A brief note on sources
Anybody who tries to trace their genealogy, very quickly runs across the highly irritating fact that a vast majority of people who publish their genealogy, on the web or elsewhere, just don't bother putting in their sources. This makes it very difficult to check their facts, and renders their information worthless to other researchers. It's a pain in the neck. So I've tried to include as much source information as I can. My sources aren't listed here, but in the web cards, where the information is given.
In tracing my family tree so far I've been very lucky. Firstly, my grandmother, Catherine Charity Sneyd (née Bond) wrote down, as far as she could, the pedigree of the Boileau family, to which she was connected via her mother's mother. I call this The Red Book of Boileaus [RBB] and reference it often. These were the Boileau de Castelnau that appear in Lart's Huguenot Pedigrees, which immediately extends the pedigree back quite a long way. I have not yet found a disagreement between The Red Book and information from other places, such as Lart, so I feel pretty comfortable in believing that it is mostly correct. It was RBB that was my starting point for tracing the Boileau ancestry; without it, I would have got nowhere.
I was also sent a copy of a wonderful family history of the Boileau family, which I call the Big Book of Boileau [BBB] (sent to me by Vince O'Grady, many thanks to him). This document has been written by at least two recent generations of Boileaus, is over 200 pages long, and contains a wealth of priceless information; a detailed discussion of the Boileau armorial bearings, a description of the castle, biographies of just about every known Boileau, etc etc. In deference to the wishes of the authors (Digby Whicher Boileau and Peter Mudie Boileau) I haven't put the document itself on the web, but I do refer to it extensively.
In addition to this, the Boileau were connected by marriage to Louise de Baschi, whose pedigree has been constructed in great detail by William Addams Reitwiesner. It appears in a wonderful web page, fully documented and sourced. From this I was able, with great ease, to look up a lot of the sources myself, and thus extend the tree back for over 1000 years. Of course, I didn't refer to the original documents, but used mostly D'Hozier, Lart, Chesnaye-Desbois and Europaïsch Stammtafeln. I'm also used Florian Mazel's study of the Agoult and Simiane family, and (once I get it) I plan to consult Settipani's work on early French genealogy. The soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup has been a tremendous help here; if you can put up with the unpleasant tone of the newsgroup, they have a lot of information to impart.
Another major source for this genealogy was Burke's Landed Gentry (1937 edition) which traces the Grahams of Edmond Castle, and the Curteis family of Windmill Hill. In addition, I referred often to the writings of T.H.B. Graham, the details of which are in my little piece on the Grahams.
However, one area where I have been very sloppy, and completely unprofessional, is that of the associated heraldry. And I don't care; I just like the pictures. Each of the coat-of-arms I include is attested by one of the sources, often Rietstap, but sometime Lart, D'Hozier or La Chesnaye-Desbois. But I have made no effort to restrict the use of the arms exactly to those who would have used them. So, for instance, I include the traditional arms of William the Conqueror even though I know full well he probably didn't use them, not to mention that many of the other people in the early stages of the family tree didn't follow heraldry as we think of it. It didn't even exist back then. But I like the pictures, so I put them in. For something like the Baschi arms, we have descriptions in Rietstap for a number of different versions, but I have no idea which member of the family used what. Similarly for the de Sabran family, or the d'Agoult family. But I put in the nice pictures anyway. So sue me.
For the New Zealand part of my family tree I have much less documentary evidence. The recollections of my parents and my grandfather have been very helpful, as has the research of Joyce McPherson. Nevertheless, not all this information has been checked by reference to original birth certificates and suchlike, which I am in the process of doing. The book The Busch Line (Harold R. Busch, 1984. Probably self-published, but printed by Kerslake Billens and Humphrey Ltd) gives an excellent (although excrutiatingly dull) account of the early Busch family in New Zealand. No doubt they were all worthy types, but the inclusion of the Busch coat-of-arms for a Hans Busch who was demonstrably a German serf is too much even for my elastic heraldic morals. I haven't included it here. The Neal family is covered in a book by Brenda Carr (In Search of Better Life), and the book by Ruth M. Allan (Nelson: A History of Early Settlement, A.H. Reed, Wellington, 1965) has been very helpful and interesting. Together with extensive use of online shipping lists of early NZ pioneers, and examination of long (very boring) cemetery records, I'm almost able to trace the arrival ship of every one of my NZ-based ancestors. I've tried to give sources for stuff in this section, but where the source is omitted, it's probably because it's based on my mother's memory, or based on Joyce McPherson's research, and hence undocumented by me as yet.