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[carr]

Hey y'all ... it's my first post to The Family Tree ...

I've looked back at some the old posts and didn't find what I was looking for. So I'm just wondering ... have you ever started a roll call with members listing the surnames they are researching?

It's a small world after all (teehee). We might just get lucky and have an overlap somewhere!!!

What duya think?

[Screaming Eagle]

I think yes lol...Ringo and Ates as well as Brothers.

[Momo]

We've never had a roll call as such. Just posts with requests. I think you have a good idea so I'll make this a sticky post.

[carr]

Great!! I'll list some of mine now:

Roberson
Smith
Miller
Moore
Bailey ? maybe
Welch
Ferguson
Hurst
Lambeth (secondary - in connection with Hursts and Lambeths)

[Snowmom]

About 5 years ago, when Survivor started, we did something like that here, with names.

Wow, my DH has Moore, as well as Ferguson on his side, and I have Bailey, way way back on my side.

So I'll add a couple here:

Bartlett
Martin
Lee
Jones
Gugin
Clark
Scott

That is a start.

It is the Lee and Jones we are sort of stuck on.

[carr]

Thanks for replying Snowmom. My Fergusons are one of my brick walls ... in Tennessee. My grandmother was a Ferguson and we have no idea who her father was. My Moore's and Baileys (if I have the right connection -- just a hunch at this point) are in Georgia.

Ring any Bells for your lines?

[carr]

Thanks Screaming Eagle and Momo. Should we start a comprehensive list and bump it to the top? Oh yeah, and does anybody know how to do that??? lol

[Snowmom]

Let me see, I am thinking that all of DH's relatives would probably be around Iowa and so who knows for sure. People did move around back in the early 1900's and 1800's too.

I was sure there were Fergusons on my side too, and I checked. They are in Canada but, of course could be other places too.

We could start a sticky post with all of our sir names if enough are interested.

Oh, I know there are at least 3 or 4 of us on here who have Jones in our backgrounds.

I was looking for the Survivor name list and I couldn't find it, so maybe it was deleted during an update to the site.

[michelle]

Oh I want to join. I just started putting together my family tree. Some of the names I'm looking for are:

Eisworth (also possibly Ellsworth)
Lewman (also possibly Looman)
Hearn (also possibly Hearne)
Chisholm
Edleston
May

Some more names that may be linked to my family: Lick?

[michelle]

Okay I started looking at mine and now DH wants me to look up his too. Go figure! Here are some names or possible names for his family:

Scott
Martin
Forrest
Beason
Allgood

[arby]

MacCormack ( Ny State) May be related to Buchanans and MacLeans in Scotland prior to four years after the Battle of Culloden, Scotland.
Kondratowicz, Alexa, Alexander in Vilnius/Vilna Lithuanian or Polish territory depending on year, Prior to 1907 and also after 1915 for a few years

Also look at business ties possibly as far back as 1700s between Kondratowicz and LaFerriere ( have seen brandy label with both names.... was told early in life they had been long time friends... ) .
Hurley
LaFerriere
Turner
Wilson
Yingst ( Middletown PA Amish, also MacCormack in Amish)
Collett, Theodore, master carpenter from Oslo Norway, going back to Camilla Collett
Berg
Welsh Earliest known Patrick Welsh 1910 Duluth MN Looking further back to Wexford, Ireland
Campbell..... havent found it up the tree yet but its supposed to be there, kin to LaFerriere in Quebec/Montreal/Saskatchewan
Before and during first years of 1900's
( Have to look at Dads baby book for more of his side)
Dusablon possibly married LaFerriere

[ANewMe]

There are tons of Hearns where I live here in MS. Anyone in particular that you are looking for Michelle? Oh yeah, Martin's too.

[michelle]

Oops. I didn't think to add places. My family from Mississippi and Louisiana mostly. I know some may have been from Texas, Georgia, or North Carolina also.

Forrest family from Amite, MS... traced back to TN also. Furthest is for Richard Forrest b. 1767, son of Richard C. Forrest.

[Snowmom]

Ok, my Martin's are from out east, the Boston area and then Ohio and Mo., IA, and MN. The Scotts, are from the IN., IL,. and IA., area. But, one never knows where the off shoots go.

[michelle]

Well I know my husband has one uncle that lives in Iowa right now. I'm not sure if any of the other family has gone there or not.

[gimmeaminute]

I'm looking for:
Bundy
Coder
Emmert
Blank
Johnson
Lamont/Lemont

[Snowmom]

Was it around Mapleton? That is where the Jones and Scotts were.

What Johnson's are you looking for, can you give some names??

I'm adding a list of several names in the other thread, the one that I put all the names in order.

[gimmeaminute]

George Riley Johnson was an assemblyman to the New York State assembly from Neversink Township New York. He married Lucellia Jane Lamont. They moved to Kellettville in Forest County Pa. in the 1890's where he built what was at one time the largest tannery on the East Coast. He was my great-great grandfather. That's all the further back I have gotten. Family legacy says that he was part Native American. I have not been able to verify that and have not been able to find out anything further back than George Riley. Since he is listed in the who is who of the 23rd Judical district of Pa. you would think I would be able to find more information! Of course I did not know him but his grandson was my grandfather. He was a gentle, very dignified, hard working man with a great sense of humor and I adored him. I would like to find out more about his roots.

[Karen]

I'm gonna add my list too, most of mine are still in S.C. all the way back to the 2nd Bull Run.
Simmons
King
Lawson
Woodward
Avinger
Lindler
Taylor
Griffin
Griffith
Tumblin
Malloy
Smith
Harrison
Heaton
Young
Harvey
Murph
Green
LeMaster
Brown
Grissum.
If any of these sound familar let me know.

[The MacKinnon]

I've got two JONES lines, both driving me nuts.

My paternal names are from Ireland (counties Clare, Kilkenny & Tipperary) immigrating to Illinois:
Freeman
Hogan
Kilpatrick
Quinn
Gorman
Dillon
Mullen

My maternal names go back in America to 1620s in Virginia, from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales:

Sanders
Rook/Ruark
Thornhill
Johnson
Riggins
Hurt
Wright
Turner
Allen
Jones (two lines back in Sumner Co TN to 1800 then poof!)
Love
McNeal
Britten/Brittain
Hollowel
Cutchins
Davis

All my maternal ancestors followed a VA/MD to NC to TN line. Some were Quakers early on. Great history lessons!