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Dead Ends by Jeannette Holland Austin
Everyone arrives at the old brick wall sooner or later. I recently completed tracing a family which was a project for more than 40 years. There were virtually no records. So here is what I did. I searched all around it and identified most every family in the region/regions. Once this project was completed, the narrowing down began. Only two families qualified to have a child of that approximate age. Published genealogies do frequently omit children, simply because the last will and testament omitted that child, he had already moved away, etc. Somehow, we have establish the names of all the families having the same surname. The details are so important. Other sources are deeds, tax digests and inventories of estates. The annual returns of an estate list the transactions, who was paid, who received, etc. Heirs gave receipts or vouchers when they received property or cash from the estate. The sale of the property listed the widow who was given incidential household items and other names. The other names are suspect to be relatives. I cross-check the male purchasers in that county's marriage records to discern whether or not he married a daughter in the family. I want to know the identify of every person who participates in an estate. It's the only way.

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New Additions to Georgia Pioneers

Terrell County Will Book A 1857-1871

Testators: Barnett, Samuel; Brim, James; Cheny, Frederick; Christie, Benjamin ; Collins, Harvey; Coolidge, Albert; Cozart, Anthony; Enten, Elizabeth; Ethridge, Aaron; Gammage, Zachariah; Garlington, Christopher; Gay, Asberry; Jordan, Moses; Jordan, Randall; Kaigler, Amos; Kaigler, David; Kelly, Charles; Kemp, Benjamin; Laine, Robert; Martin, Thomas; Martin, Willis; Mercer, Leonidas; Mercer, John T.; Musgrove, Harrison; Ravens, David; Simpson, John; Speight, Cicero; Taylor, James; Todd, Alexander; Warnock, Elizabeth;Wynn, Thomas

Georgia Genealogies Added - Butler of Ogeechee, Chatham County; Danielly, Danelly of SC and GA.

NewNew Additons to Kentucky Pioneers website - Bible Records - Bruce; Collings;Cooper; Graham; Hayden of Franklin County; Park-Richardson;Pedego of Glasgow; Redford of Glasgow;Richardson; Ropke; Steele; Wallace of Louisville

New Additions to North Carolina Pioneers website
Sketches of NC Confederate Generals - General Braxton Bragg, General W. W. Loring; General Leonidas Polk and Colonel Samuel Walkup.
New Additions to South Carolina Pioneers website

Notice to members of South Carolina Pioneers - I am in the process of adding all of the Charleston County Will Indexes to the website. If you see a name in one the Charleston County indexes and want that will added to the website, please let me know and I will obtain an image of it. The will collection for Charleston is voluminous! Please provide the will book number, as found on the website available to paid Members of South Carolina Pioneers New South Carolina Genealogies - Butler of Charleston (begins ca 1672); Elliott of Charleston (begins ca 1663).

Charleston County Wills & Documents Miscellaneous Wills, Estates, Deeds (Digital Images) Horry County Wills and Transcripts

* Horry County Administrator's Bonds 1803-1818 * Horry County Index to Wills * Anderson, Robert * Atwater, Joseph * Bryan, William D. * Clardy, Michael * Daniels, Robert * Dawsey, Samuel * Elks, James * Foley, John * Foxworth, Samuel * Gause, B. W. * Graham, John Sr. * Graham, John * Grainger, John Sr. * Grainger, Samuel * Grainger, Thomas * Hardy, John * Jordan, Robert * Jordan, William Sr. * King, Thomas * Kirkland, Daniel LWT (1828) * Lewis, Daniel R. * Lewis, Rachel * Lewis, William * Lewis, William Henry * Livingston, Thomas * Lowremore, Robert

