Genealogy

This picture was taken about 1875. The young girl in the middle is Brian's great-grandmother Ella Moore Fowler.

Our Online Family Database

*Functionality updated October 27, 1999*

Enter here:

All the surnames
Merri's family
Brian's main branches
Brian's Georgia family: Banks, Bray, Posey, Stephens
Brian's Kentucky family: Coogle, Fowler, Paris, Skaggs
Brian's grandfather has his own Web site, thanks to Brian and Merri.

Last data update: March 10, 2000. We added all of Merri's family to the database, and added the newest Stephens: Isaac. See the log of changes.

New functionality:

Sorting: Children in a family group are now sorted by birth date, like they should be! Also, surname listings can now be sorted by name, birth date, or death date. Your last sort selection is saved (as a cookie) for the next time you ask for a surname listing.
Ahnentafl Reports: On each family group page, there are now links to each person's ahnentafl chart, which is a listing of all the ancestors of the person (with dates).
Surname Links: On each surname page, there are now links to useful information about that surname. There are three standard links: geography, frequency, and other researchers. There may also be links to similar surnames in my database and links to other Web sites with information on the surname.

Other Online Records

The LDS Church has provided an amazing amount of their information, searchable online, at Ancestry Home Town. It includes the Social Security Death Index, their World Family Tree database, and many small databases from specific localities.

The USGenWeb Project is a massive undertaking to put records online. It's divided into the Archive Project, the Census Project, the Tombstone Project, and the Lineage Project. I'm so excited that online census records are finally here!

The University of Kentucky has Kentucky vital records online and searchable!

Brian Tompsett has a very organized and detailed database of Royal and Noble genealogies.

Genealogy Online has, among other things, a tiny portion of the actual 1880 Census. Currently, you can find which counties are on which rolls for all censuses, and you can find actual census indices for two counties in North Carolina in 1790.

Look at a map of the U.S. giving the geographical distribution of your surname! The map is color coded state by state according to what percentage of people in the state have that name. Some interesting distributions: Olson, Silverstein, Neilsen, Martinez, Stanhope, Lafayette.

Yahoo has a collection of links to online family databases.

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RootsWeb has the Roots Surname List, a great way of finding people researching certain surnames. It also has some online databases and lots of good links.

The Genealogy Home Page

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox

National Genealogical Society

Cyndi's List is Cyndi Howells' award-winning site of tens of thousands of genealogy links.

Lori Hoffman has many, many good links.

Vicki Lindsay has an extensive, alphabetized list of newsgroups, listservers, and homepages.

This picture of the Bray family was taken about 1901. The man and woman on the far right are Brian's great-grandparents Jesse Warren Banks and Octa Elexie Bray.