Georgia Root Diggers

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Comment by john armstrong on October 13, 2009 at 12:53pm

hi still looking for able gattis ganer orr in floyd

Comment by Luckie Daniels on October 12, 2009 at 7:23pm

Hi Georgia Root Diggers! Welcome to all the new members!:-)

James - what an interesting lineage you have and thank you for your willingness to connect to descendants of YONGE slaves! We will have to get you connected to the LowCountry Africana (also here on GenealogyWise) group. LCA focuses specifically on slave/plantation documentation from SC, GA and FL.

Toni Carrier is the contact here at GWise and I am the Coordinator for Georgia records.

Luckie.

Comment by Alane Roundtree on October 9, 2009 at 9:22am

Your comment may partially explain why, although I am the direct descendant of at least six Revolutionary War Patriots, I personally have never experienced the need to seek membership in such an exclusive club.

My friend from Savannah emailed and said he will attempt to get in touch with you regarding 9 Princess Street. Good Luck!

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on October 8, 2009 at 10:32pm

I'll omit the family name, but I descend the second wife of a prominent Continental Line Paymaster. As only one descendant at a time can join a certain society on the same qualified ancestor's patriotic service; that membership has always remained with the first wife's family descendants like they own it (that is not the issue, just the background).

A descendant of the first wife came to visit and found we had the ancient family Bible; saying, what right do we have to it? THEY, are thee, XYZ's. I explained the widow usually inherits the remainder of non-specifically bequeathed personal property; I was glad to share the iformation in it.

In other family lines I've had kin who would not share data on my branch of the family; it's THEIR (good Christian attitude?) Bible; our data belongs to them--tough!

Yes some whites won't share family data with the black side of the family; but there are also whites that won't share data with the other white side of the family either. Some even tell the other family side, their side owns the DAR/SAR Patriot lineage papers; and the out side, can't join because they don't own the papers. Many non-members accept that as seeming fact; as being non-members, they know no better.

The DAR at least, is especially attempting to include contemporary American "blacks"; be they of white Patriot, or of black Patriot, lineage. I hope my SAR is doing likewise?

P.S. I have some white kin, I might swop you for some of your black kin?

Comment by Alane Roundtree on October 8, 2009 at 9:29am

A most fascinating history, Mr. Miller.

More than anything your post demonstrates how diverse, yet, inextricably woven together our respective histories are as Americans. Our country was built with slavery and I
commend you for acknowledging your family’s legacy as slaveowners.

Your willingness to share personal family documents or information regarding individuals your ancestors enslaved is of paramount importance to descendants of those individuals researching their family histories.

Crucial information that may help those seeking answers to their enslaved ancestors’ histories is still too often held out of reach in private hands. Your offer should serve as an example to others who hold such documentation in their own private family archives and encourage them to put the records in the public domain. It’s profound to underscore that the willingness to share such family documents could literally make all the difference between a researcher knowing their enslaved ancestors’ stories as well as you know your own or knowing very little, if nothing at all.

It was by the grace of one such individual that our own family came to know more about one ancestral line than we ever could have without his assistance. By incredible chance this gentleman lives in Savannah, Georgia, and I will attempt to contact him to see if he can help lead you to the current location of what was once 9 Princess Street.

Best Wishes,
Alane Roundtree

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on October 7, 2009 at 9:18pm

My Georgia folks were Loyalist, published punishisable upon pain of death should they return, their estates escheated to the Patriots. The Hon. Henry Yonge, Sr., Loyalist (son of the Hon. Francis Yonge, Lords Proprietors Surveyor-General of the Bahamas, Carolinas, and Georgia) was H.M. Surveyor-General of Georgia; his summer home "Orangedale" on Skidaway Island is now the site of "The Landings". I descend son by Bellinger wife, Capt. Philip Yonge, Loyalist, H.M. Surveyor-General of Georgia who wed Christiana Mackenzie, daughter of Capt. Wm. Mackenzie, H.M. Comptroller and Collector of Customs, 1775, Sunbury, Ga., and brother of George, Third Earl Cromartie, of Cromarty, Scotland, attainted for Jacobite rebellion against the Crown. George's daughter wed Arthur Middleton, Signer, Patriot, of Georgia. Philip's brother was Maj. Henry Yonge, Jr., Loyalist, H.M. Attorney-General of British East Florida, who as such annulled the indentures of 1,000 wrongfully enslaved New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Menorcans, and at St. Augustine, commanded a company of them in the Revolution. Maj. Yonge's plantation is now Ormond, Fla., it's Public Library on Yonge Street. Henry Sr. in this Loyalist Claims called his first wife Christian Bulloch "a Rebel", she being the sister of Patriot Gov. Bulloch. Recently the U.S. Supreme Court sat as a trial court of original jurisdiction (no appeals) to settle a S.C./Ga. boundry line dispute and used the Yonge maps and charts. The current Surveyor-General of Georgia said they were excellent draftsmen. Henry Yonge, Sr's home was at 9 Princess St., Savannah; does anyone one know what that address is today? It was a 60x90 lot in Anson's Ward in 1775 and backed on the back of the lot of Surveyor-General Wm. Gerard de Braham. I'd love to know what is there today? Mrs. Elizabeth Bellinger Yonge descended Capt. Edm. Bellinger, Sr., Landgrave of Tombodly and Ashepoo Baronies, S.C., and Surveyor-General of Georgia. If anyone has a black lineage via the Yonge slaves and I can help with wills, deeds, etc.; we share an unfortunate history and I'd be glad to share what data I can. The late Dr. Eaton of Wilmington and Harkless Wooten of Morehead City were "black" men (to me simply of two heritages) I admired and worked with on our different aspects of shared family history; neither they, not I, got to pick our ancestors). Jim Miller, Southport, N.C. P.S. I'm very interested in two ex-slave "black" Bellinger Union soldiers on St. Simmons Island in the Civil War. I want to make sure both have the U.S. government veterans tombstones they so much earned.

Comment by Luckie Daniels on October 6, 2009 at 7:26pm

Welcome to all the new Georgia Root Diggers! If any of you have Family websites and/or blogs please let me know! I'd love to add your link to the www.OurGeorgiaRoots.com website!:-)

Comment by john armstrong on September 16, 2009 at 4:57pm

hi iam mainly reserching in floyd co (ables garner gattis) iam in san antonio tx if anyone needs foot work we have a very fine southwest reserch libary
nice to belong to anew reserch site

Comment by Luckie Daniels on August 27, 2009 at 9:54am

Alright, we have Sandra, Jan, Mavis, Valerie (I'm adding you too RilkeGal!:-) & Luckie who would welcome meeting up! Who wants to join us mid-September?

Comment by Janet Smith on August 22, 2009 at 9:08pm

Yes, we are blessed to have this GeneaCommunity and I'm so glad is feels like a family...

Mid-September for a meetup sounds great! I live just outside of metro Atlanta and I support your idea of rotating locales. No suggestions yet, but give me a few days next week to check around and get back with you. Until then, have a great weekend. And GenFam, looking so forward to meeting you all!

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