Welcome to my genealogy pages
This project has been ongoing since 2004. Thus far, over 1,300 documented individuals have been included on my extended family tree, and more ancestors will be added as I find them. If you have a familial link to the people listed here and can now add another leaf or branch to your tree or mine, I'd be glad to hear from you.
Special thanks to:
- John Knott, whose writings on the subject of slide rules and their inventors introduced me to my long forgotten great-great grandfather, Joshua Routledge. John Knott's article about Joshua Routledge (Oughtred Society Vol. 4, No 2, October 1995) sparked my resolve to rescue from obscurity as many of my ancestors as I could. I was fortunate enough to meet Mr Knott in Bolton England just months before he died in 2005.
- Jason Wryghte, fellow family historian, who contributed his own earlier research for the Routledge and Drage families.
- Sandra Balch (nee Wryghte), Susan Kirby (nee Wryghte), and Joan Syrett (nee Routledge) for their time and patience in digging up and copying numerous old family photos, letters, and documents.
- Bruno Nussbaumer who helped me research my Schmid and Eigenmann ancestors in Switzerland.
- Werner Eigenmann for uncovering and publishing the history of the Eigenmann families of Waldkirch dating to 15th century St Gallen Switzerland.
Updated: April 2012
