OUR HALL OF FRIENDSHIP

Very Special Family Friend award

In this category we are honoured and delighted to recognise friends who have travelled with us on our journey; giving unstinting help and support whenever it has been needed, offering impartial advice and bolstering our sense of purpose and direction. You are the oil which keeps our engine running.

Wayne Simmons Simmons and Related Families Histories - Mentor, Ohio, USA

Citation: I am always delighted to meet a fellow user of the TNG site building program. It is doubly pleasurable and exciting to discover a kindred spirit keen to explore and push the boundaries of the medium we have chosen to demonstrate and share our chosen interest with the wider world. This token is a gesture of thanks for your cooperation, sharing and test-bedding of ideas, code fragments and validation issues. It has helped to keep my own site developments on course over the last few months - January 2012

Stewart Souter (Carbonize) The Lazarus Guestbook - England

Citation: I would like to present this small token in recognition of your excellent program and its onging development which has become such an integral and necessary part of our site. It is also a mark of gratitude for your help in customising the Guestbook to suit our own page requirements and for the speedy aid in reconfiguring the code to conform with new requirements dictated by our service hosts. - January 2012

Special Family Friend award

In this category we are honoured and delighted to recognise friends who have, in a significant, unexpected and notable way, promoted or furthered the aims and achievements of our site. Without you our mission would have been so much the poorer.

Bryan Holden Roseworld Productions Ltd, Solihull, West Midlands, England.

Citation: I would like to present this small token for your help in the preparation earlier this year of our article about the Cox Family who emigrated from Northamptonshire to Australia. I much enjoyed your book on the Lost Village of Faxton, information from which was essential to our understanding and completion of the piece. Many thanks - January 2012

Janice Morris England

Citation: I would like to present this small token for your help in the preparation earlier this year of our article about the Cox Family who emigrated from Northamptonshire to Australia. The information you provided (and Bryan Holden's book on the Lost Village of Faxton) proved to be essential to our understanding and completion of the piece. Many thanks - January 2012

BIRTHDAY HONOURS APRIL 2011

Roger Mitchell The Mitchell Family Online - Newbury, England

Citation: It is always a pleasure to meet-and-greet a fellow user of the TNG software. The pleasure is doubled when potential genealogical interests are uncovered. This token is a gesture of thanks for your cooperation, sharing and test-bedding of ideas, code fragments and validation issues. It has helped to keep my own focus over these last few months and a fully validated site is no longer just a dream. - April 2011

Paul Appleby Melton Mowbray Baptist Church, Leicestershire, England.

- April 2011

Judy Powles Spurgeon's College, London, England

- April 2011

Rupert Tipples Lincoln, New Zealand

- April 2011

NEW YEAR HONOURS JANUARY 2011

Emerson Kent World History for the Relaxed Historian - White Sands, New Mexico, USA

Citation: This award is token of thanks for your help and guidance in negotiating the history of battles which occurred during two World Wars. This has facilitated a greater understanding of the tribulations and hardships that some of our forebears endured, illuminating our narrative articles about them and providing a lasting testimony to their memory. Our thanks too for the other resources which your excellent site provides. - January 2011

Brett Payne Photo-Sleuth, Tauranga, New Zealand

Citation: Please accept this token as a small measure of thanks for your invaluable help with the analysis of the images in an old album during our research into my maternal family history. Your knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian photographers and the tools of their trade is exceptional. The methods of identifying and dating old photographs are intriguing and reading your web site and blog is always fascinating. - January 2011

Jodi Sweere A Book of Generations - USA

Citation: I would like to make this presentation to say thank you for your advice and encouragement through the forum and lists over the years. It was your encouragement and help in the early days of the magazine which led me to appreciate the need for proper coding and to seek the rigours of full validation through W3C. Without that foundation our development would not have been assured and we would not have received the recognition and plaudits of the last two years. - January 2011

Vance Elderkin The Internet Beacon, North Carolina, USA.

