Welcome to the Family Matters® Genealogy Software Users Web page. When you get your FM-generated site up and running, drop me a line with your site URL and a brief description, and I'll link to you from here.
First, there are some links that I find quite interesting, and would be of interest to Family Matters Users. Family Matters produces a Gendex file of the individuals represented in the web site. This file allows participation in a number of genealogical projects on the Web. Notably, those are GenMatch, the GenWeb Index, and Gendex . Other sites of interest are those that provide information about using HTML. If you're interested, some good sites to visit are the NCSA’s Beginner’s Guide to HTML, the Web Design Group, and How Did They Do That With HTML? And now, on to the FM Users' sites. Some of these sites are still under construction by their owners, so please tread carefully.
Of course, the first FM-generated site is my own, Ray Nicklas. My ancestors are German, Irish, and Italian, and came to the U.S. in the mid 19th century, between 1840 and 1900. They initially settled in New York State, including Ulster County and Brooklyn. My wife's ancestors are also presented at my web site. They are all Italian, came over early in the 20th century, and settled in Brooklyn.
Delyth Waugh, of Western Australia, has her web site up and running. She'll welcome you to the Swinscoe family history page, and variations including Swinscow and Swainscoe.
Lawrence Frewin, of London, England, has his web site up and running.
Dave Brown, of Reading, Pennsylvania, says "We are all just a small leaf on a much bigger tree..."
Graham Stockfeld, of Blackburn, Australia, has put up his website, where he is "Boosting The SOO, Downunder".
David McKinney, of New Brunswick, Canada, web site contains information on four generations of the descendents of James Alexander McKinney and Mary Ann Murphy who immigrated from Northern Ireland to Saint John, NB, Canada and their neighbors in Summer Hill, NB.
Fred Schwientek, of Tasmania, Australia, is an Australian (currently in Tasmania) with his side of the family originating from Schlesien/Silesia (now Poland) and his wife hailing from England and Ireland.
Jon Harmon, of Austin, Texas says his ever-expanding site includes information on the Harmons, who settled in Springfield, MA in 1642; as well as a direct lineage from a William Algor (born 1374). He also hopes to soon include his mother's mother's mother's family (the Ooms of The Netherlands). He now also has a large database (2,492 individuals in 1,563 families) of the Springfield, MA, branch of the Harmon family.
George J. Zwerts, from The Netherlands, has placed data from the families: Meeuwisse, Ouwerkerk, Schröder, van Wandelen, and Zwerts on his web site, as four separate databases at. Most of the persons are born in The Netherlands, but there also several scattered all over the world.
Lois Cech lives in Rialto, California. Her research goes back into the 15th century, to early England, the years of the French in Ireland, and the doughty Scots that came to Canada. Take a look at her notes; there are lots of stories there.
John Michie from Cape Town, South Africa, displays more than twenty years research. Most of the genealogical information was provided by his cousin Sheilah Birnie in Scotland.
Dennis Ruffer from Hermosa Beach, California, now has his quite compete web site up if you want to visit.
Nick Fowler from Fort Wayne, Indiana, has his new improved web site up if you want to visit.
Joe Martin has put up a web site with over 1,000 names in it to start. The history of the Mann and Martin families from his Great, Great Grandfather down to his Grandchildren. The family is mostly from the Western New York state area.
You must visit the web site of the Zorrilla Family Network It is a very special
Web site of their family's genealogy, including over 100 families. As Jane Morgan Zorilla says, I think you will be
VERY IMPRESSED with the BILINGUAL Web site, if you have a few minutes to take a look at
it. There you will find her mother has included pictures of each person (often as a child
and as an adult), the family Coat of Arms, an update page ("Zorrilla Family
Update") including upcoming graduations, weddings, birthdays, and special events, an
original banner for the family network, a link to add families, a section of her
grandmother's favorite recipes, and a link to a family chat where they can have family
reunions weekly.
Stephen Brown has just posted his web page
using Family Matters. He also invites you to visit. The Curlings he is researching are his
wife's family, and hail from South East Kent, UK. These are simple folk who have existed
as labourers and farm-hands and served their country like millions of others.
Adré Ellis, from South Africa, has his site up and running Come take a look at the Ellis Family History.
Trevor Michie, from Papua New Guinea (and no known relation to John above), has his web site is up and running. It deals with the Michie family, originally from Strathdon, Aberdeenshire in Scotland and then onto Victoria, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. It has details of the Michie, Reddick, Wade and Fogarty families, as well as his other family connections.
