Welcome to A Southern Family. This is my file box. Please feel free to use the evidence I have supplied here in your own trees but don't sneak off. Contact me!
The best place to start is with the Surname Index. All women have been listed by both their maiden and married names so hopefully you'll have no problem finding who you need.
My own tree is displayed below. I am currently, and very slowly, researching my tree again to add newly available evidence and confirm that no mistakes were made the first time around. It is a slow process and I am very busy so don't expect regular updates from me.
1823 TN - 1877 ??
1827 TN - ???? ??
1832 GA - 1896 TX
1839 GA - 1933 TX
1867 AL - 1945 TX
1873 AL - 1956 TX
1834 AL - 1907 TX
1833 TN - 1898 TX
1831 LA - ???? TX
1845 TX - ???? TX
1832 TN - ???? ??
1844 TN - 1922 AR
1889 TX - 1954 TX
1899 TX - 1983 TX
1911 TX - 1984 TX
1912 TX - 1982 TX
1883 AR - 1932 AR
1877 AR - 1923 AR
1896 TX - 1975 TX
1899 TX - 1984 TX
1928 TX - 2010 TX
1932 TX - 2005 TX
1918 AR - 2002 TX
1924 TX -2004 TX
As you can see, I haven't yet added everybody to the site. Here are a few things I am doing for each ancestor before they get added.
- Evaluating my evidence to make sure everyone really belongs.
- Checking the newly available databases for more evidence and original documents such as Find A Grave for tombstone pictures, Family Search for vital records, and Heritage Quest for census records.
- Searching for descendants and obituaries.
Surname Analysis
I did an analysis of my surnames in 2015 and compared it to my genome analysis. Here are the results.
One thing is clear from these results. There are no Cherokee Indian SNPs present in my DNA. :P You have no idea how controversial that little fact is in my family, lol. Shhhhh.
If you are curious about the numbers, I redistributed the 'broudly this or that' percentages to better compare with the surname numbers.
Change Log
The dates on this change log apply to the offline version of the website. Many updates are made and tested before they are added to the live version.
7/7/19 to 7/15/19 - Added Floyd Simmons descendants. Now working on Clara's descendants.
7/6/19 - Created a new slideshow gallery for pages with 1-30 photos. Will need a new option for pages with even more photos.
6/26/19 - Started working on the Hawkins line. Added photos from Wayne Cook on facebook.
Show Older Updates
1/5/18 to 1/6/18 - Added several photos to the Gore, Adair, and Patterson families. (About 5% of current collection.) Fixed some buggy pages and prepped the site for going live.
1/5/18 - Finished processing. That took 12 hours!
1/2/18 - Started processing Gore photos received Christmas 2017 for website.
12/24/17 - Received a boatload of photos and files for the Gore family.
10/15/17 - Added more children to Hosea George Adair, I and more descendants.
10/13/17 - Bought a new computer! Updated homepage.
1/31/16 - Updates on the Stewart clan from facebook.
10/6/15 to 10/12/15 - New People: Hosea George Adair, I with wife and other children plus descendants.
9/30/15 to 10/5/15 - New People: Sarah Jane Williams-Blount and all of her descendants.
9/28/15 - Rewrote the home page.
9/21/15 - New Patterson info.
9/19/15 - New People: Tommie Allen Patterson and children, Loyd Leon Patterson, Jerral Eugene Patterson, Elvin Lynn Patterson, Vernon Avon Patterson, and Johnny D. Patterson
9/13/15 - I added Lena Adair Patterson and related evidence.
9/12/15 - I added the birth certificate for Anne Lee Adair and added her parents to the site plus evidence.
8/7/15 - New people: Ruby Nell Stewart, Vollie Thornton Sims, Dewis Manon Stewart, Herschel Leroy Braley, Retha Lavon Stewart-Morrow.
8/4/15 - 8/6/15 - New people: George Samuel Stewart, J. D. Stewart, R. V. Stewart. Tons of new family branches discovered this week on my direct maternal line. These will be added last, unfortunately.
8/3/15 - I added Hattie Walls, husband and children.
8/2/15 - I added Otis Walls, Hattie Walls, and Esker Walls and organized some of the children of Henry and Emma Walls. I also did stuff with back end code. Personal note: I designed the tree and recalls and improved the descendants structure and timing.
8/1/15 - I reconfirmed the parents of Minnie Modena Walls and organized my notes for the descendants. LOTS of pages to add for these guys. :)
7/31/15 - I found a much better copy of the 1900 census for the Taylor family. Found out that the girl, Calla D., is actually the boy, Calade.
7/28/15 - I added more Gore descendants and updated some back end code. I added several more obituary extractions from huntnews.net to the Gore and Taylor families. I also added several pictures, letters, and newspaper clippings of the Gore and Taylor families given to me by Brenda Gore last Christmas. I will finish updating information from this packet tomorrow.
7/21/15 - I added more Gore updates including children for Bama Gore.
7/20/15 - I added more Gore info plus updated some of the code.
7/19/15 - I added John Felton Gore and Minnie Modena Walls plus children.
7/17/15 - I added icons to the surname index. I couldn't decide between having more indexes based on subject and which ones to add. For example war veterans, secret society members, occupation indexes, cause of death indexes, etc. I have too many ideas. I think things like that should be limited to the search bar if you know what you are searching for. I did settle for adding ancestor and veteran icons to the surname index. That will have to do for now.
7/16/15 - I added new research for Ida Mae Taylor Gooch and her descendants. I also added a page for Velma Evelyn Alsbrook Taylor with the intention of adding photographs when I found all this juicy Gooch family history. Will get back to that later. :P
7/15/15 - I corrected a page for Emma Susan Farmer and added her to the index. I added descendant charts to the resource page to make it easier to track my progress on specific family lines. I also added a google search bar to the home page.
7/14/15 - I added more surnames to the surname index that don't actually have pages yet.
7/13/15 - I added generic origins to the surname index.
12/19/14 - I made some more design changes on the profile cards and added a few more pages to the Simmons line. Their profiles and links are not complete nor are they in the indexes yet.
12/16/14 - I made the site design a little more mobile friendly and made some overdue design changes on the profile card. :).
12/14/14 - Descendants to George Lemuel Bowers with related evidence.
12/9/14 - New people. James and Louisa Whitlock, their children, and related evidence. Added birth certificates for Joe Taylor, Royal Taylor and Shorty Gore. Added death certificates for the Bowers clan.
12/7/14 - Findagrave links for everyone that has one. I also made a fan chart and analysed my surnames. :)
12/4/14 - Fixed the contact form, updated the about us page, and did other minor website maintenance.
11/26/14 - George and Sallie Bowers and their children, plus census records, findagrave records, and newspaper records for the family. I also updated the Taylor info with more findagrave records.
11/21/14 - John and Susie Taylor and their children plus more records were added for all of the Taylors.
11/20/14 - Added children to Lynn and Ethel Taylor as well as census records for the family.
11/18/14 - New people. Lin Taylor, Ethel Bell Bowers, J.P. (Shorty) Gore, Anne Lee Adair, William Floyde Simmons, Melvina Jane Holt, Archie Johnson, and Irene Sanford. See the Surname Index for links. :)
11/17/14 - Tweaked the design of the site. No new content. :)
11/15/14 - Recoded the php backend. No front end changes, so... you won't have noticed a thing, but I'll have an easier time updating pages. :P
11/14/14 - Fixed some display errors for older versions of Internet Explore. Please note that if you are using Internet Explorer 9 or older, there are still some display bugs. Main known issue is that some images are gigantic since the max-width/max-height code does not work on IE 8 and older. :(
11/11/14 - The site goes live.