Julian Land started on this website in 2010, building upon the family history work of Tony Harding (4th cousin with common ancestor Simon Barrow of Bath) and John Bury (4th cousin of Julian and 5th cousin of Tony). In 2011, the year the website was launched, we were joined by the siblings Peter and Carlotta Barrow (3rd cousins once removed from Julian and Tony); and Peter Allen Lousada (a Bedfordshire Lousada and 3rd cousin once removed from Julian and John) who had tried much earlier to contact the Australian Lousadas and who now made available his family's large collection of Lousada material. Winton Harman Lousada (Australian 2nd cousin of Julian Land's mother) provided stationery collected on a 1957 trip to England when he met his 3rd cousin Marion Irene Keyser nee Lousada. Rupert Musgrove, 4th cousin of Julian and Tony, and Nina Atkins (daughter of Peter Barrow) contributed, as did Marcus Whitaker (a Bacon 4th cousin of John Bury). Edmund Barrow (4th cousin of Julian and Tony) in late October 2011 shared his Barrow database. In 2012, Daniel Lousada, an Australian 2nd cousin of Julian Land, provided an image of a Lousada crest, Barrow 4th cousins David Linton and Tacy Rickard provided information on their respective ancestors Charlotte Bates Barrow and William Francis Barrow, Anthony Gordon - a 2nd cousin of Peter Lousada - provided the Royal flying instructor story, Simon Greenfield (a 7th cousin once removed) enlightened us on the Aguilars and also the Ximenes and Mendes da Costa families and Sandra Lousada (a 4th cousin of Julian and John) contributed a fine portrait of her father Sir Anthony Baruh Lousada, whose handwriting - so Lily Lousada informed us - was spotted on the Benjamin Barrow Lousada family tree by Sebastian Lousada, Lily's father and Sandra's half-brother. Since January 2013, James Greener - a relative via at least one Montefiore connection - has provided a stream of helpful data. Also in January 2013, many decades after separate contacts by both Peter and Winton Lousada, we reconnected with the Netherlands Louzada family via Karin Louzada and her mother Fenneke Louzada-Scheltens, who provided data on its origins in Surinam. In February 2013, Barry Smith - cousin of Julian Land - and Gwen Truscott - cousin by marriage of Julian Land's mother - contributed much local Lousada material. In early 2013, Jeremy Lousada updated us on the Yorkshire Lousadas, one of whom is now in Australia. In June 2013, Barrow Hutchison (3rd cousin once removed) updated us on some Canadian Barrows. In May 2014, Claire Myers provided an extract of the 1780 Barbados will of Isaac Lindo which shows a marriage connection with the Baruh Louzadas of Barbados; she also provided an extract of the 1742 Barbados will of Daniel Massiah which provides evidence that the person who married the first grandson Aaron #714 of the original Aaron Baruh Louzada #376 of Barbados was Esther Sarah Massiah not - as has been erroneously supposed by even eminent genealogists - Esther Lamego of Jamaica. In October 2014 Alan Pereira provided a transcript by his wife Margaret Nye-Pereira of several wills; these illuminated people related to Jacob #380 and Alan is our first contributor from this major English branch of the family from which however the Lousada name disappeared after one generation in favour of Lopes and Pereira - click here to find a link to their work on this branch, here for our summary of how Alan connects with us, and here to see what is in their impressive collection of wills. On 22 Mar 2015 Scott McDougall provided some details of his wife's descent from the de Dirsztay family of Budapest and perhaps therefore from the Barrows and Lousadas of Livorno. On 16 Apr 2015 Michael Waas provided details from his descent from Abraham Israel Pereira, and we have prepared a chart comparing the ancestry of Julian Land and Michael Waas making them 8th cousins 3 times removed. On 22 Apr 2015 Kathie Olden provided access to many family documents some of which have been uploaded with more to come.

Julian Land provided the special-purpose charts, in many cases in a response to interest in a topic expressed by others contributors. He also provided the historical notes, listed the references and sources, and compiled the key documents and images.

John Bury provided the Devonshire countryside sketches and the Devonshire portraits, the Barrow & Lousada family history charts, the map of Portugal and Western Spain, pictorial diaries of his visit to Sidmouth and his visit to Amsterdam, the Lousada pages by Colyer-Fergusson at the Society of Genealogists (see ref 85), and various documents from the Lancashire Records office.