Thanks Jim. Today is the first day I've been on this site since joining several years ago...  Not sure why, except that I've been battling some medical problems for a few years now and haven't done a lot with the genealogy. I ended up here today because I decided to clean up some of my bookmarks....... and here I am. Not sure how much time I'll actually spend here, but we'll see. 

Thanks for the invite, would love to chat.  I'm new to this site.  But my Colbert line is very interesting which is the family I was adopted into at one week old.  My birthmothers line is Bird/Bull and my grandmother was married to a "Sitting Bull".  Her name was Susie Bull/Birdshead.  The Cheyenne/Arapaho was involved in two major battles with the Custer Cavalry at the Battle of the Washita and the Sandcreek Massacre.  General Armstrong Custer took 50 or so or the Cheyenne/Arapaho captives or hostage to Fort Supply.    I have the census records that go back to the 1800's from this side of my family because it was a reservation held by the government.  I got them from NARA. (Archive for the Native Americans)

Jim, I didn't know that. Thanks! I'll have to do that. I'm still fairly new to this site. 

Jim, thanks for the update on the PA records at Ancestry for the DAR Genwise chat room.

I had only glanced at it and did not have the particulars. Yes I am a member of several of these sites on here, the DAR, Mayflower, and KY, but have little time to check them out.

I am Registrar for our DAR chapter and Registrar for our Colonial Dames 17C chapter and it is keeping me busy. We are gearing up for the March meetings and conferences.  Colonial Dames papers are lots more work than the DAR papers, takes them back about three or four gens. More sources to get.

Also involved in a research project to identify the crews of the B-17's of the 92nd Bomber Group of WWII.  Love it.

My O'Hara's connect to Gen James O'Hara, Rev War, one of tthe early founders of Pittsburgh, when he was at Ft. Pitt. He had the second glass factory there in Pittsburgh and was the Quartermaster Gen under Washington.  I am not his direct line, and we have not found documentation but believe I descend from his brother in South Carolina.  More work to do but my genealogy takes a back seat to all the others.

Maybe I missed something, but how did you know I was an O"Hara?  I do use it a lot as my middle name, duh.

Sorry I missed your comment.  Had to go teach.  Busy as well with Ohio and Michigan research communities on Facebook.  www.derekdavey.com

I'd love to join in, but evening tends to be a bad time for me between having dinner and getting my daughter ready for bed.  When I get on after that, most people are getting off.  Sigh.  I recently started a blog for those doing genealogy in the greater Kalamazoo area.  If you know anyone interested you can send them to www.kalamazoogenealogy.blogspot.com.  Thanks for the invite.

Hi Jim! Thanks for the information on the chat forum. I will definitely direct my questions there!

I don't have a George Colby out of NH listed yet but I do have a George K. Colby out of Maine. Most of who I am adding to my tree on my website, seem to have ended up in Wicasset County. I am not familiar with the area. I have so many Colby branches listed and so many more I can't wait to find!! :) I would love to find family on here. It's something I look forward to on a daily basis.

Looks like we both have the same sir-names in our genealogy "Byerly, Stenger, Greenawalt" How much research have you done on any of the three??

Don

Funny you have all three of my relatives in your history, and I don't have any of yours.

Thats Weird

Don

Hi Jim, my Brodericks are from Clare, the opposite side of the country.  I would think it's a more common name around Clare than Wicklow, perhaps some of the strayed eastward.

Thanks Jom, I don't have any Beedles in Vermont that I know about.  I have 437 in other places.  I also have a 19 Averys but they are all in England.

Thanks.  I'll contact him.  Maybe he will have a good source on the Goodwin name in the south.

Hi Jim,

My Avery's are from Ulster Co., NY. This line has been interesting to study. I worked on them for a long time, made no progress until one of my Avery cousins told me the name was originally Every, then things came together. Our immigrant was Edward Evre who came from Cornwall England to Long Island, NY in the 1600's. Our line changed the name from Every to Avery when they came to MI. Since, I have found many Avery and Every cousins surfing the www.

