Updates to my tree

 Guess who's back? or dont guess. Its me. Wanted to update my search results on the family tree. 

*First of all, some of my previous theories were wrong. but you must always take research with a grain of salt or something like that.    

1. john nichols born 1814 in Bedford county, Va. is the son of Elisha Nichols and his second wife, Nancy Payne. Elisha may have had a kid with his first wife. idk. john may have been named Ezekiel. at least one source says his name was Ezekiel and that may be why he named a son Ezekiel. John married Martha Ann Jones who was the daughter of Ezekiel Samuel Jones, so the son may have been named after his grandpa or maybe his father, if John was named ezekiel as well. 

2. Olivia King was the daughter of John King jr. and Sarah Beckelheimer and she had a sister named Charlotte. Their mother and father died while they were young apparently and they went to live with their grandfather. Olivia or Olive married Leroy G Bartlett. 

3. The Beckelheimers came from Germany. sometimes called Picklesimers or Becklehymers or other forms of the name. My German roots can be a little confusing. 

4. i have been busy with other projects and have not had much time for blogging lately, but there you go. 

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Rosamond Mallory is probably the daughter of Roger and Sarah. maybe? most likely?

 I believe my 4th GG Rosamond Mallory is the daughter of Roger Mallory and Sarah Smith and I'll tell you why... Rosa married Stephen Bourne and his sister Elizabeth Bourne married George H Mallory. Usually when two siblings marry people with the same surnames they are related. So I think Rosamond Mallory is probably George's sister... or at least a relative of his. If Rosa is the sister of George then her parents are the same as his. Roger Mallory iv and Sarah Smith. Prove me wrong.... you can't? neither can I. As Roger Mallory's family is definitely related, it is highly likely that Rosa is the daughter of Roger Mallory and Sarah Smith so although I cannot confirm these findings, I cannot deny them either. 

James williams father confirmed, mother maybe. #familytreethursday

Well  it looks like my theory about Johnson Williams being the father of James is right, I found a DNA match on ancestry that appears to be a cousin through Johnson's father. it looks like Johnson is the son of Burrell Williams and Polly Morris and my DNA match is a descendant of Burrell. in theory this seems to confirm Burrell as the grandfather of James Henry williams and father of Johnson Williams. 

while I know that James is my line without a doubt, Johnson now seems to be his father and Burrell his grandfather. hopefully some kind of records will appear some day some where some how to confirm this theory. 

also, I have a theory on James' mother Malinda. and this one may be wrong. it may be very wrong or it may be right. it's almost too speculative to believe. but here goes, someone said that James was Blackfoot.... and maybe so... or maybe his skin was darker because his mother was Blackfoot. still have no records on her, but a theory of a cousin is that she was born Malinda Mills and she was a person of colour. really wish I could confirm that. apparently she may have been a native American or an African American. a record found says that she was black and she married a Williams later she married a Smith and lived out west. now if James was mixed then he could have had lighter skin toned kids right? I found a picture of his daughter and she looks pretty white so I don't know. if she was say a quarter native it may not look that way I guess. 

so this cousin found a record some where apparently that Johnson did in fact marry a Malinda Mills and she later married a Smith. so the paper trail looks pretty solid. Malinda could have married Johnson to have James then left with him and remarried. while there is no record of a James williams in their home they in fact, did have a James Smith living there. could this Malinda smith be THE Malinda smith who was the mother of James???  sure could use a flux capacitor right now. 

any way I am pretty confident about James father being Johnson Williams now and I know for sure his mother was Malinda smith. but was she Malinda Mills? that's the question. this line has been really difficult to find and I hope it's right now. 

i know James was my ancestor and am pretty sure now that Johnson and Burrell are too. Malinda Mills? maybe so. but some sources would be nice to have for this theory. 

John and Martha

John and Elizabeth

Brice and Jane

Chris and Nancy

James and Peggy

My new Ebook available now at Amazon Kindle. The Descendants of my fourth great grandparents James G Wright and Peggy Young.

dna results for the hancock family tree

changes. changes. changes.
sometimes you do a lot of hard work researching a line and adding all the little details... but sometimes you dont have that one thing. that one little bit of info that makes everything you do fall apart.
i have to make a note here for changes to the family tree because dna results for the hancock family say now that the father of my ancestor benjamin hancock may not be john who married jane holt. some of you out there may be working on this line and need this tip. dna does not lie and it looks like the descendants of ben are not the same as the descendants of john and jane holt hancock. the hancock dna results page says they are in two different groups.
link below. however, after a closer look i find these results inconclusive so they may be proven wrong later. in short, further testing is needed.

hope this helps anyone out there who may need to make the necessary changes. will be having to do some major surgery on my trees in the coming weeks and sad to say good bye to the lines that will be lost in the process, but hey we are still cousins somehow, so i will not be deleting the folks in those lines just making changes to the pedigree view.
best of luck to you in your hunt and keep climbing those trees
and seeking those answers.
peace.

hancock ydna results page at ftdna...
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hancock?iframe=yresults

Does your tree make sense?

