Welcome to my website which records and shares the data and stories of my family over the past two Centuries. Starting from their origins in Ireland and England the information tries to track their movements within those counries as well as Australia, the USA and many other places.

My name is Dennis O'Brien and for the past forty years I have been interested in the history of my family, both on the paternal and maternal sides.

In the early stages of my research I kept a lot of information in paper form and even attempted to write my own basic program to capture this information when computers started to appear.  Over the past 20 years I've tried many of the software programs on offer, but always found there was something extra I wanted. One of the hardest requirements to be attained was to allow others to share and update the information.

Around fifteen or so years ago, I uploaded my first web pages, but despite the many computer packages I used, the problem of updating the information became tedious and slow. Also, they still did not allow equal particpation by other family members.

Now, I have changed the way the site works, making it more interactive as well as allowing others to participate in keeping the family story moving. Please feel free to look at the data on this site, which lists all family members I have records of. I am always happy to recieve further details or corrections to the material presented here.

General access to this information is limited, you will need to use the registration log-on if you want further access. Obviously only appropriate persons will be granted further access.

All comments are appreciated and welcomed.

Dennis