We'll begin by saying a very big
"thank you" to all our Contributors and especially those who
featured in the 2005 Issues either as writers or as researchers of the
material for articles.
They are Reg Norton, Roy Hewitt (2 articles), Stuttaford & Co
Ltd of South Africa, Jacky Stentiford, the descendents of Sir Ivan
Stedeford, Robin Holmes, Maggie Silver, Donna Hiscock, Jennifer Nash,
Patricia Byrne, Ruth Archibald, Lloyd C. Rees and Doreen Norton. We very
recently received the following e-mail from Kathleen Lake which we wanted all of our
contributors to share, including those whose articles now form part of
our Archive section:
|
"I just want to thank you for
providing such an outstanding website. I am a newcomer to
genealogical research and I learned a great deal just from
reading what you have produced. The way you have described your
ancestors holds the richness of detail and understanding that I
want to achieve in my own efforts to represent the lives of my
own family members. My family also comes from Chawleigh and this
is how I found your website.
Thanks for taking the time to fully
explain some of the factors that impact family histories and for
making your family members "alive" to me through a
sensitive and well-developed awareness of their lives and social
reality." |
A well-deserved round of applause there for the hard work of
everyone who has ever written for the website.
We've decided not to publish Issues in January and February of
2006. This is not because we've run out of steam - far from it - we
still have a considerable amount of useful material to add to this
permanent record of our group of families and plan to be back in March
with Issue 49 - so please look out for it. We're creating a gap to give
ourselves some extra time to spend on our new website - www.devonheritage.org
- which we launched earlier this year and which already has a link
on www.genuki.org.uk. We hope you
will visit it and maybe, even find it useful. Roy Hewitt has already
started writing articles and we should be very pleased if any
contributors to this site feel they can add useful material
to the new site.
