in 1776 in Kent. I have found a number of people on Ancestry.com who have information on these two but none of them mention the one child (out of ten) who happens to be my ancestor. I have spent 3 weeks on this so far and have established links between the other family trees and my own – but I have an uneasy feeling I might have it wrong. Perhaps I have been manipulating the available information to show what I want it to. That is an easy trap to fall into and can lead one way off the track. I have looked for an alternative Stephen Fry with no results but I think it is time to step back for a while & then to come back and look at it with fresh eyes. If only I could convince my brain to stop pondering the matter!