I, Rae Frampton the web master of this site began to research my family history in 1972. It  was not until I retired  from teaching and when my mother Isabella Denton, nee White, gave me  letters from her Grandmother Isabella White, nee Mullan, which had been written by her brother  William Mullan in 1872-1873 and sent to her while serving in the British Army in India that I  seriously began researching. These letters were the last contact Isabella ever had with her  brother and her Father, also named William Mullan. My Great Great Grandmother Isabella had  immigrated to Auckland. My mother wanted me to discover what had become of her Great Uncle. I  was interested to learn about where my family came from and how and why they came to New  Zealand. It has been a fascinating journey with many tantalizing questions still to be  answered.
 All of the information gathered had to be written up by hand and cataloged into folders. (I  still like to add my printed copies to these folders.) I joined the NZ Society of Genealogists  Inc. and attended meetings in Palmerston North and Auckland Central, gained information from  family members, Latter Day Saints libraries, public libraries, the NZ Archives in Auckland and  Wellington. At Cambridge, NZ, where the Dentons first settled, I was fortunate to be able to  peruse the birth, death and marriage records, free of charge in 1983, and to see the signature  or X mark on the records kept at the Post Office. I visited cities, towns and villages in New  Zealand, Australia, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Norway where my ancestors had lived  taking great photos as I went. Alan, my husband was a patient companion over the years as we  either flew or drove to new places.
 I now have my own website, thanks to Tribal Pages and can do much research in my study at home  with the help of ancestry.com.au and many other great websites.  I am grateful to have had help with my research and give special thanks to the following: My parents and sisters, extended family, especially cousins Anne Addy (nee Barrow) Timothy Long  and Joan Marks (nee White). Special thanks to distant cousins John Talbot and Angela Thomas who  were researching the Denton families when I met them through the internet. John had been to  original sources for information which he willingly shared and he knew the Berkshire region  well. Alan and I visited him and his wife Jean at their London home. Angela also had much  information which she was willing to share. She lives in Didcot which is only three miles from  Harwell, Berkshire where my Grandfather, Charles Richard Denton was born. We visited her and  she drove us to see the villages where our families had lived and met other relations. I am  also grateful to Dr. Stuart C. Blank, Military Researcher who did extensive research for me in  the War Records Archives in London. He sent me copies of William Senior Mullan and William  Junior Mullan's Muster Rolls. This information answered many of my questions but not completely  satisfied queries about what happened to my Great Grandmother's brother William Mullan after he  was discharged from the army.
 Genealogy research is never ending.