I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree! Email me at phyrit@roadrunner.com
from They Called Stafford Home Traveler’s Rest Stafford County, Virginia Around 1700 James Ball acquired part of the huge Sherwood Forest tract which had been granted in 1667 to William Ball and Thomas Chetwood. James Ball’s grandson, Burgess Ball (1749-1800), inherited the property and was likely the builder […]
Mary Wells and George Yates, I, were married 341 years ago – May 4, 1671 – in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Mary, born in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, was the daughter of Richard Wells and Frances Elizabeth White. George, born in Essex County, England, was the son of […]
Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Marion County, Kentucky Mrs. Mary J. Lancaster Spalding is a native Kentuckian, born on the 25th of May, 1816. She is a direct descendant of the Lancaster family of England, and her ancestors came to America about fifteen years after the Maryland colony was […]
James Yates was born 249 years ago – May 3, 1763 – in Caroline County, Virginia. James was the son of George Yates, IV, and Frances Fielding Lewis, the grandson of George Yates, III, and John Lewis, III, and Frances Fielding. I have no information about marriage. James […]
Washington County, Kentucky – 1860 Census Page 109 – Sharpsmill Line 772 – Satterly, Albert 36 M KY Sarah 22 F KY Mary E. 15 F KY Line 773 – Goodlett, John J. 43 M KY Margaret 33 F KY Marion 12 M KY Jasper 6 M KY […]
David Shellenberger Taylor was born 184 years ago – May 2, 1828 – in Ohio. David was the son of Nicholas Hawkins Taylor and Susanna Shellenberger. David died at the young of 26 in Cass County, Iowa, on June 24, 1854. David was the oldest in the family. […]
Fairfax County, Virginia This Indenture made the tenth day of September in the year of our Lord God, one thousand seven hundred and fifty five and in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, […]
Twins, Sarah Edwards and Joseph Edwards, were born 236 years ago – May 1, 1776 – most likely in Maryland. At some point their parents, Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Barber, moved to Loudoun County, Virginia. Joseph married Lydia Primm; they had 4 children: James, Henrietta, Jonathan and John […]
Hugh Walter Linton and Frances Barber Linton were cousins – both had a love of family and love of genealogy. Frances was my great-grandmother and I feel she passed that love of genealogy and research directly down to me! I know of no one else in the family […]
Susanna Sawyer and James Ritchey were married 202 years ago – April 30, 1810 – in Montgomery County, Ohio. James was the son of John Ritchey. Susanna and James Ritchey had 7 children: John Henry, George Franklin, William Green, Charles, Susanna, Jacob and Mary Ritchey.
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House