Welcome to my website. Like many personal pages, it contains a mixture of things. Much of it is about my friends and my family history. The latter is a hobby that I have been pursuing (some would say, obsessively) since 1994. The Fifer family came from the town of Kalisz in Poland. In August 1999, I agreed to act as the co-ordinator for the project indexing Jewish records for this town so that they can become part of a database searchable on the Web. 

I live with my partner Joe in Enfield, a suburb in north London. I've worked in education all my life - first as a teacher of languages, then as an education officer in local government and after that for City & Guilds, the UK's largest vocational awarding body. In April 2005, I left full time employment to set up my own business as a computer trainer.

In addition to family history, I have an interest in all things technological - doing research on the Web brings these two interests together nicely.