Family History Websites

I now have two websites for each of father and mother's family history. When I reinstalled my FTP (the fantastic FileZilla) and uploaded my mother's data to Ancestry's freepages, it seemed to work even better than when I uploaded my father's last year. And this time I found I could easily make amendments. So I took the opportunity to reupload father's data which now has all 600 odd individuals separately instead of just in families.

Freepages is really only for data from my Family Historian programme (there is a device here for saving the data in a format especially for a website) so I have also placed all my family history documents onto separate Google Sites. The four websites are:

The Family History of Peter Richard Boyd Roberts:

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~davidbbroberts
http://sites.google.com/site/dbbrobertsfamilyhistory


The Family History of Dorothy Roberts ne Askew
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davidbbroberts
http://sites.google.com/site/askewfamilyhistory

This, however, is not the end. There are still some outstanding searches that I need to complete. There is the mystery of the Hoyland properties on Busheywood Road in Sheffield. One of these was where Dad was born, and one (or the same) where we lived when John and I were infants. I want to write on this blog about my great grandfather George Robert (Bob) Leather who played football for Rotherham (go to YouTube for "Rotherham Town v Thornhill" where Bob was now the trainer for Rotherham). But I am waiting for a reply from a Gillian Leather who has already done some research, some of which prompts more questions than answers.

Next year I intend to visit Rotherham or the villages of Toynton St Peter and Toynton All Saints in deepest Lincolnshire which is where the Askews, Ascoughs and Ayscoughs came from. There is always something more to do.