For me, family history has always been more about lives and stories than names and dates.  Researching my family history has stimulated more interest in our past than history as taught at school ever did. In the course of my research I have come across butchers, carpenters, shoemakers, sailors, shipbuilders, accountants, canal workers, teachers, criminals & refugees (as well as my fair share of agricultural labourers).

Here are some of the areas that I'm currently researching as background to my family history.

	Period	Place	Theme
	1681-1700	Poitou/ Guernsey	Huguenots/ French Protestant refugees
	1700-1900	Guernsey	Life in Guernsey in the 18th & 19th centuries
	1770-1920	Guernsey	Methodists
	1780-1900	Guernsey	Butchers & Meat Trade
	1820-1880	Guernsey	Shipowners/ Sailors/ Maritime History
	1824-1899	Newport, Mon	Shipbuilding/ Maritime History
	1825-1835	Staffordshire	Construction of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal
	1839-1886	Costa Rica/ Guernsey	William Le Lacheur & Coffee Trade
	1841-1856	Lantarnam, Mon	Monmouthshire Canal
	1850-1899	Pembrokeshire	Naval Dockyard, Pembroke Dock
	1860-1901	Wales	Postal Telegraph Construction
	1875-1935	Guernsey	"Guernsey as it used to be"
	1914-1919	France	World War 1 (Guernsey regiments)
	1914-1919	East Africa	World War 1 (King's African Rifles)
	1922-1947	Nyasaland	Colonial Police Force

Last update: 6 Jun 2005
© Stephen Foote 1996-2005