Piece out my imperfections with your thoughts.
I have been working on the Family Tree since about January 2005, since when I have come across about 1300 relatives of varying degrees of greatness and removal.
However, apart from two articles, this web site is concerned only with my ancestors, ie those in a direct line.
It is very fortunate that so much information has become available on the internet in the last few years and that more is still appearing. I would not have started this if I hadn't been able to do most of it without stirring from my armchair!
Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early.
I have started the tree with myself, purely on the grounds that I had to start somewhere. Mum and I are the only living people on the web site.
The core of the package is the Family Tree and the Individual Reports, but I have added various other pages which I hope will provide colour and interest.
The main surnames and their location which appear on this site are -
Jeffries, Belcher and Bason from Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)
Abbott, Biggerstaff, Catlin and Gardiner from Suffolk
Carpenter and Fisher from Middlesex (now London)
Cooper and Inwood from Surrey
Flaws and Laughton from Scotland
Treacher from Hertfordshire and Woolwich
Counting myself as the first generation, the earliest ancestors I have found so far, and about whom I am reasonably confident, are in the ninth generation. There are just six of them, out of a possible 256 in that generation. They are my 6th great grandparents, Joseph and Dorothy Belcher, Samuel and Mary Hunt and Hugh and Sarah Abbott.
Of the 510 possible ancestors up to and including the ninth generation, I have found only about 120, ie not even 25%.
I do not expect to find many more and many of those we know about will remain little more than a name, a location and a few dates.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Tucked away on one page on the site is a link to a page containing my favourite silly joke. Hope you find it.