The
following is a list of people I know who are researching the same
ancestors I am. If we're related, I'll explain how. Some of
them wish to be contacted. If so, I'll give their contact
information (i.e. Persons_email - at - their_email_address.com).
After their names is a list of my great-great grandparents
surnames. Both lists in interlinked so all you have to do is
click to jump from one place to another on this page.
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RELATIVE'S
NAME
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KIN-
SHIP
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DESCRIPTION
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C
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Kim Canaday
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unknown
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Common Line Researched (My father's
ancestors): Canady/Kennedy
Kim and I have emailed each other.
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D
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Phyllis Vincent Davis
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2nd cousin
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Common Lines Researched (My father's
ancestors):
Vincent/Vinson, Hawes, Finch,
Canady/Kennedy, etc.
Phyllis descends from my paternal grandfather Oakley Vincent's brother, Elmer Vincent.
In addition to Phyllis, Elmer and Nettie Vincent have many descendants
and their relatives who do family research.
For example,
Ilena Lacaden probably knows more about about
the Bettie Ruth Vincent Ryerse and her immediate family than most of
the Vincents know about her. Ilena was not only blood related to
Ruth's husband, Lyle Ryerse, she was also their neighbor for many
years. CLICK HERE for more about cousin Ilena.
For more than 50 years cousin Phyllis has been doing family research. Her father's
lineage is the same as my grandfather, Oakley Vincent.
However, although her Vincent line is the same as mine, Phyllis's grandmother's line is NOT the same as my grandmother, Oma Seay. Some people on Facebook forget this.
I maintain a family Facebook group called Vincent Family History.
Members of the group all have the same paternal ancestry, the Vincents.
They forget that Oakley Vincent had 10 children, his
brother Elmer had 13, their father Aaron had 11, his father John
had 16, and the children of each Vincent male had different maternal lines.
When
descendants of Elmer Vincent comment
on our Facebook group, Oakley's descendants ask, "Who are they" and
"How are we related?" Elmer's descendants do the same when
Oakley's descendants post comments.
Years ago, Phyllis's Aunt, Gerry Vincent Maple, compiled and published a genealogy among her parents
descendants. Gerry and her sister Ruth came from California to
Alabama to a Vincent Family Reunion in 1977 (CLICK HERE for photos or CLICK HERE for an explanation of who's in the photos).
My father Wilburn "Hap" Vincent
and his siblings were 1st cousins to Elmer's descendants. He
visited them in California and knew them well. So did his
brothers and sisters. As his generation passed away and the next
2 or 3 generations were born, they began to lose touch with the
descendants of Elmer and Nettie Vincent. The Facebook group is an
attempt to reacquaint us with one another.
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D
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Martha Dobbins
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none
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Common Line Researched (My father's
ancestors): Canady/Kennedy
Martha and I were coworkers at BellSlouth. We have the common
interests of music and family research and we've helped each other from
time to time.
Along with my cousins Faye and Glen Vincent and their family, Martha
helped me confirm that my father's paternal great-grandmother's surname
was Canady (or Kennedy) instead of Thompson.
This helped us discover a mistake that had been in our family research
since before I was born. For more info on this,
CLICK HERE.
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K
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Marion Kelly
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2C1R & 3C3R
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Common Lines Researched (My father's
ancestors):
Vincent/Vinson, Hawes, Finch,
Canady/Kennedy, See, Harris, Pace,
Seay, also Bussey (see also Maud Kelly below for more info)
Both my paternal grandparents Oakley Vincent and Oma Seay
were cousins of Marion and Maud Kelly. That's why they were 2nd
cousins, once removed (2C1R) as well as my 3rd cousins, 3 times time
removed (3C3R). For a chart and a blog explaining how people are
related and what "removed" means, CLICK HERE.
Frances Marion Kelly (1881-1955) was the oldest daughter of Richard
Bussey Kelly, Sr. (1859-1927) and Leona Bledsoe (1860-1945). She
was named after her maternal grandfather, Francis Marion Bledsoe
(1833-1865) who was killed in the Civil War one week before it ended.
The vast amount of family research Marion and her sister Maud collected
during their lifetimes is stunning. Her daughter, Sarah Irwin
Bullock (1911-1994) inherited Frances's huge family history collection.
In 1986, Sarah had the Family History Library in Salt Lake City microfilm the entire collection. According to their records, there were 64 binders containing about 26,000 pages!
These microfilms have been digitized but are not yet available
online. Also, the photographic process was much poorer quality 34
years ago and many of the images are unreadable.
However, Sarah's descendants continue to maintain and cherish the
originals which have never been fully digitized. A close cousin,
Caroline Feist, has been working toward digitizing some of them and
sharing them with selected family members.
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K
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Maud Kelly
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2C1R & 3C3R |
(See Marion Kelly above for more info)
Maud McLure Kelly (1887-1973) is well known among many family
researchers and genealogists. She started doing family research
when she was quite young and remained active her entire life.
Much of Maud's and her sister Marion's correspondence was copied and
shared. Where one sister's collection has a document copy, the
other's collection often has the original.
Like Marion's collection, Maud's collection is preserved. Unlike
Marion, Maud never married and had no one to pass her collection
to. Because it was so important to others, she donated it to
Samford University. It is now located in the library's Special
Collections Department known as the "Bledsoe-Kelly Collection."