Greenville County Wills, Images and Transcripts

Index to Greenville Co. Will Bk 1785-1853

Will Transcripts Added: Arnold, Benjamin, LWT; Barrett, Reubin (1812); Benson, Prue, LWT; Bots, Moon, LWT; Bradley, Abraham, LWT; Chastain, Abraham, estate (1845); Chandler, Joel, LWT; Cox, John, LWT; Crain, Judith, LWT; Crayton, Thomas, LWT; Darrach, Hugh, LWT; Dill, John, LWT (1807); Dill, Stephen, LWT (1839); Dyer, Samuel, LWT; Edwards, John, LWT; Fisher, Nicholas, LWT; Ford, Mary, LWT; Ford, John, LWT; Forest, Jeremiah, LWT; Forrester, James, LWT; Foster, John, LWT; Goodlett, David, LWT; Goodlett, Hiram, LWT; Harrison, John, LWT (3); Hawkins, Joshua, LWT; Howard, Edward, LWT; Howard, John, LWT; Hunt, William, LWT; Janes, Joseph, LWT; Jenkins, Micajah, LWT; Kemp, Richard, LWT; Kirby, Francis, LWT; Langley, Carter, LWT Langston, John, LWT; Lester, Archibald, LWT; Loveless, Isaac, LWT; Machen, Henry, LWT; Mathers, William, LWT; McClanahan, William, LWT (1802) transcrip; McCrary, James, LWT; McVicar, Adam, LWT; Moon, John, LWT (1839), transcript; Moon, William, LWT (1835), transcript; Morgan, Isaac, LWT; Owens, William, LWT; Payne, Isaiah, LWT; Payne, Thomas, LWT; Peden, John, LWT; Peden, John Sr., LWT; Peden, William, LWT; Pickett, Micajah, LWT; Pike, Lewis, LWT, transcript, 1819; Roberts, Hardy, LWT; Roe, James, LWT; Rogers, John, LWT; Sims, Drury, LWT; Smith, Alexander, LWT;Smith, Abner, LWT; Smith, Reubin, LWT; Sparks, Jesse, LWT; Stone, Mary LWT; Tarrant, Benjamin, LWT (1808); Tarrant, John, LWT; Taylor, John, LWT; Thompson, John, LWT; Thackston, William, LWT; Thrasher, Thomas, LWT; Waddill, Edmund, LWT, image (1850); Welch, William, LWT; Wells, Samuel, LWT; Wickliff, Isaac, LWT; Wynne, Matthew, LWT; Young, John, LWT; * Young, William, LWT

Index to Richland County Will Book 1787-1853
(Names are listed here : Adams, Richard; Allison, Andrew; Belton, John; Blanchard, Benjamin; Coon, Casper; Coosmaul, Henry; Daniel, Richard; Dodd, John; Duncan, Mathew; Everitt, Benjamin; Faust, John Henry; Gill, John; Haswell, Robert; Howell, Arthur; Howell, Thomas; Huggins, William; Jackson, Samuel; Kinsler, Christian; Libecap, Mathias; Partridge, William; Ross, James; Rowan, Samuel; Shirling, James; Sledde, Seten W.; Taylor, Mary; Wescott, David; Whitaker, William Jr.; Whitaker, William Sr.; Wimberly, Mary

Index to Richland County Wills, Bk C
--Some will transcripts from Bk C, but not all--

Curry, Jane; Faust, Jacob; Hay, William; Hinson, William; Hunt, James Green; Kelly, Alexander; Kinsler, Daniel; Rives, Herbert; Rives, Robert; Salisbury, Pettigrew; Strange, Henry; Waggoner, Robert

Chester Co. Wills (images and transcripts) - Alexander Archer, Thomas Franklin, John Hitchcock, James Moor, John Rogers, Isaac Sadler, Robert Stewart, John Walker, William Weer

Abbeville Co. Wills & Estates, transcripts - James, Aston, LWT, transcript; Bates, Stephen, LWT, transcript; Bouchillon, John, LWT, transcript; Bowman, John, LWT, transcript; Bowman, William, LWT, transcript; Calhoun, James, LWT, transcript; Collins, Edward LWT (1837); Cowan, Andrew, LWT, transcript; Crozier, James, LWT, transcript; Edmiston, John, LWT, transcript; Gantt, William (1809; Hanks, Luke, LWT, transcript; King, Benjamin, LWT, transcript; Little, William, LWT, transcript; Logan, Andrew, LWT, transcript; Marck, John Balthaser, LWT, transcript; Marshal, John, LWT, transcript; McCarter, Benjamin, LWT, transcript; McElwee, John, John, LWT, transcript; McKee, Marthy LWT (1813); Meriwether, Francis, LWT (transcript;) Mitchell, Isaac, LWT, transcript; Morrow, George, LWT, transcript; Mott, Andrew, LWT, transcript; Mulherrin, Charles, LWT, transcript; Murdoch, James, Estate, 1837 (image) Norwood, Theophilos, LWT, transcript; Paterson, Robert, LWT, transcript; Pettigrew, James, LWT, transcript; Prince, John, LWT, transcript, 1782; Reid, George, LWT, transcript; Robartson, John, Sr., LWT, transcript; Seawright, James, LWT, transcript; Shaw, William, LWT, transcript; Taylor, Thomas, LWT, transcript; Vernon, James, LWT, transcript; Woodin, Rebekah, LWT, transcript; Yeldell, Robert, LWT, transcript

