A Jones Family History
the first three hundred years (1700-2000)

White Chimneys: Come and Celebrate 300 Years of the Quaker Jones Family in America

So much new information has come to my attention since I first put this website on line in 2014 that I feel compelled to begin my research all over again and correct, explain and add what I’ve learned.

A lot of what I know now has come about because my Quaker Family website has stay...

I've reactivated my ancestry.com membership and have begun expanding my paternal family tree and making corrections along the way.

There are now over a dozen site members ... several of them bonified cousins, and many of them clearly related in some way.

In a direct family line extending back so many generations in America and before in Ireland, Scotland and England, there are clearly many more of us. I would love to hear from all of you.

Regards,

Like the shoemaker's children, my family website has gone without shoes for some time now. As a freelance Internet copywriter I naturally lean toward writing for income rather than writing for my own personal satisfaction. This will change soon, as I plan to expand this family website to include new information on existing ancestors and to add another branch - my maternal line of Fox/Thomas Welsh ancestors.

I haven't had as much time as I had wanted to upgrade this website and add the missing footnotes and photos, but I will carry on. 

I've already started another website dedicated to our mother's side of the family, Fox/Thomas/Williams.  This side of the family is Welsh and Swiss-German, and there are some heartwarming stories to be told. Mom and Grandma Fox both enjoyed telling family stories and they left behind some written records that need to be published for posterity.

Merry Christmas!

Today I am sending a link to this Jones Family History website to my siblings, my first cousins and to my daughters. I leave it up to them to pass along to their families if they wish.

The website is not complete. I finally came to the realization that it will never actually be complete, so I chose Christmas 2015 to send it out into the ether net.  I'll continue to do more research for as long as I have my ancestry.com membership, and I'll probably add a few ...

Quick Guide to Abbreviations in Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Meeting Notes

b. born

bur. buried.

cert. Certificate: a statement issued by a monthly meeting to a person (or persons) transferring their membership to another monthly meeting. Also a marriage certificate.

ch. child, children.

co. chosen overseer(s): selected for an important office of responsibility in the meeting.

com. complained, complained of: a person could be complained of for an act that...

This is a work in progress, and will undoubtedly be a messy draft for some time to come.  I'm starting this blog too soon also, and not for the purpose intended but as a personal diary in the hope that it will act as an incentive to keep me going forward to completion.

In spite of knowing that the first rule of publishing a website is to have a full manuscript written, edited and corrected, and with footnotes and images ready to go, I just jumped right in and set up a website,...