About this Site

Some general information about this website.

 

Updates and Publishing History

Last (major) updates:
Dec. 2011: New data added to biographies of Isador, Emil, and Heinrich Margulies.
Sept. 2011: Information from the 1911 UK census added to The Kennedy Families
June 2010: New information about the Puterman family added: Anna Margulies (1869 - 1933)
April 2010: Technical improvements (layout, navigation).
"Descendant Charts" and "Pedigree Tables" added to menus for each Family group.
01.-08.2009: Re-styled with logo, tabs, and many "technical" changes.
Site map redesigned with collapsible lists.
New page: Hanns Margulies: Engaged, but ... [Joseph Roth]
New page: Hanns Margulies: Poet and Author
New page: Hanns Margulies: Obituaries
April 2008: New page: "The Varney Families"
28.02.2007: Pedigree Charts and Descendant Charts added.
05.01.2007: New-Style family tree: "Origins" shows just places of birth.
Jan. 2007: Style-Change - white background for content "window"
All pages validated for xhtml - transitional
30.12.2006: More Info. on Dora Kellner and "Homunkulus"
New-Style family trees: "Direct lines only", "With siblings", "Extended Families"
10.09.2006: Re-write for Emil Margulies and more on Heinrich Margulies
30.08.2006: Two more generations of Benson found !
23.01.2006: New page: Not Vachre but Hardy ??
21.01.2006: The main family history pages have been re-styled for faster loading, and easier printing.
Jan. 2006: Site map added
Summer 2005: Hypertext book re-styled in two parts - "Ancestors" and "Descendants". The first part, Ancestors, starts my Grandfather's generation as the "root generation" and chronicles this generation and their ancestry. This part has been published on the web (this web-site).

The second part chronicles the descendants of my Grandfather's generation, and is only available to family members.
Summer 2004: New layout with uniform headings for individual biographies.
New information on Coleman, Stevenson, Morser and other families.
More photos. and images.
Feb. 2004: Everything I know or have found out up till now ! The style is not always consistent, the main thing is to have something on paper, which we can continue working on.

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Privacy

This web-site was originally written as a hypertext book for my family.
To protect peoples' privacy some passages and images, which appeared in the original editions will not be shown here.

Some other passages and images will not be shown here until
outstanding copyright considerations have been resolved.


There is no information about living people on these pages.


See also
Standards For Sharing Information With Others and
Guidelines For Publishing Web Pages On The Internet
from the National Genealogical Society

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Broken Links

Internal links:
This web-site is an on-going project. Some of the internal links will change due to re-working the site.
Many search engines will still have the old links in their databases.

In November 2006 the whole site was changed to use PHP. This means that many search-engine links will point to pages where the names end in .htm. I have included automatic redirects to the "new" page (usually the same name but ending in .php) for most pages.

If you are still getting "page not found", please try the same address
with the file-ending .php instead of .htm

If this isn't enough to get you where you wanted to go,
please contact me, so I can tell you the new link.


External links:
All links marked with indicate a hyperlink to an external website.
Clicking on these links will open the destination page in a new browser window.
Please inform me, if any of these links are broken.
Thank you !
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Disclaimer

The author is not responsible for the contents of web-sites referenced in external links.

At the time of writing these pages, the contents were such that I felt that they provided relevant and useful extra information for the contents of this website.

If the content of an external site has now changed,
please inform me, so that I can remove the link(s).

Thank you !
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Accuracy

Or: The proof of the pudding ....

A big question with family history is "can you prove it ?"

The information presented started with oral history, followed up with with as much "proof" as I could find, i.e. certificates, census returns, and any other confirmatory documentation. Where Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates are available, I have included a thumbnail image next to the information.

Much remains speculative: oral history says .... and the census returns may confirm some of this, but that does not mean "proven".
Certificates and other documentary evidence cost money, so much will have to wait.

Where possible I have included information that indicates possibilities.
For instance, the census shows "John Smith" with wife "Mary Smith", and there is a certificate listed for a marriage in that parish, and for that time period for a "John Smith" and a "Mary Jones".
But until I can buy a birth cerificate of one of their children, I won't be able to confirm whether the mother really was "Mary Jones"!
The information serves as a "reminder" that this still needs to be confirmed.

In general, I feel reasonably certain, that the information and stories presented here are correct, and I have clearly marked this, where I have my doubts.

p.s. Birth years may be out by a few years, due to wrong ages being given in censuses and certificates. Sometimes the ages were deliberately falsified, sometimes the informant just didn't know, and in the 1841 census, ages were rounded u p to the next 5 years.
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Accessibility

This website is being developed using Firefox 3.0
with a screen-resolution of 1024 x 768

I am also testing with Opera (some versions) and MS Internet Explorer (some versions).

Please let me know, if you notice any "funny" effects, that you feel are errors.

Thank you !

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