The Tom's Rood , Knapp & Ballantine Homepage

I began doing family research about 30 years ago. I owe a great debt for the early information to my father, Leland Knapp, and to a box of pictures that my grandmother had given him. Many evening we spent going thru the box of pictures and he would tell me stories about the people in the pictures. Since my father's death in 1986. I had put the side. I continued to dabble in it once in a while. Then within the past year, thanks to a couple of cousins who set a fire under me, it has become a major portion of my life. Thanks to internet contacts my family tree is growing every day. Both sides of my family, Knapp and Abbott were among the first settlers in Conn. Other family names include Jordan, Brooks, McElhose, Wormley, Stewart, Felgenhaur, Rood, Grier, Pleis, and Hoffman along with many others. The earliest dates I presently have go back to about 400 BC. Most of what I have found comes from internet contacts.

Family Photos

• Henry Knapp 1821 -1888 (28 KB)
  Henry was born in Litchfield, CT the son of Harry & Muturah Knapp. He married Lois Ann Rood 7 Nov 1847. They moved to Vernon Co, Wisconsin where he was an influential county leaders.
• Knapp or Rood? (41 KB)
  Can anyone help me in identifying this picture? It was taken in Hartford, Conn, by Bartlett & Webster.
• Lois Rood (53 KB)
  Born 12/29/1828 in CT. Daughter of Augustus B Rood. Married Henry W Knapp 11/07/1847 in Norfolk, CT. Died July 13, 1896 in Vernon Co, WI.
• William Knapp Family 1915 (83 KB)
  Leonard Leon Knapp, Emmett Knapp, Charles Henry Knapp, William E Knapp, Leland Archie Knapp, Sarah Sadie McElhose Knapp, Elizabeth Knapp

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Report: Kinship of Thomas Lee Knapp


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Ralph Marlin


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Roger de Lockwood


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of John McElhoes


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Randophi Rudde