Thanks for the welcome!
I'm not researching my own family tree (my mother has beaten me to that one!) but I moved to Gateshead and started to look at the history of my house and found names of people who lived here over the last couple of hundred years. Through that I got in touch with a man in New Zealand who was searching for his ancestors - one of whom used to live in my house about 150 years ago!
So now, I'm helping him out with the Gateshead side of his family.
As I'm here, I'm happy to help anyone else with Gateshead relatives, particularly if they lived near Gateshead Fell (Sheriff Hill, Sodhouse Bank, Old Durham Road, Church Road, Durham Road etc). I can wander around and photograph things if anyone has addresses or headstones that they want to see.
Similarly, if anyone knows of any Oliver's in the Gateshead area I'd be thrilled to hear from you!
Sorry, I should probably make a new thread for this! I'll do that now ...