- January 2011

Bill Harding Baron Street, London, England

- January 2011

John Symons, Gill May Hillingdon Family History Society. Uxbridge, England

- January 2011

BIRTHDAY HONOURS APRIL 2010

Alan J Clarke Northants-Familytree.net - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: I would like to make this presentation to you in recognition of your encyclopaedic collection of reference material regarding the country of Northamptonshire, its history and inhabitants and beyond. It is also an expression of our thanks for your willingness to reach into the smallest recesses of local genealogical knowledge; a capacity which has helped us break down more than one family history stone wall in our years of association. - April 2010

Brian McFadyen Software Development for TNG Genealogy Software - Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Citation: That Darrin Lythgoe's TNG software is pre-eminent in its class is self-evident to genealogy web builders and browsers alike. However no package is ever static or complete. I would like to make this presentation to you as an expression of our thanks for your unstinting work in developing solutions and customisations for the TNG community and your willingness to guide us end users in their implementation. The advent of the Mod Manager makes both new installation and upgrade simple and quick. - April 2010

Keith Bellamy Pictorial Walks in Northamptonshire, England

- April 2010

Lionel A. Bouchon and Didier Grau Prospective Award Program. Marseille, France

- April 2010

Mitch Gariador The Gariador / Satterfield Family Genealogy, Chino, California, USA

- April 2010

Jenny Maass The Moon Awards Program. Linz, Austria

- April 2010

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NEW YEAR HONOURS 2010

Barbara Boyle The University of Dundee Alumni On-line Community - Dundee, Scotland

Citation: This token is to say an unreserved thank you for the your support and encouragement in the setting up of our TARTAN pages section. The archive material, practical help and links to the University have been instrumental in fostering the aims of '69 Club Yearbook and the Alumni who belong to it. - December 2009

Elisabeth Jordan Gretton Local History Society - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: We would like to present you with this token to thank you for the help you have given us in our explorations of Gretton and its environs (the birthplace of the Craxford dynasty) both in cyberspace and on the ground. You have always been available to research a query on local knowledge or history no matter how trivial or obscure it may have seemed. - December 2009

Darrin Lythgoe TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding - Sandy, Utah, USA

Citation: I would like to make this presentation of one of our first batch of awards to say an unreserved thank you for your tremendous program and your unwavering and selfless help, advice and encouragement that you give to users, experts and tyros alike. I have perhaps taken my implementation of TNG in unexpected directions but the fact that my dabblings have been tolerated is a remarkable testimony to a remarkable product. - December 2009

Ken Roy Our Acadian, French Canadian and Maine Ancestors USA

Citation: I am taking this opportunity to say an unreserved thank you firstly for letting me try out and run riot with your template switching mechanism and secondly for all the help, advice and moral support when things have seemingly gone wrong. The switching has extended TNG into the magazine I always hoped for and a package which brings frequent praise and admiration. - December 2009

Rhonda Serong O.N.Z.C.D.A. - New Zealand

Citation: I would like to make a point of recognition of the unstinting and impartial advice and help that you have given me over these last several months. Likewise I have come to look on you as a friend. It has been a long road in developing the web site taking Darrin Lythgoe's original amazing genealogy engine and developing and molding it in directions unexpected. Then there was the project to convert my naive initial dabblings in markup to xhtml (my first pass on page 1 through the w3c validation process reported 364 errors of one sort or another!) You have been a rock to firm and maintain my resolve in this latest venture. - December 2009

Jane Smith Cottingham History - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: We would like to take this opportunity to say an unreserved thank you for all your help in our explorations of Cottingham and its environs (our branch's site of origin) and in particular the background to St Mary Magdalene Church and to the tragic tale of Thomas Claypole. Without that help the site would be less complete. - December 2009

Franz Boigner Phönix Award Program. Vienna, Austria

- December 2009

Friedrich Hornischer Timelines Awards. Germany

- December 2009

Ric at Vintage Kin Vintage Kin Genealogical Design Studio. Australia

- December 2009

Daniel L Wheeler The Dove Award Team. Tridelphia, West Virginia, USA

- December 2009