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Permalink Reply by Theresa Marek on December 28, 2011 at 4:59pm

Also.... I wanted to let you all know that I'm looking for my paternal side of the family last name Pooler.  I'm finding that most people have little information about their paternal parents.   I'm looking for informations for the last name Pooler from Ohio.  My grandfather is Leslie Carl Pooler and great grandfather is Carl Leslie Pooler.   No other information. 

Help with this one is appreciated also!

Thanks in advance!

Theresa

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Newberry on December 28, 2011 at 5:42pm

Theresa have you tried looking at familysearch.org? or new.familysearch.org ?

Kathleen

Permalink Reply by Kevin Fraser on December 29, 2011 at 6:37am

Hello,

I reside in Johannesburg, South Africa and have been researching my family for the past six years. The names I am researching are: FRASER, CHRISTOPHERSON, HONEYBORNE AND DUNSTONE. My FRASER line has been traced back to 1705 in the Shetland Islands.

I am stuck on the details of George Ernest CHRISTOPHERSON from Ipswich, Suffolk. I do have his death details but need to trace his birth records and when he came to South Africa. Records show that he fought in and survived the battle of Delville Wood WW1.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Fraser on December 29, 2011 at 11:11pm
I omitted to add the other family names tha I am researching. Here are the names: FRASER, HONEYBORNE, KNOTHE. CHRISTOPHERSON, DUNSTONE. I have not started on my wife's family yet and I understand that some work has been done on MORRIS, MILLER.
Permalink Reply by David Allen Turner on January 14, 2012 at 7:12pm

Hello to all,

My name is David Allen Turner, and I live in Roanoke Rapids, NC. I joined geneology forum to possibly learn more about my fathers family (Turner) and his mother's side ( Cook and Magoon). I have done some research and traced my great grandmother back to Franklin County, NY. And my grandfather's side (Turner) back to Burlington, VT. Both my grandmother and granfather lived in two different states (one in New York and one in Vermont), but were only a county apart in distance. this is how I surmise that the two ever met. My greatgrandmother was a Magoon, which I have recently learned is a Scottish/Galic shorting of the name Machoning or something similar. Was most probably changed when they immegrated to the United States. The Turner name I find out is of Norman decent. It would be nice to find relatives of both sides of my family origin, and to find out maybe where my original families are from. please contact me if you think you may be related to either side. thank you. Also on my great grandmothers side of the family are the Cook family which are from Tioga tx. We also interestingly are members of the Kitchen family Tree on my great grandmothers side ( Gladys Magoon Cook Harper)

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Newberry on January 14, 2012 at 7:19pm

David, there are lots of Turner's on facebook so i'm not sure how you woul go about finding who is in your family. but try Magoon and Machoning, you never know.

Permalink Reply by Judy Grundy on January 19, 2012 at 9:00am

David,

Almost missed where you are members of the Kitchen family tree. Is it Kitchen or Kitchens? I have been researching the Kitchens family. My great great grandmother's first husband was the Rev. Josiah Kitchens. The Kitchens  that I have been looking at are also aligned with the Thetford/Thedford, Walker, Flowers, and Crisp.

Sound familiar to you?

Judy

Permalink Reply by David Allen Turner on January 19, 2012 at 8:06pm

Judy,  thanks for asking...I believe that My great grandmother  Gladys Magoon Cook was some how in the Kitchen family tree. I don't think that it is kitchens, but I will have to get some more info. from my uncle, who has been doing genealogy on our family for some time now.

Permalink Reply by Becky Guymon on January 17, 2012 at 11:21am

Good day!   My name is Becky.   I have been doing Genealogy research for about 25 years.  I got started with Genealogy thanks to my Step Mother.   Most of my research is in East Central Illinois, but I have relatives all over the United States.     I am currently researching Guymon, Babbs, Phillips, and Bartimus.  Other surnames in the family are Feltner, Prentice, Pritchard, McKee, and Ayers.   My step mother took good care of the Babbs family so I am mostly focusing on the Phillips, Bartimus, and Guymon lines.

I am the newsletter editor for the Coles County Genealogical Society (Illinois) and I also volunteer for the Illinois State Genealogical Society.    My web site is www.zitania.com . 

I look forward to getting to know everyone!

Permalink Reply by Charlotte Heidi Johnson on January 18, 2012 at 10:53pm

Hi my name is Heidi and I am new at researching my ancestry.  On my fathers side are the Chartrands.  Leopold, Napoleon, Francois, Thomas, Louis and others.  Most recient lived in the area of Pointe-Claire

On my mothers side are Burkhardts.  I don't have much information, grandfather Ferdiand Burkhardt, grandmother Charlotte Burkhartd.  I've been told they are burried at Mount Royal Cemetary.  They came from Mittelbexbach Germany to the area of Montreal, Canada.  I was told my grandfather may have remmarried a Marie.

I want to find as much verified information on both sides.  It is so hard because I get mixed information, and how do you know for sure which information is correct.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Newberry on January 19, 2012 at 3:58pm

Charlotte, ask members of your family as well as Aunts and Uncles and ask for records that they might have. Also try googling the names you have, try familysearch.org and other sites. Also try going to your local family history libary.

I'm having trouble finding my grand Dad Charles Ralph, I have a birth and death date, but the birth date is on the death record. And the death record doesnt have his parents names. Oh well I will find a birth record for him when his ready to let me know.

Kathleen

Permalink Reply by Norah Glover on January 19, 2012 at 9:12am

I live full-time in my RV and travel about the country while doing my genealogy.  I started doing genealogy back in the 1970s, when it was mostly writing letters, visiting NARA and libraries.  Then I put it away for many years and only dabbled in it here and there, now that I am mostly retired I have jumped back in with both feed and I'm embracing all the new technology. 

For the last few years I've focused on my husband's family in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.  But now I'm back to my own family taking over some of my mother's work on her lines in the south (Louisiana, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Texas)

Looking forward to interacting and learning from all of you.

Norah

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