My Ancestry is back!

I am a fairly happy camper. Hubby got a 50% offer, so I jumped on it and am back on ancestry for another 6 months. YAY! Unfortunately, there seem to be some glitches in their system right now, the "hints" I am sent by email end up on pages that say the content is no longer available, when I click through, and some of my trees have info muddled ... like siblings of a person put down a level (on the tree) to appear like their children. It did this once before a year or so ago, it's annoying and time consuming putting everything back to rights.

I am thinking of getting a paper lineage wall chart and putting in my direct lines that I have so far, in order to try to keep my info easily accessible.

I do wish that I were back in England and able to explore a couple of places that feature heavily in my ancestors lives. Sadly, Canning Town/Plaistow area was devastated during the war by the Blitz and rebuilt in the decades since, so bears very little resemblance to the place my Poyser and Hunt family members lived and worked in.

Blore in Staffordshire appears relatively unspoiled, still somewhat in the "boonies" and it would be nice to explore the churches numerous ancestral family members were baptized, married and buried at, and try to locate the places they lived at.

Likewise, the Hadhams, in Essex, where other branches of the Halestrap family still live. Some of my ancestors are buried in the churchyard there, and their history is well known. It would be lovely to meet some distant distant cousins and find out more.

I'm hoping 2019 will give me more discoveries and fill in some gaps. My elusive John Lewis, for instance. I would love to find a direct male descendant who could have a DNA test done and gain me even more info.

I keep plodding on