I think it's about time I gave Duncan and Mandy Ball another mention. I originally wrote this blogpost more than five years ago and I now have to revise the paragraph on statistics. So, that would be a lot more pages, thousands more photographs and a much larger index. Probably without exception the ambition of every family historian is to visit the places with which their ancestors are most closely associated. As few of us have a baronial home, and castle fortresses are pretty thin on the ground, for most researchers the ultimate destination is the parish church where their forebears married, brought their babies to be christened and eventually were laid to rest. For the lucky ones there may even be a memorial or a gravestone providing additional valuable information in the quest to piece together a family history. For those researching their origins in the North Wiltshire area there is a real treasure trove to be found at www.oodwooc.co.uk. Duncan and Mandy Ball began re...