Davis Family Tree
by Lynda
Archard
©: September 2007
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Cousins Reunited 15th September 2007 Ronnie Davis, our cousin in Canada, thought it was a good idea to have a get together in England. Joan and her husband Michael thought it was an excellent idea and invited all of us to her house. They bought us all a mug with the date and 'Cousins Reunited' written on it for all of us to keep as a memento and fed us all day. We thank you very much for that! We all had such a good time and decided to create a web site for those who couldn't attend and to share all of our photographs. This will take time to complete because our Grand parents had 13 children. Two died very young so for between 70 to around 90 years there were 11 brothers and sisters growing up together. They were all born to our Grand parents Levy and Hannah (nee Clark) Davis. The two children who died were Thomas and Esther, one died at six weeks and the other aged months. I have created a link to separate pages for each of our parents and their families and these will eventually contain pictures and a history of the respective families. It is far too complicated to create an up-to-date family tree in the form of a flow chart so I will try and create one for each of the Davis families on their web pages. I also discovered at the Cousins reunion that Aunty Millie was born Amelia Davis. That could cause some problems in hundreds of years when someone searches for Millie Davis and only finds Amelia. Family trees are so important for future generations to save them from the problems we have today. I haven't even mentioned the future problem of step families - My own tree could get very complicated without adding anyone other than my children, step children and all their parents! Any contributions to the Davis tree will be appreciated so I have added a link to my email for any important details and pictures that you might like to include on our web site. Information needed for our trees include: Family member dates of birth, children and grandchildren; Anything exciting such as important achievements to brag about; Careers and professions. I also need the surnames of married females because they are the most difficult to find when searching family trees because they marry and change their surname. If you recognise yourself in any pictures please tell me who you are and what you can remember about the day and who else is in the picture. Most of all please tell me if I make spelling mistakes! You probably know by now that I am on the Internet daily and I write something on a daily basis for fun as well as my work. So don't think I won't have time to scan pictures and up-date pages for you. I can even chat on the phone to you and up-date with the information while you tell me which bits to add or take out! When everything is completed I can also put the whole website onto a DVD disc for each family to keep with a folder of the original full-quality pictures to print or view on your TV. If we get it up-to-date and keep it that way as each new child is born we can leave important information for anyone (who might not be born yet) searching for the Davis ancestors in years to come! This website is not advertised although a few might come across the pages eventually if they search google for specific names and/or quotes. (Try typing your own name into google with quote marks and see what happens! - such as "lynda archard" or "pictures of London") For this reason and for data protection there are things I won't include here such as your telephone numbers (mine is already all over the Internet), addresses and too personal information. I could add them to a DVD later, which will be Davis only information. Please let me know what you think is important for us to share with each other now while the site is 'live.' Because the web site is growing daily I will give you a hint on where to look for new stuff and when it was changed.
Call me: Lynda 020 8305 0524 Enjoy! Please note: all the pictures have been scaled down to small files for screen quality and look good on the screen. Print quality will not be so good. If you want to print please email me for the original photograph.
Lots of Davis' together:
Everyone together and our Grandparents pictures are on the wall behind them. I have edited the ones who could not make it. The original picture is on Charlies' page.
The links are now in age order:
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