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Duncan & Mandy Ball Welcome

Photographs of churches and places: Main Index   - list of churches and places we have photographed. Name Search   - search through the 39,780 names (7,173 surnames) recorded from our photographs and text FAQs   - frequently asked questions about this website Links   - genealogy related websites War Memorials   - list of War Memorials at this website Wiltshire Collections   - Book by John Aubrey and John Jackson

Our Family Research & other stuff: Introduction   - to our family website. Surnames   - search through alphabetical list of our family tree. Annual Newsletters   - see what we've been up to since 1990 Lea Family History   - as collected by Donald E. Lea Us   - those of you who are nosey, a bit about us Rabbits   - our cute and cuddly pet bunnies

We began taking photographs of Wiltshire churches in 1998 when we started researching our own family history.   As our collection of photographs grew we started a website so other people could also see these beautiful buildings and, perhaps for the first time, experience where their own ancestors had been baptized, married or buried.   An encounter with Johns Aubrey and Jackson's 'Wiltshire Collections' book further encouraged us to photograph these buildings, including memorials and gravestones, to preserve their detail for future generations before time and weather erodes them further.

Our church website now has over 2,300 pages, containing over twenty eight thousand photographs of 185 mostly Wiltshire churches.   We have recorded every name that appears on every photograph and you can view the alphabetical indexes which will guide you to the relevant page.

Our own family history website has a searchable names list of everyone in our database; each person has a page to themselves, and some people have a further page containing photographs.   There are now well over 5,000 pages in this section of our website.

If you notice a link doesn't work, or we have some other error, please tell us or we won't know to put it right.   Each page has the same lay out, with links to other pages being at the foot, which should become familiar to you as you navigate the site.

Thank you to all those people who have contacted us over the last fews years encouraging us and helping with programing problems.   Knowing how useful the site has been to fellow researchers is a great inspiration to us.   What a great hobby we have!