My mother's maiden name is SMITH, and my father's name is SMITH. I am searching two seperate lines of SMITH. For the sake of easily seperating the lines, I will commonly refer to them as "His" and "Hers" or "Sire" and "Dame".
"His" side goes back to the mid 1700's in Virginia. They traveled through South Carolina, Tennessee, and Illinois. After the Civil War, my Great Grandfather moved to Nebraska. In 1894 he moved his family further south, through Kansas, and ended up in Oklahoma. Direct surnames on this side include: ANTHONY, BELL, HAGLER, HUETER, JENKINS, JOHNSON, KELLEY, KLONTZ, SANFORD, SCHILL, SEITZ, SHANER, SWAIN, WINTON, and WYATT. Other states include Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio, while ohter lines have been traced to Germany.
"Hers" has not been traced back that far yet, but have been found in Tennessee in the 1850's. This line later settled in southern Missouri. Direct surnames on this side include: HALL, HARTMAN, LEHMER, MUTCHNER, NELSON, ROSIER, SHIPLEY, SHORE, SLADE, STEPHENS, WHEELER, WHITAKER, WINCHEL, and ZIMMERMAN. Family members have also been located in Kentucky, Illinois, and Maryland.
My ancesters aren't much different from yours. Some of mine are farmers, teachers, tax collectors, military people, clerks, jokesters, musicians, drunks, factory workers, scholars and even a couple were put in asylums. There are stories of a runaway horse and wagon, death by trains, death by careless creek crossings, car chases, wagon trains, foreclosure of homesteds, Indian heritage, donations to Civil War prisoners for food, and many more. The difference is that regardless of how crooked their ways, how colorful their characters, or how many were fine upstanding young men, they are mine. And bless them all for I would not be who I am today if it were not for each and every one of them.
Some of my other sites are:
http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/ironbridge/322
http://www.casstel.net/~lec
All sites will be updated soon. Current information available at these sites is a list of surnames and research material (I do look ups). I have posted my cemetery index and will be including an individual index to go with the state and county index already posted at my ~lec page with casstel. I plan to add an organization page and a poetry page and a family circle page for links to other people (relatives) searching the same surnames in my family.
If you are searching any of the same surnames, I urge you to drop me a quick line. "The short time it takes to email others, could make a connection between brothers" by Lec 11/2/1998.
Visit again soon, I wouldn't want you to miss anything when my sites get updated.
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