Esther and Bill Williams on their wedding day, 15 SEP 1961. Greene, New York, USA.

On Friday, 15 September 1961, this young couple united in marriage in a candlelit, double-ring ceremony at The First Methodist Episcopal Church in Greene, New York (USA.) Over the next two decades, this couple, William Belknap WILLIAMS and Esther E. WEIR, would go on to have four children—including me, Matthew J. WILLIAMS.

After my dad’s passing in 2015, I developed an even greater interest in researching my ancestry. As I make more and more discoveries, I want to be able to share these findings freely with family and friends (and to keep the information easily at my disposal wherever it is in the world that my research may lead me!)