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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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Kenneth Michael Edmondson

Thank You, Sherry

Sep 8, 2009
Janice Ellen Libby

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes, Sherry. Have a great day. Jan

Sep 9, 2009
Barbara Johnson

Thanks for the birthday greeting - Barbara

Sep 9, 2009
Judy McLeroy Powell

Thanks for the welcome. My husband's family is both Powell and Jones, but I don't recognize either name from his genealogy. The Shipp is probably related to my family since some of the Shipps left GA and settled all over AL. I don't recall a Joe Shipp in my direct line.

Sep 9, 2009
Jessie Parker

Thank you. very happy to be here. One member has already helped me with information!
didn't quite get the picture right, did I ?

Sep 9, 2009
Roger

Thanks

Sep 10, 2009
Nicole Kramp

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Sep 10, 2009
Barbara L. Giffin

Thank you for the welcome.

Sep 10, 2009
Lorie Frischknecht

Thank you for the birthday greeting!

Sep 10, 2009
Tom West

Thanks Sherry for the info. Goins is from my father-in-law's side and includes Choctaw Indian's in pedigree. Also had a Texas Ranger on his side so glad to see that connection on your page.

Sep 10, 2009
Juanita Hudgins Haley

Thank you for remembering my birthday.
I'm looking forward to participating in your group. My Great Grandmother ,Mary Catherine Ratliff was born in Pulaski County Virginia.
Her parents were William F. Ratliff & Frances Moore.
She was born 1856 & died 1918.

Sep 10, 2009
Jessie Parker

I've tried to take the picture off but do not know how things work here yet. Can I resize it on the site?

Sep 10, 2009
Michelle Braakman

Thank you Sherry. I look forward to making connections with fellow genealogy addicts! How long have you been digging into your past?

Sep 10, 2009
Michelle Braakman

You have a nice website, what program did you use to create it?

Sep 10, 2009
Jessie Parker

what email address do I use. I'm sorry, I just don't know my way around in here yet so if you will give me your email, I'll send the picture. Thanks.
Jessie

Sep 10, 2009
GOPI KANTA GHOSH

Thanks...

Sep 10, 2009
Anne Elizabeth Hulse Masters

Sherry,
Thanks for the information on Thomas Shepherd. I do have some info on him, but the info on the town name and state changes is helpful.
I checked out my Priest line and there is no John Priest listed. He may be an off-shoot line, but so far I've kept to the direct line because there are so many people there to get figured out.
Thanks for your help.
Anne

Sep 11, 2009
Susan Harnish

Thanks so much for the Birthday greeting!

Sep 11, 2009
Marylou Sessoms Sweat

Thank you for the birthday wish......who are you? I'm very new to this site....Marylou

Sep 11, 2009
debbra lee tune

thank you sherry. i am also looking for native american in my line if any one can help me. i would so much be appericated. thank you debbie

Sep 11, 2009
Jerilyn Sparrow

Thank you for the birthday greeting, what a nice surprise. I am new to genealogy and appreciate any information that comes my way. Have a great day.

Sep 11, 2009
Ellen W Seese

Thanks you!

Sep 11, 2009
Carleen D. Henderson

Thank you Sherry. I feel welcome now. It will be awhile before I learn how to use this site. I have my Malcolm DNA at Sorensen but I haven't got a clue on how to read the results or search for a match. It's greek to me! Hopefully I'll learn something here.
Carly

Sep 11, 2009
Virgil Hoftiezer

Thank you Sherry. Hopefully I will find someone else researching my families.

Sep 11, 2009
Martin Spurway

Hi Sherry.

Thanks for your kind thoughts.

I have been to Houston, flight stop over; my main "family" are in California and the East Coast.

How is your history on Workhouses?

Martin

Sep 11, 2009
dorothy hajela

Hi Sherry, Just joined g/wise, good comments and always eager for help and research. we are off to florida in november staying with my cousin ,who I had never met quite excited after all the missed years I have been trying to trace the pierce family for over 25yrs and made contact last year
dorothy hajela

Sep 11, 2009
brenda docherty

Thank you for the birthday greeting, that was very kind of you!!

Sep 11, 2009
Lorelei L. Harper

Thx! that was nice of you, have a blessed weekend!

Sep 12, 2009
Doug Doudna

I want to thank you for the birthday wishes. This may be late. It just goes to show how far behind I am with my email

Sep 13, 2009
Margaret Dale

Thank you for your welcome. I have just visited the site you recommended and left an enquiry.

Sep 14, 2009
Maria Romano

Thanks so much!

Sep 14, 2009
Wanda Lee Whitney

Hi Sherry,
Thanks for the invitation. My Rogers originally came from SC and moved to Mississippi, around the Covington county area. There was one branch that moved from Miss. to LA and some from there moved into TX, around the Houston area originally.
I found some Rogers collection papers at a UT library and went through those. It was very interesting and informative. There were letters from some kids who ran away from their home and went up to Austin. In one letter to a cousin back in MS told about their journeys up to Austin. In another from a cousin (sheriff) in MS in which he spoke of all the hardships they were enduring while the Siege of Vicksburg was underway.
If this sounds like your family perhaps we could work together.

Sep 14, 2009
Paula Langford Haymon

Thanks for the welcome, Sherry!

Sep 14, 2009
Robin Williamson

Thanks for the welcome Sherry

Sep 14, 2009
Nisa Pickney

Thank You for the birthday wish.

Sep 14, 2009
Susie Stuart Barr

Thanks for the comment. I will give it a try. I'm not too savvy at these kind of thing but I will work on it.

Sep 14, 2009
Virginia B. Jordan

THank you for the interest. What is your connection to the Wilkinson and Snow line from Alabama? It could be connected to mine.

Sep 15, 2009
Virginia B. Jordan

Thanks for the Happy Birthday commecnt. I appreciate you thinking of me.

Sep 15, 2009
Virginia B. Jordan

Is your Hightower connection from Georgia? I have a Hightower connection through my G-G-Grandmother, Caroline Hightower, daughter of George Hightower and Margaret _____ .

Sep 15, 2009
Frances Hagaman Vannest Powell

Thank you, I'm glad to make this connection.

Sep 15, 2009
Andie Mack

Thanks for your warm welcom and suggestions! Think I'll like it here.
Andie Mack

Sep 15, 2009
Karen

Thank you Sherry for your lovely welcome to the group. My 2grgrandmother was Ann Lee, 1844 in Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire, married James Henry Styles, also from Stokenchurch, in West Wycombe in 1864. They had 1 child, James Henry, born in Naphill. 2grgrandfather Styles left Ann Lee, married again and then went off to Australia and married again, lol. His son with Ann came to Canada in 1906. As you well know, the Lee name is huge. I cannot find a death certificate for Ann and I don't know what became of Ann after her husband left. Grgrandfather Styles went to live with his grandparents when his father went to Australia and nothing has been passed down through the family to know just what happened to GGgrandmother Styles, I have done a bit of research, but hit a brick wall very quickly, but have not given up hope. Thanks again for the lovely welcome..........and sorry about the book!

Sep 16, 2009
Dale Warren

Good morning, Sherry, and thank you for the birthday greeting.

My POOL ancestry is a bit murky. In the 1850 White Co., IN census my ancestor Jeremiah POOL and his new bride lived next to William POOL, who I suspect was his father. I cannot prove the connection yet. All of the POOL's originated in VA according to the census, and the wife of William died in the previous year, according to the 1850 Death Schedule.

My WILKERSON/WILKINSON line is difficult, also. I picked up the thread in Webster Co., MO in 1870. George WILKINSON also used the name WILKERSON at times. The County Clerk told me there had been some sort of family feud and George or is father had begun using an alternative surname. His gravestone has his name as WILKINSON. So, I must dig into both surnames.

I am in a period of transition right now and it isn't possible for me to get to my database. When I can get my computer set up I will share with you what I have; perhaps we can help each other.

Sep 16, 2009
Jessie Parker

Yes, I did receive them, thank you. I have been trying to upload one of the pictures, but no luck. I am clicking browse, finding the picture and clicking open. I also have tried clicking select. What am Idoing wrong?

Sep 16, 2009
Kim Stracener Zapalac

Thanks for info! I will start joining them today.

Sep 16, 2009
Tina Wyatt

Hey Sherry, I didn't have a Jefferson Davis Green in my computer. However, I will check my husbands paper files tomorrow (yes we discovered we are very distant cousins.. lol. You really never know what you will find, huh?) and see if he has a Ann Wyatt and Jefferson Davis Green. I haven't gotten his family into my computer yet. I'll get back to you.

Sep 16, 2009
Aillin O'Brien

Thanks for the welcome :-)

Sep 16, 2009
Linda Renee Wyatt Carlin

sorry, sherry i can't find a missouri wyatt or jefferson davis goen.

Sep 16, 2009
Myrna Mackey

Thank You.

Sep 17, 2009
Lynette

Hi Sherry, thanks for the warm welcome!

Sep 17, 2009