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Sherry Hightower

Female

Houston, TX

United States

Profile Information:

What surnames are you interested in researching?: My Family Lines:
Adams, Barr, Bell, Blakely, Briant, Butcher, Cain, Collinsworth/ Collingsworth, Coons, Craig, Cross, Dover, duSachoy, Duty, Evelman, Gardener, George, Hankins, Hardewyn, Hardin, Henry, Hogue, Holtzclaw, Ireland, Jolly, Jones, Joplin, Kilgore, Langston, Lawson, Lyon/s, Marr, Noeller, Orendorff, Pate, Peebles, Perrin, Pettypool/P'Pool, Pool/e, Purvis, Ratliff, Rhodes, Rodgers/Rogers, Rossignol, Routen, Runnels, Saxon, Springate, Toliver/Tolliver, Turner, Weatherford, West, Wier, Wilkinson / Wilkerson, Wooten

There was no place to include this: I have Cherokee & Creek ancestry on both my paternal and maternal sides.
What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee,Virginia, France, England, Scotland, Germany, USA
What is your level of genealogy knowledge?: Intermediate Family History Researcher
Do you have a genealogy website or blog or belong to a Genealogy Society?: www.texashistoryhunter.net

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Oliver Herrin

Hi Sherry
Thank you very much for your welcome
Regards Oliver

Aug 23, 2009
Marie Souder

I don't have any ancestry from this area but, my ex-husbands GG Uncle settled the Mckinney area. But, I am not researching him. Do you live close enough to visit the cemeteries here in Allen. Some of the Tombstones look quite old but, I have never gone into any of them. Thanks again for the Welcome. Marie

Aug 23, 2009
Herbert Duncan Miller

Thanks for the welcome!!

Aug 23, 2009
Sherry Kline

Thank you!! That was really kind of you!! I need to 'visit' here more! I just started a blog, www.familytreewriter.com. I'd love suggestions, and also to know how to add my blog web address to this site. Thanks, Sherry!

Aug 23, 2009
Thomas Johnson

Hi
Thanks :)

Aug 23, 2009
Thomas Johnson

Thanks for the info and advice, Sherry!

Aug 23, 2009
Thomas Johnson

Thanks for the info and advice, Sherry!

Aug 23, 2009
Kenneth Lawrence Peters

Wilkinson\Wilkerson has some Interest --Ken Peters

Aug 24, 2009
Janice Dobrow

Thank you.

Aug 24, 2009
Amy McDaniel

Thanks!

Aug 24, 2009
George G. Morgan

THANK YOU!!!!

Aug 24, 2009
Elizabeth

Thanks, Sherry, for the kind welcome! I look forward to learning quite a bit and to making more connections.

Aug 24, 2009
James D Owens Jr

Thanks for the birthday "card." My sister has already sung the birthday dirge to me. To the tune of the Volga Boatmen:
Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday.
Misery and despair,
People dying everywhere,
On your Birthday.
Happy birthday.

The older I get the harder I laugh. Weird, ne'cest pas? I better with my family history and lipid profile.

Aug 24, 2009
kat b

Thanks Sherry!

Aug 24, 2009
patsy adkins

thank you for the goodie sweetie

Aug 24, 2009
Karen York (Meyer) Stephens

Thank yo Sherry - I hope to be able to be able to spend more time on my "trees"...and this may help me out!

Aug 24, 2009
Ruby Mae Harris Janzen

Thanks Sherry - really haven't had time to explore this site as yet - it looks to be really interesting.
Ruby

Aug 24, 2009
Don W Gaskins Sr.

Thank you for the welcome
I'm just getting started with this site. I was on the phone with a lady from World Vital Records, and she suggested this site, so here I am
Don

Aug 24, 2009
Ugo A. Perego

Thank you for the Bday wishes! I just saw them. :)

Aug 25, 2009
Marjorie Harris

Hi Sherry. Always happy to make a genealogy friend!

Aug 25, 2009
Ms. Gerry Hill

Thanks, I could have used that card. Being older is NOT EASY! Sorry I was not on in time.

Aug 26, 2009
Sandra Marie Bauer

Thanks for the -Card and the welcome

Aug 27, 2009
Louise Bernero

Thank you so much for the welcome! I am excited!

Aug 27, 2009
Louise Bernero

Thank you....I will.

Aug 27, 2009
Louise Bernero

Oh! my avatar......I just love old vintage photos.....I think I was born in the wrong century!

Aug 27, 2009
Tracy Sawyer

Thank you for the welcome. I'm hoping that I'll find the information I'm searching for. It takes a lot of searching but hopefully I'll find what I'm looking for. Have a great day!

