Another year to look back over. It has been busy with family matters but still the genealogy bug keeps ticking away.  

I found an old note taken from some website 10 years previously.  With newer research, it made a bit more sense and fortunately the email address was still sound.  Another line filled out! 

  Some three years ago I had posted up a photo dated c 1926 of a gr grandfather to a website of Irish interest.  Just a month ago someone  claimed said man as his gr grandfather also.   Eventually direct contact was made and another family legend was laid to rest and another unknown group of cousins detailed.   

I have been managing DNA links done by two brothers but with different companies and again some progress is made with two very fruitful lines opening up.

There was time this year also to revisit elderly relations and  discuss old stories.  Nothing beats a face to face chat!

I have been fortunate in having access to the big Ancestry website for most of this year.  Always worth revisiting old searches as daily new genealogists are adding more material  and more data is being digitalised and made available.