Ron White of Evanston, Illinois has his White/Kimbrell Genealogy on the web. Go take a look.
Daniel MacWalters' web site is to the Dedication of families of the MacWalters, Griggs, Poland, Barkalow, Forman, Seifreits, Nowka's, Meloons, Grose and families of NJ, NY, NH, VT, PA.
Robyn Smith, of Sydney, Australia, has a site with about 5159 people in 1374 families (at last count). Her interest is primarily in Cambridgeshire, England but there are also references to Australia (naturally), Devonshire, Worcestershire, London, Ireland and one on Germany.
Mark Trevithick, of Littleton, Colorado, has been quite creative with Family Matters, and is related to Cornwall's Richard Trevithick, "The Cornish Giant", but he doesn't know how. He'd appreciate any help with his endeavour.
Jim Arnold, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has also been quite creative in putting up the The Arnold Family Web Pages.
Visit the Price Family genealogy web site.
Matt Dady, of Reading, England has his family tree up and running on the web. Please take the time to visit sign his guestbook.
Jack Russell, of Sydney Australia (having moved from Britain in 1955) has his page up and running.
J.R. & Debby Horton, now residing in San Diego, have been climbing their family tree for a little more than one year now and becoming more agile at reaching those higher branches (soon mastering vine swinging). Take a look at their site. They seem to also have mastered the addition of enhancements to a Family Matters' generated web site.
Isobel Stammers, of Oxfordshire, England has set up her website. She has just generated it, added a bit to the welcome page, and applied a Hunting Macdonald tartan faded background.
Phil Grimes, of Streamwood, Illinois has up his web site of the Grimes Group, mostly from the Midwest. Major families include Grimes, Patten/Patton, Shaw, Stoll, and Croy. The Pattens had a spelling change somewhere several generations back.
Gary D. Leenhouts, of Rochester, New York has his site up. His research includes the surnames: Leenhouts / Lenout Shea Drew / Drewe King / Koenig deReu Parker Cunningham Platsen Goodar Carr. He is still looking for information on his ancestors, and looking to establish links with kin that are still living, especially in the King and Drew lineage.
Dieter Retz of Kangaroo Ground in Victoria, Australia, has posted his very extensive genealogy, and of his wife Pamela. Their family is descended from ancestors who came from Wurttemberg in Germany, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Surrey and Yorkshire in England, Fife in Scotland and Tipperary in Ireland.
Simon Blackmore has an old leather bound book called "Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign shores from the earliest to the expedition of 1875" by D. Murray Smith, FRGS. Published by Thomas Lidell 1877. Inside are my BLACKMORE family names from the 1800s, but I cannot make any link between them and the expeditions! Visit his site if you think you can help!
Rick Hirons' immediate family is concentrated around Oxfordshire in England, but there is a strong link with Northern Wales. He also notes that there has been alot of work done in the U.S. with his surname. He says he originally believed that tracing his tree would be straightforward with a surname, but as you will see from his site there are a large number of ?'s and empty dates. At present there are some 98 families in the database although there are still links to be made. One to note is the marriage of his Great Aunt Kathleen Bergen to Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller.
Steve Dalhlberg, of Lawrence, Kansasi tells me his wife Cynthia has her FM-generated site on the web. Go and take a look.
Marcel Knol presents his genealogical data on the Internet. Choose Genealogy to be taken to the dutch families Knol, van der Kwast, Kruger, Demaret, Groothuis & Raaijen. Remember: "Your ancestors are out there!" and "One mile of road leads nowhere; one mile of runway leads everywhere."
The Hayes Family family tree displayed at their home page below is an integration and clean up of 3 imported databases. At last count, the family tree includes information about 141 families and 547 persons dating back to 1700s in some pedigrees.
Joseph Woodrum has been using Family Matters software for several years now. He's still got tons of information left to put into Family Matters and hope to have some updated genealogy on the web soon. As with all of us, it'll always be a work in progress.
Jesse Wells, in Castle Rock, Colorado says the URL of his web site is www.tkauk.com. He will have much more info to put on there, soon he hopes. His family started in Germany then to Worms, Russia then here to the US many years ago.
Jan Billekens, from Bovesse, in Belgium, has posted the website of the family Billekens at http://home.scarlet.be/~pb075249.He reports he's now been able to go back to 1500 in history, and found a lot of information about his family with roots are in Sevenum, a small village in dutch Limburg.
Nick Andrews wants to let us know that his family genealogy website is up. It is of the Andrews family from London, UK from about 1780 to the present. His family has spread out a bit since then, but are still based in the UK.