Welcome to the RAINE Family genealogy.  My name is Joanne C Raine.  As well as  information on the RAINE family and RAINE's everywhere, I have also researched the  following family names:

EMERSON/EMMERSON, LANGLEY, GOMMERSALL (and variants), OLLEY, HARRISON,  CARR, WESTON, KNOWLES, REEVE, OXLEY, USHER, HILL, FORTUNE.

I'm 58 years old and, apart from a brief sojourn in Newcastle whilst I was a  student, have lived in Hartlepool all my life. I have always been vaguely  interested in my family's history, and have been seriously researching  it for about the last 25 years though not so much recently.

I work as a data analyst in the NHS.  I am also a keen writer, principally of  science fiction, fantasy and horror, and a big fan of 'cult' sf programmes  such as X Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Farscape, Stargate, Dr Who  (original and new), Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica (new version), Twin Peaks, Millennium,  Blakes Seven, Space 1999 and the Star Trek franchises.

I have two younger brothers, Tim and Dan and have four nephews and a niece and  two step-nephews.