From the Editor

I hope our bright, cheerful cover showing beautiful Swaledale helps lift your spirits after such an awful summer. It’s been so grey and miserable in the Dales that I’m actually looking forward to autumn. Maybe some colourful woodland scenes can lift my mood and I hope our story about Grass Wood in Wharfedale will help persuade you into getting out and about, kicking your way through the leaves. I still do that, don’t you?

As the nights draw in, though, you may well be having to spend more time indoors and a favourite pastime of mine is researching the family tree. Most of us will never find a pot of gold or discover we’re linked to royalty but there is certainly much of interest to be learned. This month I met up with the good folk of Hovingham, a beautiful spot in the Howardian Hills, to find out what the Ryedale Family History group get up to and how they are shedding light on, and helping to preserve, valuable social history.

Paul Jackson
Editor

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