Our site has been designed to show our ancestors and the siblings and partners of those ancestors plus to a small extent John and Ellen's descendants. It also has some of those siblings descendants. It does not set out to have tens of thousands of individuals in it although the numbers are growing without much difficulty. Those sites which do have those sorts of numbers are to be congratulated on the massive amount of work which must have gone into developing them and have where applicable been used by us for guidance. Although some research has been conducted by ourselves, the site is more a collation of pieces of information gathered from diverse sources. As such it will inevitably have incorrect information which over time will hopefully be corrected.

The site is looking wherever possible to find and publish the footprints left by our ancestors. Photos, newspaper reports, letters, postcards and manuscripts are the sort of things we are trying to collect. A warm thankyou to those fellow researchers who at various times have shared with us significant pieces of research information such as certificates and photos.

We understand the work and effort put in by other researchers and so have tried to establish a strong system of source acknowledgement when we have acquired information from another researcher, whether that be from the internet, by direct contact or any other means. If any omission in this regard is noticed, please contact us so that we can rectify the situation.

The difficulties existing in relation to identity fraud and privacy are also realised and strong attempts have been made to withhold information about living people. Consequently personal information relating to them has not been published. Again if there is an error in this regard please let us know so that we can correct it.

When visiting the individual or family biography/information pages, two colours have been used for the text.

This Green is used for text which is commentary by ourselves
This Brown is used where actual material is being quoted

When viewing the ancestor and descendant charts on the family pages, our direct line ancestors are highlighted in yellow and the descendant part of the chart will always stop when it reaches the level of either John or Ellen. In the ancestor section, up to three generations back are shown.

We hope you enjoy your visit and find something of interest to you.