Keep in mind that not every bit of information you find on your relative or ancestor is going to be true. Some people copy others without checking their facts and some people will copy you too. For this reason alone, due diligence is a must have in any tree. If you are not a thousand percent certain that a relationship is right say so.
If your fifth great grandfather was born in 1776 and his mother was born in 1770 you may have gotten some bad intel. And if his father died two years before he was born, he may not be the father, Luke.
If his father was born in another state and never moved or if he was in a different county his whole life, he may not be the father. And if he is not the father, was his wife really the mother. Circumstantial evidence is not admissible in court and should not be writ in stone on your tree either.
Just because five of your cousins on Ancestry listed Ben as the father of Luke or Luke as the father of Rey does not mean it is so. Do your detective work and confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that the tree is accurate or at least note any facts that are not confirmed. Keep in mind that others will not do the leg work and will copy you and your sixth great grandson may want to do the family tree for his grandchildren and may not be able to find the proof as easily as you can now.
Be the late night family detective your future generations need and leave no stones unturned. Think I have covered all the bases on this subject but let me finish with one more example.
Everyone on ancestry had assumed that my elder John Nichols was the son of Isaac and Rhoda Bond Nichols because they were in the same county he was born in, but it turned out with a lot of homework that Isaac and Rhoda had a son the same year that John was born and also, they did not have any sons named John at all.
Also DNA evidence proved that John and Isaac were two different bloodlines as they had different Y DNA haplogroups and so could not be related at all. John was actually a member of another line of Nichols who lived in Bedford County and was related to John Nichols who moved to Bedford from Maryland. He and John had the same Y DNA and so were related as sons inherit their Y DNA from their fathers so therefore Isaac was not related to John but John was.
Turns out that John's son, Arch had a son named John, of course his brother John did too, but not in the same time frame or location. But that is another story. While one researcher had taken an educated guess and gotten the bloodline wrong, others had copied their info and gotten their lines wrong too. And after having spent months and months researching Isaac's family, DNA proved that Isaac was NOT the father, as Maury would say.
On a side note, Isaac is actually related to me through a relatives marriage to my Hatcher line, so the research I ended up doing was not in vain at all, and I found some pretty cool relatives of Rhoda Bond in the process.
Rhoda had a relative who was scalped in a battle with Native Americans during Black Hawk's War, and was one of the bodies found the next day by Abraham Lincoln's unit. His name was James Bond, and I found him while researching Rhoda's tree. Just having a James Bond in the tree makes it worth the work.
Back to topic. Do your homework. Don't copy. And if you can use DNA to confirm where possible. 
By the way, if you read my earlier posts about Isaac and Rhoda's families and them being ancestors, I was wrong about them. #update.
Keep climbing trees and breaking through walls. The fruit is worth the labor.
Peace.

The many lives of Moses Linville

the many lives of moses linville

or the lives of the many moses linvilles... 

moses linville was not immortal exactly although he had many cousins with the same name... 

william moses linville was the son of david jr. and nancy ragsdale... he married elizabeth nelson and was born about 1827 in forsyth county nc.... he was the father of william alexander linville, columbus frank linville, and newton linville, among others.  

william was not the husband of elizabeth hester... 

elizabeth hester married moses linville b. 1829. 

my third great grandfather moses linville, b.1813, married henrietta white. he was the father of robert lee linville and berry linville. and he was not the husband of bethania hetty cook...  he was however the son of john and sarah busby linville and the grandson of moses linville and an unknown wife....   was he the moses linville who enlisted in 1861 in surry county nc? maybe.... 

moses son of richard was born about 1760 in nc and married elizabeth johnson... he moved his family west to tennessee and died in sparta, white county. he was the father of pleasant c linville and william m linville among others...   

