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Our Family Tree: Introduction
Welcome! Our Family Tree
is a full-featured, free, and online genealogy collaboration website intended both for people browsing, and a tool for researchers to
maintain their trees and collaborate on their research efforts.
When browsing different websites it is inefficient for many people to be researching some of the same ancestors, all stored in separate parallel systems, rather than everyone contributing directly to the same system. This website hopefully encourages people to collaborate and work together on common ancestors, and eliminate duplicates copies of each person. Down the line somewhere we're all in the same family, so why not work in the same tree?
As much as possible the website also seeks to integrate family with history, highlighting biographical details, more about the places they lived, where and with whom they worked, and how they contributed to all who followed them.
More Introduction • Features • Guidelines • More Rationale • FAQ • What's New
When browsing different websites it is inefficient for many people to be researching some of the same ancestors, all stored in separate parallel systems, rather than everyone contributing directly to the same system. This website hopefully encourages people to collaborate and work together on common ancestors, and eliminate duplicates copies of each person. Down the line somewhere we're all in the same family, so why not work in the same tree?
As much as possible the website also seeks to integrate family with history, highlighting biographical details, more about the places they lived, where and with whom they worked, and how they contributed to all who followed them.
More Introduction • Features • Guidelines • More Rationale • FAQ • What's New
Recent Updates
| Marguerite Fortier | Jul 15 |
| Andre Gagnon | Jul 15 |
| Albertine Bathilde Gagnon | Jul 15 |
| Joseph Jean Marie Masse | Jul 15 |
| Delia Bourgeois | Jul 15 |
| William Masse | Jul 15 |
| Blanche Florence Masse | Jul 15 |
| Wilfred Joseph Lepage | Jul 15 |
| Anne Marie Lepage | Jul 15 |
| Isabella Gilbert | Jul 15 |
| Thomas Grenville | Jul 15 |
| Robert Hill | Jul 15 |
| Walter Gambon | Jul 15 |
| Isabela Gambon | Jul 15 |
| William Gilbert | Jul 15 |
| Oliver Camperon | Jul 15 |
| Elizabeth Camperon | Jul 15 |
| William Gilbert | Jul 15 |
| William Compton | Jul 15 |
| Joan Compton | Jul 15 |
| Jeffrey Gilbert | Jul 15 |
| Thomas Gilbert | Jul 15 |
| Gilbert of Compton | Jul 15 |
| William de Albiniaco | Jul 15 |
| Isabella de Albiniaco | Jul 15 |
| Jane Hall | Jul 15 |
| Thomas Gilbert | Jul 15 |
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Spotlight: Danbury Public Library — Fairfield Co, CT
In 1869 the present Danbury Library was incorporated. William A. White of Brooklyn left a sum of $10,000 to establish a public library in his native borough of Danbury. The following year, his brother Alexander M. White donated funds, property and his birthplace on Main Street for use until a suitable building could be erected. The Danbury Library opened at 254 Main Street in 1878. It became a free library in 1893. At the close of its first year, the number of subscribers had grown from 320 to 2,300.
On June 7, 1970, the Danbury Public Library opened on the corner of Main and West Streets on the site of the old City Hall. An original wall from that structure and a statue of Sybil Ludington by sculptress Anna Hyatt Huntington were incorporated into the library plaza design.
A devastating fire occurred inside the library on the night of February 27, 1996. The entire first floor was destroyed and other areas suffered significant damage. The community responded with an outpouring of aid; and by September 7, 1996 a new and improved Danbury Public Library reopened to the public. Today the library welcomes more than 50,000 visitors and circulates print and non-print collections in more than 20 languages each year.
The old Danbury Library building still stands at 254 Main Street and is now home to the Danbury Music Centre.