We begin our second January Issue by wishing
everyone a happy and, above all, a peaceful New Year. Thank you too
for all the Christmas e-mails.
We are pleased to welcome Roy Hayter as our
first guest contributor of 2003. Many of last year's articles have
produced offers of additional information and Roy takes up the story
of his Great Grandfather - James Stentiford - which we touched
on briefly in Issue 9. Thanks to family photos which Roy is sharing
with us, we can now visualise James as well as understand his life a
little better.
Eggbuckland is an important place in the history
of more than one branch of the family. This time, it is the turn of
the Stuttafords but we shall be returning to tell the Stentiford
stories associated with this place in a future Issue.
It has bothered us since the first issue that we
have not set up a workable index and now that the Archive is growing
larger, having one is becoming far more important. Richard has spent
much of the holiday working to create one that does not entail us
having to rent additional expensive server space. We have included in our
SEARCH
section a small part of what we hope eventually will be a very useful
search tool. Only PLACES can be
searched in this trial extract - we shall be adding more categories as
the year goes on but we should very much welcome your comments or
suggestions as to its usefulness.
Keep in touch,
Muriel and Richard
