Tracing Your Roots -  Episode 2 - Today, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mg2v2   Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice of researching family history, with the help of resident genealogist Nick Barratt. Lucille White has been trying to get to the bottom of a family that her great, great-grandmother may have been the illegitimate daughter of Louis XVI, but stories handed down from one generation to the next are often history as the teller would like it to have been, not as it really was. Birth, marriage and death certificates may not tell the whole story, so Sally and Nick investigate how to widen the search in order to disentangle myth from truth.   Rgds. Denise Howes

Does anyone have a copy of the book "Extracts from the diaries of the Rev William Cotton Riseley, vicar of Deddington 1836-1848"? I'm specifically looking for references to the MALINGS family. The online index shows: Page 13 Joseph E, chemist Page 87 Mrs. Samuel Malings, widow Page 114 Samuel Malings Page 130, 138 W Malings, Clifton Page 191 _ Malings, Bicester, lawyer Many thanks Jon Malings County Wexford, Ireland