Geoffrey Barber lives in Perth, Western Australia and has been researching his English family history since about 1983. He is a long time member and volunteer at the Western Australian Genealogical Society (now FamilyHistoryWA) and the Sussex Family History Group. He maintains his family history web site www.nynne.org as a means of making the his own research more widely available and also with a view to long term preservation (via www.archive.org).
In 2015 he published the book “Barber alias Nynne: 500 Years of Family History in Rotherfield, Tonbridge and Brighton” and in 2017 his “Manorial Records for Family Historians” was published by Unlock the Past. Geoff also enjoys writing articles for journals and has given talks on topics such as manorial records, tithe maps, wills, DNA, self-publishing and 17th century merchant tokens. He has also published “The Akehurst Wills of East Sussex 1541-1858”, "The Ashdown Wills of East Sussex 1579-1858", "The Latter Wills of East Sussex 1579-1858", "The Breach Wills of East Sussex 1548-1858", "The Alce/Alse Wills of East Sussex 1552-1858", "The FERMOR/FARMER Wills of Rotherfield, East Sussex 1529-1700", and "The BEAN/BEANE Wills of East Sussex 1567-1851" which are available for free download from this site (see Publications). This work has been done in conjunction with the SFHG Wills Depository project which has over 20,000 Sussex wills transcribed.
