Meet my family!

Well, some of them …

My family network (greatly simplified – e.g. I’m my father’s son!):

• Some pictures and an outline biography of my late father John.
  • On Wikipedia
• A page about his father, William Arthur Hudson.
• A very small bit about my late mother Gretta Hudson (née Heath)
• A great deal about her mother Mary Heath (née Buckler) and one of her sons, Bryan.
  • A collection of photos of Mary and her children.
  • A list of the Heath homes – places where she and her family lived.
  • Pictures taken in 1989 of some of these houses.
  • An article by distant cousin Peter Lawes about the ‘Welsh connection‘ of Mary Heath’s father Josiah Buckler.
• A collection of linguistic gems from my little grandson Peter.
• A great deal about my late brother Colin
• My school years at Loughborough Grammar School
• A database of 800 relatives since the 18th century including the following family names: Allender, Bell, Buckler, Evans, Heath, Hudson, Lindow, Pilkington, and many others!
  • You can get to this database:
    • on the internet at the ‘Genopro’ website (that’s the software I use). This version may not include the latest revisions.
    • by downloading a compressed collection of html files which you can read on your browser. Just download it, unzip it and click on any individual file. This will first open a very small window, but then you’ll get a larger one which will offer the options below.
  • You can view this as a network – i.e. a conventional family tree – by clicking on the little tree icon, and then selecting the sub-family that you’re interested in. (The whole tree would be too big to display, so I’ve broken it into sub-trees.)
  • The tree is shown in rather a small window, but you can make this bigger by clicking the window icon on the left of the red X, zoom in and out with the + and – icons, and then navigate round it by clicking the green arrows.
  • Better still, switch from your browser to the proper software for viewing these trees: Genopro. You can do this as follows:
    • make sure the little window is small, with a space above it for information about individuals.
    • click any individual of interest to you.
    • in the little window of information about the individual, select the little family-tree icon next to the real-tree icon.
    • when you’re asked what to do with it, select ‘open with Genopro ….’.
    • you’re now using Genopro to view the entire database (divided into sub-families shown on the tabs at the bottom of the screen).
    • To get information about any individual, double-click the named node.
  • I’d be grateful for help with this database, so if you can provide extra information, please email me and I’ll add it.