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Name: Rob Miller <hh_Miller2547@escapedemail.com>
Date: 2009-12-21
Where are you from, then & now? None
If we're related, how? None
Do you find our website helpful? None
Comments:
Cool site.
 
Name: Rob Miller <hh_Miller2547@escapedemail.com>
Date: 2009-12-21
Where are you from, then & now? None
If we're related, how? None
Do you find our website helpful? None
Comments:
Cool site.
 
Name: Philip Malowitz <Malowitzphil@yahoo.com>
Date: 2009-12-17
Where are you from, then & now? From NY, now OH
If we're related, how? My mom is a Goodall, related to CP.
Do you find our website helpful? yes
Comments:
My mom is related to Charles Parke Goodall, William Clinton Goodall, and David Jackson Goodall, and I'm curious if we're related. =)
 
Name: christina <christinaad17@yahoo.com>
Date: 2007-03-28
Comments:
http://pennystocktrader.net
 
Name: Melba Kairn Smith <msmith3688@aol.com>
Date: 2006-02-22
Where are you from, then & now? Warren County, OH - Muncie, IN
If we're related, how? We are cousins
Do you find our website helpful? It is a wonderful and informative web site.
Comments:
My line of descendency is as follows: George and Elizabeth Summers Ratcliff Steele, George and Rosannah Fanin Steele, David Louis and Matilda Claypool Steele, Jeremiah Wilkenson and Martha Lockhart Steele, George Washington and Margaret Kilgore Steele, Stanley Smith and Ollie Canada Steele, Allen and Leona Steele Kairn, Melba Kairn Smith
 
Name: Melba Kairn Smith <msmith3688@aol.com>
Date: 2006-02-22
Where are you from, then & now? Warren County, OH - Muncie, IN
If we're related, how? We are cousins
Do you find our website helpful? It is a wonderful and infomative web site.
Comments:
My line of descendency is as follows: George and Elizabeth Summers Ratcliff Steele, George and Rosannah Fanin Steele, David Louis and Matilda Claypool Steele, Jeremiah Wilkenson and Martha Lockhart Steele, George Washington and Margaret Kilgore Steele, Stanley Smith and Ollie Canada Steele, Allen and Leona Steele Kairn, Melba Kairn Smith
 
Name: Jennifer Martino <!@#>
Date: 2005-02-09
Comments:
than k you
jenn martino
 
Name: Eleanor Goodall <ellie_goodall@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-01-19
Where are you from, then & now? Devizes
If we're related, how? I'm a goodall
Do you find our website helpful? No, but it was fun looking!
Comments:
As my surname is Goodall, i'm very pleased to see this webpage. I think it very cool seeing people in your past. I love this webpage lots and lots. (AGE 12)
 
Name: Victoria Proctor Walker <DragonflyV@webtv.net>
Date: 2004-06-03
Where are you from, then & now? Wild & Wonderful WV; always & forever!!!!
If we're related, how? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Do you find our website helpful? It is very informative
Comments:
Just starting to search for my family and have been looking everywhere and ran across your site. Very nice.
 
Name: Susan Meadows Higdon <m_higdon@bellsouth.net>
Date: 2004-03-09
Where are you from, then & now? VA, NC, GA
Comments:
Ancestors were Daniel, Robert, and one other brother Meadows
 
Name: Derryl Goodall <derrylg@optusnet.com.au>
Date: 2003-12-15
Where are you from, then & now? New Zealand, now Australia
If we're related, how? not sure
Do you find our website helpful? yes, very interesting
Comments:
My Goodall ancesters came from England, I suspect this is another branch, that emmigrated to America, how far back have you managed to trace your Goodall connection ?
 
