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Guide to what's to be
found in Ciao
Famiglia
by Adrian Fletcher (afletch
at paradoxplace dot com)
This
web-site is written by Adrian Fletcher and is about seven
generations of his direct
ancestors. Since the site was launched in mid 2009 it has
grown, in the way of web-sites, larger than expected and therefore
become a bit more challenging to navigate. The purpose of this short
guide is to outline (with links) what is in the site to help users
find what they want .
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Underlying the Recent Ancestors chart are four charts, one for each
pair of great-grandparents, showing further generations of direct
ancestors for:
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Dr George Frederick Aldous and
Isabella Henderson Aldous (Stewart)
mother's
mother's parents

PLYMOUTH, MELBOURNE, BRECHIN, BELFAST, BURITON
(HAMPSHIRE), HARLESTON (NORFOLK) AND MORE |
Alex Harpur Robinson Sproule and
Matilda Sproule (Sproule)
mother's father's parents (seated)

Co TYRONE (n
IRELAND), PETERBOROUGH (ONTARIO)
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Lt Col John Adolphus Burton and
Georgiana Ernstin Burton (Middlecoat)
father's
mother's parents

INDIAN
MEDICAL SERVICE (IMS), MADRAS ARMY, MADRAS (CHENNAI)
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Frank Edward Fletcher and
Elizabeth Stringer Fletcher (Procter)
father's
father's parents

FOLKESTONE, SCARBOROUGH, YORK, OXENHOPE (W YORKSHIRE),
BARNARD CASTLE
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Each Ancestor Chart has links to more detailed
chronology chart(s), with lots of links back to source documents
like original census returns, church records, birth marriage & death (BMD) certificates,
trade and other directories and photos.
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Having unearthed much of the basic scaffolding of names, dates and
places back to the early 1800s, we have started the really interesting bit, which
is and will be
writing illustrated stories of particular lives, geographic areas
and times.
There are many other shorter story / photo pages, and links to all
chronologies, stories, photos etc can be found in each of the
four ancestor charts shown above.
The stories already done and underway include:
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The James Cooper Stewart
Story - Scottish house painter's son sails to Australia and rises to be Mayor of Melbourne

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WW I,
Lt Col Jimmy Sproule, 131 Field Ambulance and the 38th (Welsh) Division in the
Battlefields of the Somme

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The Seward Yeoman Tenant Farmers of 1000 acres
in Weston (Hampshire), and family memorials in the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Buriton

To
keep things manageable, the names in Ciao Famiglia are restricted in
the main to
direct ancestors. They are taken from a much larger
data-base of families built up by Adrian Fletcher and maintained via a "Roots
Magic" family tree program. Some descendant charts generated by this
program are included in the this site's data, and others can be produced
on request if any family researcher has a particular interest.
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ENJOY !
All original material on this
site is ©
Adrian Fletcher
- the contents may not be hotlinked, but they may be reproduced on
other non-commercial family web sites or similar with appropriate
linked source attribution.
For
armchair travellers Adrian Fletcher is also the creator of
Paradoxplace and
Bellatrovata
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