Welcome to our family tree. Many hours of work have been put into the research and documentation of our ancestors by my father, Dick (Richard Arthur) Phillips, who spent long days sifting through convict records on microfiche at the NSW State Library and writing letters to county research libraries in England. Sandie (Sandra Marie) Pederson, nee Parsons, from Canada, put equal effort into researching the Parsons branch of my husband's family tree, and many other family members have made a valuable contribution. I hope you enjoy your visit to my site, and that you benefit from the information presented here. If you have any additions, corrections or objections, please contact me (see email address below), and I'll attend to them ASAP.

• Thanks also to Debra Buchanan and Philip Martin for allowing me to make use of their research; to Fran Aitkens and Sue Crawford, whose research I stumbled across on the net, and which helped me sort out the Muden branch of my tree, and last but not least to Adrian John Clare and Jeanette Oliver, whose family trees enabled me to connect up some missing links in the Kimbrell branch of my tree.