Name: J.Bevars <ACB49JWB43>
Date: 2003-04-28
Where are you from, then & now? Kentucky
If we're related, how? My Grandmother was A Meadows
Do you find our website helpful? Yes, Very
Comments:
My Grandmother was Gertie Mae Meadows, her parents where Albert Garrett Meadows & Mary Ann Bodenhamer. But you have Gertie's spouse listed as CYRUS BEAVERS, I have it as CYRUS Anderson Bevars. They had twelve children, all of them spelled there last name BEVARS. I have dates on her and all of the Children, if you want them. Thank you again for your site.
 
Name: Sharon Kinnaird <kinn_s56@yahoo.com>
Date: 2002-10-06
Where are you from, then & now? Then-Morgantown, WV Now-Nashville, TN
If we're related, how? not sure
Do you find our website helpful? Yes
Comments:
Hi, I saw your site and thought it was wonderful. I too have Crist in my line though the spelling has changed thru the years. The earliest I have seen in my line is a Micheal Christ/Crist/Criss b. abt. 1730 in Germany with a wife named Christina. They had 4 children that I know of, Henry, Lewis, Mary and Catherine. I know Henry was born in the Hessee-Cassell area. Our line eventually ended up in WV. By the time my mother was born the spelling of the name had changed to Cress. My mother was Nellie Virginia Cress d/o Densil Howard Cress. His father was Jacob Cress. Nellie married Kenneth Guy Young in Garrett Co., MD. I was so excited to see this site, I am hoping that somehow I might be able to connect and find some more of our line.
Thanks Sharon

 
Name: Jamie Shawn Crist <jcrist@fuse.net>
Date: 2002-07-10
Where are you from, then & now? Ansted WV - Alexandria, KY
Do you find our website helpful? yes
Comments:
I am just beginning to research my family genealogy
 
Name: Tracy Patters (Crist Family) <tpatters@ev1.net>
Date: 2002-06-29
Where are you from, then & now? I am from Houston, Ancestors from Germany
If we're related, how? Della Lee Crist was my great - grandmother
Do you find our website helpful? yes, thank you for taking the time to post the information.
Comments:
I'm trying to respond to a Tom Steele, based on this URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ptsonline/stories/cristaccountbook.html

I tried the emails on your pages and they are no longer active.

My great-grandmother was Della Lee Crist (b. 1/17/1879 Anderson County, TX - d. 2/5/1920 - Latexo in Houston County, TX). Della married George Jackson Selman. Della died in child birth while giving birth to my great-aunt; Eldiwease Selman.

Here's my family line: (please forgive my format, I'm very new to genealogy)

I am the daughter of Janice Selman
Janice Selman is the daughter of Oscar Thurman Selman
Oscar Thurman Selman was the daughter of Della Lee Crist
Della Lee Crist was the daughter of William Harrison Crist (b. 5/15/1842 - d. 6/27/1897)
who was the son of Daniel Maury Crist (b. 4/15/1817 - d. 1840)
who was the son of George Heinrich Crist, Jr. (b. 6/1/1768 - d. 10/1/1845)
who was the son of George Heinrich Crist, Sr. (b. 11/23/1744 - d. 1/21/1823)
who was the son of Nicholaus Heinrich Crist (b. 10/29/1716 Germany - d. 2/11/1783)
who was the son of Johanne Jorge Nichlas Crist (b.1690 Emmerns, Germany - d. 2/1750 Emmerns, Germany)

My cousin, Della Selman Weisinger, compiled a lot of research and gave me a copy prior to her death a few years ago. I have excerpts from the Crist Account Book, and quite a lot of information about the Crist family.

Please email me if you have information about the Crist or Selman families.
 
Name: Tracy Patters (Crist Family) <tpatters@ev1.net>
Date: 2002-06-29
Where are you from, then & now? I am from Houston, Ancestors from Germany
If we're related, how? Della Lee Crist was my great - grandmother
Do you find our website helpful? yes, thank you for taking the time to post the information.
Comments:
I'm trying to respond to a Tom Steele, based on this URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ptsonline/stories/cristaccountbook.html

I tried the emails on your pages and they are no longer active.

