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This group is for individuals interested in researching the Wright surname.

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Comment by Felicia Korengel on January 20, 2012 at 6:27pm: Seems like I'm not the only one with a Wright-induced brick wall! My problem is fairly recent...my 2nd great grandfather, John (M?) Wright. He couldn't decide if he was born in Virginia (1860, Civil War draft, 1880) or Ohio (marriage record from KY in 1857, 1870 fed). He was born about 1837, and I've tried mightily to find him in 1850--I cross-referenced him with almost all John Wrights of the age in Ohio and Virginia. I've checked where other VA/OH in the vicinity to see where they were in 1850, thinking maybe they were family. No luck...it seems like he just appeared in Hickman/Ballard Co KY, and then his family followed some of his wife's to Grayson County, TX. Luckily, I have 3 half brothers, so I asked one to do the DNA test. Had the kit sent to him in August and he hasn't done it yet! I paid for the test so I'm a littler perturbed...may have to move on to one of the other ones (I've actually never met any of them!)

Comment by David Clark on October 16, 2011 at 4:00pm: I have a Wright brickwall and I don't know how much can be done about it. I have very little information. It involves my 4 ggrandfather, William R. Wright. He was b. about 1796 in TN? and is not in the 1850 census, so I presume he died before then in Randolph Co IN. One bio I found says he died when my 3 ggrandfather was little. Wife is also a Wright-Ann b. 8 Aug 1799 in TN, d. 1884 in OR, dau. of John Hominy Wright and Ann Reese. Children of William and Ann: Thomas I. b about 1831, Sarah b. about 1833, Phebe b. about 1835 and James A. b. about 1841 (my 3g grandfather).

Comment by David Clark on October 16, 2011 at 3:54pm: You're welcome, Doug. IMHO, Wright's are one of the most difficult lines to sort out. Not only because there are so many of them, but it sounds like through naming traditions and how much they stayed around each other as well as intermarrying with other common families, they are difficult without good documentation to unscramble.

Comment by thelma jo rich on October 16, 2011 at 2:55pm: Doug..Will do and Thanks.. David Thank you too.

Comment by Douglas M Wright on October 16, 2011 at 2:13am: Hi Thelma, sounds good on finding a male to take the DNA test. I hope you find one soon. Let me know if you need any help with brick walls. I recommend testing to Y33 for best bang for the buck. Also, get them to buy their kit through the Wright DNA Project. It saves them twenty bucks and the test is through FamilyTreeDNA which I think is the best. Doug

Comment by David Clark on October 15, 2011 at 8:53pm: Thelma, I also discovered the mix up between James Wright born ca 1690 and ours has been perpetuated in the LDS records. Not a big help...

Comment by thelma jo rich on October 15, 2011 at 3:40pm: Hi Doug;

I di hope I can find a Wright relative to take the dna and post it here that would be very interesting..

Comment by thelma jo rich on October 15, 2011 at 3:39pm: Hi David

You are very welcome I am glad it helped..yes they did have the same name and it does get confusing so I will try to keep the dates and places on here as I can.. Have a great day..

Comment by David Clark on October 15, 2011 at 9:52am: Thelma, thanks for posting this specific information. It caused me to scrutinize more closely my information and I found out some of it wasn't correct. I just hadn't looked that closely at this era of this line. I study technology and hope that one day they can use the same kind of machine learning used by Watson on Jeopardy to study lines like the Wright's. There's too many of them to try to "sort by hand" so to speak.

On the naming conventions, it really became a tangled web when Quaker traditions caused them to rename descendants after common ancestral names. I've even found third or fourth cousins, migrating together who married women with the same first names with everyone born in the same places and dates! The only way to tell them apart is by their children's birth years.

Comment by Betty Vaughn on October 15, 2011 at 6:48am: My kids, thru their father descend from Asa Elijah Wright, thru his son Johnson Vitringer Wright.