16 January 2025: Edited the Australia Page.
21 October 2024: Added information on the Davis Family Page on George Davis' sister Jane's descendants including Clara Christian.
15 September 2024: Added more information on Kenneth Hurst's family, including three second cousins of David and Rafi.
7 September 2024: Updated the DNA page with new more detailed haplogroup information from FamilyTreeDNA. Also uploaded a new version of the Florence Browne Ancestors Tree with 17,371 members!
6 September 2024: Renamed the Woodward Family Page as Woodward and Elliott Families Page. Updated history of the Elliott Family on the page to add new findings about their origin in Yorkshire and add the Elliott Family Tree to the page. Uploaded a new Elliott Family Tree with 1,121 members. Updated the Ambrose Family Page to add Kenneth Hurst.
21 July 2024: Started a page for the Fuld Family.
20 July 2024: Replaced the Ambrose Family Tree with a new Pilgrim Family Tree with 493 people and updated the Australia, Ambrose, and DNA pages following adding Barbara Parsonage as a DNA match.
28 March 2024: Updated the Browne Family page following adding Nikole Wills as a DNA match.
31 December 2023: Updated the DNA page to mention that Eastern European ancestry may be related to the Czech component of Ashkenazi ancestry as discussed by Razib Khan.
29 December 2023: New version of the Stern Family Tree with 1908 people uploaded to MyHeritage.
23 December 2023: Updated the DNA page to mention endogamy.
17 December 2023: Updated the DNA page with updated Jewish vs. non-Jewish relatives chart.
10 December 2023: Updated the DNA page to include Rafi's results and some other updates.
7 December 2023: Added Fuld Family Tree with 1,631 people.
6 December 2023: Added Elliott Family Tree with 1,064 people. There is a lot of overlap between this and the Woodward Family Tree, but this tree is necessary for capturing all fourth cousins of David and Rafi Stern.
5 December 2023: Added Kulp Family Tree with 1,961 people and Auerbach Family Tree with 5,586 people. Rewrote introduction pages for Australia and Germany to reflect the evolving structure of the family trees.
4 December 2023: Improved consistency of the Forest Tree and deleted around 1,500 non-relatives on the Australian side of the tree. These are relatives of spouses. Going forward the tree will focus on blood relatives and their spouses and limited numbers of ancestors of those spouses. The Forest Tree now has 9,993 people.
29 October 2023: Updated the Stern Family Page with information on the 12 STR Y-DNA test.
14 September 2023: Updated the Ambrose Family Page with a fun fact on Andrew Carnegie.
8 September 2023: Updated the Stern Family Page with more Y-DNA information.
2 September 2023: Updated the Stern Family Page with Y-DNA information.
7 August 2023: Revised text on main pages.
6 August 2023: Began to update the DNA page with Rafi's DNA results. Separated the DNA analysis into its own top-level section rather than being part of the Australia section.
15 July 2023: Updated the Davis Family Tree with 799 people.
6 July 2023: Updated the DNA page with more information on ancient times and other updated details. Updated the Ambrose Page to include the possibility that Phyllis PIlgrim was Thomas Ambrose's mother.
3 July 2023: Updated DNA page with David's more fine-grained Y-DNA haplogroup.
27 June 2023: Added link to photos of the Jewish Cemetery in Ziegenhain to the Stern Family Page and the eulogy read at Ruth Stern's funeral to the Browne Family Page.
24 June 2023: Updated version of the Stern Family Tree with 1495 people. Moved information about Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud from the Stern to the Kulp Family Page.
23 June 2023: Minor updates to Browne Family Page.
29 May 2023: Updated DNA Page with DNA analysis of Jewish vs. non-Jewish relatives.
25 May 2023: Updated edition of Guenther Stern Ancestors Tree with 1112 people. The number of ancestors decreased when we corrected the parents of Baer David Schammes on Geni.
21 May 2023: New Florence Browne Ancestors Tree with 8,368 people.
18 May 2023: Added information on Marie Elmes to the Browne Family Page and updated the Australia Page to include David Fincham as the father of Thomas Ambrose.
