I am your volunteer webmaster and welcome to my personal page on The Filby Association website.

My personal connection to the association is relatively recent and I am only now beginning to research my own family history. My grandfather (Wilfred Harold Filby - born 03/02/1910) was in contact with the association prior to his death in 1980 and he was always incredibly proud of the family name - I can only hope to contribute in some small way to assisting in the further development of the association.

I have a full time occupation (http://www.securityfoiling.co.uk), a family life and many hobbies including motorcycling, real ale and an allotment.

I was born in Ipswich (UK) and still live in the county of Suffolk close to my extended family. The neighbouring county of Norfolk is of course where much of the Filby history begins. For those of you that have never been to Norfolk or Suffolk I have attached some links below. It is a very beautiful area of the UK and has some unique landscapes and history.

http://www.eastanglia24.co.uk/suffolk/a-z/ipswich.html

http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/

http://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/norfolk/default.aspx

You may also be interested in knowing more about the Suffolk dialect and humour - Several books and audio CD's are available including three books by a Mr Charlie Haylock - http://www.charliehaylock.com/

About the website

The current site has been carefully developed by our Manager - Jim Filby winning a 'commended' award from the Federation of Family History Society (FFHS) in 2009. I have had a lot to live up too!

I am pleased to report that in March 2012 we have again won a Commendation and third place in the One Name Society category. This is our third award and follows the 2010 Commendation by the Federation of Family History Society. With support from the Executive and members I am sure we can improve the site further.

In April 2012 we have also been awarded a Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS) Excellence award for the website.

As the webmaster I only publish material that has been approved by our Manager for publishing and so all new material, suggestions, comments and ideas for development should be submitted to Jim in the first instance. I am very keen to keep the site 'fresh' and so all ideas and new material will be very gratefully received.

One of the Associations key objectives is to only publish personal information with the express permission of those people mentioned. The website will only show your personal information if you give your express permission. If any material refers to other people then the association will also want the express permission of those mentioned before publishing.

If you have any objection to any information published on this website please contact our Manager following the e-mail link at the foot of each page and Jim will ask me to remove or amend the information promptly. We all appreciate the need to protect personal data and the sensitive nature of information recorded in family histories make this especially important. We will endeavour to make every effort to ensure your information is only published where you give your permission and only for as long as you want it published.

Above all though, please enjoy the site and join The Filby Association, only with your input can we hope to assist those building their family trees, tracing family members/old friends etc. and perhaps even making many new friends!

Future Developments:

A new website with e-commerce, donations and members log-in - all under development January 2011

Recent Changes:

23/02/10 - removed page counters on all but Home page, added new Photo Gallery, minor format changes

25/02/10 - increased photo size and reformatted photo gallery, added Facebook link on Website Links page

27/02/10 - news banner added to Home page

21/03/10 - added mandatory fields to the contact form

23/03/10 - move site to new domain, filby.org, amend contact links with new e-mail addresses

26/03/10 - new contacts form added and links amended

27/03/10 - redirect page added to www.filby.org.uk

10/04/10 - amended YY to YYYY and added clarification for un-required fields to contact form

10/07/10 - amended the home page news banner.

02/08/10 - Executive Officers page updated

06/09/10 - Updated the Webmaster page

27/09/10 - Executive Officers page updated, Royal link references removed

14/10/10 - Royal connection document updated and link added in Early History page

15/10/10 - Added more information about Filby Church

17/10/10 - Added some of the donations made to Filby Church on the Filby Church page, added some Executive officer Photographs.

18/10/10 - Further photographs of Officers added and the 2010 Commendation added to our top banner

20/10/10 - Further photographs of Officers added

21/10/10 - John Filby's photograph added to Assoc. Officers

10/11/10 - Added connection to the Forum in top left of Banner, reduced cell spacing for left hand navigation bar

18/12/10 - Association officers page updated

24/01/11 - Added Jim's private webpage URL and amended home banner, updated webmaster homepage, updated forum log in password

15/02/11 - Association officers page updated

28/03/11 - Association officers page updated

03/07/11 - Tree Manager page added

04/07/11 - Reverted left nav bar to text links, updated Assoc. Officers page, updated home page banner

05/07/11 - Updated home page and gallery

09/07/11 - USA page added

10/07/11 - European page added

13/07/11 - Merchandise page and forum link added

16/07/11 - Updated links page and home page

27/07/11 - Updated Merchandise page

06/08/11 - Fun Stuff page added

20/08/11 - Tree Manager page update, Australia Page added

25/08/11 - Paypal added to merchandise page, donation button on home page

26/08/11 - Membership page added, home page reformatted

27/08/11 - new text on membership page

19/09/11 - Tree manager updated

04/11/11 - USA and Australia pages updated

06/11/11 - USA page updated, UK page added, Chronicle pages added

27/11/11 - USA page updated with thanksgiving article from Jessica

07/12/11 - Europe page updated

16/01/12 - Tree manager page updated

23/01/12 - Fun staff page updated

02/03/12 - Forum and links removed

24/3/12 - 2011 FFHS award added

26/3/12 - Australia page updated

14/4/12 - GOONS awards added to home page and webmaster page