My great-grandmother was Della Lee Crist (b. 1/17/1879 Anderson County, TX - d. 2/5/1920 - Latexo in Houston County, TX). Della married George Jackson Selman. Della died in child birth while giving birth to my great-aunt; Eldiwease Selman.

Here's my family line: (please forgive my format, I'm very new to genealogy)

I am the daughter of Janice Selman
Janice Selman is the daughter of Oscar Thurman Selman
Oscar Thurman Selman was the daughter of Della Lee Crist
Della Lee Crist was the daughter of William Harrison Crist (b. 5/15/1842 - d. 6/27/1897)
who was the son of Daniel Maury Crist (b. 4/15/1817 - d. 1840)
who was the son of George Heinrich Crist, Jr. (b. 6/1/1768 - d. 10/1/1845)
who was the son of George Heinrich Crist, Sr. (b. 11/23/1744 - d. 1/21/1823)
who was the son of Nicholaus Heinrich Crist (b. 10/29/1716 Germany - d. 2/11/1783)
who was the son of Johanne Jorge Nichlas Crist (b.1690 Emmerns, Germany - d. 2/1750 Emmerns, Germany)

My cousin, Della Selman Weisinger, compiled a lot of research and gave me a copy prior to her death a few years ago. I have excerpts from the Crist Account Book, and quite a lot of information about the Crist family.

Please email me if you have information about the Crist or Selman families.
 
Name: Marcia <mls94@attbi.com>
Date: 2002-04-29
Where are you from, then & now? Virginia, Tazewell & Craig, Portland, Oregon
If we're related, how? no-doing this for a friend
Do you find our website helpful? not sure yet but looks good
Comments:
I am doing this for a friend whose mother is a Ferrel. She is the daughter of William Preston Ferrel.
Personaly, not sure but I could be related to Nancy Jackson.
I come from John and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson of VA/WV. I am a member of the Jackson Brigade and belong to the branch that went to Oregon.
 
Name: Ronald Summerfield <RonaldSummerfield@earthlink.net>
Date: 2002-01-07
Where are you from, then & now? Cross Lanes,WV, now Jacksonville, FL
If we're related, how? Probably double digit distant cousins
Do you find our website helpful? wow
Comments:
My great-great grandparents were Nancy Ferrell and William Summerfield. We also share John Ferrell and Nancy Jackson as distant grandparents. My line runs through William Shadrack Ferrell (m. Frances Bailey), probably a brother to Levisa Ferrell!!!
 
Name: C.V.Rice <CAVR@prodigy.net>
Date: 2002-01-03
Where are you from, then & now? TN & AL
If we're related, how? Ferrells
Do you find our website helpful? maybe
Comments:
Looking for info on Alfred Ferrell, my gggrandfather. Born abt 1825, he married Tansy Lawson in Hawkins Co, TN around 1849. I am most interested in any info on the story of his dying in a Confederate prision in Richmond, VA in about 1864 or 65. I am particularly interested in where he might have been buried. Thanks!

 
Name: Tara Wallace-Maggard <maggard1@planttel.net>
Date: 2001-10-05
Where are you from, then & now? Orig. Pike Co KY, now in GA
If we're related, how? I descend from John Ferrell and Nancy Jackson through daughter Rebecca Jane "Jennie" Ferrell who married John Murphy.
Do you find our website helpful? Very interesting and well-done site!
Comments:
Just researching several Logan Co WV families and happened upon your "History of Logan Co WV" pages which were helpful. My line runs like this:

