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We have created this web site as a record
for our family history
and as register for
our relatives around
the world. We will
keep record of all
our family members
and those who marry
into our family. If
you are member of
our family and have
not been added to
this database please
contact us by selecting
Contact
Us tab on the
top of the web pages.
If you want to suggest
corrections, add more
family members, upload
family pictures then
please contact us.
The title of our family is 'Shaikh' which
identifies our Arab
heritage. The 'Siddiqui'
indicates our family
history through Hadrat
(Saint) Abu Bakr Siddiq
friend and confidant
of Prophet Mohammad
and the first Khalifa
of Islam.
According to our family
traditions, our ancestors
moved from Makkah
to Baghdad in Iraq,
then to Kabul in Afghanistan,
and finally to Bareilly
near the Himalayas
mountains close to
Nepal border in South
Asia. According to
our family history,
our ancestors arrived
in South Asia during
the reign of Sultan
(King) Mohammad
Ghauri, and later
settled in Bareilly
during the reign of
Mughal
Emperor Mohammad
Aurangzeb Alamgir.
Nearly all members
of our family resided
in Bareilly until
1947, when they were
forced flee to
Pakistan due to
massacres of Muslims
by the Hindu and Sikh
fanatics. Most of
our family members
settled in Karachi.
Now our family members
are scattered around
the world and are
beginning to lose
contact with our ever
growing family members.
So we took upon ourselves
to create this web
site and make it as
family register to
keep names and album
for photos of all
our family members.
This web site is currently being designed
and web pages of the family member are
being added. We plan to finish adding
all family members then we plan to
add multimedia content i.e. streaming
audio and video. Please continue to
revisit the web site as new information
is being added nearly every day. All
dead links, misdirected links, grammatical
errors, spelling mistakes, missing
information, and suggestions should
be emailed
to us.
The Family Trees can be accessed by choosing
Family Tree
on the top index of each page. It
can also be accessed by clicking  icon. This icon is placed in the web pages beside the name heading.
This icon is also placed in the Family
Tree for ancestor or descendent Family
Tree. The web page of individual family
members can be accessed by clicking
their names in the Family Tree. If this icon is before
the name then it will display ancestor
Family Trees and if it after the name
then it will display descendent Family
Trees. You can traverse the Family
Trees in both directions.
The Search
can be used to search this web site
for information about your family.
You can enter your search criteria
to find pages in this web site that
have the information that you are
searching. For example, search for
'Mohammad' will bring list of web pages
in this site that contain that name.
The Web Site
Index page contains
the index of all pages
in this web site.
The Links
page contains links
to our family's other
websites, blogs and
important links.
We have representatives of our family
in Pakistan,
United Kingdom, Australia,
New Zealand, United
States, and Canada
and the closest to
your location will
help confirm your
relationship to our
family and add your
information to our
database.
We have also started DNA testing of our
family members, The
family members are
encouraged to test
their maternal mtDNA
and paternal Y-DNA
at Family
Tree DNA.
We have created Arabic,
Bosnian,
Chinese,
Dutch,
English,
Estonian,
Finnish (Suomi),
French,
German,
Greek,
Italian,
Japanese,
Norwegian,
Persian
(Farsi), Polish,
Portuguese,
Russian,
Spanish,
Swedish,
Turkish,
and Urdu
versions of the information
pages of this web
site. We have many
Urdu
documents about our
family that will be
uploaded to this web
site in the near future.
Page Last Updated:
Friday, February 18,
2011 09:29:32 -0400
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