 moses linville b.1829 in stokes county nc married elizabeth hester and was the father of william stephen linville 1852 and newton moses linville 1867 among others... william's death certificate lists his parents moses linville and elizabeth hester... this is not the moses linville born in 1700s.  this moses died in forsyth county nc 1913.... who were his parents??? benjamin fewell linville and mary holbrook or halbrook.... 

my fifth great grand moses linville 1752-1826 was the son of thomas and hannah. wife unknown but was not elizabeth hester. he was the father of john and brace and thomas and moses 1802 among others.... he died before the civil war but may have served in the revolution or the war of 1812... 

his son moses 1802 married bethania cook aka hetty. he was my fifth great uncle. he was the father of nephe, peter and franklin among others. their daughter bethania married an owens... he was probably the moses who enlisted in the war in surry county. there may have been more than one...  he died after 1880 census... 

newton moses linville 1867 1943 of forsyth county nc, was the son of moses linville and elizabeth hester. he married faithie ellen frazier....   he was father of 

Faitha Elizabeth Linville 
Samuel Oscar Linville 
Minnie Jane Long 
William Newton Linville 
Elvie Alice Crim

1791 moses linville married catherine crim. he was the son of david sr. and dorothy fair linville. he was born in nc but moved to indiana. he was the father of sarah c brown and moses jr. 1837.     

1837 was born in indiana and apparently never married he was drafted into the union army in the war and was still living with his mother in 1880 before his death in 97. it is unlikely that he ever went to nc so you can ignore the nc based hints for him...

links

http://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g0/p1.htm#i10  

http://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g0/p63.htm#i1867

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Linville-412

 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Linville-406

http://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g1/p1822.htm#i54654

http://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g0/p61.htm#i1805

ASA AKERS AKA ACY DEATH CERTIFICATE

THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF MY THIRD GREAT GRANDFATHER ACY AKERS.

TRANSCRIBED INCORRECTLY OF COURSE.... 

Name	Aly Akins
Gender	Male
Race	White
Age at Death	72
Birth Date	Jan 1851
Death Date	10 May 1923
Death Place	Pulaski, Virginia, USA
Registration Date	16 May 1923
Spouse	Katherine Akers

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RUFUS SAMUEL NICHOLS

My brand new E-book is out and on sale at the Gumroad Store! @ https://gumroad.com/grandsonofsam

A collection of the vital records of my paternal grandfather in PDF format. #TrueStory.  It is an important source file in the story of my Family History and the first piece of a really big puzzle that I have been working on for some time now.

Sir Thomas Browne, MA, MD, knighted by Charles II

My 9th great grandfather Thomas Browne was knighted by Charles II in 1671 for his support of Charles the first during the English Civil War. Thomas was an author and physician, born in London to Thomas Browne and Anne Garraway. He married Dorothy Mileham and was the father of my ancestor Clemment Browne.

The son of a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire, he was born in the parish of St Michael, Cheapside, in London on 19 October 1605.^[1]His father died while he was still young and he was sent to school at Winchester College.^[2] In 1623 Browne went to Oxford University. He graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1626, after which he studied medicine at Padua and Montpellier universities, completing his studies at Leiden, where he received a medical degree in 1633. He settled in Norwich in 1637, where he practiced medicine and lived until his death in 1682.

Browne's first literary work was Religio Medici (The Religion of a Physician). This work was circulated as amanuscript among his friends and it caused him some surprise when an unauthorised edition appeared in 1642, since the work contained a number of religious speculations that might be considered unorthodox. An authorised text, with some of the controversial matter removed, appeared in 1643. The expurgation did not end the controversy: in 1645, Alexander Ross attacked Religio Medici in his Medicus Medicatus (The Doctor, Doctored)and, in common with much Protestant literature, the book was placed upon the Papal List of Prohibited Books in the same year.

In 1646, Browne published his encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenets, and commonly Presumed Truths, whose title refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and "vulgar errors". A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a paradoxical and witty manner, it displays the Baconian side of Browne—the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called "the new learning". The book is significant in the history of science, because it promoted an awareness of up-to-date scientific journalism, it cast doubt, for example, on the widely believed hypothesis of spontaneous generation.