Dick Allen

Jim, that made me realize He was very lucky not to have been killed in battle because of the bayonets involved

Thanks Jim, that's a help as I'm still learning how to navigate around here.

Jim,

I appreciated your hospitality and kindness. I look forward to many conversations.

Sincerely,

Gale

Thanks for the invitation Jim.

I afraid I don't share any surnames with you. My research is into the GURD family whose lineage I can trace with certainty back to the early 16th century in Wiltshire, (concentrated in and around the little villages of Semley and Donhead St Mary. I have various records of the family in the same small area back as far as the 13th century, but of course there are no Parish Registers etc, to make firm links between people that early (a family tree based on assumption is worthless).  In the last two centuries a few family members emigrated to Australia, Canada and the USA, but in the main, the GURD family is still centred in the South West of England.

I look forward to sharing information and ideas with other researchers  

Regards,

Dot Gurd (in Salisbury, Wiltshire)

Member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, researching the GURD family worldwide.                                                  

Thanks.  I know I had Alley ancestors in the Union Army, not sure about Gettysburg.  I just made a major breakthrough on my Shepherd ancestors, and haven't discoverered many details yet.

Hi Jim.....my ancestors changed the spelling from Cassel to Castle, but during the Cassel phase, I believe they were mostly from Bucks County.  I've never come across the Wolford last name in any of my searches.  I sure wish we had info to share.  Sorry.  It was nice to meet you...................Judy

Sorry, afraid not- my Samuel FERGUSON was Birth 9 JUN 1758,

Death 20 FEB 1814  in Butler County, OH.  He was married twice -

first to Elizabeth Anderson  and  then to Elizabeth Crooks Blue.

Sorry I'm not.

lol...no but I do have his autograph :)  Thx for the welcome Jim!

We have been trying to discover where in Poland Stan Musial's father came from, but it has not been fruitful - even contacting the Foundation did not help.

My surname is Cart. It looks like you read it as Carl. The Cart ancestors came to America in 1752 and landed in Philadelphia. The German surname was Karg which became Cart early on and has been progressing to Carte. They were around Philadelphia until the 1790's when most migrated to VA (Monroe Co.) which later became WV in the Civil War.

Hi Jim...No, yall didn't scare me off the other day, I had something to do...I think you were on a BRB when I left.  As for my Barksdale relatives, William Barksdale m Elizabeth F Palmer in Abbeville, SC were my GGGG-grandparents. I am still kind of new to this and I haven't found his father although I am sure he has a bro Benjamin. I am sure there is a connection somewhere to the Gen Wm Barksdale but it isn't in my direct line that I am aware of.  Thanks for the comment...Kathy

Hi,

My Mulhollands came thru Canada to MN and then settled in WI. I have seen trees on Ancestry that have Mulhollands in NY state but I do not remember anything more than that about them.

Good luck on your search,

Mary

Hi Jim!

My WHEELERs are from Massachusetts back to the 1600's, and ARNOTT is from Scotland.  Moses WHEELER was the immigrant in my lineage. 

JudyShipherd

Hi Jim,Yes I have read your blog, Do you have any info. on a Anna Marie Wohlford b. Aug 25, 1829, d. Nov 20, 1897 married a George Brungart b. Feb 4, 1821 d. Mar 20, 1898?

Jim, Thanks for the info on Anna Marie Wohlford, By my records she's my 3rd Great grandmother, her & George's daughter Mary Jane Brungart is my 2nd Great grandmother, I 'm tring to track her spouse William M. Wate's parents. I also when to Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project and found some tree's with Johannes parents listed they say they came from Germany?

don't worry that stuff doesn't bother me. I find that subject of interest as well.

Hi Jim,

I have a William Henry in my tree, but not my direct line so I have not traced him at this time.  All I know of  him was he was in TN.  I just recently found some of my Poole relatives that settled in Louisiana in Caldwell Parish, one being an Andrew Jackson Poole that joined in Louisiana and ended up in Texas.  Do you have his parents information?  I will keep a lookout for his name as I'm searching.

