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Welcome
to Our Family Ancestors!
Special Announcement:
On February 14, 2005 at 6:56 am, June Louise Ferguson Lisle went home to be with her loved ones in heaven.
My Mother was 87 years old and will be missed by her children, 8 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and 6 great great grandchildren.
Feel free to
use our Site Search option from Google to search for your surname
throughout our site. The results will open in a new window.
This site is dedicated to
my GrandMother, Bertha Ellen Hamilton Ferguson and my Mother, June Louise
Ferguson Lisle. GrandMother is the beautiful lady in the
picture above holding my Mother. The handsome man with her is my
mysterious GrandFather. He is only mysterious because he died when my Mother was just 6 years old and
we have been unable to locate information proving his adoption into the Ferguson family.
If you have visited in the past and didn't find
a connection, check again. We have also added articles from various
sources pertaining to historical events
as well as step by step instructions
for beginning your family search. We are slowly adding obituaries
from various sources. You can use the site search by google
above to see if we have an obituary on your ancestor. Our Photo
Gallery ( dedicated to Tombstone
photos) is now online and new photos are added as we are able to take them.
If you have submitted data
that is as yet not included in our database, please send me an email.
As in all genealogy web pages, please
remember that there is always a chance that an error has been made on some of the
information, therefore, please double check the data yourself to be sure.
I have tried to include source information on all of the data but if you
find one that does not have the source listed, please send me an email and I will be
glad to send you the data.
See how Donny Osmond added 38 generations to his family tree using OneGreatFamily!
Please take a look at our Unidentified Photos
The link above will take you to our photo album of
unknown family members. Some of the photos were enhanced to assist in recognition as
they are very old. All of these came from a steamer trunk of my Grandmother, Bertha
Ellen Hamilton Ferguson, who lived in Webster and Sunflower County, Mississippi most of
her life. I am sure they are from either the Ferguson, Hamilton, Stallings, Holland,
Fulgham, or Noblin families as she and her sisters appear to have kept fairly close ties
with their cousins.
Our main hope for this website is and always will be to locate unknown family
members. If you find a connection to our family from yours, please let us know. It
is always a pleasure to meet new additions and at sometime in the future, we hope to be
able to meet some of you in person.
Be sure you check our Surnames
database for links to your own family.
The Family Histories link at the top of the page will take you to our family
history pages for each of our lines. We are actually
researching two family lines, one traces my paternal (Lisle/Long) and
maternal (Ferguson/Hamilton) lines and the other traces my
husband's paternal (Mayo/Jared) and maternal (Beardsley/Hackelman) lines. Both of our families have strong
southern connections and, with the exception of the Beardsley/Hackelman line, appear to
have migrated from South Carolina and Georgia to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas. With our latest update, we now have relatives all across the United States both
North and South. We have also discovered that as the history books have stated, the
Civil War was fought by brother against brother. We not only had Confederate
soldiers but also found quite a number of distinguished Union soldiers in our families.
We have also located a number of relatives who fought in the American Revolution of
which we are extremely proud.
As time allows, I will be
adding more photos of our ancestors to our Photo Album.
Our Favorite Links page has been revised to shorten the load
time. You will find links to genealogy resources sites that we have
found during our research. We will continue to add links that will
assist you in your research, so come back often to check out our new links.
If you haven't tried Ancestry.com
before, enter one of your surnames in the Global Search box below and see what comes up.
The search is free but some of the information may be in databases that
require payment to access.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry has long had the largest collection of genealogy data online being an early leader in subscription based genealogy. Because of its extensive census images and indices, and its World War 1 Draft Cards, it has the best collection at this time too. Its census images presently cover all available federal US records, and contains extensive census images from Canada, UK, Scotland, and Germany. This is a subscription based service, however you can access the databases for the next 14 days for free by using their Free Trial at Ancestry offer.
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FootNote
FootNote is not nearly as large as Ancestry, but the quality of data goes unsurpassed for American researchers. While FootNote started out as a history based website, it has branched out into providing other types of genealogical data. What makes it stand out in the genealogy community is the type of data it provides. Its all images of original documents. There are no transcribed databases, no genealogy books scanned... it's all original documents. They're also making a concerted effort to add value to any subscription purchased, by adding over 2 million new images each month. By number of people their size of offering cannot compare with Ancestry. But if you find your ancestor in the data they do provide, you will hit pay-dirt in the quality of the data. Footnote offers a free trial, and you can access it using this link: Start Your Free Trial With Footnote.com
World Vital Records
World Vital Records is quickly establishing itself as a serious competitor to Ancestry. It presently offers a basic collection of over 2,000 databases and books, but is quickly branching out to include 1790-1920 census images for the United States. With its present price point, this will have a serious affect on Ancestry subscriptions. World Vital Records offers 2 years for the price of one, and you can access it using this link:
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