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January 2024 

The new Maybury family website mayburyfamily.com is launched. This website preserves, consolidates and updates the late Don Collins’ Maybury family website (<homepages.rootsweb.com/~mabry/>) previously hosted by RootsWeb. RootsWeb hosted websites for free for many years but its owner, ancestry.com, announced that it was archiving such sites in early 2024. This meant that Don Collins’ Maybury family website, that already had not been updated since 2018, could never be updated. There is plenty yet to be done on mayburyfamily.com and problems to be ironed out, but hopefully this transition will be completed in early 2024.

February 2024

Small issues in the website continue to be resolved. A new article has been added detailing the Maybury family with roots in the West Cork town of Dunmanway, Ireland, who emigrated to Detroit, Michigan, USA, in the 1830s and made a substantial contribution to that city. Work continues on preparing Don’s extensive Maybury photo archive for transfer to the new site.