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Permalink Reply by Terrence Garnett on -
My name is Terrence Garnett and I am a native of Houston, Texas. From June 16, 2006 to Present, I have worked diligently to research and uncover my family roots. Currently, I attend Cy-Fair College where I major in Visual Communications- Graphic Design. My fascination with my family history started in childhood by listening to stories of my maternal grandmother, Shirley Johnson-Pipkins about her life and family growing up in Houston’s, Third and Fifth Ward.
Most of my research is based in Texas and Louisiana where I have traced both sides of my family back, five to six-generations and identified four slave owners who enslaved my ancestors. My pursuit to record my family history has led me to visit several Texas courthouse’s and genealogical libraries looking for marriages, deeds, bill of sales, affidavits, census records, probate records, birth, and death records.
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Permalink Reply by Deborah McMillan on -
I live in Pennsylvania and I have been researching my family for over 15 years. Most of my relatives are from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Glad to meet you all!
Family Names I'm currently working on:
Junghen/Younkin - Germany & Pennsylvania
Crawford - West Virginia
Matheny - West Virginia & Maryland
King - Pennsylvania
I love sharing my information
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Klinka Dunkin-Yost on
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My name is Cheryl and I have been interested in genealogy for a while now. I do research when I have the time, but I am having a hard time finding information. I am hoping to use this site to get some pointers. My step daughter does research for my husband's family and does well with information. My main focus in on my fathers family, Klinka.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Jackson on -
I have been researching my family roots for decades......since my early 20's. My focus for searching includes the following surnames: Carman/Carmen/Kirman, Cherington/Cherrington, Christiansen, Jensen, Jackson, Reynolds, Davis, Taylor, Fleming, Glynn/Glyn, Trotter, McCormick, Giger/Gieger, and many more.
I am a Family History Center Director in one of the Family History Centers in Southern California. I love teaching and helping others connect with their roots and find the excitement and joy of discovering ones past. I am excited to utilize this network to connect with others with the same enthusiasm that I have for genealogy. I look forward to meeting more of you.
I write a genealogical blog where I review various genealogical websites available for research on the internet. I have tried to focus on those sites that are off the beaten path and are generally available for researching for free or for a nominal fee. If you would like to check it out, you can go to Our Future Rooted In Our Past. Please feel free to comment and contribute to the site. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Permalink Reply by CHASTITY on -
Hello, all. My name is Miss Chastity D. Williams. I am 28 years young and was born April 14, 1981 in Dallas, TX to the late Mr. Julius Young and Andremia D. Willliams. I recently started my very own family and now am the PROUD mother of a son. My son James is 5 months old and was born January 25, 2009.
I have been researching off and on since 18. I go take advantage of the resources in my city and have many interresting bits of info. My searches into genealogy first began with just a simple surname search, and snowballed from there, I love family, family history, and it's funny because I honestly have over 1000 pictures of family, and I am caled the family photographer. I'd love to help in any way possible and would love for any help in my genealogy research. Thanks and be blessed.
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Permalink Reply by CHASTITY on
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Ok, after re-reading this post, I wantd to clear up the fact that my father is deceased, my mother is alive and well.
CHASTITY said:Hello, all. My name is Miss Chastity D. Williams. I am 28 years young and was born April 14, 1981 in Dallas, TX to the late Mr. Julius Young and Andremia D. Willliams. I recently started my very own family and now am the PROUD mother of a son. My son James is 5 months old and was born January 25, 2009.
I have been researching off and on since 18. I go take advantage of the resources in my city and have many interresting bits of info. My searches into genealogy first began with just a simple surname search, and snowballed from there, I love family, family history, and it's funny because I honestly have over 1000 pictures of family, and I am caled the family photographer. I'd love to help in any way possible and would love for any help in my genealogy research. Thanks and be blessed.
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Permalink Reply by Linda K. Lewis on -
I just joined up today. I'm a cemeterian in the Kansas City area, a professional web developer, and love bringing the two together by putting public data, especially cemeteries, online. I grew up in Philadelphia and all of my own personal ancestry lies there and in NJ. Main Philly surnames I am researching are Moylan, Gibson, McGuigan, Wilson and Lewis. All my names pretty much brickwall in the 1820s in south Jersey.
Trying to find the about and overview pages for this site but not having much luck so far.
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Permalink Reply by Johnny on -
My name is John Lowry, and I've been doing some amateur genealogy for the last couple years.
After playing with some of the online tree sites, I personally find dynastree.com to be one of the best.
Immediate surnames I'm most interested in: Lowry, Lemmons, Slawson, and Clendenon; I'm also interested in Buchanan and Lathrop.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Brock on
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My name is Lisa Brock. I live in Tennessee and love researching my family tree. I am now focusing my research on my husband's family, the Brocks. I have hit a lot of brick walls, especially with his grandmother who was an Owens. I enjoying finding each piece of the puzzle and also meeting new relatives and people who are also researching their family trees.
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Permalink Reply by Mavis Jones on -
Hello everyone. My name is Mavis Jones, and I'm from North Carolina. I've been researching both sides of my family for the past 20 years minus a 10 year break that ended this year. Earlier this year, one of my younger cousins woke the sleeping giant when he called to ask a few questions as he was working on his family trees.
About a month ago, I started http://georgiablackcrackers.blogspot.com, Georgia Black Crackers, to document the ancestral search on my maternal side, and this week, I started http://conversationswithmyancestors.blogspot.com, Conversations with My Ancestors, to document my search on my paternal side. To explain the name for my maternal side, it's a tribute to my family, which was from Georgia, and the Atlanta Black Crackers baseball team from the old Negro League. Please check out both of my blogs.
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Permalink Reply by Porsha A. Williams on -
Hello - my name is Porsha A. Williams. As stated before, you can find me on Myspace or Facebook. For friends - Facebook only, please. Relatives? Myspace or Facebook!
I am 31 years old, and from a small town in Mid-Missouri. I relocated from that town to Columbia, MO in 1996 to attend Columbia College for Fashion Merchandising. I "walked" with one course left to get my General Studies Bachelor, with a concentration in Fashion Merchandising and a Minor in Business.
From there, I continued to work very hard, and play harder, for a textbooks wholesaler named MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc (www.mbsbooks.com). I finally found my niche about a year ago in the company, after 8 years of jumping around. www.textbooks.com is my new home and family - and the best little online retailer this side of the Mississippi!
From there, opportunities were endless for me. After joining the Audrain County Genealogy society, I started investigating my families roots in Missouri. To find out that I am part of two of the biggest founding black free families in Monroe and Audrain county, MO is unbelieveable. To also find out that I may be the great-great granddaughter of Charley Patton, the infamous King of the Delta blues is beyond exhilarating. As I continue my search for the truth, let me congratulate you on starting to immerse yourself in yours~or sharing the knowledge you've acquired after years in this fascinating community!
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Brown on -
Hi
I am Patricia. I've been researching family history and genealogy on the Cummings side before computers existed. Now, I am always connecting with several different family lines including Tower, Cummings, Torrey, Blake, Brown, Heinmiller and others. I was just elected President of the Tower Genealogical Society.
If you have information or are looking for information on any of these family lines, please contact me.
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