This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: silveryfox Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19458.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Just picked up on this from this and other Ancestry threads. On the basis that you are looking for a family named Thompson from around the Warrenpoint area who were "well to do" and knew the Hall family of Narrow Water castle. There was such a family who historically owned an estate between Narrow Water Castle (the seat of the Halls) and the town of Newry. The estate comprised c526 acres and was called Greenwood Park. The big house on the estate was demolished in the 1940s, and all that is left is a tower and some gatehouses. The Thompson family made their money as merchants in Newry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, carrying on an international trade. The Park was purchased by Ross Thompson in c1810, and the family occupied it until c1884. Family members were Ross Thompson (? - c1845) and his wife Margaret (? - c1884) nee Livingston. Their children were Helen Thompson (? - 1911, married Lt Colonel Robert Julian Baumgartner KCB), George Henry Thompson (11 Mar 1822 - 6 Feb 1850, married Susanna Simms (? - 2 Jan 1850), Thomas Jefferson Thompson (13 Sep 1829 - 18 Mar 1907, married Charlotte Potter Higginson (11 Dec 1831 - 11 Apr 1906), TJ is noted as Ross's fifth son), Eliza Anne Thompson (? - ?, married Samuel Livingston Frazer (? - 2 Sep 1856) on 17 Feb 1836. This has a strong chance of being the family you are seeking, however records are sparse. Happy to help further if needed. Jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: maryt1014_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/2088.2098.2100.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you are still looking for Isham Marion Thompson, there is an extgensive obituary included in his memorial on findagrave.com This gives the names of his children and his wives. He is buried in Bixby Oklahoma. He died in 1933. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me. Mary Ann Thompson, his Great Great Granddaughter Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: williamthomp111 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much for all of this information. I find it all so incredibly fascinating. I will take the Y DNA test and will let you know how that goes. thanks again Bill Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It does not look like what you sent me is a Y chromosome DNA test. It looks like an SNP test. I do not think believe that the SNP test will help you to "compare yourself" to other Mr. Thompsons who took only the Y chromosome test (but I am certainly no expert on the SNP test). You should take the 37 marker Y chromosome test at FTDNA, and become part of the Thompson DNA testing project there: http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join-request.aspx?group=Thompson&vGroup=thompson In five to eight weeks after you send your samples to FTDNA, you should know if you are a match to either the family of Reverend John Thom(p)son, or a match to the Hazard Thompson who was born about 1814 (and Hazard's proven relative Abraham Thompson who was born in VA about 1776). I just noticed something else that I find very interesting. As you know, that first/older Jason Hazard Thompson is shown by many as a son of Robert or Roger Thompson and Ann Ferguson/Farguson. Per my brief research on the internet, that Ann Ferguson was a member of the same family as the Samuel Farguson who married an Ann Brown (a daughter of Daniel Brown "II" and Elizabeth Coleman of Essex Co., VA and later Spotsylvania/Orange/Culpeper Co., VA). That Farguson/Ferguson family had previously married into the Stubbleson/Stubblefield family....so those later Fargusons/Fergusons were also Stubblefield descendants. The possible significance of this is that the above-referenced Abraham Thompson (born 1776 in VA), whose descendant is a DNA match to the descendant of the Hazard Thompson who was born about 1814, married an Elizabeth Brown who was a daughter of Hezekiah Brown and Elizabeth Stubblefield of Culpeper Co., VA. While it is not clear that Hezekiah Brown who married Eli! zabeth Stubblefield was related to the Ann Brown who married Samuel Farguson, all of the those families lived close to one another in VA. Bottom line....it would seem to me to be a pretty big coincidence (albeit, certainly not impossible) that Abraham Thompson and Robert/Roger Thompson both married into those combined Farguson/Stubblefield families, unless both of those Mr. Thompsons were somehow "connected" (especially since both families had later men in them who were named "Hazard"). So...maybe this is another clue that Robert/Roger Thompson (with a grandson named Jason Hazard Thompson) was somehow related to Abraham Thompson (born about 1776) and Abraham's relative Hazard Thompson (born about 1814). I would not be too surprised if Robert/Roger Thompson who married Ann Ferguson was NOT a son of Reverend John Thom(p)son after all....but I certainly don't have any proof of that, one way or the other. Please let me know if you join the Thompson Y chromosome DNA testing project at FTDNA. Thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: williamthomp111 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I sent the raw DNA info that I downloaded attached..Maybe you can tell what kind of test