Our primary research sources are family history memories (written, photographic and oral). Thereafter: Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk); LDS Family History Centre (www.familysearch.org); Freebmd (www.freebmd.org.uk); and Yorkshire BMD (www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk).

o Thanks to Shaun Spencer for commissioning the tracing of our SPENCER line back to John and Elizabeth SPENCER of Walkington, East Yorkshire.

o We are grateful to our cousin, Jeremy Evans, for sharing with us his extensive and detailed research on the SMITH and WISEMAN lines.

o We worked together on the BULMER line with Jeremy Evans, and thereafter benefitted from the research of Brian Dickinson (www.myfamilies.co.uk/bulmer).

o We shared information on our BUSTIN line with Faye Sutherland of Australia, and are very grateful to her for allowing us to reproduce copies of some family pictures on our website.

o We have also been able to share information with Patricia Hamilton, of Norway, in respect of our BUSTIN line. We have enjoyed her wonderful website, which is well worth a visit - www.larigan.com.

o Many thanks to Daphne Heiner of Australia, for her generous help in breaking through our HUTCHINS brick wall.

Our "Genealogical Journey" has taken us to various localities, churches etc. Also: The East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Services, Beverley (www.eastriding.gov.uk); The Family Records Centre, London (www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc); London Metropolitan Archives (www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma); LDS Family Records Centre, Middelton Street, London EC1R1W; LDS Family History Centre Johannesburg, 5a Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg. Access to the facilities and records of the foregoing has been invaluable, together with friendship, advice and help generously given and greatly appreciated.

We have also enjoyed many hours of "happy searching" from these user-friendly sites:

o GENUKI (www.genuiki.org)

o East Yorkshire Archives (www.eastriding.gov.uk/libraries/archives)

o National Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)

o Rootsweb (www.rootsweb.com)

o Genealogy.com (www.genealogy.com)

o Origins Network (www.originsnetwork.com)

o FindmyPast (www.findmypast.com)

o Google (www.google.com)

We do have a wealth of additional information on various siblings/children/family members and have also traced back further generations on certain lines.

We would be happy to share this information on request.

Contact: Cara or Shelagh at carabouwer@hotmail.com