John Ferrell and Nancy Jackson
Rebecca Jane "Jennie" Ferrell and John Murphy (s/o Gabriel Murphy and Clarissa Herndon)
Clarissa Murphy and Thomas W Hunt (s/o John Hunt and Mary "Polly" Owens)
Levicey Hunt and Andrew Jackson Mounts (s/o Michael Mounts and Matilda "Peggy" Cline)
Matilda Ellen Mounts and Isaac Stafford Wallace (s/o John Ferrell Stafford and Katherine Wallace)
John Ferrell Wallace and Dorothy Matilda Ellen "Mae" Horne (d/o Albert Newton Horne and Matilda Ellen Barbe)
Carl Eugene Wallace and Joyce Childers (d/o George Woodrow Childers and Margaret Fleming)
Tara Wallace (me)
 
Name: Ronald F. Smith <raamsmith@home.com>
Date: 2001-08-05
Where are you from, then & now? Born= Oregon; now=Virginia
If we're related, how? See Comments
Do you find our website helpful? search engine
Comments:
My maternal grandmother was Iona Madge Steele. I am just starting out in investingating the Steele lineage of my family.
 
Name: Mark Kevin Sprouse <onebadredneckinva21@yahoo.com>
Date: 2001-06-17
Where are you from, then & now? Orange,VA.
Do you find our website helpful? Yes
Comments:
I was adopted. My real mothers name is Mellisa Sprouse and my fathers name is Michael.Eugene.Sprouse.SR. I don't really know anything about my past relatives.
 
Name: Jean Meadows <jeanmead@aol.com>
Date: 2001-05-19
Where are you from, then & now? Florida - native
If we're related, how? Not quite, but almost, through Edith Meadows. She is not in my direct line, but a close branch.
Do you find our website helpful? Yes, I was able to document a few more "relatives", as well as get other leads.
Comments:
This is truly a most interesting and enjoyable website - one of the best I've viewed, and I've viewed thousands or more. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share so much about the Kanawha Va area. I have many relatives from and around there. Although I've driven through this beautiful area I've never had - or taken - the time to explore it as I would like. Most of your places I could relate to though and that made it special. VERY WELL DONE!
 
Name: Kelly Crist <Kpeach02@aol.com>
Date: 2001-05-01
Where are you from, then & now? Arlington Va.- Callaway Va.
If we're related, how? Im not sure if we are or not, My grand fatehr is researching our family tree
Comments:
Thanks
 
Name: milly <tnyank200@aol.com>
Date: 2001-03-24
Comments:
Tryng to locate Lottie Steele, my grandmother. Not sure if she was born in Indiana...or where. She was born 1875 and reportedly was part or full blooded Indian. Difficult...
 
Name: Diane Branham Mullins <mullinsdiane@hotmail.com>
Date: 2001-03-17
Where are you from, then & now? Pikeville, Ky (Pike County)
If we're related, how? Maybe through Andrew Branham's family.
Do you find our website helpful? I couldn't quit reading it!! Very interesting!
Comments:
My father was Tandy Bob Branham from Pike County. His father was Cleve & Cleve's father was Tan. Tan was born in 1867 & died in 1929 at age 62. That's as far back as I've gotten on the Branham side, as you can imagine, I read all I find on Branham heritage. Thank you for a wonderful website.
 
