It being Xmas week, I thought I would just put down on paper where I sit in the scheme of things. One of the things you come to see very clearly when you do your family history is that you are one link in a long chain of everything that went before you.

This is my family tree:

Some of the names in the tree will be very familiar, some you may know vaguely, and some you won’t know at all. Some of them will apply to all of you, and others will only be related to some of them. But they all have one thing in common – each one of them has their own story. And it is those stories that I want to tell. 

So bit by bit I will write what I know about them all, and all the ones who went before them. And I hope you enjoy their stories.

BTW I have retraced my steps and added a Fan Chart to the profiles I have written so far, just so you can see that not all family trees are as filled in as mine. In fact, if I went one generation further out, you would certainly find holes in mine, too!