This family website used to be called "For auld lang syne': Leslie Kith and  Kin".  I removed the subtitle because it no longer seemed relevant, having moved beyond that focus into something more representative of a  community at large.  I don't want to restrict the tree to my own branches since all connections throw light upon each other while in the expanding circles we see the development of towns and cities and even, in the case of young countries like Australia, nations.  We don't lose ourselves in this web of connections.  On the contrary, we grow in an understanding of the historical process.  That, surely, is what genealogy does best.

This is grass roots history wending its way between family mythology, hearsay and dry-as-dust fact and reminding us as it does that our forebears were not simply on the sideline of great events but participants amongst the crowd. In that it depends partly upon a grapevine, it is not entirely removed from oral folk tradition by which news was once spread and cultural identity established.  It is certainly an attempt to preserve that identity by mending broken links and restoring a sense of continuity with the past. Thanks to the genius of the Personal Computer with its world wide web and the availability of an immense store of bureaucratic information penned by parish priests and civil servants we are able to step back into the past with a considerable degree of certainty.  The unsolved mysteries and the family myths that continue to frustrate the search are also its inspiration.

Family history is both a serious pursuit and a source of fun, the natural domain for those who always longed to be 'a fly on the wall' of time.  A  number of kindred spirits have contributed their hard-earned research to this website for without that collective effort its Tree could never prosper.

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PLEASE NOTE that from time to time the password to this family website is changed for security reasons.