I took. I am very interested in also transferring this information over to the FamilyDNA project Thanks, Bill Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am not sure just what to make of the "connections" mentioned below, but I see where a Catherine McNairy....a daughter of a John McNairy....married a Jason Thompson, and their children included a John McNairy Thompson and a Jason Hazard Thompson. Whether that older Jason Thompson was truly a descendant of Rev. John Thompson of PA and Amelia/Prince Edward Co., VA, I do not know (but in truth, I would not be too surprised if that should turn-out to be a "bogus" connection). As I stated in one of my earlier posts, there is a "Davidson" man who recently took the DNA test, but his "DNA matches" are to a descendant of the Hazard Thompson who was born about 1814....and also to another Mr. Thompson who descends from an Abraham Thompson who was born in VA around 1776. Note: At present, no one seem to know just how Hazard (who was a son, grandson and great-grandson of men who were all named Robert Thompson, apparently) and Abraham Thompson were related to one another....but DNA makes it clear that they were. The reason that I am mentioning all of the above is that the above Mr. "Davidson" (who is obviously a "biological Thompson") was almost certainly (per a lot of research) associated with a Davidson family that was in Giles Co., TN on the 1820 census. There were also some Reeds/Reids/Reads in Giles Co., TN who were on that same 1820 census, and yet another Mr. "Davidson," who was associated with the same Davidson family as the other "Davidson" DNA donor mentioned above, also took the DNA test....and his only matches were to the same Reed/Reid/Read family mentioned above (so it APPEARS that this Davidson family took-in, named and reared some infants who were born to the Thompson and Reed/Reid Read families in that area of TN). Now for the "kicker." There was also an Alexander Thompson on that same Giles Co., TN census in 1820, and as shown in the link below, that Alexander Thompson bought land in 1817 in Giles Co., TN from a John McNairy of Davidson Co., TN. I would hate to have to bet that this was not the same family as the John McNairy who was the father of Mrs. Catherine (McNairy) Thompson (the wife of Jason Thompson mentioned above). While I certainly have no proof, it would seem to me (based on all that we know) that the odds are pretty good that this Alexander Thompson was probably related in some way to the Jason Thompson/Catherine McNairy family....and perhaps also related to the family of the Hazard Thompson who was born around 1814. Maybe all of the above Thompsons were part of the same overall Thompson family as the "early" Robert Thompson who married Lettice Hazard. Anyway....I found the above land sale between a John McNairy of Davidson Co., TN and an Alexander Thompson of Giles! Co., TN in 1817 to be interesting, especially when combined with that "Davidson" man who was probably out of Giles Co., TN being a perfect DNA match to a descendant of the Hazard Thompson in TN who was born in 1814. Below is a link to the referenced land deed: http://www.lgboyd.com/boydbook/chapter10.htm Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/11744.3.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My information shows that Esther Thompson was married to Samuel Crockett....who died about 1750....and later (about 1753) married again to William Sayers (and she had children via both men). My information states that the "definitive" work on this "branch" of the Rev. John Thom(p)son family is "The Crockett Family and Connecting Lines" published in 1928 as Volume V of "Notable Southern Families" by King Publishing Company, Bristol, TN. The authors of that work are shown as Janie Preston (Collup) French and Zella Armstrong. By the way, some show that the son of the Reverend who was also named John Thompson married Margaret Davidson. That is not correct. That son named John married instead Margaret Phair. It was a LATER John Thompson in that same line who married a Margaret Davidson of Campbell Co., VA in the 1790s. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: As shown in the link below: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BlackSheep/2001-09/0999392384 some believe that Robert "Roger/Robin" Thompson, supposedly a son of the Reverend John Thomson, was perhaps the first person who was killed by the British, as a prelude to the Rev. War. I will leave it others to confirm or refute this. As JDT53 stated, there is some very "uncertain information"....to say the least....concerning that particular son of Reverend John Thom(p)son. The Hazard Thompson (born about 1814) who was a son, a grandson and (apparently) a great-grandson of men who were all named Robert Thompson is shown in the link below (though I have no independent verification that this file is 100% accurate): http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3044190&id=I1543 I see that it was apparently Hazard's great-grandfather named Robert who is shown as having married Lettice Hazard. You do not know what DNA test you took? Were you given a bunch of "DNA markers," and if so, was any other Mr. Thompson shown as a "close match" to you? One of the typical DNA tests that Ancestry offers is the 43 (I think it is) marker Y chromosome test....so is that perhaps what you took? If you can give me some more