Showing posts with label Convict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Convict. Show all posts

Friday 3 March 2023

Scaysbrook in Epub

 I have been playing with the idea of an Epub book, or electronic book, and thought that the Scaysbrook web site and all that's in it, might be a suitable trial. So I have started to copy off of the site into an Apple Pages document ready to export to an Epub document.

The benefits are that I can read the book on my iPhone without having to link to a web page, great for travelling.

Also I want to start adding new items, on the very early days of out name, the Sacrsbrtooks, Sacrisbroooks and Sacribricks. Plus the link to the USA is well worth a bit of research, I already have links conformed to my mother.

Next comes the tree itself, Its huge and I want to make it easier to read, so I am experimenting with splitting it into continents, the European, Australasia and finally the USA.

So the Epub book will be free, and available to download via the Website and from the Scaysbrook site on Facebook.


Tuesday 17 May 2022

A new contact for the Michael Line

It's strange, I get no links for the Scaysbrook Tree, then out of the blue, I get contact via email, from someone who thinks they are related to Michael Scaysbrook the Australian Convict.

Now, this often happens, and there is no link, but in this case, there is a link and a strong one at that. So now comes the hard bit of piecing all the information together and pulling it into Ancestry.co.uk.

As of yet, I have not found a better platform than Ancestry.co.uk, it works and I can get most of the uk information I want, but they charge for overseas. I want to start looking into the USA, I know there is a link to a number who went not long after the Mayflower. This following paragraph is from the website Scaysbrook.com

"The name Scasbrook as Scaysbrook was originally written, has surfaced time and time again, during the War of independence. a John Scasbrook a colonel in the Loyal army to King George, was promant in Virginia, Warwick County area, where he came from is open to speculation but his family went on to secure the line in the new USA. A good site outlining a lot of the family from the Wills family tree can be seen on the Will web site. Another variant, a William Scarsbrook was listed on the passenger list of the ship Paul which sales for St Christopher in 1635 the ships list can be seen at USA"

So the chase is on.



Saturday 30 April 2022

www.scaysbrook.com


 I have since about 2000, tried to record my Scaysbrook Genealogy on a series of websites, this latest version is hosted, not in the usual way of html code on the scaysbrook.com web site but in Google sites. It means no matter what happens to the site I will not loose the data I have so carefully put together, from so many different sources. The google system also means I can update the site so easily 

I also now store a lot of my research on the Zotero Bibliography program, it lists books, and website, plus academic papers I used. Fortunately so much Genealogy is stored online, but this also gives a problem is that some sites I used 10 or moreyears ago no longer exist, I wish I have made a copy. 

I still have a large blue binder bull of notes and scribbles I have made in the 25 year long on and off passion. Started I might add with a link I made to Craig Scaysbrook via the very early days of the internet, and a visit Vera Kwong, nee Scaysbrook made to Craig on a visit to Canada. I wrote to Vera and she sent all here records via post from Australia. I still have them and often refer back to her notes.

So the www.scaysbrook.com is up and live reached by this link and living on sites.google.com. Please visit and if you're a Scaysbrook, or any derivative of our spelling, please make contact.

Todays photo is my mom as we had lunch together in Birmingham.