INTRODUCTION

If you had a name like mine, wouldn't you be curious about your origins?

Billie Lynn Fazakerly Harrison
Grove Park Inn
Asheville, NC
Thanksgiving--many moons ago

Musical Accompaniment: This page: Edvard Grieg, (1843-1907) "Holberg Suite, Prelude I", grieg_holberg_preludium.mid; For Outlines I & II & III: Claude Debussy (1862-1918) "Claire de Lune",  debussy_clair_de_lune.mid; both pieces from: www.Karadar.com 
I would have preferred "Phantom of the Opera" (a wild rendition) or the piece from Dvorak (History  pg.) or the disco piece: "Getdown" or any of the music from the Blues Brothers movies--great stuff; however, this is a "library", so I'll stick to the quiet music so people can concentrate.   

Purpose of the Project

March 1994: The project started out as a simple task. I decided to keep a log of all the names that I came across so that when I found my ancestor, I would have a record of some of his relatives. As this grew, I started to keep a small database of the names. (By 1997 I had well over a 1000 names.) Well, years have passed--and I still haven’t found William Fazakerly's family.  
February 2001: When this huge log of names reached nearly 6,000 entries (which were obtained the hard way, by ordering film and visiting libraries) I went online. I had hoped someone would be able to help me when they saw the material online--and maybe I could help them as well.
March 2002: Access to the Internet and great friends like Malcolm & Dave have allowed me to add thousands of names in just a short time. 
November 2002: There are now 9,669 names. Incredible! I still haven't found information on my ancestor, William Fazakerly. He "disappeared" sometime after 1860 and almost all records were lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.
June 2003: Well, I've now reached 10,027 names--another 358 names since November. I have some ideas about my Ancestor--but how do I prove it? How do I prove that the William of Liverpool & New York is the same man of Chicago & Memphis?
December 2003; With a lot of help from a friend, Stephen Cook--and others--I've managed to get to 10,343 names. I plan to take a break from research for a while, but I'll will continue to respond to e-mail and try to help anyone I can.
February 02, 2004; Another source of wonderful help from Isobel Woods has allowed me to bring the total number of entries up to 10,546. Amazing.
August 27, 2004; Another 607 items added. I have a lot of people to thank for sending me information.
October 12, 2004, total, 11, 209 entries.
December 05, 2005, total, 12, 005 entries. 
Happy Hunting,
Billie

Outline I For The Main Library
The same material can be explored 3 ways.
A. Ancestors: Names 
    1) Alphabetical Order
    2) Year Order
B. Ancestors: Events 
    1) This is in year order 
    2) Not a complete list of the entire database
    3) A few major categories to browse through 
C. Ancestors: Year
    1) Entire database of Our Ancestors
        a. Historical items before 1066 to 1191
        b. Names, Events, & Reports in chronological order 1200 to 2005

Outline II For the Main Library
A. Fazakerley/Fazackerley Connections to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand 
B. Artifacts: Archaic terms, Ancient Mylthrop, Faz house 1749, Diseases & our ancestors, Faz article: "Strawberries & Green Peas"
C. Research: Stephen Cook: Family and Canal Boat People; Booth family of Cheshire:  BOOTH formerly of Grappenhall; Lymm; & Twemlow 
D. Flyleaf Scribbles: Creative Business Names, Nicknames, English Pubs, Faz Poem, American Faz names 
E. Fazakerley Flowers & Colors: Liverpool Delftware

Outline III For the Main Library  
Research Sources
A. Log of Research Sources for Database Entries
Huge listing of film & microfiche numbers, etc. so others can have access to the material. This is in addition to the LINKS page information. Go to the Links page for more sources.
B. Log of Changes and Corrections

If you have any questions about the names in the database or if you would like to add information about your own family, e-mail Bfazakerly@aol.com  

Billie: Webmistress & Transcriptionist

If you do not find your ancestor in Billie's Database, you may wish to check the additional records provided by Malcolm Hulme.

Malcolm's generosity and wealth of information deserved it's own space. There are a lot of very interesting items to read in addition to his files.

Click here to see Malcolm's Files: Malcolm's Reference Section
Visit Malcolm's ancestors at his own web page: (1/17/2003; sadly, this is Off line at the present time. The picture gallery alone was fascinating.)
However you can still e-mail him at: www.Malcolm@Gulberwick.com

 
Malcolm: Our Website's Wizard.
Researcher Extraordinaire!