Thanks and Awards

My sincere thanks to all of you who have helped me with my research, provided me with details, research material and most of all their valuable time to get this web site online.

A special word of thanks to all the award donors for their comments and encouragement.

The High In The Sky Award:

Your website has been awarded "The High In The Sky Award", for the nature of its content and for the quality of the design.
The implementation, presents an undeniable excellence that puts it well above the remaining ones, making it worthy of being publicly designated as an example to be followed and as a true knowledge and information source.

Golden Web Award 2002 - 2003:

The web-site wins the Golden Web Award for the second consecutive year.

Golden Web Award 2001 - 2002:
The site wins the Golden Web Award for it's rich contents and clean presentation. Award winning sites are voted on by the members of the International Association of Web Masters and Designers.

Historic and Cultural Heritage Award:
'You have won our award for your very excellent content and your laborious research'

Rated 4.5 by Award Sites, 5.0 by German Top Awards and Level 8 UAG Classification

Congratulations on winning the Best of the Web award!

They Live Again
Each time we gently blow away the ashes of time by researching our Ancestors
…they live again - Richard Fox

( Rating 2.5 )

Lauricella Dornbirer:
Very impressive site. Superb navigation and layout, this site has a crisp, sharp feel to it. Unlike many genealogy sites on the Internet, the De Fonseka's have spent considerable time and effort to source their material. This always lends an air of authenticity to genealogical information. Lisa and I learned a great deal about Sri Lanka's history.
( Rating 3.0 ).

Ancestry Connections

Keeper of the Souls

There is a culture, which believes a soul doesn't die until that person's name is spoken for the last time, I like to think as Genealogists we prevent that final death

I enjoyed visiting your site; you have clearly put a substantial amount of time and effort into the research of your family and this is evident in the range of information you have available.

Leith Hutton

The sites are judged on content, functionality, graphics and usefulness to the general public. We spend a lot of time reviewing sites and not all make the grade. You have done a great job, keep up the good work!

Internet Beacon Award: You've created quite a thorough resource for your family name here. It was interesting to look through all the material. This should be valuable to those interested in your Genealogy.

Member of the World Gen Web Project

A link to the Sri Lanka site could be found in the Links Page. The site contains Family Trees of Singhalese, Muslim and Burgher Families, including an interesting analysis of the Bandaranaike Families.