Don’t be depressed if your newly found relatives don’t immediately share all their hard-won history with you; we’ve all learned from experience, and you are more likely to be questioned and drip-fed information than flooded with it, but it will be worth it.
We do not publish to the internet: you will not find any family trees on this site, but we hope you will find enough information about us and what we do to join us, the more people who pool their findings, the better all our chances of finding the missing pieces of our own respective puzzles.
We have well over 70 members worldwide, all of whom have now traced their roots back to the UK, varying in skill from absolute beginners to old hands. Some have computers and some don’t; we have no problem with (UK?) members who still prefer pen & paper so long as they pay the postage.
Between us we have researchers in several states of the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, many counties of England, and in Scotland, Wales, and South Africa. Ancestors are being sought in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Devon, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, London (and those counties now part of the Greater London area), Oxfordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire, as well as Flintshire in Wales. Researchers whose ancestors left these shores are searching in their own countries, as well as the UK; Overseas research includes: America, Australia, Canada, Prussia, New Zealand.
The largest concentrations are the Hampshire Taplins [3 clusters: most were all across the North, smaller clusters in Portsmouth area and the New Forest] and the Tuplings of Lincolnshire, but there were some in almost every county at some time. Some lines are back to the 16th century, a few are barely back to 1900, many get confused between 1750 and 1800.
Elizabeth is still hoping to find several 'missing links' in the 18th century between the generations known before and after in North Hampshire: North West Surrey would be a perfectly reasonable place for some of them to be.
We produce two newsletters a year, only available to members, and free if emailed.
If you decide not to join us yet, although we really hope you will, please add this site to your favourites so you can find us again; the site is unlikely to change much after initial development, but you might change your mind
However if you feel we can be of mutual benefit to each other, why not join us now, and hopefully between us we will mange to break down those brick walls.
