Our Family Roots Swearingen/Davis; Rains/Hutson and more!
Our Family Roots Swearingen/Davis; Rains/Hutson and more!Updated October 6, 2010 | |
| Using the Family Tree Maker software I am working on "books" for each line of our family. The first is the Swearingen/Davis line which of course is our father's family.Next will be the Rains/Hutson line which is our mother's line. Each "book" will be published to this website as a PDF document.You will need Adobe Reader to view the document.If you do not have the program you can download one free at http://www.adobe.com just click the"Get Adobe Reader" button. Each "book" will include an index and a bibliography or source list.For the Early Swearingen line I have relied heavily on the Karel Whyte book "Swearingen/Vansweringen and Related Families." Karel's book details the first 5 generations of the Swearingen/Vanswearinge Line. Karel was a meticulous researcher and list original documents as her sources. Later family members have been pulled from census, Family Data information available on-line and our own family history. For the Rains/Hutson line I found Uncle Louis Edward's unpublished work "Along the Way" to contain quite a bit of useful information.The maternal connection for Rains is Pound. I had the good fortune to connect with a distant cousin on the Pound side of the family. He has been working on the Pound line for quite some time and provided information to connect our families. Researching our many lines has been both a voyage of great discoveries and disappointing dead-ends.But great discoveries outnumber the disappointments.I have reached out and touched family long lost to us and family we didn't know about until they were gone. I hope I do not disappoint my living family in my efforts to document our roots before we too are gone, leaving our children and their children to one day wonder who we were. | |
| Tricia Swearingen Mesojednik [email protected] | |
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