Welcome to the Berkeley-Thomas & Glean family scrapbook

This scrapbook brings together what has been found so far about Sancia’s ancestors: the family tree, documents, photographs and research notes, from colonial New York and England to Barbados, Grenada and Tobago.

It is a working scrapbook, not a finished family history, and there may well be mistakes in it. Where sources obviously disagreed, the entries have been corrected. Anything still in doubt is marked To check. If you know something is wrong, or can fill a gap, sign in and add it — your changes are shared with everyone straight away.

40 discrepancies need attention. See the list

Four generations: Phyllis, Bobby, Ursula and John Thomas standing; Grandma Berkeley seated holding baby Patricia — “Four generations”, about 1928–32: Sarah Ann Berkeley née Miles, her daughter Ursula, granddaughter Phyllis and great-granddaughter Patricia

What's on the site

Family Tree7 charts of Sancia’s direct ancestors, drawn from the family tree on Ancestry.Open Scrapbook15 chapters, one for each person or couple, in order of birth — plus sections on families, places and sources.Open Gallery32 family photographs in date order, from about 1868 to 1960.Open Library and resources58 websites and archives used for the research, what each could still tell us, and the discrepancies to resolve.Open

Finding your way around

Use the tabs along the top to move between the five sections.
In the Family Tree, if a box says “continued on chart N”, that chart picks up from that person.
In the Scrapbook, the contents list on the left jumps to any chapter.
Click any photograph or chart to see it larger. Click again, or press Esc, to close it.

The family tree

The charts are a fixed snapshot of the tree built on Ancestry. You will also be given a copy of that tree as a .ged file (GEDCOM, the standard format for family trees) to upload to Ancestry and build on yourself, and you have been invited to share the original tree there.

Adding to the scrapbook

Sign in, open the Scrapbook, and click Edit on any chapter, or Add a chapter for someone new. Add photos in the Gallery. When you save, every family member sees the change immediately — no more downloading files or merging copies.

Dealing with discrepancies

The discrepancy list in Library and resources shows every place where the records disagree, with the sources in conflict and the latest lead. When you settle one, mark it Resolved and note what you found; the count above goes down.