Some explanations about how the site works
On this page
What all those cryptic abbreviations mean
- Ch(urch); Pres(byterian); Meth(odist)
- Crem(atorium); Cem(etery);
- MIs: Monumental Inscriptions
- transcr(ibed); reg(istered)
- BDM or BMD: Births Deaths Marriages
- b(orn); d(ied); chr(istened); bap(tised); dec(eased)
- Inf(ormant); Wit(nesses) reg(istered) unm(arried)
- d/o; s/o; f/o; m/o; w/o; h/o: daughter, son, father, mother, wife, husband of (resp.)
- m.s. - maiden surname
- nok - next of kin
Place information
- Cty or Co. = County; Twp = Township; Par(ish)
- County/country - Chapman codes only
- ? before a place name indicates the event referred to probably occurred where shown, but may not have
- ? after a town indicates I either had trouble deciphering the writing, or if after a parish, county or country, I'm unsure as to which area the place name belongs to
- little map icons under the Places links, refer to Google Earth and OpenStreetMap
If two icons exist, there's a Lat/Long value associated with the place and it should open accurately. If only one, it's a bit pot luck as to whether or not Google finds the abbreviated place name. Working on it - very slowly!
Make sure you try out the different views available (satellite, map or terrain usually) and have fun panning and zooming in/out to the best level.
Icons
What all those little pictures stand forThe person concerned has an image on their page | Click it to see what further information is available, eg on the Master Place Index | Descendant chart symbols/operation | |
- most charts open "collapsed" by default, but each can be fully expanded by clicking on the Expand All tab above the chart. | |||
- click on the Plus to expand that branch | |||
- click on the Minus to collapse that branch | |||
- the numbers before the names are generation numbers, starting from 0 | |||
Click on the camera to see the document referred too | |||
One of Lorna's paternal (Henderson) ancestors | |||
One of Lorna's maternal (Andrews) ancestors | |||
Mentioned on the Original Documents Subsite | |||
The following symbols indicate a person is associated in some way with an event occuring in the geographical area listed. Animated flags from fg-a.com |
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Caithness, Scotland (the icon is taken from the Ulbster Stone, copied from "Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction", by George Bain, published 1977 by Constable, London) | |||
Stirling/Perth, Scotland (generally the HENDERSONs of the family, the blacksmiths) | |||
Otago, NZ (generally the HENDERSON side of the family, it's the Henderson tartan) | |||
Taranaki, NZ (my attempt at drawing an outline of Mt Taranaki/Mt Egmont as seen from Huirangi) | |||
Scottish Borders (generally the SINTON, WIGHT, FAIRBAIRN, DAVIDSON, RICHARDSON side of the family) | |||
Somerset, England (generally the ANDREWS & WINES side of the family) | |||
Devon, England (generally the ROWE and DAW(E) side of the family) | |||
Cumberland, England (generally the TURNBULL, GRAHAM, BATY side of the family) | |||
Connected with New Zealand | |||
Connected with Australia | |||
Connected with the United States of America | |||
Connected with Canada | |||
Connected with Scotland | |||
Connected with England |
Citations and Sources
- Hopefully all data is fully sourced, with citations at the bottom of each person page in a format ending "extracted/rcvd/copy d/loaded" etc "MMM YYYY" and showing where the information was obtained.
- All data received from others, or extracted from publicly available sites should show their name or the web site.
- The exceptions to this will be for older data, between 1971 and 1999 (at which time I got a decent genealogy program
), and which has not yet been reviewed to upgrade the source citation documentation (so in particular, will not show the extracted mmm yyyy, and be rather uninformative as to what/who/when).
Privacy
- The genealogical convention of not showing anything about living people means:
- No dates for the living are shown, but depending on how many generations are shown in descendant charts, some names for living people may appear.
- In general, further data on living people do not feature in any of my published data or databases