information, maybe I can help you with what test you actually took. By the way, if you did take the Y chromosome test at Ancestry, you can have those markers transferred into the Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) website (see more below on that company) for a fee of $19. Because the two companies use different "protocols," however, only some of the markers from Ancestry will "transfer" into the FTDNA "system" (typically, only about 30 out of 43 markers at Ancestry have an "equivalent" in the FTDNA "system"). Note: Some of the "transferable markers" have to be changed to a different value, in order for them to "fit" the FTDNA system. Sometimes the markers that do transfer are enough to come to a pretty accurate conclusion as to whether or not you are a match to anyone else in the FTDNA database, but sometimes a donor will need additional testing done by FTDNA to really be sure. The good news is that FTDNA offers additional testing (typically the 37 marker test is selected) at a very reasonable price for the donors who transfer their markers into FT! DNA from Ancestry. You will have to provide a new DNA sample, however, for FTDNA to do any new testing. In any case, I would recommend that you take either the 37 or 67 marker Y chromosome DNA test at Family Tree DNA. That is the testing company that was used by both the descendant of Reverend John Thom(p)son and the descendant of the above-referenced Hazard Thompson. Here is the "public" FTDNA website for the Thompson surname: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/thompson/default.aspx?section=yresults You can see the three DNA kit numbers in the above website that JDT53 mentioned in one of his earlier posts. Comments/questions? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: williamthomp111 Surnames: Thompson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi..Thank you for your response to my query. I am a direct male decedent of later Jason Hazard Thompson who was the son of the Robert Thompson and Emily Norris. I took the DNA test offered here by Ancestry.com. I am not sure the type test it was but I don't think it was Y DNA test you spoke of. Would love to take it if it helps narrow down the family tree. The issue I have is most of the documents I have show Jason H Thompson or sometimes called Jessee.. Hard to know even for sure that his middle name was for sure Hazard as so far that is anecdotal evidence that I have. Most all these Thompson were in West Tennessee at this time. Would love to solve the mystery and get past the Robert Thompson I have in my tree. I Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JDT53 Surnames: Thompson Ferguson Hazard Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From what I have seen there are researchers that believe that Jason Hazard Thompson and the Reverend are not related. One source on the Reverend's children I have found is John Goodwin Herndon's article "Some of the Descendants of the Reverend John Thomson (c.1690-1753)" that appeared in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 1943. It has: ROGER THOMSON (son of John Thomson) married in Amelia County 2 May 1750 ANN FERGUSON. It then states "nothing definite about this couple is known" but goes on to offer some possible descendants in Virginia. No mention is made of this being the Robert/Roger in NC. I have also seen stated that a record exists giving the name of NC Robert/Roger's wife as Letitia but I have not tracked this down myself. Several researchers have her name as Letitia Hazard but I am not sure if they have a source for the last name or whether it is inferred from her descendants having Hazard as a middle name. I suspect that all these lines in middle and west Tennessee using Hazard as a middle name descend from Robert and Letitia. I would like to see more descendants get tested to prove/disprove the relationships. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/11744.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I should have included in my earlier post that there was a John Thompson in Augusta Co., VA who married a Martha Davidson/Davison, and one of their daughters was baptized at Tinkling Spring Church in the 1740s (as I recall, that daughter later married a Mr. Arbuckle). I SUSPECT (albeit, no proof) that this John Thompson was the known son of that name of Matthew Thompson (who mentioned sons named Matthew "Junior," William and John in his 1753 Will....as well as a daughter who was named Margaret Thompson and a wife named Martha). I am not sure to which Davidson/Davison family the referenced Martha Davidson/Davison belonged. At various times in the 1700s and early-1800s, members of the Davidson/Davison/Davisson families in that Augusta/Botetourt/Rockbridge Co., VA area included (at a MINIMUM) members of DNA "Family 2," DNA "Family 7" (but they were not in Botetourt Co., VA until 1800), DNA "Family 12" and DNA "Family 16" at www.davidsongenes.org. It is interesting to note that the William Davidson in DNA "Family 16" who came into Botetourt Co., VA from PA around 1773-1774 or so (the part of Botetourt that became part of Rockbridge Co., VA in 1778) was a son of a John Davidson and an Ann THOMPSON. I have often wondered if that Ann Thompson was related to Matthew Thompson or William Thompson of Augusta Co., VA. A John Thompson and his son Thomas Thompson eventually owned the house that William Davidson had built there in 1775....but I am not positive as to the ancestry of those Thompsons (nor do I know for sure if they were related to the Mrs. Ann (Thompson) Davidson up in PA who was William Davidson's mother). Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/11744.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: That DNA test on a descendant of Reverend John Thom(p)son showed no "match" between his family and the family of Mathew/Matthew Thompson who also came to VA from PA (as I recall, there are at least two DNA donors who are out of that Matthew Thompson). Matthew lived in Augusta Co., VA, while the Reverend lived in Amelia/Prince Edward Co., VA (and then the Reverend died and was buried in NC). Matthew Thompson's 1753 Will in Augusta Co., VA showed a John Davison as both a "legatee" and as a witness, as I recall. There were more than just one Davison/Davidson/Davisson family and Thompson family in that area of VA, but I SUSPECT that the later Mary Thompson who married a John Davidson (born 1757) was a member of the Matthew Thompson family. That John Davidson was a member of DNA "Family 12" at www.davidsongenes.org. John Davidson's parents were an older John Davidson (died 1762) and Elizabeth Maben or Houston (her maiden name is uncertain; Elizabeth lived for several decades after her husband died), and John's grandparents were Robert Davidson and Ann Dunlap (Robert had also come to VA from PA). John Davidson and Mary Thompson (married in 1787) were the parents of an Elizabeth Davidson, and Elizabeth married William Houston Letcher....and they were the parents of Governor John Letcher of VA. Also, Robert Davidson and Ann Dunlap had a daughter named Margaret/Mar! y Davidson, and she married a Robert Huston/Houston. They were the ancestors of General Sam Houston of "Texas fame." There was also a William Thompson (married to a Jane) in Augusta Co., VA, and he left his Will there in the early-1780s, as I recall. He was closely associated with the Finley family, and it is interesting to note that one of Reverend John Thom(p)son's daughters married a Mr. Finley (and he also had the same given name as one of the Finleys with whom William Thompson was closely associated). Unfortunately, we do not seem to have a DNA donor who shows his lineage back to that William Thompson. Also, the referenced William Thompson provided land for Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church in the Beverly Manor section of Augusta Co., VA (I believe that the church is in Rockbridge Co., VA today), and I understand that Reverend John Thom(p)son preached at that church on occasion (but I do not know if that is simply "legend" versus fact). Reverend John Thom(p)son was supposedly instrumental in convincing the British Crown to allow non-Anglican churches ....like Tinkling Spring....! in America in the 1740s or so. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The DNA for Rev John Thom(p)son's descendant should be "representative" of the DNA of the Reverend's descendant Jason Hazard Thompson (unless there is some concern that the Reverend and Jason Hazard Thompson were not really related after all). That is the DNA test to which I was referring for that overall family. It seems that what is needed now is a DNA test on a descendant of the other/later Jason Hazard/Hazzard Thompson to see if such a new male Thompson DNA donor is or is not a match to the above family. By the way, the "matching DNA donors" who are out of Abraham Thompson and Hazard Thompson (Hazard was a son and a grandson of men who were each named Robert Thompson) do not know how Abraham and Hazard "connect" to one another (i.e., they do not know the "who/when/where" of the "most recent common male Thompson ancestor" between them). Also, there is a new DNA donor who descends from a man named James Monroe Davidson (born about 1824 in TN; he was reared by a woman named Sarah "Sally" Davidson of Hickman Co., TN) who is a perfect 37/37 DNA "marker match" to the above-referenced descendants of Abraham and Hazard Thompson. Per a lot of research, it was expected that this "Davidson" DNA donor was probably the product of an "adoption" or an "out-of-wedlock birth," but a match to these Thompsons was a surprise. It would seem LIKELY that the connection is to the Hazard Thompson "branch" of the family, since Hazard was in TN, while Abraham was in KY (assuming that James Monroe "! Davidson" of TN was truly a "biological Thompson," versus some later man in his line being the first "biological Thompson" to be given the surname of "Davidson" in this family). Comments/questions? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: livingstonrebecca92 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19700/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm looking for information on John Thompson b abt 1780 in Scotland he married Isobel common and had a son John Thompson 1811 I have information back to John 1780 but nothing before that, would be very grateful for any information Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JDT53 Surnames: Thompson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Is the yDNA for the descendant of the "early" Jason Hazard Thompson listed on the Thompson DNA Project or ysearch? I see these two on the Thompson DNA Project: 26768 Hazard Thompson 1814 (NC) - 1883 (MO) 254567 Abraham Thompson, b. ca1776 VA and d. 1819 IL Also a descendant of Rev John through his son John recently added their yDNA to the Thompson DNA project: 273794 Rev John Thomson b 1690 Ireland and d 1753 NC I am curious whether the descendant of the "early" Jason Hazard Thompson is a match with 273794. