The people of Tingewick, Buckinghamshire (England)

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... and finally ...

William Adams

Members of the Tingewick e-list recently heard from Dale Pobega's online e-book about the life of his g-g-g-grandfather William Adams, transported to Tasmania with four other Tingewick men in 1844, and a thought-provoking blog entry on his reservations about making the book public.

Help!

I recently moved from a PC to a Mac - and PAF, which I have used to build the Tingewick database over the last 20 years, doesn't work! Are there any Mac-using genealogists out there who can suggest what I should use? My absolute show-stopping requirement which must be met is a wide and extendible range of fields, with good source-recording for every one (e.g. birth, death, burial, census return, residence) including a space for a snippet of the actual source itself - and it must be able to rebuild them from the gedcom I'll use to transfer from PAF. It would be nice if it has a facility to produce family group sheets which I can email out to people who send me enquiries; and also a facility to build web-pages consisting of linked family group sheets, similar to those that now form the core of the Tingewick site.

If anyone is able to help, please do get in touch via the contact us page .

I really appreciate all the stories and photos I'm sent to add to the website. Alas, it often takes much longer than I'd like to get them onto the site, but I do get there eventually - with a full-time job, an elderly mother and a student daughter I do sometimes struggle for time! If you have sent a story or your details for inclusion in the Descendants/Researchers section, please check them and let me know if I've made mistakes - they do happen sometimes I'm afraid. And if you haven't sent anything yet ... why not? This site is only improving and expanding because of all the help and contributions from everyone else.

Check out the What's New list.

There are several new sections I'd like to introduce - I've made a start on a "virtual cemetery" with photos of all the graves. Is there anyone with a Tingewick connection and a smattering of HTML knowledge, plus a bit of time on their hands, who would like to take it on - coordinate the contributions and build the pages? And on the subject of helping, I have photos of some 1822 council minutes that could be transcribed and added if anyone would like to embark on that.

People ask me why I run this site just to help other people. The first answer is - I enjoy it. The second answer is - you never know what unexpected connections you might make. I've been promising to tell the story of The Man From Penketh here for some time, and at last - here it is! This site is dedicated to him, and everyone like him.

About this site

While researching my daughter's ancestry, I became fascinated by the movement of ordinary people through the parish of Tingewick and accumulated quantities of transcripts and notes about them. I have been piecing them together into family trees: however, it is vital to realise that these will be full of errors, having been transcribed on paper from microfilm or original register or from information sent by other researchers: then transferred to computer as source transcripts, then finally built into families on the database.

In the ten years or so since I started the site I've heard from so many really interesting people. I'm getting more and more contributions to all the sections especially photos, wills and family stories as well as links to sites by other researchers. Alas, with family and work commitments etc I constantly fall behind so have added two more pages - Coming Soon and What's New. If you have contributed something and it doesn't appear on one or other of these lists (or the website), please get in touch with me again and remind me!!!

If you would like to be included in 'Tingewick Descendants' section, please email me your details, in the same format as the pages I have already done [or ask me for a template] and I will be delighted to add you.