Having reactivated my Blogger Account, I've decided to start up a blog for my thoughts on my family tree work. Since 2022, I've taken a much deeper interest in following up the Mayne and the Stevens family trees. Like most people, I have a subscription to Ancestry.ca (or .com), and have spent the past year or so working with the records available through that website. The Mayne tree has grown far beyond anything I could have imagined, due in huge part to a cousin in the USA contacting me and adding just a single person to the next layer back in the tree. Far from being simple Yorkshire folk as I had thought, it appears the Maynes have been travellers in the past, and there are vast swathes of us in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, and I knew nothing about them. It hasn't been all keyboard work, either, because I've had the good fortune to visit relatives' graves in the UK, and I'm hoping to do the same for some in the USA as well this year. I have ...