INTRODUCTION BY KANTILAL VELJIBHAI DEVANI 

The Devani Family website was launched as a register of descendents of Late Pujya Liladhar  Gokaldas Devani and Late Pujya Jamnaben Liladhar Devani. The register was envisioned to include  every individual's personal details including a current photograph and the individual's place in  the Devani Family Tree.   
 Our parents were the first descendents of Pujya Jamna Maa and Liladhar Dada and this became the  obvious starting point for collating data of the four or five generations which are around today.  Liladhar Dada predeceased Jamna Maa by many years and consequently none of the presently living  members had known Liladhar Dada. Dadaji's photographs may be available in someone's attic; In the  interim we have reproduced his image from a photograph-within-a-photograph. We have sought and  included photographs and details of each member of the current generations although it may become  necessary to verify details of some of the family members who passed away many years ago. 

As a second phase it was intended to gradually extend the family tree to our ancestors as far back  as Devabhabha who was martyred along with his horse ridden warrior colleagues in the defense of  his village folks from invading dacoits. Devabapa's Khambhi in Chitravad (about 80 KM from Rajkot) bears witness to this event. We changed our surname from Jobanputra to Devani in perpetual memory  of Devabapa.

With patience, perseverance and painstaking research we have been able to piece together a fairly  complete and cohesive ancestral family tree. Now that we have the basic framework in place we can  continue to make amendments as more authentic and accurate information comes to hand and generally  enhance the information.

One natural and welcome outcome of extending the ancestral tree was the establishment of a linkage  to the Devani families in Kampala, Daressalaam, Bhanvad and Porbandar.

The web site is fun to visit. You will be amazed at the various formats in which the site presents  your personal family history. You can view your own descendents tree complete with photographs as  well as several generations of ancestors. You can also read an Ahnentafel Report which is a  written report of your ancestors and descendents.

A handy list of Birthdates and anniversaries is also available.

The web-site has provision to put in details of parents of Devani spouses. We urge that you review  all the details pertaining to yourself and your immediate family members and e-mail to me any  revisions, additions, photographs or updates to make this website complete and current.

We are confident that you will enjoy reviewing and participating in updating  the website.

Kantilal Veljibhai Devani July 25, 2007/Revised November 28 2011                              ***********************

Acknowledgements:

1.	Chintan S. Ganatra for researching and selecting the Tribal Pages          format for the Devani Family Web Site.
 2.	Sagar V Gandecha for technical assistance in getting the web-site          launched in 2003 during my Australian trip.
 3.	Geetanjalee S. Devani from whose 2001 directory we imported the          initial data of individuals.
 4.	Kantilal J. Devani for providing a wealth of information on our          ancestral details.
 5.	Shashikant C. Devani for researching and inputting data of our ancestors up to Devabapa Panchan Jobanputra.

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Our Contacts:
 E-mail :  (1)Kantilal Devani  'kvdevani@yahoo.com' 
           


It is now possible to upload your photographs, old and new, directly to the family tree.   Once received, they will be appropriately attached to names as well as albums with whatever  descriptions you may provide.  The address for photographs is devani-1515@tribalpages.com.  
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