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Hello all. Hope everyone is still safe and well, wherever you are. Eyes down for another massive people update, which is actually the follow-on from a tree I published back in 2020. That one was a nice little branch of…
So, here we are again, at the end of what seems to have been another generally rubbish year for most people around the world, for one reason or another. Still, at least (hopefully) we made it through to try and…
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a Memorial Day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of…
Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day It is celebrated on the 27th September every year. Do you know who the people were you descended from? Where did they live? Did they immigrate to the country you live in during the past…
So, every 10 years or so, after ignoring all the warning signs ... something breaks. For technical reasons, which I won't bore you with, the previous incarnation of the Close Ancestry website finally and suddenly expired in a heap of…
So, here we are again, at the end of what seems to have been another generally rubbish year for most people around the world. Still, at least (hopefully) we made it through to try and assume some semblance of normality…
Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day It is celebrated on the 27th September every year. Do you know who the people were you descended from? Where did they live? Did they immigrate to the country you live in during the past…
Many thanks to Guicela Close for contacting us about the Closes in Guatemala. We had no idea! Their presence there is fairly modest and recent, but we've pushed back as far as we can. Everything appears to start with John…
So, here we are again, at the end of what has been a pretty crap year for most people around the world. Still, at least (hopefully) we made it through to try and assume some semblance of normality in 2021.…
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a Memorial Day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of…
Hola. Hope everyone is still safe and well in these increasingly weird times. For those of you not in the UK ... well done. So, eyes down for another people update which is a nice little tree originating in Somerset,…
Ancestor Appreciation Day Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day. It is celebrated on the 27th September every year. Do you know who the people were you descended from? Where did they live? Did they immigrate to the country you live in…
Ola. Hope everyone is safe and well in these weird times. Eyes down for another mega update which has been over a year in the making. It all started with a 1589 reference to William Close (1598) in Leeds, Yorkshire…
So, here we go again ... another year older, fatter and definitely no wiser. We would like to wish all our family, relatives, friends, visitors and especially our Contributors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please also…
Many thanks to Martin McDowell for sending us a bunch of stuff on the Close's of Northern Ireland. As usual they didn't stay put and roamed into America, Australia and Canada (at least). Everything starts with John Close (1797) in…
It's been pointed out to me by one of our Contributors, Martin McDowell, that the Close's are a tardy lot when it comes to using DNA technology for their genealogy research. Martin is an Administrator for the FamilyTreeDNA site and…
Many thanks to Stan Close for his work on the South African Close's; two in fact since Stan also married a Close, but not from the same branch! Stan descends from the Gloucestershire Close's, whereas his wife Edith hails from…
Hola, and eyes down for another mega-update which has been brewing now for the best part of 2 years. It finishes off the Goodman John Close tree with the descendents of Thomas Close (1637) and his family in Greenwich, Connecticut…
So, here we go again ... another year older, fatter and not necessarily any wiser. We would like to wish all our family, relatives, friends, visitors and especially our Contributors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please…
Ola, and eyes down for a mega update which has been brewing now for the best part of a year. It starts with Joseph Close (1676) and his family in Greenwich, Connecticut and winds its way into the rest of America…
Please help us. This is a free site which now contains the details of thousands of people, and thousands of images. Putting aside the number of hours of work involved in producing it, it costs money to pay for the…
So, here we go again ... another year older, fatter and not necessarily any wiser. We would like to wish all our family, relatives, friends, visitors and especially our Contributors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New…
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of…
Thanks to Paul Close for kicking off another quick foray into the depths of Gloucestershire with a tree branching from there. Unfortunately it fizzles out in Stroud in 1797, so if anyone has a handy set of registers for that…
I've had an unvalidated Irish / Canadian / American / Australian / Tasmanian tree languishing in my To Do List for ages, so this update fills in the blanks. Surprisingly, no new people but a lot of background information with…
We would like to wish all our family, relatives, friends, visitors and especially our Contributors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year. Please also raise a glass to our ancestors, without whom none of us would…
OK, so the original lonely book now has a sibling. Due to popular demand, the second volume of the Whim series has finally come into the world. A big thanks to everyone who has helped me get there, particularly my…
They say that lurking inside everyone is a lonely book trying to get out. Well, it appears that mine has finally escaped the confines of my imagination to make its bid for freedom. Well, if it was good enough for…
Many thanks to Paige Close for sending me off down a branch tracing the descendants of Henry Mead Close (1785) and his family in America. In particular, we have a number of WW1 and WW2 draftees, as well as one…
Many thanks to Lyn Hamilton for sending a chunky little tree tracing the descendants of Thomas Close (1781) and his family from Grinton, Yorkshire into Australia. In particular, we now have a number of WW1 and WW2 combatants and fatalities…