Name: Evangeline Denton <vangie1@msn.com>
Date: 2001-03-16
Where are you from, then & now? Now, Lynchburg, VA...grew up in Allegany County NY
If we're related, how? With the help of your information and that of other diligent "cousins" I am making an assumption that we are. See Com
Do you find our website helpful? Wonderful!
Comments:
It is odd that I am at this site today as I started doing more Millard research in answer to a plea for help I received through a message board. My maternal grandmother was a Millard. However, this is not the first time I have seen and benefited from your handiwork! A few months ago I discovered you at Rootsweb while researching my PATERNAL line. My maiden name is Reynard and I recently discovered the link to the Haynes/Canfield/West/Tracy line that led me to you. It's a very convoluted story and much of what I have is based on other people's research but I thought you might enjoy one of the most thrilling outcomes to date. After discovering that my gggrandfather was Horatio B Reynard married to Amanda Elizabeth Haynes, my sister and I simultaneously discovered him listed on the 1900 census with the occupation of "violin maker". In a previously discovered directory of 1875 he was listed as a carpenter. We had also discovered that his parents were born in Alsace-Lorraine and Scotland so I went to a message board to change one of my queries. As I opened the board, there was his name, the date 1900, the word "fiddle" and the name of the town I grew up in. None of us remembered ever hearing that he made violins but here was a query from a music shop in PA. that had one of his violins and wondered if there was a family member that might like to have it. The upshot is, 2 days ago it arrived via UPS, I have seen his penciled name, date and the town inside and I am nearly ecstatic to have it!
I think I once emailed you about Lucy West Canfield, daughter of Elizabeth Tracy and Daniel West. I have made all the connections now but since I am not truly a "serious" genealogist, I am greatly grateful for ones like you who have done so much documentation and use the info just for curiosity's sake at the moment. I have sent for Horatio's civil war packet so I hope to have more "real" info about him soon but nothing can beat the "fiddle"!!


 
Name: Valerie Gene Crist <VEnglin@aol.com>
Date: 2001-02-17
Where are you from, then & now? Long Beach, Ca.
If we're related, how? ?
Do you find our website helpful? Yes
Comments:
Please contact JHornung@whidby.net, her name is Jill Crist and she is from Washington State
 
Name: Charles F. Goodall, Jr. <cfg1942@yahoo.com>
Date: 2001-02-13
Where are you from, then & now? I was born in Athens, W.Va. in 1942, but now live in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
If we're related, how? My maternal grandmother was Willie Agusta Steele Ball, and I am not sure whether we are related. Between the Goodalls and the S
Comments:
This is the first time that I have visited your site, thanks to Dottie Gibson Goodall, with whom I have visited quite a bit about the Goodall lineage. You are to be congradulated on a very beautiful site, as well as informational.
 
Name: William Layton <wlayton@kscable.com>
Date: 2000-09-11
Where are you from, then & now? Born in Arkansas, 1955, Live in Kansas now.
If we're related, how? Can't connect lines at this time.
Do you find our website helpful? Interesting and enjoyable, not helpful to me right now.
Comments:
I Love your site and will be back. I will be glad to add a link to it from my Layton family genealogy page.

Have a great day and keep digging!!
Bill Layton
http://www.geocities.com/~wlayton/Gen.html

 
Name: Birth Name: Madiline Michele Branham..Name Now: Shelly Dotson <Chevygrl1994@hotmail.com>
Date: 2000-07-04
Where are you from, then & now? I live in Florida now....was in Ohio!
If we're related, how? My gg grandfather is Lane Shannon Branham I don't know if we are related or not but please let me know?
Do you find our website helpful? Yes
Comments:
You E-mailed my mom Betty Dotson and sent her this web page my gg grandfatehr was Lane Shannon Branham. I need all the help I can get to find out about my father and his family....Thank you for your time.....Shelly (Dotson)Eliasen
 
Name: Kathy Lynn Steele Hope <baydox@radix.net>
Date: 2000-04-22
Where are you from, then & now? West Virginia, now Maryland
If we're related, how? your sister
Do you find our website helpful? yes
Comments:
George has to get me into these.
 
Name: Missy Regelin <mjrts@netzero.net>
Date: 2000-04-09
Where are you from, then & now? Currently living in DE, Orginally from MD
If we're related, how? You are my uncle :O) !!
Do you find our website helpful? Yes!!
Comments:
Uncle Tommy,
Thank You so very much for including me on the first page of this wonderful website. It means alot to me, to be able to explore our family's history. I love you very much, thank you once again for giving me this wonderful treasure.

With All My Love,
Missy
 
Name: Cathy <mtgirl@in-tch.com>
Date: 2000-03-20
Where are you from, then & now? Montana (always)
Do you find our website helpful? some great help for those researching your lineage!
Comments:
Your site is really great! Thanks for sharing!
 
