About kingston-bagpuize.com
Why this website? What's it about?
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor - a Village Snapshot - http://www.kingston-bagpuize.comis a result of my two favourite hobbies - creating websites and family history and local history research, both of which I share with my husband.
This site explores, through genealogical and other data, some historical aspects of this area and its people. It is an ongoing task with no time limit or cut off date.
The purpose of this site is twofold
- To give an insight of our village for visitors to Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and area.
- To help promote and preserve the history of the village and area, in conjunction with the Longworth & District History Society.
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Putting something back - Paying it forward
From Family Historians worldwide, I have gained such a great deal of knowledge and outstanding help, which has been given freely or inexpensively and I have been conscious of the need to repay this - putting something back - paying it forward into family and local history. Pay it forward or paying it forward refers to repaying the good deeds one has received by doing things for other unrelated people. This website allows me to pay back/ pay it forward and hopefully will help and encourage others.
Sharing genealogical information is something that I have always been ready to do and I have long wanted to design a website about one of my ancestors villages or home towns. Inevitably I found that living far from these regions it became more difficult to source information and keep up-to-date. I have also always been willing to share my information on computers and web design.
I designed my first website as all I really wanted to do was to broadcast our research interests in the hope that others would be able to share and link. I then became hooked on web design and had a new hobby!
Still uncertain where my true interests lay, I decided to write about the subject I knew most about, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and its inhabitants, past and present. The village has been our family home for over 40 years. I am involved in the local and family history societies and with my husband had done much research in this area. We had transcribed the local Parish Registers and had also transcribed several local graveyards for the Oxfordshire Family History Society.
Here was the opportunity that I needed. I had a theme and this website was created. I hope you enjoy the website and will return soon to read updates to the site.
Please consider writing a short story of your memories to add to this site. I shall ensure that this also goes into the archives of the Longworth & District History Society if that is your wish.
Please feel free to browse the site to discover more about our village. If you are seeking information on a particular locality or subject, why not use the site search facility or leave a message on the official village website Community Forum?