It must be very interesting Mick
If I had more time on my hands I would love to find out more about my family history. I have been asking my dad in recent years, he told me that he did some research a few years ago, and our family lived in the same small Cambridgeshire village from c.1500 to 1991 when my Grandparents left the village to move into a retirement complex in the nearby city. The family may have been in the village for longer, but the church and parish records only went back as far as 1500.