Name: Debra Jean Crist Mayo <lightmayo@home.com>
Date: 2000-03-17
Where are you from, then & now? Washington, DC/Maryland
Do you find our website helpful? Quite interesting; looks great; informative
Comments:
My great-grandparents are William & Alice Crist of Kaiser, West Virginia.
My grandparents Lester William (son of William & Alice)and Amy Francis (Sartain) Crist - two sons Robert N. Crist and
my father Kenneth William Crist.
As much as I have "dug up" at this point. If your research brings us closer together, I would enjoy hearing from you.
 
Name: Mildred Brady Venitucci <emvee@kingwoodcable.com>
Date: 2000-03-14
Where are you from, then & now? SW Virginia>MS>TX (Houston)
If we're related, how? don't know yet--just arrived.
Comments:
My cousin directed me here. I am descended from Archibald Buchanan Steele, b. Augusta Co.,VA, d. Amite Co.,MS.
 
Name: Brenda Pegg <limey630@aol.com>
Date: 2000-03-14
Where are you from, then & now? TN. / MI.
If we're related, how? John Steele>
Do you find our website helpful? yes
Comments:
New @ using computer and genealogy search. All I know of my line thus far is: (In TN.) John Steele m. Jane Compton>Tilford Steele> Nancy Paralee Steele> Melvina Steele Edmonds>Ersie Edmonds Carter> Brenda Carter Pegg (me)
So far I have enjoyed getting the Steele list. I know I will enjoy this new website. Thanks so much for doing this!!!
 
Name: Littlewolf Griffith <scrapiron@rocketmail.com>
Date: 2000-03-12
Where are you from, then & now? Virginia / Alabama
If we're related, how? Not sure
Do you find our website helpful? After more research I hope to.
Comments:
Hello,
I am Littlewolf Griffith from the Monacan Indian Tribe in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We are located on Bear Mountain in Amherst,Virginia.
My oldest Branham so far is William Brandom Branham b.1738 married Elizabeth Evans believed to be Cherokee or Monacan Indian,in Mecklenburg,VA. Most of our kin come from the
Amherst area.
 
Name: Beatrice T.Peters <beapeters@earthlink.net>
Date: 2000-03-12
Where are you from, then & now? Va./Ky ........Tx
If we're related, how? ???????
Do you find our website helpful? Yes*smile*..creates hope
Comments:

I know that ggrandmother Elizabeth married Rice ACREE and after that divorce married a WALLENS.Cannot connect her for certain to the correct family in Wayne/Clinton county Ky.
Can't find old Rice Acree either.. except in 1870 census!!!
Surely there there are other decendents that have a clue to these two!!
Nice site Tom!!
Bea

 
Name: Nancy Steele Regelin <fife @dol.net>
Date: 2000-03-12
Where are you from, then & now? UKV/Bridgeville Delaware
If we're related, how? sister
Comments:
Dear Tom:

I am very proud and greatful to you for giving this gift to me, my children and their children. I know they will cherish the family history you have provided.

Love,

Nancy
 
Name: Michael John Steele <gwentman@breathemail.net>
Date: 2000-03-12
Where are you from, then & now? East South Wales, UK
If we're related, how? Don't know.
Do you find our website helpful? Yes
Comments:
Family from Cumberland, UK with connections to YOUNG and COLLEY.
Linked to COLLEY in FLORIDA.
Mike
 
Name: Larry Chambers <arloyo@aol.com>
Date: 2000-03-12
Where are you from, then & now? Sevier Co. TN
Do you find our website helpful? Informative
Comments:
Nice site, but did not score.
Seeking info on my gggrandfather Beverage Brannum (spelling ?), b mid 1800's, m Elizabeth, a son killed in WW1, d's: Dorcas, Mary, Birdie & Maggie. Lived in Jefferson Co, TN in early 1900's.