My journey into #genealogy was inspired by my late mother Betty and her unusual maiden surname (Mum is pictured here in 1961 with her parents, Fred and Louisa #Atcherley).

I started in 2007, when I found Mum's grandparents in the 1901 #census before pushing further back into the 1800s.

Intrigued by the various Atcherleys I found I started researching them all in an attempt to work out which ones were 'mine'. This led to a #OneNameStudy (or #SurnameStudy) - hence my handle 'AtcherleyONS'.