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23 Oct 2024
Research on Humber Street Belfast was recorded under Williams related families.
A link was added to a Facebook page for Williams and Elliot Family History
13 Nov 2023
Added a Pedegree Chart for Simeon Covell, UEL
Simeon was the first Covell to arrive in Ontario.
His great grandfather was the first Covell to arrive in North America.
11 Nov 2023
Improved 2004 picture shows on private Hepburn and Williams pages.
2 May 2023
Added a revision to the story of James Walter Williams
James Walter Williams Story
29 Apr 2023
Added a new section to the Williams Family page.
"The Children of Great Grandfather Andrew James Williams" links to 8 stories
about about my grandfather's siblings.
The stories are not yet all complete but more detail will be added a time goes on.
23 Apr 2023
Updated Hepburn and Smith descendant files on the Private side
Add information to the Family Heroes section on the discovery of the wreck of the
Montevideo Maru, a Japanese POW transport ship. Neil Smith lost his life in the sinking in 1942.
27 Mar 2023
Added a 2022 Christams picture to the Williams section (Private side)
Planning to make a large number of updates and additions to the website in the near future.
I have rejoined Ancestry to make updates and once those are done they will move to the website.
28 Dec 2021
Added to Williams My Branch (Private side) Christmas Picture
23 Jan 2020
Added information about Earl Covell to the Private Covell page after his death 15 Jan 2020.
2 Dec 2018
Updated various pages for our family heroes.
19 Sep 2017
Updated various Smith files to correct information on William Smith (1814-1898). William emigrated to Canada in 1863 and settled in the Whitby Ontario area.
26 Jan 2016
Updated the Covell history page, adding links to two new files on the earliest ancestors.
17 Mar 2014
Added a new file about our Smith ancestors who lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
7 May 2013
Updated the Elliot files under Williams Related Families. The previous files indicated that Robert Elliot (oldest know ancestor) was married to Elizabeth Montgomery. It now appears that her correct surname was Stutt based on son John's death registration. See the research article for details.
11 Mar 2013
Updated the Smith files, adding 3 generations of ancestors and filling in more information on our Australian cousins. Changes have been made to the story of 'John the Jailer' adding new information about about his descendants. The file 'Descendants of Andrew Hepburn of Aird' has been updated.
25 Jan 2013
Completed an overhaul of the graphics on the entire web site to improve the look and feel.
20 Jan 2013
Added a new page containing to a very interesting picture of a barn raising. The picture and related documentation show many of the relationships between the families on the Scotch Line in Lanark County, Ontario. 1886 Barn Raising
16 Oct 2012
Added a revised descendants report for Robert Wood that contains details of the family of his daughter Margaret and her husband Israel Bowen.
5 Sep 2012
More updates, including the main page. Fixed the Lochwinnoch page link.
21 Aug 2012
Hepburn and Wood pages have been updated to the new style template. A Kenyon descendants report was added to the Wood page.
18 Aug 2012
Williams and Hepburn pages have been updated to the new style template. Looby information was updated on the Covell page to reflect recent research results. New information on earlier generations of the Smith family has been found through contacts and information in Ancestry.com. Smith documentation will be updated in the near future.

Please note that my e-mail address has changed (see home page).
11 Nov 2011
I am gradually updating the site after a period of neglect. Much of my time on genealogy over the last two years has been spent on Ancestry.com where you will find a family tree of more than 9,600 names.
11 Oct 2009
Several pages have been cleaned up over the last two weeks; links repaired, formatting fixed and text updated. The last page posted contained the most significant changes. Badrock family research has been added to the Williams Related Families page.  Link
28 Sep 2009
We began the process of rebuilding the complete site after a change of Web Hosting companies. The previous service provider had only simple development tools available and could only work with one brand of external software. This resulted in a rather unsophisticated site and complex html code.