Last updated 21 April 2008
This web site is established to record family links boundaried by connection with the Web Master so be prepared not to find the family you seek. Having said that there is a reasonable chance you will be lucky so from the Home Page choose Check for other families. Alternatively if you are following the HASPEY family an index of all Haspeys born in England & Wales is maintained on this site. You can also check out the Holdings Page and the Dicksons Page If you are looking for someone who may have lived, or have been born in the village of Kelsall in Cheshire, England then you can check out the Kelsall census data for the period 1841 -1891.
The web site contains only minimal identification information relating to persons or families identified. Many of the persons are alive and well so their privacy must be respected.
If you discover a name that you believe will provide a connection with your own research, please send an e-mail to donATthe-dicksons.org (replace AT with @) identifying the person for whom information is requested and we will do our best to assist. However in some instances only the name of a person may be known if no other information is currently available. Allow 28 days for a response.
To update the information in this site it is necessary to advise the Web Master. Send an e-mail to donATthe-dicksons.org (replace AT with @) providing the information that will update the site. You may attach a GEDCOM file. If you have lengthy information it is recommended that you attach a text file using any Windows 95 or Windows 3.x generic text editor.
The Family Record Centre in London maintains the indexes for England & Wales of all civil registers of recorded births, marriages and deaths from 1st July1837 to two years before today. The indexes are large books of names, kept on shelves in the Record Centre, and available for public inspection. To create the index on this site, every book was searched and recorded detail of all Haspeys' extracted to create the one-name listing on this site. However keep in mind that in the early years of registration many people did not register occurrences so that many of the early registrations are missing. This practice continued until the mid 1870s.
Another point which must be kept in mind is that in the 19th century many people could not read or write, names were written by others in the indexes based upon phonetic spelling of what was "heard". So names were registered as HASPY and sometimes as HASBY or even HUSPEY. From known genealogical data, some HASP'S and HASBY's have been included in this list. The LDS index (IGI) also shows a link to HUSPEY, but I have never been able to positively verify the connection.
Despite best efforts it is possible that an entry could have been missed, for example according to Mark D Herber in his work Ancestral Trails, in the first full year of registration (1838), there were 958, 630 entries in the index. Fortunately all the surnames are indexed alphabetically so all entries did not have to be searched, only those for known variants.
Some Haspeys have also been traced to the USA as part of the 18th & 19th century migration from England to the New World.
The registers for Scotland & Ireland have not yet been searched for Haspey so are not represented on this site.
Yes, there are "descendent trees" and you can find
these by visiting "The Dicksons" page and then
searching the other families. The trees are in PowerPoint PPT or Adobe pdf file format,
and by name search you can use the search engine that provides a search of this site. 
It is also planned to place one in in the Brøderbund Family Tree Maker web site in due course. The URL is http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/i/c/Donald-G-Dickson
Check the "What's New" page to see when it is uploaded.
The-Dicksons web site has two parts, the family genealogy pages and the academic pages. Updates are carried out at approximately monthly intervals according to how the research is going! The best way to judge what new things have been added to the site is to check the "What's New" page on each site.
In a word yes ... however material on this site is copyright and you can use it for personal research provided that the source is acknowledged and referenced. The use of this material for commercial purposes is not permitted without the express permission of Don Dickson.
A suitable acknowledgement format would be "Dickson D, www.the-dicksons.org, [month] 1999.
The pages in this web contain a vast amount of information, not only "family name" data, but other types of information that relates to the era of the people. There is no "index" of this type of information as it is scattered throughout the web, however, an example can be seen be following this hyperlink for St. Nicholas Church in Liverpool. There is also a great series about the Leinster Regiment, an Infantry Regiment of the British Army that was disbanded in 1922
Are there links to other sites that could help me?
You bet there are! These range from special hyperlinks to Microsoft and Adobe so that you can obtain special reader files to view some of the data that you can download from this web, such as PowerPoint reader and Adobe Acrobat, these are set up on the commercial links page; and there are also many links to other web sites that can help you in pursuing genealogy or social and community history. To see what is available click here
Of all the e-mails that I receive, this is without doubt the most re-occurring theme, and to be fair the subject is quite complex. If you plan to research the information personally then the starting point to consider is that the majority of non-regimental records are kept in England at the Public Record Office in Kew, London. If you think that access to Kew is possible for you, then you could read this useful article.