Welcome to the family history website of Richard and Elaine Hollands. Please check the navigation hints below first.
If you login - see below - then it will set a cookie in your browser containing your login name and the fact that you are an authorised user. It will also be used to store the 'Relation' if you use that function. Also see below. If you don't like cookies you'd best not login.
If you haven't logged on then anyone born after a certain date (1910 at the moment) will have their name converted to "Protected person" and their birthdate given as "1910+". If you feel you may be related to us and would like a logon you can contact the webmaster at webmaster (at) hollandses dot org dot uk and explain. We are always pleased to hear from new relations.
If you already have a logon go here.
There is a menu link at the top left of every screen. Clicking it will bring up a the navigation menu. Click × to get rid of it if it doesn't disappear by itself.
Whenever the name of an individual appears it is a clickable link to the information we have on that person. This information includes parents, children, marriages, photographs and documents. The documents are transcribed and, where available, an image is also shown
On the information page for each individual a number may appear in parentheses after a date. This is the age of the main named person at that event - marriage, death, etc. If a full date isn't available then the age will be an estimate.
Dates, where they are available, are given in three formats:
Use the ancestors/descendants links at the top of the page to move quickly around the whole tree. The (F) after 'ancestors' is an alternative ancestor list that shows female ancestors first rather than male.
When showing the basic information of an individual, click 'Set relation' in the menu to make them the current relation of interest. If you then click 'descendants' and choose a descendant of that person, finally clicking 'pedigree chart' will show a chart of all marriages connecting that person to the chosen ancestor.
You can also choose the descendant as the relation of interest; 'pedigree chart' will show you the same chart. You can also go to the page of someone who is not a descendant or ancestor of the relation of interest and 'pedigree chart' will show you how they are connected so long as our database has a common ancester for the two individuals.
In addition, at the top of the chart, the system tells you the relationship between the two people chosen. There doesn't seem to be universal agreement on how to label cousins. The way I've chosen takes the maximum of the number of generations from each person to their common ancestor for the n'th cousin and the difference between the number of generations as the number of times 'removed'. It was the easiest to code
It's a lot easier to do than to describe.
Similarly, if a place is a clickable link clicking it will show you a map of the immediate area. In cases where the place name is, for example, Canada, no great significance should be attached to the particular place marked
In addition, many pages have a 'Map' link near the top. Clicking this link will open another window with all the locations mentioned on that page marked on a map. A legend below the map identifies the points marked. If there are very many points on the map, there may be more than one map shown.
A list of all places and the events that occurred at each.