Barnwell Co. Wills, transcripts - Nathaniel Abney; Tarlton Brown (estate); James Collins; William Crossle; David Edward; William Evoritt; Thomas Filput; Robert Hankinson; Christopher Hicks; Robert Lee; Martin Matkinberhide; John Myfser; Stephen Smith; Edward Southwall; John Wood.

Greenville Co. Wills & Estates, transcripts, abstracts - Reubin Bennett; Prue Benson; Moon Bots; Abraham Bradley; Abraham Chastain; Joel Chandler; John Cox;Thomaas Crayton; Hugh Darrach; John Dill; Stephen Dill; Sally Duncan; Samuel Dyer; Jeremiah Forest; David Goodlett; Hiram Goodlett; John Harrison; John Howard; William Hunt; Joseph Janes; Micajah Jenkins;Richard Kemp; Carter Langley; Archibald Lester; Isaac Loveless; Henry Machen; William Mathers; William McClanahan; James McCrary; Adam McVicar; John Moon; William Moon; William Owens; Isaiah Payne; John Peden; William Peden; Micajah Pickett; Lewis Pike; James Roe; John Rogers; Alexander Smith; Abner Smith; Reubin Smith; Jesse Sparks;Mary Stone; Benjamin Tarrant; John Tarrant; John Taylor; John Thompson; William Thakston; Edmund Waddill; William Welch; William Young.

Pickens County Wills, Transcripts - Elisha Alexander, Benjamin Armstrong, James Barker, Caleb Barton, John Bowen, Benjamin Cleveland, Sion Cooper, Eli Davis, William Dickson, Charles Durham, Samuel Earle, Ambrose Fitzgerald, Henry Gaines, Robert Gaines, John Grishim, Jesse Hall, Catherine Humphreys, William Jolly, Charles Lay, Morgan Morgan, John Neel, Ambrose Petty, Joseph Reid, William W. Robinson, Henry Shell, Benjamin Smith, Daniel Stephens, Joseph Wood, Stephen Young.

New Additions to Virginia Pioneers webside

Sketches of General Jubal A. Early; A. P. Hill; Robert E. Lee; George Edward Pickett; James E. B. Stuart

Virginia Wills and estates (transcripts) - Buckingham Co. - Francis Harris; Edward Jones; William Maddox; Moon orphans; Elizabeth Watkins; Joel Watkins; John Watkins; Silas Watkins.

Charles City Co. - Mary Byrd; William Byrd; John Clay; William Clay; Francis England; John Gregory Jr.; Francis Hardyman; Benjamin Harrison; Rebecca Izard; Robert Munford; William Munford: John Rogers; John Stith; John Tyler; John West.

Dinwiddie Co. - John Burrow; Jane Cardwell; Edward Davis; Francis Eppes; John Grant; William Hudson; Joseph Jackson; Anne Downman Muir; Fulmer Skipwith; William Sturdivant.

Hanover Co. - James Allen; John Beal; Benjamin Brown; John Clay; Nathaniel West Dandridge; William Fleming; James Hill;George Hudson;Nathaniel Lipscombe; Nicholas Meriwether; Robert Page; Charles Street; John Thomson; William Turner; John Walton.

King William Co. - George Dabney; Samuel Garlick; Aaron Quarles.

Stafford co. - Seth Botts; Edward Clement; Andrew Edwards; Michael Fudd; Charles Grigsby;; John Gribsby; Booford Johnson; Peter Mauzy.

York Co. - Richard Ambler; Blair Andrews; Phillip Bullifant; Cuton Elliott; Archibald Foster; William Parks.

