Recently while visiting her brother my mother in law was told that some one has done a family tree and written a book about her family from her paternal side. We already knew that there was a book about her maternal side...the Foley family tracing them back to the First Fleet.
The book is called John Smith Urquhart...No longer a man of Mystery. I started doing a search for the book but haven't been able to locate any where to buy it from. It wasn't published by a publishing house, it was printed in a Xerox shop. I have rang said shop and got the authors name and I'm pretty sure I have messaged the right person on Facebook so the wait begins.
While searching for the book I ran a search on Ancestry.com just in case they had a Family Tree on there. I found several but not the authors one. But from the ones I seen a couple of people have spent a lot of time and money gathering information as the tree goes back to the early 1600's which makes me quite envious. I actually really appreciate the work some people have put into there tree's as I personally know how much time it takes.
Other than Urquhart I found that my mother in laws family from the Stokes side had a tree that went even further to the 1400's. I wish I was able to track the Khoury's back that far.