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42Kit Surnames: THOMPSON Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19699/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THOMPSON Henry M 1875-1964 I photographed this gravestone in the Kit Cemetery, Irving, Dallas Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 231,007 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com . If you know more about this person please reply here, instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The "early" Jason Hazard Thompson is shown as a son of Roger Thompson (born about 1723; a son of Reverend John Thom(p)son and Margaret Osborne). See this: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=danielsg&id=I2510 There was another (unrelated) Hazard Thompson (born 1814; lived in Maury Co., TN around the 1830s or so and then moved to MO, where he died in 1883) who was a son and a grandson of men named Robert Thompson. See this: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3044190&id=I1543 Men from both of the above Thompson families have taken the Y chromosome DNA test, and those men were not a match to one another (hence the reason that I know that the above two Thompson families were not related). Do you know of a living male Thompson who is a descendant of "your" later Jason Hazard Thompson who could take the DNA test? By the way the above Robert and Hazard Thompson family is a DNA match to the family of an Abraham Thompson who was born in VA around 1776 and who married an Elizabeth Brown in KY in the 1790s. At this point, no one has determined how those two "branches" of that Thompson family "connect"....but DNA shows that they were very closely related. Comments/questions? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42Perry Surnames: THOMPSON Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19698/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THOMPSON Luci DaveStrickland and NormGuiling photographed this tombstone in the Perry Cemetery, Dallas Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your records. This is one of 231,007 cemetery photos free for personal use at http://teafor2.com where they are listed in order by state(TX), county(Dallas), cemetery(Perry) and Surname . If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family . Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42Fairlawn Surnames: THOMPSON Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19697/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THOMPSON Joseph S -1939 I photographed this gravestone in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., Oklahoma. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 231,007 cemetery photos at http://teafor2.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: michaelpthompson Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19692.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: That information is a lot better Shawn. I didn't find anything to help you on Ancestry, and I don't have access to the 1930 Census for Ohio right now. Tried Donna and Donald and even Janet Johnson for various dates and locations, exact and inexact, but no useful results. So, you're back to the old tried and true methods. You know the mother and father's names and approximate birth dates (Donald must be abt 1908 and Janet abt 1912), and that they were both born in Canton Ohio. So, you go to the Stark County Clerk and Recorder http://www.co.stark.oh.us/internet/HOME.DisplayPage?v_page=recorder_vitalStatistics and see if you can get their birth certificates. That will give you their parents names and then you're on the track. I don't know if the "number of children born to this mother" includes Donna or not, so it's not clear whether she was their first child or second. But Janet is pretty young (18) so in either case, they must not have been married long. You may be able to obtain their marriage certificate. Start with Canton (same office as above) and if you don't find it there, try West Virginia http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/hsc/vital/birthcert.asp You know they must have been married some time probably around 1928 or 1929 to have a child in April 1930. Interesting question on the West Virginia connection though. If they were both born in Canton Ohio, and his residence was in Canton, why go 200 miles to West Virginia to have the baby? My first guess would be that her parents lived there. Didn't find them in the Census, but that's an avenue of pursuit anyway. I checked Google maps and discovered that 616 4th Street NW is a parking lot now, so not much help there. You could try e-mailing the Stark County Clerk and ask about any property history they have on file. I searched their web site but I couldn't find a way to search by address. recorder@co.stark.oh.us Your Baptist minister is another interesting puzzle. Probably not related to your other Thompsons, as this is a pretty common name that arises independently all over the place, but it's possible at least. You'll need to find some passenger manifests or land records that will give more information on those people. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.