WELCOME to my site. I'm the Editor-In-Chief, Frannie Johnson
These pages now get a lot of hits from other researchers. Please do not use anything from this
site without firstly reading the information below about citations, etc.
When we first started doing these pages way back in the way-backs we were concerned with finding
our direct ancestry. Luckily for us we found that much of our direct ancestry was in Scotland and
I say lucky because it is wonderfully easy to find Scottish ancestry because of this
excellent website, Scotland’s People.
Scotland’s People let’s you look directly at original certificates. We soon found that we had
ancestral roots to Royalty (Robert the Bruce is, straight down the line my 22g-grandfather). This
fortunate fact also made it quickly easy for us to add hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of
ancestors as there tends to be a lot of genealogical information around about Royalty. Through
this connection my daughter also traced us back to people such as Merlin. At the time this was
all very exciting and interesting and daily we were finding whole new streams of our ancestry and
duly started adding them into this tree which started to grow big quite quickly. We are finding
cousins in all corners of the planet so keep coming back to stay in touch.
BUT
I (not too) soon was reminded about my original goals regarding my ancestral searching.
My immediate family is very fractured due to some recent salient events. My father was in the RAF
which most often meant being away from his siblings and their direct families though we did
manage to stay in touch with the families of one of his brothers. Though he knew his mother and
father he knew extremely little about his father’s family. I am still researching this and have
been up a few blind alleys!.
My mother had a tragic childhood and was raised in an orphanage from an early age. She knew her
parents and her mother died when she was young; likely the result of a domestic murder. I am
still doing further research regarding this and there is a copy of a newspaper article on this
site. Her father vanished completely from view (under a cloud) and I am still regularly scouring
records hoping to find him or any information about him.
So now I have my two most immediate grandfathers lost in blind alleys!!
Being in the RAF meant much travel. One of my primary goals remains to be finding all of my1st
Cousins and this task is indeed not proving to be easy. My parents migrated to Australia as
ten pound poms in June, 1969 and we now have a very colourful, large (and even larger
extended family) which is fairly cohesive and based around Western Australia. Though several
members have spent significant amounts of time living in Queensland and myself I’ve lived in
Sydney (where my daughter was born) (two of my sisters lived in Sydney too for a while) and both
my brothers have spent time living in Victoria and various nieces and nephews have lived away
from WA, currently we are all based in several locations scattered around WA
ANOTHER GOAL remains to be to primarily document the lineage for the benefit of my
grand-children and secondarily for my nephews and nieces that are related to FRANK JOHNSON
and MARY (CHRIS/TIAN) TOMANY.
To this aim I have now made the following decision; that being to document
(as much as is possible) information relating to all their siblings, nieces, nephews, aunties,
uncles, great aunties and great uncles (though not all of their children) and any direct
lineages relating to grandmothers and grandfathers (via their maternal and paternal lines) as and
when I find such information to be available.
REGARDING COLOURFUL AND FAMOUS persons (and I have uncovered several) I will make an
exception to the above rule so that my siblings, their children and my grandchildren are able to
use the ‘Relationship Tool’ that is available on this site to trace their relationship to them.
ANOTHER EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE regards people with the surname of TOMANY. This is a very
unusual surname and it is indeed likely that all the Tomanys around the world are related so I
have started recording any genealogical information relating to any Tomany persons as I come
across then in any records. If ever I am rich and idle enough I will register this as a SURNAME
STUDY. If you have any information relating to anyone with the Tomany surname please do get in
touch.
In putting together this site I have attempted to bring the people alive!! History is more than
merely a collection of facts. A couple of my favourite quotes that can be applied to genealogy
are: "the past keeps changing", and coined by my good friend Paul, "history is not linear – it is
circular".
On these pages (besides genealogical information) there are photos, information pertaining to the
time and place, plus some stories. To view information about living persons a password is
required for viewing. Almost invariably sources have been cited so if you stumble across some
that aren’t please get in touch so it can be remedied. Ditto if you find anything inaccurate
and/or have further information. From this date, 27th January, 2011 the guidelines stated above
apply.
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PLEASE DO NOT USE OR TAKE ANY INFORMATION FROM THIS SITE BEFORE READING THE
FOLLOWING:
Good and sound research involves citing your sources so that other interested people, coming in
behind you can re-trace and verify your sources of information. Citing often ensures also
that you are not in breach of copyrights too. When citing use as much information as you can:
such as folio and page numbers, index titles, and also state from WHERE and WHEN you attained
your information. If you are citing index, folio or page numbers only do so if YOU in particular
sighted them otherwise cite your source (who listed them) only. When using and citing information
that you found on the internet list the internet address AND the date you saw it. Hopefully if
and when other researchers come on in behind you those ages will still be there!
When using information from this site please use the following hyperlinked citation;
"Genealogical information” sourced from (less than sign/glyph followed immediately by)A
HREF="http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/jaahda" target="_blank">Fran Johnson's
Tree, and sourced on INSERT DATE.
Like this "Genealogical information” sourced from Fran Johnson's
Tree, and sourced on INSERT DATE. ……………………… Thanks !!
And please be sure to sign our GUEST BOOK. If you are in the guestbook I can get in touch with
you if and when, in the future I uncover any research that could be of further interest to you.
RE COPYRIGHTS, CITATIONS AND PRIVACY;
I've been reading through 'reams' of internet published essays, articles and papers on the above
issues, and did consider providing links from here. But instead I decided to make a short
statement regarding my views on such matters. Let me preface what I have to say by stating that
Tribal Pages who provide for us these
pages have a current policy of not publishing data regarding any living persons.
Copyright law, in a nutshell, provides that facts and ideas cannot be copyrighted.
There are many sources for obtaining facts, and indeed the facts commonly placed onto pages such
as these are fairly limited anyway and come from the public domain.
These pages will
all be cited, and sources of information will be provided (using fairly standard APA formatting
style) so that future researchers may verify any of our info if they so desire. Please, if you
see any mistakes, or would like to suggest additions or corrections please email me. In fact
these pages here provide space enough for stories to be assigned to each person, so please feel
free to submit interesting info. Of course you will be cited.
Privacy is another 'hoary chestnut'. One of my motivations in starting this site was to
find my living relatives. So far we've found thousands of deceased relatives, but not many
currently alive ones, and though, as we are finding, many of our deceased relatives led
thoroughly fascinating lives, I would still dearly love to find my currently living relatives.
Let me reiterate once again that the data contained on these pages comes from the public domain.
I also read much about 'fair use' of information, which is a term that cannot be clearly legally
defined. As such certain protocols have tended to evolve around this concept. On our pages here
we have accessed many electronic sources of information, and all these are, or will be duly
cited.
This amounts to the editor's current 'fair use policy'. Genealogy is of nature all about facts,
and as much as is possible we will honour the wishes of anyone who furnishes us with information,
which we hold in the highest esteem. It is not my intention to offend anyone on these pages, yet
before berating me I ask you to consider the issues raised in the following web-published
article, presumably written by Paul
Lareau,
April 30, 2006.
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Some Interesting Tales:
Here is a selection of interesting stories from this site. Firstly there is Luke Day whose
Australian ancestry goes right back to the very first settlers and also to a convict past. If you
have the password for viewing alive people you can read about it here.
