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Monday 16 July 2012

Elusive ancestors

I promised myself that I would get back into family history once I had finished the afghan blanket.  The afghan is on its way to Hawaii and a new little baby girl has been born ready to use it when it arrives.

So back to the family history and I made a decision to concentrate on getting down on paper before putting it on the computer.  Why, I hear you ask.   I work best with writing on paper I can see and I also wanted to have a paper copy of my family history anyway.  I can also take the paper file over to Lewes when I go to the records office.  I am dividing the paper files into four; one of each of my grandparents lines and then later I will create a separate file for my parents and their descendents and that will now include the new little baby in Hawaii.

I am using the Family Group sheets which can be found free on Ancestry.co.uk and they are very easy to work with.  I am finding and recording any records and references that I can find with all my direct line ancestors and as the research develops will move onto siblings of the direct line.  I am finding that I am soon going sideways as I find researchers with common interests even where they are not my direct line.

Family history can be all consuming; it has certainly taken over the dining room table and most of my spare time but my Mother who is in her 90s is interested in the people she remembers from her childhood and keeps adding little snippets for me.

If you are researching in Kent and Sussex I am mainly interested in the following names from my maternal side:  Clark (Rye area, Hastings, Ashford and Robertsbridge), Hoad (Rye), Douch (Icklesham), Poile (Bodiam and Salehurst), Eldridge (Bodiam)

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Finished ........

After weeks and many hours of stitching, over 100 hours of cross stitch, the afghan blanket is finally finished.  We decided not to have it fringed just in case the baby sucked one of the fringing bits off or just as important, lovely little Rosie cat decided the fringes would be good to play with!!!!



I backed the afghan with some white polycotton material as this meant that I could hide the hemming around the outer edge and also hide the underside of the stitching.