Welcome to the Fallon/Richards Family Tree. I have been interested in my family history for as long as I can remember; collecting information from various family members for years and even traveling with my husband to Ireland and Scotland in search of information about our roots. Translation: tromping around in graveyards, looking though old church records and going back country "lanes" in search of "castles". Following the recent passing of the family historian, Nadene Richards, on the Richards side of my family and having promised to share the information that I had collected about the Fullerton branch with my cousin, Jane Fullerton, I decided to get serious about putting together a family tree.
On this site you will find many Richards and Fallons, but also Fullertons, Jameses, Archers, Kramers, Schmuttes, Enochs, Whitesides, Stewarts, and many, many more family names. There are a few Knights and at least one Lady, carpenters, preachers, farmers and pioneers. The longest branch, stretching back to the 1200s, is the Fullerton's and the widest (so far) is also the Fullerton's'with 14 children in one family. Our roots are mostly in Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania in the USA and in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France, and Alsace Loraine in Europe.
Please feel free to help me expand this family tree. If you have received an "invitation" to be a member you are able to add information and pictures to your branch of the tree. I am counting on my aunts and uncles and cousins to help fill out the branches with names and pictures of their families. If you have older information that you can't add send me a message and I will add it. I want to recognize Elizabeth (Richards) Wylie and Margaret (Fullerton)Callahan for all the research they did on the families' histories that was passed on to me. Much of the hard work was already done for me, and it was done without the benefit of the Internet. Just a warning, this can become addictive. In the first three days of working on this, Jim and I have added over 500 names. I hope everyone enjoys viewing this website and I look forward to seeing more "leaves" on our tree.
It was recently brought to my attention that there are no instructions on how to edit the tree, so here they are.
DIRECTIONS FOR EDITING YOUR "BRANCH" OF THE FAMILY TREE: When you sign in there should be a heading at the top of the page that says "view". Hover over "view" and click on "tree". Your part of the family tree should come up and there should be a circle with a cross in it at the left upper corner of your name box. Click on the circle and the information that you can edit will pop up. Feel free to add any names or dates that I have left out or have wrong.