First materials arriving

As the first materials begin to arrive here with their ‘permission to publish’ letters, we are profoundly moved by the histories, documents, and photographs that are being sent to the site, often with notes of pride in and thanks for the project.

We hope we can do the right thing by our ancestors and their histories: they obviously mean so much to everyone involved. We will certainly work hard to do justice to the lives and families depicted here.

The first of our memories is here. And some new documents and photographs are being uploaded during the course of today.

It is a reasonably lengthy process to go through everything carefully with families, so please be patient with us if you are waiting for a response. We take our contacts very seriously and want to work with respect with all our co-descendants.

We hope you find the materials as interesting as we do. Please feel free to have a look around the site as we gradually start to build it up from the many items being sent in.

As we’ve said before, if any families recognise their relatives in any of the photographs, do please get in touch. I know owners of the pictures would love to know who else is in them!

For myself – I scan every one of them, hoping to catch a glimpse of my dad in a photo I’ve not see before. And I know that any family with this in their background will understand the impulse.