Hello All, I have a saying "In genealogy you never know", a few weeks ago this proved to be true. A girl called Jean and I lived next door to each other from the age of 18 months, we are still good friends and see each other at least once a year and talk on the telephone. I know all of Jeans family, her Aunts, Uncles, Gran and Grandad, Cousins and Jean knows all of my family. My mother went to school with Jean's mother Vera HART. A few months ago Roger my spouse and I went to lunch with Jean and her husband, they live on the South Coast. Jean showed us some of the photographs, from her holiday in Canada, Jean opened up the photograph album and what a surprise, I could not believe my eyes. In the front of the photograph album there was a note from Jeans cousin in Canada, this was about her family research, their gran was granny HART. I used to go with Jean to see granny HART on our bikes, from the cousins research granny HART is the daughter of Alice JEWELL baptised 1887 and Charles HART of Burghclere born 1884. Alice parents are parents Arthur JEWELL baptised 1859 and Martha Ann CUMMINS, Arthur's parents were George JEWELL baptised 1823 Kingsclere and Sophia GIRDLER baptised 1834, they married 1852. What a surprise after all these years of knowing Jean and her family, to find out her ancestors also come from the Kingsclere area, the same as mine and I also have her ancestors on the JEWELL and GIRDLER linked into my family tree. So please always keep an opened mind when it comes to genealogy, you never know. Is anyone doing a HART family tree, I am sure Jean would like to hear from you. Regards Barbara Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants, UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk.