Follows the family history of Alexander line that settled in Charlotte, North Carolina. This family was well documented through books and my task was to link my clients recent ancestors to those documented in the books. Mission accomplished!
This family traveled from Gottenburg Sweden to Grand Rapids, Michigan
James Barkley immigrated in the mid 1700s to Orange, NY. His family continued to travel westward with his ggg grandson settling in Washington state.
This family immigrated during the Great Migration and first settled in Barnstable (Plymouth). This family is descended from the Fuller family of the Mayflower. I purchased the genealogy book for this family.
Thomas Carrier's wife, Martha Allen, was the first to be accused of witchcraft and hanged. More to come soon
Baptism, death, and marriage records are available for Zacatecas and Puebla Mexico. I was able to trace the family to mid 1700s through these records.
Details the information collected about a family line that ends due to question of paternity. I was able to find a first account "family story" that explained the roadblock.
Details the information collected about a family line that ends due to question of paternity. I was able to find a first account "family story" that explained the roadblock.
This was my first African-American project. It exposed the difficulties of black family history due to racism (black citizens were less likely to have their names in the paper or have marriages/deaths/births recorded before 1865. Luckily, after quite a few hours I traced my client's ancestry to a well known former slave and was able to find articles and information that was documented. In addition, due to this article, I was able to offer my client the opportunity to have the family history traced farther, as I found that his ancestor was the slaveholder's father.
Project consisted of tracing the Elam family up to a female Wheeler ancestor and then continue tracing the Wheeler family, using DNA results to make educated guesses where records and documents lacked.
I touched on this family briefly when I noticed in my research that someone in the Blish family married a woman named Ann from Barnstable. This family has a book which details the family line to the spot that I needed to connect (the Blish family)
Currently making connections between the Green family of
This was my first African-American project. It exposed the difficulties of black family history due to racism (black citizens were less likely to have their names in the paper or have marriages/deaths/births recorded before 1865. Luckily, after quite a few hours I traced my client's ancestry to a well known former slave and was able to find articles and information that was documented. In addition, due to this article, I was able to offer my client the opportunity to have the family history traced farther, as I found that his ancestor was the slaveholder's father.
This province in Poland provides electronic records of some ancestors going back to 1800s in a small town in Grajewo Poland. This project took quite a bit of time due to the complexity of Polish history and available resources online.
Coming soon!
The Land family of Kentucky suffers from "copying fever" on most websites. I had to painstakingly go through available online documents and go back as far as I could go with available documents and not "guess" on the next generation. Family trees online did not provide sources and everyone copies each other for this particular family.
Baptism, death, and marriage records are available for Zacatecas and Durango Mexico. I was able to trace the family to mid 1700s through these records.
Family immigrated to Pittston, PA around 1910.
Explored the history of the Naquin family and their link to the Native Americans who married into 18th century French settler families. Other researched family lines: Billiot, Chaisson, DuBois.
This Parker family hailed from North Carolina, then Tennessee, and onto Kentucky
Sweden provides electronic records going back to mid 1850s for this family. This family went on to live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This family immigrated from Ireland to Jessamine Kentucky. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find connections for this family. There is a lack of sources and documents. I finally found my Eureka moment when I found a first hand family story of the line of succession and I am able to provide that the person making the claims was the granddaughter of who I was researching. Eureka!
You will find quite the story about this family. Family lore suggests that the family was a noble family that was stripped of it's nobility when they became Protestants. They fled to escape persecution and made their way from France to Ireland to Pennsylvania, then North Carolina, and South Dakota. Dorothy Provine, actress, was descended from this family.
The immigrant William traveled to America in 1628 and settled in Hingham, MA
This family immigrated in the 1600s from England and made a quick pit stop in Kentucky and Indiana before heading to the big city.
Coming soon!
This family traveled to Michigan in the mid 1800s
This project combined genealogy records with DNA results, using them together in order to fill in the gaps and attempt to link Lawrence County Wheelers to John Wheeler and Ann Yeoman of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Research sources included autosomal DNA, records found online, and Y-DNA project results on Family Tree DNA website.
This project's ancestor was the brother to a Mayflower passenger and later migrated over to America on the Fortune. His descendants later moved to Maine and married into the Church family.
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
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