Halliday History

My mother is Eleanor Jean Halliday. She is the daughter of William Norman Halliday and Vivian Viola Meech. Her siblings were Robert (Uncle Bob), Elizabeth (Aunt Betty), Norman (Uncle Norm), and John (Uncle John). Here is a diagram of our family.

The Hallidays originally came from Scotland via Canada. I have put a lot of information into a Halliday (and Baggerman) family tree. As of this writing there are about 350 names in the tree. There are lots of different ways to slice and dice family trees. Below are links to a few different views of the family tree. Here are some tip for navigating the family tree web interface.

While viewing a tree you can make some adjustments to the view

• Generations - Adjust the number of generations to view at one time
• Standard / Compact - Use the view options for more or less detail in the tree
• Family - Use this view to see just the immediate family of an individual. You can walk up and down the tree when in this view.
• Ancestors / Decendents - Use this view to “look up” and “look down” the tree.

George Halliday Family Tree - This is the big view all the Hallidays back to George Halliday, born in 1715.

William Norman Halliday Family Tree - This tree is the descendants from Bill and Vivian Halliday, my grandparents on my mother's side.

Ancestors - This is a tree of my ancestor. It's fun to know who you came from. My cousins, of course, would have a very similar tree.

Anne Frej (daughter of Jean Halliday) hosted a Halliday family reunion in Santa Fe, NM in June 2016.

Guest Book - This is the guest book of those of us who attended

Photos - Here are a few photos from the event

I have accumulated a number of references to Halliday family history. I have digitized much of it to make it easy to preserve and pass on to our children. Here I have links to various PDF documents. For most of these I have Microsoft Word versions also to make it it easy add material and make corrections. Contact me if you want the Word version of any of these.

John Halliday - The is the most complete work of early Halliday family history. It was compiled by Clarence Halliday and published in 1962.

A Halliday Family Tree - A compilation of the decendents from George Halliday, born about 1715 in Scotland. It lists over 400 Hallidays.

Vivian Halliday - The Story of My Life - This is a very interesting retrospective as told to my cousin Bill Harting.

Jean H Halliday Archive - There is a lot of other material on the web site. For most PDF documents I also have the original Microsoft Word document available. There are also pictures and links to other resource.