Website Updates


2024 Big Y-700 DNA test results show I'm in refined haplogroup T-FTC85065.
A lot of extended family page work this year
Ancestry enhanced Pro Tools leads to confirmation of a lot of DNA matches
2023 Chaworth and Provence nobility surname pages added
20 surname pages created for my Uncle Donald Eugene "Gene" Shaw's Warner ancestors
Gillespie surname page added
All nobility research pages and surnames moved to a separate start page
2022 Early Welsh Rulers pages created: Cunedda Wleg, Rhodri Mawr, Anarawd ap Rhodri
Hood, Lambert, Masterson, Mercer, Plummer and Venables surname pages added.
Rolling out new version of extended family pages with expanded header
Did a lot of work on extended family pages this year
2021 New research strongly suggests Mary Burtis does not descend from Pietro Alberti.
    I have unfortunatly removed the Alberti and Ellison surname pages.  Scudder page updated.
Bell surname page added.
Devore and Young surname pages added; extended family pages created for Young surname
Completed all extended family pages for the Hawk surname
Removed Janney surname page as new new research shows parentage of Elizabeth is not known.
I'm starting to branch off my extended family to separate pages for easier navigation.
A number of changes made to the Jay and Wright pages based on a new research document.
2020 Received 2nd Edition of Boyer's "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell."  Adding new sources
Individuals linked to my Ancestry.com tree have this symbol:
   (subscription required to view them)
Shortcuts to direct ancestors added to top of many surname pages
Surname pages have individual links to the 3 direct ancestor charts I created
Added Caleb Abell and Thomas Lawrence direct ancestor charts
Added big chart of my Dad's direct ancestors with hyperlinks
Antrobus, Atherton, CramptonFitton, Fouleshurst, Grosvenor, Scott,
   Vermandois and Wakeman surname pages added

The majority of my direct ancestors are now sourced. 
    The sources page also serves as an index of names.
2019 Marshal surname page added
Normandy surname page to connect the Plantagenet kings back to Rollo the Viking
As I anticipate the main sources page getting large, I'm making separate pages for surnames that have a lot of individuals that are not direct ancestors (See Abell and Bull families.)
Sources page created with links to source material for individuals - see [1]
Krebs surname page added
Removed Ramsdell surname page as the parents of Richard Adams (1679-1749) is apparently not Richard Adams and Priscilla Ramsdell.
Fnished working on the Polish and French-Canadian ancestry of my brother-in-law Richard Gut
Swanston surname page added
My yDNA was tested at 111 markers and I am in the T-M70 Haplogroup (Marshall surname)
2018 Ketchum , Jay and Vestal surname pages added
Updated all FindAGrave memorial links for immigrant surname pages.  The link changed when they went to the new site.
Split immigrant surname section on main page to show paternal and maternal sides
Belknap and Flaugher surname pages added
I made updates to the Hawk surname page as DNA shows a different set of parents for David Hawk.  I have also removed the "Clevenger", "Horner" and "Williams" pages as they no longer connect to this family.
Schnall and Endlich surname pages added
2017 Lady Godiva descents to Robert Abell (PDF)
Surname pages split into Immigrant and Nobility Sections
October 2016 Ancestors of Nobility have been linked to Wikipedia and The Peerage pages.
New Moulton, Page and Bullard surname pages added
Most American immigrant ancestor surname pages now have source material listed for biographies
September 2016 I have started adding in census records as found on the FamilySearch website.
Census records updated: Cowan, Crews, Furnas, Hawk, Jones, Marshall, McMulin, Patty, Schwiening, Turner

2014

  New page: Quaker ancestors
  New page: Magna Carta Sureties ancestors

  New page: Descents from Charlemagne
  My descents have been added to the bottom of surname pages
  Dutton, Pecche, Flanders, Berkeley & Zouche surname pages
  Goushill
, FitzAlan,
Honford, Butler & Beauchamp surname pages
  Due to additional research on the The Hyde line, I have found the English ancestry of William is no longer reliable. Therefore, I have dropped the 4 surname pages that connected to the earlier line:
     Calverly, Savile, Tempest and Warburton

December 2013

 Memorial pages - To celebrate the life of some of my ancestors with pictures
 Find A Grave profile added with 19 pictures uploaded.
     Tombstone links for many individuals - look for
next to the name.
  Surname pages: Bull, Lawrence, Parsons, Watson, Ellison, Andrews, Scudder & Brereton

November 2013

 Dozens of pages have been updated to include extended family lines.
 Surname pages: Dana, Merrill & Richards
2012 Website down for several months as I migrate to a new server on Hostgator with SiteLock
2004 Devereux, Ferrers, Talbot, Savage, Vernon, Wells, Wright surname pages added
2003 Grant, Legh, Warren surname pages added
2002 My website is now on a new server: todmar.net/ancestry
Benjamin, Blount, Fishman, Greenberg, Stanley, Worthington surname pages added
2001 Basset, Clare, Hickok, Horner, Lacon, Plantagenet, Thompson, Sutton, Stafford, Turner surname pages added