In a publication by the library they said her collection weighed about
a ton. The sisters probably began documenting their research
before 1905 based on the date of the earliest letter found.
However, no doubt their interest began much earlier.
I suspect they first began asking questions when their maternal
grandmother, Louisa Catherine Vincent died in May of 1898. Marion
was then nearly 17 years old and Maud was almost 11.
Obviously they were no strangers to documenting their family
history. Pages in an 1828 Family Bible, once owned by their
maternal great-grandfather, John Vincent (1787-1871), had been used by previous generations to record names and dates.
CLICK HERE to read about the Bible.
The faded ink in the old Bible lets us know that they had been
recording the family record for at least another generation or two
prior to Marion and Maud Kelly.
This may justify us in saying our ancestors began documenting Vincent
Family History 175 years ago and Vincent Family Historians have
continued the tradition in every generation since then.
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L
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Ilena Lacaden
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distant
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Common Line Researched (My father's
ancestors): Vincent
FamilySearch.org says Ilena is my 8th cousin, 3 times removed but she's a lot closer kin by marriage.
In a Dec. 21, 2015 email, she told me: "My uncle Lyle Ryerse married Betty Vincent."
Betty Ruth Vincent (1923-2007) was Elmer Vincent's daughter, my father's first cousin. See cousin Phyllis Vincent Davis for more on Elmer's family.
Ilena has been doing family research for over 45 years and, as a member
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has served 2
missions (same as my wife Linda and I).
Although Betty Vincent Ryerse was the only Vincent she knew, Ilena was next-door neighbor to Betty's family so she knows Betty's family well.
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Judy Lanclos
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3rd cousin
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Common Line Researched (My father's
ancestors): Finch, Canady/Kennedy
Judy
Lanclos is on Ancestry.com and has done extensive DNA testing.
Our DNA test results and family trees confirm that we both descend from
William Finch and Lucinda Canady.
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Mc
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Ted McClellen
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2C1R
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Common Lines Researched (My father's
ancestors):
See, Harris, Pace,
Seay
Ted is my 2nd cousin, once removed (he's my dad's 2nd
cousin). He is an excellent researcher with decades of experience
and a willingness to share.
I was so excited about the information he's shared with me that I
discussed it with my children in a special family meeting. I
wrote a blog post about it. CLICK
HERE to read it. Also, CLICK
HERE to read about Ted's grandfather's brief (but noteworthy)
college football experience.
Ted has not only cleared up a lot of uncertainties about family history
and relationships, he's shared several priceless photos of my ancestors
mentioned in the blog post above.
Most important, my 1st cousin had an old Civil War photo of my dad's
maternal great-grandfather, Nathaniel
David See.
Unfortunately, it was a group photo and no one knew which man in the
photo was him. Ted solved that puzzle by referring to their
military rank, etc. Now we know what he looked like. CLICK
HERE to see the photo
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P
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Pattie Purcell
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unknown
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Common Line Researched (My father's
ancestors): Canady/Kennedy
Pattie and I have emailed each other.
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Oakley Glynn Vincent, Faye Vincent, and Family
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1st cousin
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Common Lines Researched (My father's
ancestors):
Vincent/Vinson, Hawes, Finch,
Canady/Kennedy, See, Harris, Pace,
Seay
My 1st cousin
Glynn (1936-2009) and his family have done far more family research than I
ever will. They're very familiar with Marion and Maud Kelly's research.
Glynn, Faye, and family have travelled in places I'll never see.
They've visited court houses in counties where our ancient ancestors
lived. They've researched
the National Archives and Library of Congress.
Their descendants continue to this
family quest. Their sons Kevin and Roger Vincent have both DNA
tested and generously shared their results with the rest of us.
As pioneers in this new technology, their yDNA results will help pave
the way for future generations of Vincents.
Oakley Kevin Vincent, named after his father (Oakley Glynn), grandfather (Oakley Seay), and great-grandfather (D. Oakley),
got seriously involved with family research as a young teen and has
remained an active researcher and family historian for several decades.
He currently helps his mother maintain an active family tree at
Ancestry.com. Kevin asked me to point out that his family has
obtained a, "... lot of information on the Canaday, Harris, Hawes, and
Seay lines, as well as the Finch, Pace and Vincent lines."
However, they hit a "brick wall" with my great-grandfather, Nathaniel David See.
As info, for the benefit of my children and their descendants, Kevin's
mother Faye gave a preliminary printed copy of much of their research
these other family lines. I have not yet checked to see whether
all the info they've shared is available on websites such as
FamilySearch or Ancestry.
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V
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Ron Vincent
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Me
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Common Lines Researched:
Vincent/Vinson, Hawes,
Finch, Canady/Kennedy, See, Harris, Pace,
Seay, Warren, ?, Farmer, Culver,
Blake, Merel (and various spellings),
Smith, and Fulmer.
I'm the person who
created the MyKinFolks.org website. You're currently viewing MyKinFolks.org > pedigree > surnames_&_researchers.
These are all 16 of my great-great-grandparents surname lines. Technically,
I research them all ("?" means I don't know the surname).
In practice though I haven't researched them all. I tie with the
research of others and copy what they discovered. Some of those
researchers are in this list.
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V
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Wilburn Vincent
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My Father
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(See my Common Lines Researched under Ron Vincent above)
As I mentioned in my own profile page
on this website, my dad began doing family research before I was
born. He and my mother accompanied me often on research trips.
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