This site is, any will likely always be, a work in progress.
While much of the information here has been verified from multiple sources there is still more that needs better verification. Whatever you find here we encourage you to do your own verification before accepting the information as fact.
History, and genealogy is history at the root source, can teach us how to avoid the mistakes of the past as we move towards the future. An example of how we intereact with the world and the past is best expressed by the following:
"Man did not invent the web of life, he is mearly a strand. What he does to the web he does to himself". Attributed to Chief Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish Indians, 1854.
As well as borrowing from this site, please consider contributing to it as well. Please send what you have that is missing from here, or that you have sources for what is here. By sharing we don't all have to do the same research. Please send your information, family tree, sources or more in GEDCOM format to Mike Stephenson at nvrdul@gmail.com.