"In the end, we'll all become stories" - Margaret Atwood

While every attempt has been
made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained here-in, 
this website is a basis for genealogy hobbyists only, and should not be considered an authoritative 
historical text. Further serious study should be done from the sources shown. Anyone using this
website as a source, please cite it.
 
This short morphing clip depicts the descendancy of Doners from Elder John on down to my family..
Other morphs are spread throughout the tree.

My Family Morph VIDEO
Click to open, then click box on lower right
to expand.        

This family tree project was started by Harold 
Ford Doner & carried on by Harry Doner. The amount of work these two men did on all of our 
behalves is staggering, and we are all in their debt. In an era predating computers and the 
internet, they rummaged in Archives, dug in Land Offices, and travelled this 
monstrous gorgeous country simply looking in the phone book for the right surnames 
before giving them a call.

Harry Doner arrived on my parents' doorstep when I was about 12 years old and had 
driven from Ontario to B.C. in an old sedan, with his dog and a back seat full of 
files. A hardcover book was published (The Doners in Canada - Printing House Ltd. 
Thornhill Ont. 1974) and in Harry and Harold's honour, I continue their tradition by 
bringing their work into the digital age. Since then I have been updating and keeping 
it as complete as possible, but need your help.

As of the end of Feb. 2007, there were 14,910 direct descendants (& their
spouses) of the first Doner couple to settle in Markham 200 years ago. So, I
implore you to PLEASE contact me whenever a birth, marriage, death, or special event 
happens in your family's life, so that it can be preserved for future generations. 
Photos, old or new, are particularly welcome. What is normal & boring to us today may 
well be cool & fascinating to our descendants. (Look! It's an actual gasoline-fired 
automobile!)

Due to genealogy etiquette, information on living persons is not 
posted on the internet, however you may contact me directly for a family password, 
about any specific questions you might have, or how you may be related to someone 
else in the tree. Please sign the Guest Book (under 'Home' tab at top) if you like what you 
see.

The little coloured boxes beside the names indicates a specific lineage as 
noted on the bottom of that page. Light blue boxes signify a direct Doner descendant. There are a
few different family colour codes, one being silver to signify direct descendants of John Alden
(1598-1687), who arrived in America aboard the 'Mayflower' in 1620. When I tried to run a report for
Mayflower descendants, it was 168 pages long. So, this affects many common families in this tree.
Watch for the silver colour code for Mayflower descendants.

Keepers of the Tree to date:

Elder John Doner (1821-1906)
Harold Ford Doner (1918-    ) - Book Co-Author
Harry Doner (1895-1982) - Book Co-Author
Perry Doner (1958-    ) - Website Initiator (2007)

 
"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."
- Chinese Proverb

For those wondering about royals & gods being on the website, it is 
through my mother's side and not the Doners. The lineages shown include some created for 
English kings that go back into mythology and gods, which I included for those interested. The 
English kings loved to hear that they descended from gods, and the most outlandish were 
published by a byzantine monk in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in ~6th Century, showing an ancestry going all the way back to Adam & Eve. It's for interest only, and take it with a grain of salt.


Below is a counter for the countries visiting this website. It didn't get included until there were 
5,000 visitors, but it allows you to see the distribution since then. Click on graphic to expand.