Full circle

 I do so love it when thngs come full circle.

In my genealogical world I don't think they can come more full circle than this.

My starting point for this journey into family history was a set of inherited photos that my father showed me. He had inherited them from his aunt, my Great Aunt Nellie. He showed it to me and wondered who they were.

Off I set on this journey, not having stopped yet. That was in the early 1970s.

Amongst the photos was one of two ladies sitting outside an ivy-clad stone house in a rather stiff pose having a cuppa.

The scrawl underneath I eventually deciphered as "Aunts Isobel Clarke and (Jane?) Middlemas. Edinburgh" These two ladies would therefore be two of my Great Aunt Nellie's mother Helen Sinton WIGHT's sisters.

Over the years I have tried to trace all lines down from great granny Helen's siblings but had not managed to find any living in present day for Jane, or Isobel. My last concerted effort was a while ago now, probably 10 years or more.

And up one popped in my Ancestry DNA ThruLine hints!