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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