User:Whroll



Hello, I'm William Henry Roll, 70 years old, a retired public school teacher, and living in a small isolated town in the southeastern California desert. I have been researching the Roll and related families since before 1995. I have portions of my genealogy on the internet in various locations.

We are the sum of our ancestors. Y-chromosome DNA testing shows that I belong to the "Nordic" Haplogroup I1a (M253), therefore, my earliest ancestors came out of Africa about 70,000 years ago, crossed to the Middle East, moved up through Anatolia, across the Bosporus into the Balkans and across southern Europe. They sojourned for a while in Spain during the Ice Age, and when the thaw came they moved north. I was with them!

I have ancestors in the historic past for the most part from Ireland, Scotland, England, The Netherlands, Germany, and France. My living relatives hail from four of the seven continents.

I was invited to Familypedia by Robin Patterson.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the string that binds them is mine own. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1553-1592)

''Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. –The Buddha'', Kalama Sutra

Society memberships

 * The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
 * New England Historic Genealogical Society

My research appears online
My genealogy is scattered in various places on the internet, too many places. I have been searching since about 1995 for a single, inexpensive, and permanent location that can store the types of information in the format I want. No location has so far been totally acceptable! I need to start consolidating into fewer locations.

Database of record

At Ancestry.com: Online database linked to local Family Tree Maker application -- interactive, but not accessible to the public without invitation; a permanent repository (This is my main research tool and database of record.)

Other databases

At FamilyPedia: Roll family genealogy -- interactive, public, and a permanent repository

At WeRelate.org: Roll family genealogy -- interactive, public, and a permanent repository

At WorldConnect at Rootsweb on Ancestry.com: The Roll Family Windmill database -- viewable by the public and a permanent repository

Family History Stories

At RootsWeb on Ancestry.com: The Roll Family Windmill This was my first effort, started in the mid-1990s -- viewable by the public and a permanent repository

Blog

A Wordpress blog: The Roll Family Windmill research blog -- viewable by the public, but not a permanent repository

Wiki

A MediaWiki: WindmillWiki a wiki about Roll family history -- viewable by public and interactive with an invitation, but not a permanent repository

My collection of spiritual ideas
Maran Atha These are almost all ecumenical or syncretic ideas that others have developed, and I find especially appealing.

My frequent links

 * Special:Recent Changes
 * Familypedia:Sandbox
 * Familypedia:Mailing list -- This is a dead link.
 * Help:Starting pages for people, places, or surnames
 * Help:Starting pages for people, places, or surnames/Guidance
 * Form:Person -- I didn't know about this ar first. It's different from other wikis!