13 May 2023: Updated the Ambrose Family Page after adding another DNA match to the WATO analysis. Minor update of the Browne Family Page after receiving two more William Browne death certificates.
7 May 2023: Major revision of the Ambrose Family Page and updates of the DNA and Australia pages.
24 April 2023: Updated edition of Guenther Stern Ancestors Tree with 1155 people. The number of ancestors increased by 7% when I identified that Beer David Schammes and Beer Schammes were the same person, bringing together two different branches of the tree.
9 April 2023: Revised information on the Erskine Family on Browne Family Page.
8 April 2023: Added Star of India's passenger list to the Browne Family Page and updated DNA page to remove speculation that William Browne's mother came from Scandinavia.
7 April 2023: Major revision of the Browne Family Page.
6 April 2023: Updated the Browne Family Tree. The new tree has 369 people.
2 April 2023: Updated Browne Family Page with information on the Erskine Family.
26 March 2023: Updated Browne Family Page with information from Gertrude Browne's marriage certificate. Updated the fanchart on the Australia page. Added Kulp Family page, updated the Germany page.
21 March 2023: Updated Browne Family Page with more information of William Browne's potential Irish family. New version of Browne Family Tree has 228 members.
19 March 2023: Updated the website with the hypothesis that William Browne was born in Skibbereen in 1853. The new Browne Family Tree has 106 members.
16 March 2023: Updated the Browne page after receiving Sydney Browne's first marriage certificate.
15 March 2023: Updated the Davis page with new information on Luke Bise. Updated Florence Browne's ancestor tree, which now includes 7,500 people. Some of the earlier ancestors are nonsense, but it is hard to know where to exactly to cut these branches.
10 March 2023: Added Y and mt haplogroups to DNA page.
9 March 2023: Updated Florence Browne's ancestor tree. There are now 968 ancestors compared to just 138 a month ago.
7 March 2023: Updated the Ambrose Family page after receiving Thomas Ambrose's death certificate.
5 March 2023: Updated family trees with early history of the Cruwys Family from the Cruwys Morchard website and Wikitree.
4 March 2023: Updated Davis Family page with the early history of the Cruwys Family.
3 March 2023: Updated Browne Family page after receiving death certificate of William Browne buried at Rookwood in 1917.
2 March 2023: Added pictures to the Browne Family page completing the first version of the Australia web site
28 February 2023: Added pictures to the Ambrose Family page.
26 February 2023: Added a new page on DNA analysis and updated the main Australia page.
24 February 2023: Added more arrival options for William Browne and rewrote Thomas Ambrose's story.
23 February 2023: Browne Family tree radically revised after receiving William Browne's marriage certificate. Now has only 57 people. Browne text also revised in line with new facts and speculations. Forest Tree replaced with organic MyHeritage tree.
21 February 2023: First draft of the Browne page minus pictures and added links to Rafi's album on the Ambrose and Browne families.
20 February 2023: New Jordan Family page and first versions of the Browne and Ambrose pages. Updated Jordan Family tree includes 82 people.
19 February 2023: Completed first draft of the Davis Family page.
18 February 2023: First full draft of the Woodward Family Tree. Now includes 876 people.
14 February 2023: Updated Woodward Family Tree. Now includes 635 people, though Ernest Creamore Hincksman and his descendants have been moved off the tree. He was the son of Thomas Hincksman senior rather than junior.
12 February 2023: First full draft of the Davis Family Tree. It includes 767 people. Also, started a page on the Davis Family and completed the first draft of the Woodward page.
10 February 2023: Started first Australian family page for the Woodward Family.
7 February 2023: Added first family page for the Stern Family.
6 February 2023: Update of the Forest Tree to include 12,120 people. Important addition is the blood relatives of Yehudit Feuchtwanger, Rafi Stern's mother-in-law. This will allow her descendants to include them in their fan charts and ancestor trees.
5 February 2023: First version of the site with the following family trees (numbers of members in brackets): Browne (122), Woodward (533), Ambrose (32), Jordan (63), Davis (294), Stern (1052), Goldschmidt (3869), Hirsch (5449), Ancestors of Florence Browne (138), and Ancestors of Günther Stern (1078). The Forest Tree included 10,244 people.
