So Let's Begin

A little introduction here in my very first post.

I have now got to the point where I need to get the data I am have learned about my various ancestors into some written form. I am planning to start Part I of a series of "books" or publications on my family . My research is still continuing and in fact the need to put it out there for input/information sharing is one reason also I am starting this blog. (My main  non genealogy blog is here by the way.).

The blog is sort of blah looking right now,  but I will be adding a series of links relating to the ancestors I am writing about as well as just genealogy links of interest. So hopefully the appearance of this blog will go rapidly  from rather generic looking to some more pleasant to the eye as well.


In attempting discover who my ancestors were  I will attempt to  engage their  story. That is  their jobs, their political surrounding ,their religion , their hopes, their dramas etc that all made them , and thus me to various degrees, what they were as a person and a family. One reason I am writing this blog is an attempt to put this in interesting narrative that is not just a series of dates and places repeated for 50 pages.

So not only will this be a genealogy blog  but all those topics and more will be explored.

The first few months of this blog will no doubt be exploring some of the following lines of my direct ancestors. ( though this list is not by any means exhaustive) .

These at first will be of my  Great Grandfather through through my mothers Maternal line . That is Hamilton Burton Nelson Sr and ,lines  including but  not limited too :  Cassell ,  Causey , Cox , ,Glanton, Gilliam, Jackson, Jenkins, Murrah, Nelson, Richardson ,,Sojourner.  Whittington, and other lines that hopefully will develop.


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Those lines of my  Great Grandmother through my mother's paternal line,  That is Pallie Wigley,  including but not limited too: Boykin, Deloach, Flake, Gwaltney,  Harthcock , Killebrew, Martin, Marriott,  Ruffin, Tolar, Warren, Wigley, Zeigler  ,and others  some waiting to be explored.
 

Please to look to the tags in the sidebar as family names and topics develop.

These lines are very Southern. They go from the early days of the Jamestowne Settlement and other parts of Colonial Virgina to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia , the early Territory days of Mississippi, to Louisiana , Arkansas , Texas and beyond. A few lines appears to have been also in Tennessee and perhaps one significant line (Causey) might have had his Immigrant American start in Maryland.

These families, the figures the associated with, the wars they were in , the various locales they lived shall be explored here too. It should be noted for African Americans that happen upon this blog I will make some effort to keep track of Slaves that were linked to my family also.