Genealogy

I think I have some Irish roots on my tree. My great great grandfather was named Frederik Adolph Lydolph. Sounds Irish to me.

This is as far back as my grandma can say about my family:

Mothers Side

Sr. James Banks –Duke of Glasco, Scotland
Great – Grandfather Six Generations Back
Wayne Banks
Grandfather-West Virginia

Zyne Assid –Sierra Kitisha Assid – Lebanon
Great Grandparents

Minneta Banks
Grandmother –South Dakota

Father’s Side
Frank Gengler –Family from France

Amazing how people from all over the world mananged to migrate to the same destination in the mid west.

Thank you for the suggestions, hope to find death certificate in California and hope there is more information. Will check out your suggeted sites.

Shelli, what part of WV? I just spent two weeks there visiting family, just got back last night, wondering what your surnames are from there.

Jim Huff, you're kidding, right?

You don't think my gg grandpa was Irish? Sure sounds like a "piece of the old sod" to me. (Eastern Ireland; somewhere in Prussia)

Hartin and Edwards.... both from England

Valentine and Phoebe Wentz who became Vance (Ellis Island people couldn't spell).... both from Germany

Blackburn and Raley.... both from Northern Ireland

Mathews....major inbreeds from OK and TX

and some great uncle and aunt on the Hartin side who belonged to a Creek tribe in Tennessee (I'm sure she was a princess!!! (yea right....)

Okies and Arkies and Texicans aren't necessarily inbred. I have seen some however, that are pretty good candidates. I do think a lot of them moved tio California in the thirties.

Frankin, I am in the line of the Graham family that left Scotland and went to Ireland (Avoca). Also, someone mentioned Bennet - I am from the Scotland to Canada to NY line.

Maternal side: confirmed to pre-revolution in Concord MA, 1655 and surronding areas for the times [WILLARD]. Western migration to Illinois, late 1700's then to CA after 1806 - Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery, GGGGrandfather was a member.

My dilema is searching for GGrandfather, Thomas Hale HUNT b.1830, who married Christiana CRAWFORD b.1843, in CA... no birth, census records that can be confirmed prior to showing up a grown man in CA.

Then to CA 1848-49[IMUS]. Santa Cruz, CA to AZ after fencing laws were put into effect, settling in Mohave County to present. Ranchers, cattle near the town of Kingman... Willows Ranch, DW Ranch [DAVIS, George W]... surrounding area, all open range ranching, they show up clearly in census records etc.

Great Grand parents Highlanders and Islanders from Scotland (Clan RanaldMacdonald)Grand Parents Nova Scotia Ca.

James McDONALD, b. 1740 Glenisla, Angus, Scotland; m. Helen BALLENTYNE.

James McDONALD, b. 1760 Glenisla, Angus, Scotland; m. Elizabeth PIETY.

Eleanor McDONALD, b. 4 Jul 1790, Shelbyville, Shelby, Virginia, USA; m. Alexander Hamilton WILLARD, b. 24 Aug 1778,
Charleston, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

do you connect?

Jim, I assume you meant Tuscarawas County (not Tuscarawis) Ohio. One of m great grandfathers was George Kline Fankboner, a judge for the county. He moved to Grant County, Indiana.