He is insane, of course.
I imagine that the family history has become a mania with him.
-- Hercule Poirot, "The Lemeusier Inheritance"
This genealogy site has been entirely updated during 2002. I've made several extended trips to Indiana, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Kentucky in the past three years, and have added significant new data, so I have updated, expanded, and reposted each of the following eight files -- including all the accompanying additional data and most of the source citations.
Click on any of the items below to see what I know (and can document) so far:
Please note: These reports include only a summary of the information I have in my files -- census listings, deed records, military pension files, county court minutes, etc. I've included the text of some letters, wills, etc, just to put some meat on the bones.
Please note also: If some of the lineages described at this site seem a little "thin" compared to others you may have seen, that's because I only post what I can prove, based on my own research over many years, or what I can make a solid guess about, based on good evidence. You won't find wholesale imports from IGI or from World Family Tree at this site!
I've also begun adding scanned photos and other images to some of these files, when I can obtain them.
| I had a major breakthrough this year on the Frakes line when someone (not me) finally and correctly identified the parents of Alexander Van Winkle as Jacob Van Winkle and (drumroll, please) . . . (This is not dissimilar to my wife's recent discovery of a bunch of early New Jersey Quakers among all her Acadian, German Coast, and Canary Island ancestors. . . !) |
Like everyone else, I have also gathered a great deal of data on the siblings and cousins of my actual ancestors. The rule is always "Look to the neighbors"! Since much of that information is obviously of interest to others researching related family groups, I have recently begun putting together a series of indented-style reports of the known descendants of the earliest-known ancestors in each of those lines which are reasonably well developed. (In the short lines, such as the Cronin family, there's not much point since essentially everything I know is already presented above in the Reverse Register Reports.) Note that, as in the Reverse Register reports, I have NOT included living persons, or even those who might be still alive.
These are in chronological birth-order, for no particular reason.
For convenience, I've also uploaded a list of Names I'm Searching and Places I'm Searching for Them. (I carry this printout around in my genealogy briefcase for quick reference on library visits.)
I have a long-standing interest in the lineages of a number of historical figures and, since I have the space, I'm also uploading register-type reports on some of them. Some of these I have written myself, some I have adapted from other sources. Please note that I do not claim to be related to any of these people! This is just for fun!
These are the ones I've completed so far:
Similar files for the Boone, Crockett, Bowie, and Hornblower families will be added as soon as I can get them coded and formatted.
The following is a project I've worked on for a number of years. Earlier editions were available as downloadable files on the Genealogy Forum on CompuServe, and were also sold in a paper edition. But I decided that publishing on paper for something like this wasn't really worth it, so I've made this new enlarged and revised edition available only on the Web: Bibliography for Research in British and Continental Royal and Noble Lineages and Heraldry (the 4th edition, available only online).
[For convenience in navigation, the Bibliography is a framed document. If you can't deal with frames, or don't want to, there is also an unframed version available.]
Please direct comments and inquiries to: Michael K.Smith
©1999-2003 Michael K. Smith
All rights reserved
Last revised 3/22/2003
![[Return to Main Site Index Page]](images/up_arrow.gif){kind=icon}