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Welcome to
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Thanks to links from our main
tree into America
and Australia
we've now opened these up with their own set of people.
So, if you can find someone here who is an ancestor of
yours in foreign parts please let us know and eventually
we'll conquer the world!
For those
of you who have sent us updates, information, images and
corrections, many thanks. Please bear with us because we
will get around to it eventually... and please keep them
coming. |
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The Guild of One-Name
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Margaret Southgate
(nee Close), one of our contributors, has taken up the
mantle of a "One-Namer" of the Close surname. She would
like anybody who is researching Close ancestors to
provide whatever they can towards her endeavour. Given
that we're a prolific bunch of breeders she's set
herself a mammoth task! |
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Click here to see what she's up to and how you can help |
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The
Church of St Andrew, Grinton |
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See the east
window at the
Church of St Andrew, Grinton which is a
dedication to members of the Close family. Click the
image below to see it in all its glory. |
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In honour of Christ crucified, and in
memory of John Close of Low Whita, who died Oct. 7th
1872 aged 76 years; and Barbara Close widow of the same
who died at Leeds April 14th 1894 aged 74 years; and
John Close, their son, who died at Leeds Nov 6th 1879
aged 30 years; Susanna their daughter dedicates this
window. |
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Unattached Trees
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We've
finally bitten the bullet and published a
couple of sets of unattached people.
Well,
we have a whole load of people from all the world stuck
in the pipeline because we can't find a link into the
main tree, and it seemed a bit dumb to sit on them
forever ... soooo ... our first major unattached one is a
massive tree courtesy of
Denise Fukuda (nee Close)
which has broken all previous records. It looks like the
Closes populated the entire county of Lancashire as well
as mining all the coal. Many thanks to Denise for
setting us off down this path. This is followed by a
small tree which has so many illegitimate children and
dodgy marriages that we couldn't resist it.
This has
been further enhanced by
Margaret Southgate who, it turns out, is related to
the tree as well. It's now moved out of Lancashire, back
into Yorkshire.
If
anybody can provide a link for any of these back into our main tree we'd be
very interested. Please drop us a line. |
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The Story So
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This seems
to be pretty much where it all started ... or at least
as far we've got so far! |
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The
current holders of the Prolific Breeders Award are:
     
... and one
of his sons ...
  
... both of
whom managed a groin-trembling 13 children apiece! Good
effort chaps. |
As far as
the site goes, we
currently have
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700
people, now spanning three continents, every one of which
is related either by blood or marriage to everybody
else. So if you find you're related to one of these, you
are also related to ALL of
them!!! |
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500
people in three unattached trees, apparently covering
the best part of Lancashire in the 1800's. If
you find a link back into our main tree, please
let us know. |
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1,300
images of certificates, family photos, census
records, indices and family crests |
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83,000
cross-references between people, places and
images |
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...
and so far we've found:
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4 bona fide lunatics |
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our
very own
poet ... who was so bad he's starred in a "Worst of
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a
whole bunch of people who really should be
calling themselves Close ... rather than
Metcalfe |
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Other
Stuff |
 We're
also offering a number of other resources that you would
normally have to dig around for, such as locale maps,
glossary and
supporting documentation. There are a lot of image files
which are pretty big. To keep the page loads down to a
reasonable time we reduce these to thumbnails which open
in a new browser window.
Feel free to have a look
around and help yourself. We don't charge
anything for this but your participation would be much
appreciated, and if you find us useful please spread the
word. Also, if you have anything that may validate or
fill in some of our gaps (we have lots) then drop us a
mail - we'll be more than happy to slot it in.
Please make use of our forums to request
information on aspects of your own research. These are
freely available to anyone who is prepared to register.
Also, if you would
like automatic notifications on our updates, have a look
at the News Feeds
options. These will keep you up-to-date with changes
and/or additions to the site, particularly people. |
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LAST UPDATE
06th May 2008
A humungous set of updates to the Lancastrian unattached tree.
Click
here for details. |
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We had a bit of a
tussle with this one as we ran out of disk space again.
Hopefully it's been sorted now. |
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Many thanks to our ISP,
VirtualNames,
who have been fantastic in their efforts to keep us running. |
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As far as we're aware the site is
running normally. Please let us know of any weirdness.
However, try
clicking your browser Refresh button first. This will get you
the latest page rather than the old copies lying around on your
computer.
With over 83,000
cross-references we're bound to cock up a few. If you find any
broken links please let us know. |
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