I am pleased to announce that my latest blog in the "Famous family trees" series is now online at..... http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2013/07/famous-family-trees-sean-bean/ The subject is the Sheffield-born actor SEAN BEAN (of Sharpe fame and many Hollywood films). I got his ancestry back to about 1800 and followed the Bean family from Swinderby and Eagle in Lincolnshire to Doncaster and thence on to Sheffield. I discovered a somewhat tragic ancestor, a great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Bean, who went bankrupt in 1865 and may have ended his days in an asylum. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE