Jim Avery

Male

Dover, PA

United States

Profile Information:

What surnames are you interested in researching?
Avery, West, Collins, Ayers, Byrne, Burns, Ford, Wolford ,Wohlford, Snook, Kleckner, Kraemer, Koch, Bartels, Kleffman, Allen, Ferguson, Hardy, Colby
What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?
USA, Pennsylvania
What is your level of genealogy knowledge?
Advanced Family History Researcher
If you are a genealogy expert, what are your specialties?
Wohlford Wolford and various spellings anytime and anywhere in the USA. Also the Avery families of Northern PA, especially Bradford County

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  • Janet L. Avery

    Sorry, I'm the only one in my family with the name "Avery" - I'm sorta' in my own private witness protection prgram    :?)

    Dec 31, 2010

  • MICHAEL JOHN AYER

    No the other Ayer's in our family are in Rochester area.  Family Crest question, our (Ayer) family crest has three chevrons on it, but I have been told that also one version has three sailboats on it.  Can you or anyone else shed some light on this?

    Jan 1, 2011

  • Amy Cargill Kirkpatrick

    You've got the right one and I DO remember you! Thanks for the welcome!

    Feb 22, 2011

  • Amy Cargill Kirkpatrick

    I did see your picture...you look wonderful!  Dean and i will have to make a trip down there to see you!  We will also be in town over the July 4th weekend, doing a living history at the PA Monument for the NPS.  Maybe we can see you then?

    Feb 22, 2011

  • Nancy Meiring

    Jim, send me schedult of chats from Gene wise

    Mar 1, 2011

  • Ellen Rowan Taylor

    No, my Rowans are settled first in Pennsylvania, then Ohio then Illinois with a few side trips farther west. Thanks for asking.

    Mar 2, 2011

  • Lower Bucks Genealogists

    Hi Jim,

    I will ask the group if anyone is researching Wolford, although it doesn't sound familiar.

    Our website is: http://lbgc19047.webs.com (NO WWW).

    Thanks!

    Barb

    Mar 15, 2011

  • Shelley Bishop

    Hi Jim, sorry, I don't think I have any Averys. My Comfort line married into the Eberhard family. They were all pretty much in Lehigh County, PA. I'll keep an eye out, though, and let you know if I find anything!

    Apr 7, 2011

  • Patricia Quinn

    Jim - Is the chat room acting up tonight?  I log into the site and it shows that I'm online, but there is nothing showing that says how many are in chat.  And when I open it up, it shoots me to offline and I can't get it to put me back online again.

    Just wondering if it's the room, or my computer causing the problem.  Thanks!

    Apr 9, 2011

  • Linda Dee Bates

    Hi Jim - Sorry, our Bates line came through Arkansas and Oklahoma. Wish I could help.  lb

    Apr 10, 2011

  • Charles H. BOBO

    I will be there as time allows.  Trying to build a new schedule around my genealogy, communications director for my Kiwanis club, coordinator of a group in creative writing, team bowling and dodging the frailties of 83 years old of fast living.  Genealogy is still in my genes and I will work out a schedule.  -- Former GFS Chuck of AOL Genealogy Forum.

    May 17, 2011

  • Charles H. BOBO

    Trying to find time to complete two or three more books on the BOBO (BAUBEAU) Family in America.

    May 17, 2011

  • Charles H. BOBO

    Also doing work on my TROXLER and GRAHAM lines and am a member of the Antonio MOLINO (MULLINS) lines.  Antonio worked in the vineyards for Thomas JEFFERSON and served in the Rev. War and War of 1812 as Anthony MULLINS and later moved to Tennessee.

    May 17, 2011

  • Leeann Boone

    Is this one of your guys? http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmcid=4730383...

    May 24, 2011

  • PETERGROWLAND

    hi  jim 

                     used to to be called redrowly aol

    i used  to go in gene room uk and tree house and  some  other gene  rooms

    Jun 15, 2011

  • Taressa Ishimi

    Hi Jim,

    You are probably the first person I hav found with any Bartels connections, this is awesome. I have little to zero knowledge on my Bartels ancestors, but here is what I have:

    My great great grandmother Veronica Wilhelmina Bartels (b1863 in New York) married John Thomas Wilde. They had two children Francis Middleton Wilde and John Thomas Wilde Jr.

    I have two photos (taken years apart) of Francis and John with two cousins (one male one female) the female cousin is listed as Daisy Bartels.

    I also know she had a nephew named Dirk Bartels, who served in the military.

    If any of these names look familiar I would love to learn what you know. Looking forward to talking with you.

    Thanks!

    Jun 24, 2011

  • Leeann Boone

    Hi Jim

     

    I found this while searching for my Hunkins clan...I know you said yours are NOT from Groton but maybe a relative? Looks like these are descendents of his that ended up in Waukesha,WI

    MRS. ESTHER MARY COOK HADFIELD

    Sources: Annie: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 62 page 273. Ruth: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 104 page 196

    Annie: Daughter of the American Revolution DAR ID # 61784 Born in Genesee, Wis.    Esther: Daughter of the American Revolution DAR ID # 103640 Born in Waukesha (See also Blair bio)  DAR Member Descendant of Solomon Avery  Solomon Avery        b: 1729 in Groton, Conn.        d: 1798 in Luzerne County, Pa.  m: 1751         to: Hannah Punderson    b: 1733         d: 1775 Solomon Avery a patriot, who in 1780 solicited arms  from Connecticut to build a fort.  Child of Solomon and Hannah (Punderson) Avery:  Henry Avery     b. 1767         d: 1852 (also 1853)     to: and Hannah Rockefeller      b: 1780         d: 1865  Child of Henry and Hannah (Rockefeller) Avery:         Elizabeth Avery         b: 1808         d: 1865         m: 1831         to: Conrad P. Silvernale        b: 1809         d: 1892  Child of Conrad P. and Elizabeth (Avery) Silvernail:   Lucinda Silvernale      b: 1831         d: 1888 (also 1886)     m: 1849         to: Thomas Dennis Cook  b: 1824         d: 1901  Child of Thomas Dennis and Lucinda (Silvernale) Cook:  Esther Mary Cook  Solomon Avery (1729-98) served, 1776, as a private in Capt. Joseph  Gallup's company, 8th regiment, Connecticut militia, under Lieut.-Col.  Oliver Smith. He was born in Groton, Conn.; died in Pennsylvania.

    Jul 9, 2011

  • Leeann Boone

    Heres the link to that info below http://www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/marHbios.php

    Jul 9, 2011

  • Kay Dilley Nichols

    Hi Jim,  Just did a double check to see if I had any Nichols in PA.  My husband's Nichols clan is all from Virginia and later West Virginia.  They pretty much settled in one area and stayed there, Nicholas county and surrounding areas.  Some made it out to Kansas for a while but I think they all came back to the mountains.

    Kay

    Jul 31, 2011

  • F M Hite

    Hi Jim,  Thanks for the note.  Sorry for the delay in response.  Yes, I did make the York show.  It was in April.  Are you still talking to the spirits?  How is Stormy?  Weather is hot and dry in Big Lick.

    Aug 11, 2011

  • Lisa G. Wade

    Hi Jim! You didn't scare me off. I lost my internet connection and then got distracted. I am also having a problem getting into the Chats. I sent you a Friend Invitation last night. I would like it if you would accept. Thanks Jim, Lisa

    Aug 15, 2011

  • DWest

    Hi Jim, Thank you for the welcome. I have just began. My Great Grandfather was Jesse E West, who died in Kansas 1890. I have traced him back to Springhill, Fayette County, PA as son of Phineas West and Lidia Lewellen. Phineas had quite a large family of his own. I just read in another forum that Phineas Father might be Nathaniel West and Mary Everly from Monongalia Co WV, have not verified yet. I think Nathaniel's birthplace was New Jersey. All I know for now. Again thanks for the welcome. You never know when paths may cross.

    Aug 18, 2011

  • Eleanor McCown

    Hi Jim,  am not familiar with Charles McCown (except for living relatives ie: cousin and great nephew).  Who was his ancestor?  My husband's family descended from Francis mcCown that came to America under the Borden Tract.

    Sep 16, 2011

  • Lowell Stewart

    Don't know of Marsden connections to NH.  Our Marsdens emigrated in the 1800s from Lancashire England to Utah.

    Sep 25, 2011

  • Leslie Ann

    Very touching letter!  We actually have no blood link to the Ballous. My husband thought he was a Ballou untill he was told otherwise at the age of 21. So I never have researched the Ballou name.

    Sep 30, 2011

  • Maureen

    I do not have any genealogy connections to Gettysburg. I have always wanted to go there and decided about three years ago that it was time.  What a beautiful place.  I do plan on going there again someday.  I have taken a couple of the ghost tours as well, which I have also enjoyed.

    Oct 4, 2011

  • Peggy Blodgett

    No. My husbands family came from NH. From there they went to

    Illinois, Missouri, and Texas

    Oct 5, 2011

  • Margo Lee Williams

    Thanks Jim -- I will look for her

    Nov 16, 2011

  • Heather Isbell Kramer

    Hi Jim,

    No, no Kramers from Pennsylvania.  They settled in Missouri and Illinois after migrating from Germany through New Orleans.

    Heather

    Dec 12, 2011

  • Margo Lee Williams

    I've tried to get in touch with Erin a few times, but no response.

    Dec 13, 2011

  • Tyler Hancock

    Hi,

    I don't have anything YET on Perrys in New England; however, I do have one of my Perry's who married a Horton, whose dad was born in Long Island, and then moved down into SC. I've just started research that link that far back. That would be mid 1700s when they were in New England. What time frame are you looking for? 

    You might check out the Great Wagon Road. Lots of people took that from PA to NC/SC. It's possible there is a start to the Great Wagon Road up in NY. Just a thought...

    I'm always on the lookout for more information. I'm the State Genealogist for the Colorado DAR, so I stumble on things all the time as I'm researching other people's lines. I'll definitely keep a watch out.

    Tyler

    Dec 29, 2011

  • john stoudt

    dear jim,

          i do believe that we are the stoudts from the upper bucks county in pennsylvania.i am the son of ralph f stoudt whos sisiter beulah who passed away in 2009 was my aunt.they had another brother named harold and richard.richard wife is on facebook.please correspod with me because so far your the only correspondence i have recieved.

                

    Dec 30, 2011

  • Alvin Eugene Collins

    Thanks Jim !! My great grandfather John Henry Collins (1848-1913), was States Attorney for N.C. from 1878 to 1886. He was born free in Norfolk , Va. His mother was a free black woman and his father was an ANGLICIZED French Jew. Therefore his fathers name Henry Collins was most definitely a Jewish alias All 8 of my g grandparents were of racially mixed parentage. I was accepted into the Sons of the Amer. Rev. through my 5 greats grandfather Jacob Strawn (1717-1800) All best !!

                                                                                                   Alvin

    Jan 17, 2012

  • mudd, larrry

    all the mudd's are related in the US, now for the other side of the story lincoln was related to the mudd's, Elizabeth Ann Lincoln Mudd was the granddaughter of Capt. Abraham Lincoln. He was also the name sake and the grandfather of President Lincoln

    So I am a first cousin sixth removed of the president

    Jan 17, 2012

  • Ronald G. Heroux

    Hey, buddy!  I miss you!  Once in a while I hear from Chuck.  He's not moving from NH.  I get to visit my grandson at least weekly, so we enjoy being in Mass.  Lately I have been working on my son-in-law's family tree which has taken me to Fayetteville, PA and then to Harrison and Marion Counties, West Virginia, with names of Danley and Christner, Moore and Powell, Cottrill and Lawson.  Bunch of coal miners.  One fellow, Jacob Christner, served in the 3d Maryland Inf., Potomac Home Brigade, in the Civil War.  The Christners hail from Elklick, Somerset, PA.

    Ron

    Jan 20, 2012

  • Kathleen Newberry

    Jim yes I do thanks for the reminder. I get on here when Its not too late for me.

    Kathleen

    Jan 21, 2012

  • D. Barry Sheldon

    Thanks, but I don't chat... Appreciate the information though

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Vickey L Baggott

    How does one learn about topic specific chats?  Also, is there a "Genealogy Wise for Dummies" tutorial online somewhere so I can learn how to get the most out of this treasure trove website?

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Roberta Baum

    Thanks for the in-vite.  Trouble is, the computer is in our son's room and he doesn't appreciate company after a hard day's work.  I'll try, tho.  Roberta

    Jan 23, 2012

  • tjay

    cant navigate site too much effort tjay

    Jan 23, 2012

  • Alan Magnus-Bennett

    What time in the UK is 9 pm Eastern? Also, I'm not very good at chat pages least of all on Facebook. But I will look in now and then. Anyone with the name Magnus can look me up however.

    Jan 24, 2012

  • Palma LaValley

    Thank you for your message...I love talking about family connections, it is amazing how many families are interconnected with one another... I found I was working with a cousin who was from my grandfather's mothers side of the family...I couldn't believe it!!! It has been so much fun and frustration at times, but the end results more than compensate for the energy and time put into finding out about your ancestry...

    Again thank you for your message...

    Pam

    Jan 24, 2012

  • JoAnn O'Linger-Luscusk

    Thanks so much for letting me know about the discussion group.... I would love to participate but am currently having health issues so don't know if I will be able to do so anytime soon.

    Take care,

    JoAnn

    Jan 25, 2012

  • Mary Ellen Aube

    Thanks.  I have not tried the chat room yet.  I will try it some day when I am not busy.  I am babysitting for my neighbors 18 month old daughter  who is sick and can't go to daycare today.  Mary Ellen

    Jan 26, 2012

  • Mary Ellen Aube

    What a beautiful canine.  Is he/she a golden or lab?

    Jan 26, 2012

  • Mary Ellen Aube

    Thanks.   I am a dog lover and have had many over the years that I keep close in my heart. Thanks again for the wonderful pictures and comment.Mary Ellen

    Jan 26, 2012

  • Richard John Allen

    Hi Jim,

    I will be back to you on this shortly.

    Dick Allen

    Jan 27, 2012

  • Kathleen Ann Ciuci

    Ancestors%20of%20Harriet%20Avery.rtfHi Jim,

    The Averys in my tree settled in Westchester County (Rye, Mt. Pleasant, Eastchester). Harriet Avery of Mt. Pleasant was the first Avery to marry into my family line, marrying Daniel Sutton in 1829.  Daniel's granddaughter Harriet married John S. Birdsell of Pound Ridge, my g-g-grandfather.  So, there is a Pound Ridge connection and it is likely that we are cousins of some degree.  Other branches of my family come from PA (my grandmother was born in Bradford) and upstate  NY, but not through the Avery line.

    Jan 27, 2012

  • Karen Creamer

    Jim, I've seen the Creamer name spelled Kraemer.  It's most likely a German form.  I haven't been able to discover if my Creamers are of German or Irish descent.  It's probably one of those two, but I can't get back any farther than Harpers Ferry, WV in the very early 1800's.  My 3rd great grandfather (Joseph or Casper) may have been born in Maryland, probably about 1780, and married Elizabeth Avis b. 1788 in VA.  None of that tells me whether they're Irish or German.  If German, then I might be related to someone with the Kraemer or Kreamer surname.  Thanks for your post!

    Jan 27, 2012

  • Judith Richards Shubert

    Hi, Jim,

    Thanks so very much for visiting my blog and enjoying it! I love it when someone actually comments. You know how we bloggers are! It would have been fantastic to have actually had an ancestor buried in the beautiful cemetery there in Burlington. But, no, I don't think I have any ancestors there in the New England states. At least I haven't traced them there as yet. I was on a short vacation and did not get to the other cemeteries in the area, but hope to go back to that area one day. I have heard of the cemetery you speak of in Gettysburg where they decorate the tombstones with red wreaths at Christmas. Yes, what stories they could tell! I don't know if you noticed that I also write a blog about Texas Cemeteries where I live and I blog about family genealogy at Genealogy Traces and Tennessee Memories. Please visit again.

    Thank you for your positive comments.

    Judy

    http://genealogytraces.blogspot.com

    http://cemeterieswithtexasties.blogspot.com

    Jan 31, 2012