What was New - 2002

December 2002

Pro Cycling Hall of Fame pages updated
Family News section removed for now
Videos removed from the Family Photos pages. Being replaced by higher-quality DVDs*

November 2002

More Family History updates with help from other researchers. Townsley database has now reached 16,300 entries. Strangwayes-Towneley database has been converted from FTM to PAF, due to problems with the large volumes involved.
Updates to Pro Cycling Hall of Fame pages

October 2002

Updates to Memories of Steam pages and the development of new Aire Valley Railway pages.
More Family History updates with reference to the extra information now online at UK Census 1901, FreeBMD and Family Search IGI. (plus Release 2 of the British Isles Vital Records Index CDs) - again many thanks for the contributions from other researchers.
The Strangwayes-Towneley database is now up to 30,300 entries as the number of inter-related families gets greater and greater (I must call a halt on this project - there's just not enough time in the day).
Restructuring of the CD directories and web pages in order to separate photos from web graphics. Also new photo-slideshow software, new family history software and additional images *

September 2002

Restarted access to the 1901 UK Census online (at last) has provided a new source of information that I am working through for updates to the Townsley database. Total numbers have not increased much but many more family members have been linked together.
Updates to Memories of Steam pages.
Updates to Pro Cycling Hall of Fame pages.

August 2002

July 2002

Family History updates - Strangwayes-Towneley database now up to 23,800 due to adding more famous family entries from old books. Townsley database updated again to 15,300 with more from parish registers and family researchers' e-mails.

June 2002

Family History updates - Townsley database updated again with more on the linked Jolliffe / Rockett / Bramham families in Brotherton.

May 2002

Family History updates - Townsley database now up to 14,500 due mainly to researching the linked Jolliffe / Rockett / Bramham families in Brotherton. Strangwayes-Towneley database now up to 20,000 due to linking to more recorded famous families.

April 2002

Family History updates - Townsley database now up to 14,300 due mainly to buying more copy certificates and total personally-linked individuals has now reached 2,640. Strangwayes-Towneley database now up to 18,000 due to linking to more recorded famous families.
Additional birth / marriage certificates added to the family documents image library *

* Only available to family members via CD

March 2002

More updates to Family History - again thanks to contributions from other researchers

February 2002

January 2002

More updates to the Family History database - mainly thanks to contributions from other researchers especially the large volume of data concerning the Dawson families of Otley from Nic Wilson and a database covering the inhabitants of the Wharfedale area between ~1600 and ~1850 - see Wharfedale & Craven Genealogical Project at http://www.wharfegen.org.uk. Total entries are now over 14,100.
Updates to various family history pages as a result of the release of the 1901 Census information (for a short time but then stopped again).
Additional birth / marriage certificates added to the family documents image library *

* Only available to family members via CD