Jim,

I don't believe I am related to any Pools/Pooles from Louisiana.  My line was in Northeast Georgia during that time.  Good luck with your search!

Julie

Jim, when are you going to Write more in your blog? Yes, I would like more information on Anna Maria (Wohlford) Brungart siblings.

I have not found any Sholls Family with the Waite's Family at this time. Be sure to tell me where your new blog is.

Thanks Jim, I understand the names now, you said earlier you where going to post Anna Maria Wohlford siblings on your blog, I have not found it. I now control her Finagrave.com Memorial as the woman who had it just deleted her. I believe she deleted alot of the Wohlford's she controled, What a waste! 

Thanks, Jim. That's the same Main family that came out of CT. I'm trying to get them

from Stonington CT back to England........or where ever.

Hi. I have not checked out your blog yet. My mother-in-law maiden name is Wolford. Her family comes from Hampshire County, West Virginia. Her parents and grandparents settled in Adams County, PA. Her parents are Albert and A. Isobel McFaulds Wolford, and her grandparents were Albert and Olive Pyles Wolford. 

I'm not sure what part of East Coast we (Davis) landed at. Thanks for the reply, will try to get on Chat community tonight.

Jim -- I love Joyce's website and I have spent a lot of time there. Sorry to say that I've never come across the name Avery in any of my family materials/research. I'm also unfamiliar with Quick's Bend. Most of my Quick people were in New Jersey and New York. Thanks for the suggestions, very helpful.

Hi Jim! Wow! That is amazing! Isn't it funny how you can have family so close and not even know it. Too bad she thought one side of the family was deceased. Was she excited to hear from you? I would think so! I discovered last year that one of my 3rd great grandparents lived a couple towns over from where I live now. Some of their kids stayed here and some stayed in England and I haven't checked yet to see if there are any living descendants but I look forward to eventually finding out! Thanks for getting in contact!!!

Yes, I would imagine that would be overwhelming! I'm in Milton, west of Toronto. I'm not on the site often and usually do family tree stuff on Sundays if I'm lucky. I see there are a lot of people in chat right now! I should make time one night...

Hi Jim! Do you have any Avery's in RI?

Link to Anne Babcock (Avery)

Hello.

Our Halstead line comes out of Iowa and Illinois.

Bill.

the reason we can go back so far is that we are descended from a French family that was descended from Viking royalty, and they kept records.  The Vikings were descended from Vandals who had intermarried with the Roman imperial family; the Roman lineage is a matter of historical record.  We have reason to believe that our earliest Roman ancestor in this line was descended from the house of Troy.  We then get a link between the Trojans and the Jews, and so we then trace all that line through the Jewish scholars.  Ultimately history gives way to myth, and from that we find our selves descended from Greek, Roman and Jewish divinities!

3764 BC..... once you get back into mythological genealogies the people are reported as living many centuries.

Those are two of my interests are genealogy and the paranormal, nice to see them combined. Keep us posted! Thanks.

Sorry Jim - No Averys so far.  Thanks for the chat invite - I assume you are talking about the Main Room Chat?

No. It is my daughter-in-law's family. They were from Lamersdorf, Kreis Dren, Koenisgreich, Prueschan. They immigrated in 1848 and settled in Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, WI

Yes - Peyton R. Bailey (1839 - 1914) On August 7, 1861, Peyton enlisted as a Private in the 2nd MS, Infantry, Co. E, and was appointed 2nd Lt. on June 27, 1862. Company E - Calhoun Rifles - Itawamba County: Mustered into State service on 18 February 1861. Captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.
Sent first to Point Lookout, MD, then to Fort Delaware and thence to Johnson's Island, OH. Paroled and sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 3/7/1865. Subsequently paroled at Columbus, MS on 5/17/1865. Capt. Bailey was the brother of John W. Bailey who married Matilda (Johnson). Matilda was the sister of our Selena (Johnson) Smith and David Johnson. Selena was the wife of above mentioned John Owen Smith.

Do you have anymore regarding where he may have been captured? Map?