The Swallow (Family) Resource Centre - SRC - aims to provide
a central repository of information regarding the family line
originating from Little Hadham Hertfordshire UK.
Through these pages you can access details of over 500 members
of the Swallow family. This branch of the family tree stretched
from Little Hadham, Great Munden and Standon in Hertfordshire
into London's East End and out to Romford, Surrey, Cheshire and
Wales. Direct links also exist from Little Hadham and London
into New York City, Australia and the Caribbean. No doubt others
will be forthcoming.
The SRC is very much a ‘work-in-progress’ and as with any
genealogy programme the collation and verification of
information is ‘on-going’ and it is important to remember this.
The ultimate aim of the SRC is to provide the definitive
reference work with respect to the Hertfordshire and East End
Swallow Family.
Work on this resource, by the very nature of family history, will never cease. This type of enquiry will carry on but we now ask you to begin to feed in qualified information about deaths in the family and where these individuals are buried. Just a reminder, a female Swallow has to be differentiated between a lady marrying in to the Swallow family and one born directly into it. This is especially true for burial records. Lots of subsequent problems if we get this element wrong!
A number of family history organisations are collecting event certificates.
For instance the Founders (pictured sartorially to the right!) have, over the years, spent a fair bit of money buying
in certificates which we use once and they then remain as a paper record for ever after.
Little else is done with them.
One of the repositories in the Resource will be
certificate images that will become available on demand, in due course.
A fair number of contributors have already donated their certificates
and we are ready to receive and store yours too.
An index will be created so that searches will be possible.
If your research is relevant to the SRC we hope that you will contact us as the more researchers we have in the group the better is the quality of the data held and which is then circulated between us. We would welcome contact from you if you do not agree with the data we currently hold about a given individual. Being told we have got it wrong is as useful to us as being told that we have got it right. Of course the data might have come from another researcher and we will know who that is and can suggest a review. The main point being not how sensitive our egos are but can you improve the accuracy of our data. Bear in mind that having a name other than Swallow does not bar you from entry. You may have vital bits of our puzzles and we may hold keys to your brick walls. We have already indexed the names marrying in to the Swallow family, and the results are on this website already! Click on the Contact SRC link in the header above to send us an email.
The SRC is expanding. Much of the structure is already in place but there are a few gaps as the information is transferred and published. For a quick start guide to using the SRC please go to the Quick Start Guide.
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The Swallow family have certainly spread across the globe and there are records to show that individuals from Little Hadham and East London have relocated to Australia, America and even the Caribbean – not always of their own accord! Click on the Swallow Migration link to find out more.
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There are ‘other’ surnames that have had their impact on the Swallow family by fate of marriage. Daughters loose their Swallow name to take on a new one, whilst other daughters inherit the name by marriage too.
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This website
currently deals primarily with those Swallow's who can trace
their roots to Herts. There are other centres of Swallow
generations in the UK. These may or may not be
linked by DNA. See Other Swallow Branches
link
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This website last updated on 29 October 2012.
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The SRC is still in development. On completion and general release changes and additions will be noted. As content is added or revised details will appear here. A chronological history of updates will also be available. Until then development will proceed without notification.
The SRC is a joint project run in spare time by John Swallow (s0020) and Bruce Smith (s3198).
To find out more about the founders click on the photo above.
Do you have anecdotes, stories or letter of people and places that you can share? We would love to see them and help expand these History pages. If you do please click on the Contact SRC link above and drop us an email.
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