Royden Family History Pages

Charles Royden (1881-1918) Killed in action, near Arras, France, 22nd March 1918 A biography of Charles Royden, Royal Field Artillery New biography and photographs of WWI battlefields and cemetery

The family of Shawn Royden of New York.

The addition of Shawn's family to Alexander's tree was the first to result entirely from the use of the internet. Shawn emailed me after coming across my local history web site to enquire if there was a possibility of us being related. After he gave me details about his immediate family, which included the crucial fact that his grandfather was orginally from Liverpool, the odds began to increase. His grandfather was John Henry Royden who had arrived in New York around 1917/18 as a merchant seaman. He may have been seeking a new life away from war-torn Europe. In fact John was already on my tree and was my great-grandfather's brother. Shawn now had his ancestry back to c1660 in an instant!

In reality however, the research and exchange of emails took much longer. This inspired me to make more of the technology and develop a site that gave instant access to the tree of all who visited. This was first achieved by storing it on Family Tree Makers's own site (it is their programme that is used to store and create the computerised tree). Since then I have developed this site and obtained a programme that will automatically generate user friendly web pages containing the family tree. This is the GEDCOM format tree prepared by the GED4WEB programme

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