Listers may be interested in my latest blog in the Famous family trees series at Findmypast which is about the ancestry of the author Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse. I hope you will find this of interest because, though it doesn't involve Yorkshire, the project was perhaps my most difficult to date because it illustrates to the novice family historian - and even to an experienced genealogist such as myself - the dangers of just accepting everything from the internet and ignoring conventional research! Initially, I got the wrong men as Colin Dexter's father and grandfather by identifying the wrong person in the censuses. This was only uncovered when I obtained a number of BMD certificates and found that an Alfred Dexter I thought was Colin's father was not the right man because he didn't match with the named father on two marriage certificates. Eventually it transpired that there were TWO Alfred Dexters of almost identical age at Oakham but one of them had originally been born illegitimate in another name, in which he appeared in 1891, and then, to compound the problem, though he had become Dexter in 1901 the name had been mistranscribed. I hope readers will enjoy discovering how I eventually solved the problem with Morse-style detective work and I hope the great man himself would be proud of me! The blog can be viewed at: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2012/09/famous-family-trees-colin-dexter/ -- 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