Aug 27, 2009
Faye Reynolds

Thanks Sherry for both the Welcome & the birthday wish!
Faye

Aug 27, 2009
Monica Staversjö

Thank you Sherry for your welcoming note! It surely seems like an amazing site for all of us obsessed with genealogy & research! :-)

Aug 27, 2009
Linda D. Lodge

Thank You

Aug 28, 2009
Helen

Thank You!!

Aug 28, 2009
Paul Caverly

My McGillivray line goes back in Ontario, Canada to Isabella McGillivray where in 1875 she married Thomas McInnes. She appears to have been born in Canada abt. 1857 with her parents as John McGilvray & Mary McEacheron. She may have had a brother, Daniel McGillivray. All pretty common names and because of the limited documentation of the time difficult to trace.

Aug 28, 2009
M. McCollum

Thanks for the nod, Sherry. Are you the ring leader of this site or just a kind soul?

Aug 28, 2009
M. McCollum

Thanks for the link! The avatar is from a Scottish heritage society of which I am a member. The Gaelic around the border translates to Clans of the Highlands in english. I can't take credit for it. I'm not nearly as gifted in the artist category as you are. I'm sure you would have spotted the "of the" in the center before you allowed it to leave the presses.

Aug 28, 2009
Sandra Rogers

Hi Sherry, thanks for the warm welcome. I hope we will be seeing more of each other.

Aug 28, 2009
Moti BLAU

Thanks!

Aug 28, 2009
Joe Kennedy

Thankyou very Kindly

Aug 29, 2009
Patricia Mooney Smith

Thank you so much!

Aug 29, 2009
Richard L. Mike Foley

My Nash's are all originally from Maine - back to 1700's - then to California in the mid 1850's. Hopefully someday I'll have interesting stories like yours to tell about my kin!! Neat stuff!

Aug 29, 2009
Robin Bailey

Thank you for the birthday greetings! I'm heading to England tomorrow to do some "on-site" explorations of where some of my grandparents came from. Should be fun!

Aug 29, 2009
Jacqueline Smith

Thanks for the warm welcome, Sherry!
Where do you fit in the Kimberling group? Or are you descended from another surname?

Aug 30, 2009
Don Crawford McClanahan

Thank you for the "Welcome". Do you have any familiarity with the following surnames?

Crawford, Haris, Selvy, Vandever, Fristoe, Younger, McCorkle, McClanahan, Nix, Lougridge, McClenahan, McClenachan, McClenaghan

Aug 30, 2009
Kathie Poulos Schweiss

Hello Sherry,
I would like to thank my friend, Kerry, for leading me to this site.
I have been doing family genealogy since 1970 and, within the last year and a half - I have found my cousins in Greece and also my six half-siblings' Greek father's cousins in America. In addition, I am now in contact with my mother's long lost Carlin cousins who live in the U.S. I was just connected with my mother's biological father's cousin, also. Looking forward to viewing this entire website. Thanks!!!

Aug 30, 2009
Colin

Thank you for the warm welcome. I have hit the proverbial brick wall on my father and 40 years of research has turned up zero concrete leads.

When my mother learned he was already married with another family, we emigrated from England to the USA while I was only 5 years old. She never spoke of him with information that could be used to help my research. If the few tidbits she imparted can be believed, he was born circa 1902 in either England or Scotland. His father was Scots and mother English. He was in the Home Guard and may have been a stonemason or plumber. He may have had 13 siblings of which he supposedly was the youngest. I belong to Ancestry.Com as an international member and have pored over all available records w/o success. My short and long form birth certificates provide no clues to help my search. I fear I will never find the answer and none of my children caught the genealogy bug yet. My daughter has expressed a little interest but has never performed any research.

So, there is my story and my brick wall. Through the years I have been successful in helping many others find information and it galls me to be so ineffective on my own behalf.

Colin

Aug 30, 2009
Donna Smith

Thank you for the Welcome and Birthday wishes. That was very kind of you.
Donna

Aug 30, 2009
Alan John Long

Hello Sherry, thanks for the welcome and the tips in your blog.I'm sure I'll find what I'm looking for.
Cheers,
Al

Aug 31, 2009
Spivey

Thank you, Sherry. My first visit was yesterday and I enjoyed it very much. Thanks, again.

Aug 31, 2009
Phillip Crow

Thanks!

Aug 31, 2009
Janis Kathleen (Lee) Robinson

Thanks for the welcome!! I have no idea what I'm doing -- very new to this. I'm taking a genealogy class at our local junior college which starts in a couple of weeks. I thought this site might help in some way.

Aug 31, 2009
Jean Hyde

Hello Sherry,
Thank you for the warm welcome. This is my third time on GW and all of this is new to me. So, everyone have a little patient with me as I learn the ropes.
Thanks again.

Aug 31, 2009
Martin Gomez Morinigo

Thanks Sherry

= )

Aug 31, 2009