User:GayelKnott

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I’ve been researching my family history since about 1990. About half of my family has roots in Colonial America, beginning in the early 1600s. The other half came from Europe, mostly in the latter half of the 1800s. I also have an interest in and have researched an extended family in England, many of whose descendants still live there.

I’m a strong supporter of the Genealogical Proof Standard and of free wiki sites for genealogy. Both are needed to help clean up a lot of the “junk genealogy” that is everywhere on-line. I’ve also recently become interested in genetic genealogy and the potential for on-line learning. Although I’ve posted information on FamilySearch and WikiTree, I still find WeRelate the best site in terms of flexibility and the potential for really good quality research.

For me, genealogy is so much more than names and dates; it’s one of the best ways to learn history, particularly as seen from the perspective of people who actually lived it. Now, if only I can get all my information onto WeRelate, along with some of those stories I’ve learned about some very human ancestors!

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Articles and Transcriptions

Footnotes on family of Edward Michael and Effie Scott Mayer, by Reece Mayer, January 1991
last modified 14:29, 9 June 2020

Scott DNA Family in Georgia, Maryland, and North Carolina
last modified 11:33, 21 June 2012

Carolina Meadors in Census 1790-1810
Tracking the sons of Jason Meador and Elizabeth Stone in North and South Carolina, 1790-1810 Work in Progress
last modified 14:59, 17 July 2021

Carolina Property Records for Jason Meador (Sr)
last modified 11:06, 1 November 2020

Lewis Meador (son of Jason and Elizabeth) Carolina Property
last modified 17:11, 1 January 2021

Job Meadors (son of Lewis Meadors) Carolina Land Records
last modified 15:45, 13 November 2020

Thomas Meadors' Carolina Land Records
last modified 12:24, 23 February 2021

Abraham Rushing (Sr) Land Records
last modified 10:34, 24 March 2021.

Meador Families in Sumter and Greene Counties, Alabama 1830-1840 Work in Progress
last modified 09:40, 15 January 2021

Spindletop Oil Scam
last modified 15:29, 10 August 2017

Transript:Reece and Dunn Family Letters, Indiana and Missouri, 1863-1878
last modified 08:54, 18 August 2015.

Gideon Hoadley Deeds in Watertown, Connec ticut
last modified 14:33, 3 February 2020.

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