New New Additions to TN Pioneers website Tennessee Genealogies - Babb of Greene & Roane Counties [Colonial Families of United States of America by George Norbury McKenzie, Vol. 5]; Barnard of Roane County [Colonial Families of United States of America by George Norbury McKenzie, Vol. 5]; Fain, Nicholas, descendants of, the emigrant, by Augusta Bradford Faron of Chattanooga [Colonial Families of United States of America by George Norbury McKenzie, Vol. 5] ; Henderson of Williamson County [Colonial Families of United States of America by George Norbury McKenzie, Vol. 4]; Ladd of Roane County [Colonial Families of United States of America by George Norbury McKenzie, Vol. 5]; Landis of Beech Hill, Bedford County

New Additions to Pioneer Families LLC website - American Pioneer Series, a database of genealogies and research notes; sources cited; alphabetical, millions of names.

NewNew Additions to Genealogy-Books Website New Genealogy Books Added - A History of the Moravian by Joseph Edmund Hutton; A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang; A Sketch of the History of Oneonta by Dudley M. Campbell; American Prisoners of the Revolution By Danske Dandridge; American Merchant Ships and Sailors by WIllis J. Abbot; An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard; An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 By Mary Frances Cusack; Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Judon's Bay Company by Hudson Bay Company; Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Chesterfield; Letters, Sentences and Maxims. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773, had a fate generally misunderstood. Dr. Johnson, a poor scholar but in the prime of life, seems to have mistaken a delay in an interview, and to have abused his lordship very soundly ever afterward. To this misconception we owe one of the finest and manliest letters ever written. Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, the widow of the recipient of these letters, sold them, enhanced in value from the earl's literary reputation, for 1,500 pounds! That was an immense sum in those days. Published 1894 in Philadelphia, 307 pp., indexed. A rare find indeed! First Whiteman of the West: Daniel Boone; The Annual Monitor for 1851, or Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1850; History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John 1066-1216; History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Hochelagans and Mohawks: A Link in Iroquois History by W. D. Lighthall; Lewis and Clark; Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of Tuscarora Indian by Elias Johnson; Pioneers of the Old South, A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnson; The Days of Bruce: A Story from Scottish History, Vol. I by Grace Aguilar; The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth by Hilaire Belloc; The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman; The Magna Carta By Unknown Author; The Manual of Heraldry. Unknown author. 5th Edition; The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis; The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman; Victoria. Queen and Empress by Robert C. V. Meyers

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PARKER, BROWNING, GOODMAN, MARCHMAN, COLLINS. Researching these families. Charles Parnell. rileytide@aol.com

McPHERSON. Looking for information regarding The McPherson family from Burke County. Grandfather's Father Odell McPherson related to John and Alice McPherson. Brothers: Abram, Partcher, Jasper etc. Email Robert Bell b. 1675 Isle of Wight County, VA to Chowan/Bertie 1715. John Barrs, Sr. b. 1727 Toft Hamlet, Warwickshire, England to Johnson/Dobbs/Lenoir 1750. John Jones born in North Carolina 1813 from Wales died Smith County, TN Al Barrs. albarrs@wfeca.net. Greenwood, FL

GRAVES. I am researching early Georgia to discover more about the Graves family. My gg grandfather was George Graves who married Lulender Gunn in 1840 in Warren County, Georgia. I can't find George's parents. There was a Thomas Graves Sr b 1729 Lower Potomack Hundred, Maryland. He and sons are listed on the 1790 Franklin County Census. I can't connect any of them to George Graves yet. One thing I know, is that Dr. George Graves who married Mary Scott June 26 1790 in Augusta, Georgia is not the father of my George Graves. My George Graves and wife moved west through Alabama, Mississippi, and settled in Wood County, Texas 1854-1858, where they are listed on the 1860 census. I am aware of a Graves family in Muscogee County Georgia and wonder if they are related to my George Graves? Eddie Graves, Wichita Falls, Texas. egraves@sw.rr.com

PEACOCK. From: S A STANCLIFF Date: 5/17/2009. I've been trying to desperately find the gravesite of John Peacock (married to Nancy Peyton), both from Maryland. Here's what I know: --first they lived in Oglethorpe Co.; he died in Jasper Co., GA; his birth/death dates: 1745-1826; There are a lot of Jasper Co. deed documents I've found on line between he and his sons, etc. I assume he's buried on his land...which is hard to pinpoint. He had sons Lewis, Daniel and William...just to name a few of his children. His son Lewis married Avey Hill, daughter of Mordecai Hill. I've visited the county library in Monticello, GA but still can't find where he's buried. Thanks for anything you can supply. Susan Stancliff 770-939-4698

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