This not-for-profit site was started in 2002 to publish the results of family history research of the original author, Craig A. Shelley. We’re expanding it to stimulate the exchange of research on people, places, and historical topics. We don’t want this site to be a data repository; its emphasis will be illustrating life experiences.

Our family history interests are broad and we would like to include your interests too. Perhaps you are interested in James Bowyer Shelley or his children and grandchildren that traveled from Claverley, Shropshire, England in 1851. His experiences traveling by sail from Liverpool through New Orleans, by steamship to Kanesville, Iowa, and by wagon train to Salt Lake City, Utah was typical of many early Mormon pioneers. His life was colored from small experiences to the death of his wife, Elizabeth Bray Shelley, during the journey. Maybe the original research on life of agricultural laborers in England in the 19th century will help you understand your ancestor better. John Jacklin, an agricultural laborer, who lived in Whaddon, Cambridgeshire, England also presided over a Mormon congregation for decades, an unlikely combination. Maybe your ancestors were peasants working at a manor during the middle ages, as were ours. Perhaps they lived in a Dutch farming community as our ancestors, Jantje Karsies and Kornelius Ryskamp did, in Middlestum, Groningen, Netherlands.

It’s not just my ancestry. It’s your ancestry. Thanks for joining us. If you would like to expand this site with your research, we’ll be glad to include it.

To contact me, send an email to craig_shelley@yahoo.com, call 970-250-7490, or write to Craig Shelley, 4022 W Shoreline Dr, Highland, UT 84003.