About the author Diane Lindsay
Diane Lindsay discovered her twin passions of family history and English (and her sense of humour) while training as a teacher and bringing up three small children in the 1970s. She’s a writer and local and family historian and, although retired, still teaches anything to anyone who will listen.
I’ve so enjoyed the summer of family history programmes on TV, Who Do You Think You Are?, Long Lost Family and the various DNA journeys. Informative, entertaining, and often poignant, stories of other peoples’ origins never fail to bring an empathetic lump to the throat. With the proviso that few of us can manage to fly around the globe to ancestral homelands, accessing rare archives and meeting professional genealogists with our ancestry ready documented and translated, the actual discoveries are vastly entertaining.