An Introduction
I do genealogy as a hobby on families with whom I have connections. These include my own ancestors and cousins as well as the ancestors of my great-grandchildren. Thus the sub-title is descriptive but does little to indicate all that you may find here.
My own ancestors came to Illinois mostly from MA, CT, NY, PA, KY, VA and Prussia. My wife’s ancestors came to TN mostly from NC and VA. Most of the additional ancestral families of my great-grandchildren came to Spartanburg County, SC, from nearby counties or from NC or VA. All these are the families I intend to publish here.
I use WordPerfect to create these documents, but most of you may not be able to read those files directly. To preserve as much of the format as possible, I have published them in Acrobat PDF Reader format.
Summary Ancestral PDF Files
Quick links to summary PDF files for the ancestral lines that I have researched.
- Ancestral lines for Craig Burrell (Bragg, Burrell, Chapman, Childress)
- Ancestral lines for Dan W. Olds ( Gray, Hunt, Simmons, Ulrich, Whaley, Woods)
- Ancestral lines for Betty Poteat (Conley, Cox, Fortner, Greene, Phillips, Rhudy, Stewart, Warwick, Whitlock)
- Ancestral lines for Melinda Settle (Chapman, Wingo, Wolfe and an ‘all lines’ file)
You may also wish to browse my more complete family database in an html format created by John Cardinal’s Second Site program from my own The Master Genealogist (TMG) files.
Book Eggs in PDF Format
Electronic documents make an ideal, changing, incubator for the books that I may someday write (if books are still around by that time). These files show my progress. What others have shared with me, I am glad to share with you in the hope that through continued exchange we will improve the scope, accuracy and documentation of our knowledge of these families.
- Ancestors and Descendants of Peter and Mary (Brown) Bowers of Pa., Ind., Iowa, and Ill.
- Ancestors of John and Nancy (Higgins) Harrison (in Colonial Conn., Mass., and in England)
- Descendants of John Krimmel, b. ca. 1800, PA
- Robert Olds, d. 1728, Suffield, CT, and Descendants
- A John Poteet (b. ca. 1770?) of Burke Co., NC and his family
- Ancestors and Descendants of William Henry Ridgely (1786 – 1859)
Additional Notes
You may also wish to read my notes on DNA for genealogy.
Can you identify this heirloom, possibly of WWI vintage ?
Dan W. Olds, Ph.D.
A genealogist who asks, “How do we KNOW that?”
Genealogy is a lifetime hobby. Try it and give your past a future.
