Paulina - this is a fascinating journey!

Just a wee warning though - we live in New Zealand, and our only visit to the Forest was based upon a misunderstanding and this meant I did not make the most of that single opportunity.

I failed to appreciate the difference between a village and a parish, so that when we went looking for places where my relatives had lived and been born/died, at times I was wrongly looking at a village assuming that was where they lived. In fact they had been baptised or buried in a parish of the same name, not in the village, and it was only on return to NZ (too late!) that I discovered my mistake(s).

I hope this is not teaching a grandmother to suck eggses...