Acknowledgements

1.  Existing documents

My search was motivated by some interesting photographs and Pollie's stories.  I sorted the photos by family tree and life events into a portfolio.  I found a ring binder with plastic pockets to be cheap and convenient for re-ordering elements.  This portfolio will ultimately be stored in some suitable archive.

I scanned the relevant documents and created a web of pages on the computer for easy access of accounts and images.  Pollie's family did not appear to have legal documents on life events, such as births, marriages and deaths (bmd for short).  But if these had been available, they would have speeded up my search.  Such documents can also be scanned and linked into the web so that the originals can then be filed away in the growing archive. 

Although my intention was to make the web on Pollie's Ancestors (not this one) available to the family on a DVD, I did not bother too much with the style of presentation at this stage.  I concentrated instead on the structure of the web and its contents – even these develop and change as you find out more and more.