The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.4 | March 2025

Editorial

Message from the editor This will be the last journal produced by Clive at Grey Cell and predecessor versions of the company. I am not sure how long Clive has been doing this for us, when I took over as editor it was Clive I dealt with. The earliest journal I have is 2007 which Clive produced under the company name Acadia, so a good job over many years often coping with us sending in last minute changes including this journal. So a big thank you Clive. In this issue Christopher Farrand writes on the problems of tracing your family when you are researching the Smith family. The article contains some ways in which you can try this by looking at families and names, census and death certificates. This is helped in the USA as death certificates include the details of parents. Jacky Searle’s article although not directly related to tracing ancestors does remind us that the memories of relatives are important and help provide the extras to build up a picture of the family. Rod Cross writes of researching his great aunt and the importance of talking with older

Joan Stephens has extracted some Hampshire ‘strays’ from the Surrey Births and Baptisms held by TNA. Stephen Pomeroy Editor

relatives. This led to international collaboration to complete the details.

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