I began building this family tree website as a “winter project” and hopefully to provide easy access to the information I had gathered for the rest of the family.
When I started out on the trail of my heritage using Family Tree Maker and Ancestry, I encountered a number of items that surprised me. The amount of data available online is incredible but perhaps the biggest surprise was discovering that my Jenkins roots were based in Donegal, Ireland !! In common with most people, I expected to trace back to somewhere in Wales. I had also assumed that Jenkins is a Welsh name but, again to my surprise, I have learned its origins are in Cornwall !!
My initial focus on the site is to develop a picture of the Jenkins family as it moved on from the 1700s and cover other key families over time.
If you click on Families at the top menu you will get a selection of family names – at the moment, only Jenkins is being developed.