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Our Family Lore

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The purpose of this site is to...

Share some family history information dating back to the early 1700's, and covering the migration through North America including:

(France>)Canada>Illinois>Kansas>Missouri

(?>)New York>Ohio>Iowa>Missouri

(?>)North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky>Missouri

If you find a link to your own research, be sure to let me know -- it is amazing how many distant relatives I've now heard from.
Record and preserve some of the family lore. (If any family members want to pass on some more lore, send it in; I'll be sure to include it here as quickly as I can.)
Provide links to other sites that research this particular family, most notably cousin Judy Davison's website about the Hughes family and cousin Norma Zanetti's website about the Axsom family. If you have a site that highlights another branch, please let me know.

David Wayne Louis Hughes

There are now

93 pages for specific individuals
links to 5 others at other websites
179 individuals in the index who are listed on another person's page

for a total of 279 people, not counting those currently listed only in the descendants of Ira Hughes and Sally Serrin page. (There are 338 different names in the index, due to people using different names throughout their lifetime.) I put up additional individuals and information as I can, so be sure to come back from time to time; read the change log if you want to see what has changed recently.

Potentially helpful features:

New! New information, clues, and theories about Ira and Sally's ancestors, provided by Judy Davison, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Ira and Sally (through Israel).
Transcript and scanned image of Tilla Leona Hughes Neff's original Hughes family genealogy.
List of descendants of Ira Hughes and Sally Serrin; this is roughly complete through 1950 or so, and is based on the above document.
"Ancestor charts" for each of my four grandparents; see the index of individuals page.

Fun features:

Grow our own fuels!
Howard Hughes' genealogy
A page for interestng general history links, as yet just starting.
Some information about Vellano, a favorite place of mine.

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