The Williams Family Tree Blog

Thanks to Glyn Scally, I have been able to update the Nottage, Graves, Salmon and their extended families. There is still a lot of work to be done with respect to the census source information but the majority of the data is now on the website.

The number of individuals in The Williams Family Tree is fast approaching the 70,000 mark (less than 400 to go) and I intend to slow things down a little once this target has been reached!

Don’t forget, you are welcome to add information to The Williams Family Tree Wiki but you will have to be registered and your email address confirmed before you can do so.

Finally, for now, on the 7th July 2012, my second cousins twice removed will become my step-sons – as Vickie and I will, at last, be tying the knot!

Enjoy,

Phil.

Courtesy of Mike Harris, the Benton and Wolstenholme branch(es) of The Williams Family Tree have been added to.

Thanks Mike.

Courtesy of Stephen Dawson, the Dykes and Dawson branches of The Williams Family Tree have been corrected, updated and added to.

Thanks Steve

Announcing the latest development to the website – The Williams Family Tree Wiki!

Following on from the recent software upgrade for the website, we have added a wiki that will hopefully grow into a one-stop encyclopedic source for information about individuals and places mentioned in The Williams Family Tree.

Yes, The Williams Family Tree Wiki is a bit of a mouthful but Willie-Wiki didn’t sound quite right! We’re open to suggestions for a better title …

As you browse the individual pages of the family tree, you will come across one of two icons after the name of the person or place. They look like document images and they both act as links into the wiki. The first one looks like a sheet of paper with a faint cross on it and it indicates that there is currently no wiki page for that person or place. By clicking on the icon you will be given the opportunity to create the page. There are other ways to create pages but by doing it this way the page will be created with the correct title for the wiki.

The second icon is yellow in colour and looks like a sheet of paper with lines on. This will take you to the wiki page that does exist for the person or place and, hopefully, you will like what you read there. You also have the opportunity to edit the page should you so desire but you are required to create an account and log in to do so.

You are invited to create and/or edit as many pages as you want. If a page already exists, we would ask that you confer with the creator of a page before you edit it and certainly before you delete anything. This is accomplished via the ‘Discussion’ tab for the page. We would also ask that you add the correct ‘category’ to the article you are working on – see the help page of the wiki for details. The only other issue is that you must make sure there is no infringement of copyright to anything you add.

If you are unable to see either of the icons but would like to be involved in the creation of wiki pages please let us know.

We have started the wiki off with a few pages that can be used as examples but there is no set style to the pages. You are free to create and/or edit pages as much as you like as long as you adhere to the wiki guidelines and you do not break any copyright laws.

We all have something we would like to say about one or more of our ancestors so here is your chance to show off your editorial skills.

Please see the Wiki Help page for details on how to edit or create a page.

Enjoy …