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

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, chose a theme (already changed that twice!), and started to cut and paste.

Instead of a completed manuscript in Word I have instead a few hundred pages collected on many separate subjects, all related to the Jones Quaker family and the events in the history of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as in Colonial America during the years that our family lived.  I originally intended to simply build a family tree chart ... then I meant to write an essay ...  then I decided to write an ebook.  No format seemed adequate to telling the story of my family; I'm not even certain that a website will work, but it will have to do.

I'm limited by the amont of time I can devote to this project by several factors: by the length of my ancestry.com membership, by the term of my website subscription, and by the fact that every time I check a fact or add an ancestor new information is revealed and I get sidetracked on corrections and revisions ... and more revisions ... and more revisions...

I've procrastinated long enough, but better a left-footed beginning than no beginning at all ...