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I am co-leader of the Magna Carta and Quaker Projects.
I am descended from the first Cayley baronet, who was one of the Cayleys associated with Brompton, Yorkshire.
I have been researching genealogy for over 30 years. The person who started my interest was an eccentric and diminutive aunt who had inherited albums of old family photos and a set of family portraits going back to the 18th century, and who had gathered a collection of documents and letters from the 1790s to the first half of the 20th century, the most interesting of which the family donated to the British Library after her death. Despite her small size, my aunt was formidable; and from childhood I was not allowed to forget that facts, documentation and stories about forebears were to be treasured. Cousins, near and distant, were often to be seen at her home and she hoovered up family information from them with avidity. Nowadays email makes that much easier, and one of the pleasures of recent years has been establishing email contact with cousins in other countries and exchanging data with them.
My work was based in central London, which meant I had access to some of the best repositories in the UK. Spending time off in them was welcome relief from the demands of high pressure jobs. By the time I retired, digitisation of genealogical sources had started, which was just as well, as I moved away from London.
I am as interested in the social history ancestors’ lives reveal, and the incidents and stories that bring them to life, as in ‘who begat whom’.
For me a lot of the joy of genealogy is the research, especially when I track down a recondite source which solves a conundrum or which establishes links that standard genealogical reference works have missed. As those who enjoy travelling know, the journey can - with all its periodic difficulties - be as interesting as the destination. Along the way there is always something new to learn, and sometimes it is good to spend time on byways, or to postpone going to the originally intended destination and divert to somewhere different.
To aid WikiTree in the administration of my account should I be incapacitated, or in the event of my death, I hereby give permission for all private and public profiles I'm presently managing, including my own profile, to be transferred to community members on my trusted list or to the Leadership Team to be farmed out to any interested party or parties.
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Categories: Wikipedia Contributors | WikiTree Leaders | Cayley-55
edited by Jane (Cournoyer) McNicol
Michael Cayley and Polly Watkins are both descendants of Katherine (Campbell) Campbell Countess of Crawford (abt.1522-1578).
Cheers Alison
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Ian
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!
Best wishes,
Elizabeth, England Project Leader
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.
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Kind regards,
Susie, England Project Leader
Thank you for organizing the medieval and Magna Carta projects. I noticed that there were a few Cayley baronet orphan profiles that represent my distant cousins, so I adopted them. Before long, I was managing 30 Cayley profiles. If you want to be on the trusted list of any, please let me know.
Thank you very much for all the contributions you made to our PGM profiles during the first quarter of 2023. With your 165 contributions, you have added so much to the profiles you improved in some way. Thank you very kindly!
S Willson, PGM Co-leader
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.
On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.
Best wishes,
Ian, England Project Leader
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers and many thanks!
Elizabeth, England Project Leader
Thanks for the pre-1500 Berkeley additions. Would you be able to make William ie. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Berkeley-11 a son of Edmund rather than John? - it would mean changing some of the dates.
Thanks David