SMITH Family History Project Lancashire West Riding of Yorkshire Isle of Man SMITH Family History Project SMITH Lancashire West Riding of Yorkshire Isle of Man SMITH Family History Project

Aims, Progress and Current Status

 

About The Smith Family History Project of

Lancashire, W.R.Yorkshire & Isle of Man

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Original Aims of the Project

 

At July 2005: It was & still is, foreseen

to be a long-term and ongoing project with

the following objectives:

 

Develop a Website

dedicated to this Family History Project.

 

A "Gene Pool"

for those researching Smith ancestors who were either

born, married, lived or died in the historic counties of

Lancashire, West Riding of Yorkshire and/or Isle of Man. 

For pooling and sharing family history data, information

and/or stories about their ancestors.

 

Online resources:

as an aid for researchers of the Smith surname in this area.

To eventually develop databases for - eg - Parish Register data; 19th-20th Century Census Data;

births, marriages & deaths indexes, Cemeteries Data & War Memorials.

 

Local history / geography:

Information & Links relating to Lancashire, W.R. Yorkshire & Isle of Man districts & parishes.

 

Long term goal
Link up distant cousins descended from SMITHs of these counties.

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Progress so far

 

From July 2005, the original Lancashire and Bradford-West Yorkshire Communigate sites initiated communications, and a foundation for the Project.

 

From February 2006 further development continued at the postmaster.co.uk website.

 

September 2006: In an aim to further develop the Project's online resources, the domain "smithfamilies.org.uk" was aquired & hosting secured for this.

 

February 2008 - previous 2007 updates notes removed from here. To be replaced soon with re-compiled 2007/2008 "updates/current status & aims"

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