Over the last 30 years I have been researching the "roots" of anyone connected with my extended family.

I've prepared a few PDF files with info that I have collected on a number of families. These files require the Adobe acrobat reader which can be downloaded by pressing here

If the file doesn't appear in you browser, right click the name with your mouse and select "Save Target as ..." to download the file. 

• Wye - the early years - up to 1650
• Caroline's Ancestors in Essex, Cambs - Wye & Pont (updated 29 Oct 2006)
• Caroline's Ancestors in Suffolk- Freeman, Barker & Read (updated 16 Oct 2005)
• Cheshire & Staffs (Adams, Brittain etc.)
• Denis' London ancestors (Paul & Hollington) (updated 29 Oct 2006)
• Wicking (updated 29 Oct 2006)
• Conington - butchers in Stamford and then in Soho
• Denis' Essex & Herts families (Roff, Marsh, Wiliams, Petts, Pudney) (updated 29 Oct 2006)
• Ferguson - a builder
• Kilbey & Ragon
• Potteries Families - Wain, Brownfield, Tunaley & others
• John Wye + 12 Generations
• More being worked on to collate the records of early settlers in America and Australia
• John Franklin Hovis and ancestors

Other sites worth a visit are:

• http://www.ancestry.com/

• http://www.rootsweb.com/

• Essex Surnames list

• http://www.familysearch.org/

• http://genforum.genealogy.com/paul/

• http://www.sog.org.uk/

• http://www.cyndislist.com/

• Suffolk Surnames list