
Loveable skeleton in your closet
According to a recent survey lots of family historians are happy to find a scoundrel in their family tree. I quite understand. It adds a bit of colour to your family tree. Naughty people generate more records: court records, newspapers, prison records, occasionally even photographs. One of my great, great, great, great grandfathers was called George Quantock. At least I think it was. The newspaper reports of his court appearances list several aliases, his first name is al