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Welcome to Dave's Ancestors

This site is an attempt to record whatever I can discover about the generations of people whose genes I have the privilege to inherit - my family, my ancestors.

The research soon spread to include my wife's family, so there is a sub-site, 'Chris's Ancestors' which details her ancestors.

The site continues to evolve slowly
It is an ongoing study and I will make additions and alterations as I discover more.

The research is almost entirely internet based, gathering census images, searching BMD indexes and trawling the ever increasing volume of online databases for relevant information. Wherever possible I have obtained birth, marriage and death certificates.

Any deductions based on these data are entirely my own and there is always a possibility of error.
Therefore, I would ask anyone who wishes to add anything from this site to their own research, to check my sources and to make their own deductions.

What the site contains

Data

At the moment the site mostly just contains information gleaned from census returns, birth, marriage and death certificates, church registers and newspapers. I would love to be able to include more photographs but I have very few.

Places

Almost all of the houses our ancestors lived in are no longer there, but one day I plan to visit all the sites and include photographs of the remaining properties or the streets where they once lived.

Maps

I'm still working through the site and adding links to maps and satellite views of the places mentioned in the data.

Wherever you see this image you can open a small pop-up window to view a Google map of the place mentioned in the text.

Wherever you see this image you can open a pop-up window to view the place on a 19th century OS map of the area provided by the National Library of Scotland. (In the pop-up screen accept the cookies and click on the map to move around and scroll.)

Trees

I find it useful to visualise family relationships in diagram form, so there are 'trees' for each branch of the family. Some of the tree diagrams still need updating to take account of new names, and in some cases, new generations, which have been located since the last update. Bear with me.

What it does not contain!

There are no made-up stories or gossip.

So far, I've spent many years just populating the family trees with names and dates. Where possible, I glean further information from newspapers, trade journals, parish magazines, and so on, which helps a bit towards painting a portrait of the characters. I can't tell the full story, all I can offer is the cast list.

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