Before we started researching our ancestors, many of us probably thought they were just ordinary people. Nothing very interesting happened to them. My previous blog about David Brown, sole survivor of a massacre in the Solomon Islands certainly may have captured readers’ imaginations.[1] It might encourage you to read this, my third blog about my research journey into the family of my late wife, Helen. David Brown was a common name, as was Helen’s other maternal great grandfather, William Lambert. … Continue reading