Browne's last publication during his lifetime, in 1658, were two philosophical Discourses intrinsically related to each other. The first,Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, inspired by the discovery of some Bronze Ageburials in earthenware vessels found in Norfolk, resulted in a literary meditation upon death, the funerary customs of the world and the ephemerality of fame. The other discourse in the diptych is antithetical in style, subject-matter and imagery. The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered features the quincunx, the arrangement of five units (as with the "five-spot" in dice) and is used by Browne to demonstrate evidence of the Platonic forms in art and nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne          

LINKS:

https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=9Z48-P76&spouse=LHZL-C7W  
http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Browne/5070522609870039927                        
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-1876      

Now listed in Geneabloggers!

I am highly honoured to be listed in the Geneabloggers Genealogy Blog Roll, as it is my go to blog when I get writers block or need advice or ideas.

Also , you can look for this blog in this Saturday's New Genealogy Blogs post over at Geneabloggers.com.

I guess we can call ourselves GBs now without pissing off any BeeGees fans right?

Any way, Thank you Thomas MacEntee for the shoutout and I will see you in the tree.

And thanks to all my cousins out there who made this blog a success story for me.

Til next time,
Ray
GB blogger
Publisher
and Family Historian

LINKS
www.geneabloggers.com 
http://www.geneabloggers.com/daily-blogging-prompts/ 
http://geneabloggers.com/genealogy-blogs/           
http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-blogs-3-january-2015/     

54/55 David Johnson and Deborah #FamilyHistoryFriday 1/12

Its Family History Friday again and today I will be continuing the Ancestor List Challenge I started in 2014. Also, this will be the 1st of 12 ancestors in 12 months for 2015.

Number 54 and 55 on my ancestor list is David Johnson and his wife Deborah...

David Johnson is the father of Margaret Elizabeth Johnson who married Robert Lee Linville. David's wife is believed to be named Deborah and some speculate her maiden name to be Shinall or Chenault. Who were his parents? Who were his wife's parents? Who knows? Sometimes you just hit a wall and crash. C'est la genealogy!

David and Deborah probably lived in Surry county, NC. They are my 6th generation great-great-great grandparents

Happy New Year!!! 2014 in review and goals for 2015!

Well, its New Years Eve! Wow, what a year. Traditionally I like to spend New Years Eve with the New Years Rocking Eve crew in front of the TV and maybe watch some fireworks, but this year I have to be at work when the Big Apple drops. #boo.

Anyway, January 1st marks the end of a huge chunk of my life where I learned so much about so many, and blogged about a lot of them. Where as this blog has been busy as a beaver this year, many of my other projects suffered, and so, one of my 2015 goals is to blog more on the art blog and the fiction blog. I have a lot of fiction to type yet from years ago and also, I want to do something next year with my Youtube channel. Its kind of been gathering dust lately.

One of my goals for the year is to proofread my posts from this year and touch them up if needed, then I may be reblogging them on Thursdays for #TBT. So you may be seeing some of those reworks soon on my Twitter.  

The year in review? Well, lets see, I started this blog in 2014 and also created a newspaper this year called Family History Daily and Family History Weekly too, and as they are doing so well, I will be keeping them in circulation. I sat up a feed at Twitterfeed which has been very helpful with keeping readers in the loop and so that will continue as well, and I earned a few awards this year at Wikitree and Poetry.com this year and as I never win awards, had to share them on my blogs.  

And I learned a lot about my ancestors and their families this year that I did not know before. Also, found a whole lot of cousins that I never would have found if not for genealogy. What a great hobby this has been.
 
My other fam history blog GTFT is doing the Family History Friday challenge now and will be continuing it all next year, in fact, I have written almost 52 posts for it already, just need to tweak them a bit.

And my Art blog is doing the Wordless Wednesday challenge because what a perfect challenge for  an art blog right? It lets me post all the little sketches that I just cant come up with a name for. Also, hope to find time to continue the famous people cartoons next year, I have already done George Bush and David Letterman cartoons over there and Nixon and Obama too. Hoping to do a Lincoln toon soon.  

For Poetry month next year, I hope to do some new works each week, maybe even each day.

I want to say THANKS for reading this year as this weblog was born in January and has already had 17383 views this year alone. Wow. Never thought it would make it.  

What are your goals for 2015 and accomplishments for 2014?

12 Ancestors in 12 Months Challenge #12in12

In 2015 I will be continuing the Ancestor List Project and starting a new challenge as well. 12 ancestors in 12 months. I know it sounds too dam easy but I have a lot of plates up in the air right now and am trying not to drop them. The hashtag will be #12in12. Hope you will continue reading with me...

It seems that I write better when I challenge myself or use themes so this should work out great.
See you in the tree.

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