Lorna's family forest

Some explanations about how the site works

Ch(urch); Pres(byterian); Meth(odist)
Crem(atorium); Cem(etery);
MIs: Monumental Inscriptions
transcr(ibed); reg(istered)
BDM or BMD: Births Deaths Marriages
b(orn); d(ied); chr(istened); bap(tised); dec(eased)
Inf(ormant); Wit(nesses) reg(istered) unm(arried)
d/o; s/o; f/o; m/o; w/o; h/o: daughter, son, father, mother, wife, husband of (resp.)
m.s. - maiden surname
nok - next of kin

Place information

Cty or Co. = County; Twp = Township; Par(ish)
County/country - Chapman codes only
? before a place name indicates the event referred to probably occurred where shown, but may not have
? after a town indicates I either had trouble deciphering the writing, or if after a parish, county or country, I'm unsure as to which area the place name belongs to
icons under the Places links, or after a place within the narrative for a person, refer to Google Maps or OpenStreetView maps
However as not all of the places are geocoded, and I use abbreviations for county and country in my database, many links wont work as expected (sorry!)
If one site doesn't have sufficient detail to show places accurately when zooming in using satellite view, try the other (or assume I've got the co-ordinates wrong).
Make sure you try out the different views available (satellite, map or terrain usually) and have fun panning and zooming in/out to the best level.

Citations and Sources

Hopefully all data is fully sourced, with citations at the bottom of each person page in a format ending "extracted/rcvd/copy d/loaded" etc "MMM YYYY" and showing where the information was obtained.
All data received from others, or extracted from publicly available sites should show their name or the web site.
The exceptions to this will be for older data, between 1971 and 1999 (at which time I got a decent genealogy program ), and which has not yet been reviewed to upgrade the source citation documentation (so in particular, will not show the extracted mmm yyyy, and be rather uninformative as to what/who/when).

Privacy

No dates for the living are shown, but depending on how many generations are shown in descendant charts, some names for living people may appear.
In general, further data on living people do not feature in any of my published data or databases

Icons

What all those little pictures stand for

	The person concerned has an image on their page
	Click it to see what further information is available, eg on the Master Place Index
Descendant chart symbols/operation
- most charts open "collapsed" by default, but each can be fully expanded by clicking on the Expand All tab above the chart.
- click on the Plus to expand that branch
- click on the Minus to collapse that branch
- the numbers before the names are generation numbers, starting from 0
	Click on the camera to see the document referred to
	Click on the Family tree button to see person in family context of parents, siblings, children
	One of Lorna's paternal (Henderson) ancestors
	One of Lorna's maternal (Andrews) ancestors

The following symbols indicate a person is associated in some way with an event occuring in the geographical area listed. Animated flags from fg-a.com
	Caithness, Scotland (the icon is taken from the Ulbster Stone, copied from "Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction", by George Bain, published 1977 by Constable, London)
	Stirling/Perth, Scotland (generally the HENDERSONs of the family, the blacksmiths)
	Otago, NZ (generally the HENDERSON side of the family, it's the Henderson tartan)
	Taranaki, NZ (my attempt at drawing an outline of Mt Taranaki/Mt Egmont as seen from Huirangi)
	Scottish Borders (generally the SINTON, WIGHT, FAIRBAIRN, DAVIDSON, RICHARDSON side of the family)
	Somerset, England (generally the ANDREWS & WINES side of the family)
	Devon, England (generally the ROWE and DAW(E) side of the family)
	Cumberland, England (generally the TURNBULL, GRAHAM, BATY side of the family)
	Connected with New Zealand
	Connected with Australia
	Connected with the United States of America
	Connected with Canada
	Connected with Scotland
	Connected with England

BMD data on all rellies

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln
History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

— ?Santayana?
What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

— Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett
.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)
The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon
Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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What all those cryptic abbreviations mean

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Citations and Sources

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