I have been interested in compiling my own family tree a few years now. I quickly found quite a bit of information on my Paternal name (Whittall) and have in my research found a couple of people that have really fascinated me. In an attempt to find more relatives and after reading a magazine article I decided to create a data-base of all the Whittalls that I could find. I managed to find just under 500. I have now come back to this study after about 9 months and I am now trying to match all these single people with their respective Parents, Spouses and children. All at the moment with the help of the listings in the 1881 census returns.