Ain't knockin' nobody, nohow! Just seemed like there were more southern Williams searching for ancestors than northerners. Maybe checking out a return to real God's coutry? :-) Lynn, in Seattle (Mr., that is!)
I have made the same observation, Lynn, so I'm glad to see so many NY connections pop up. However, just to make things a little crazier. . . my NY\MA\NH\VT Williams are somehow connected to some southern Williams'. My mother has an old sugar chest that had a paper saying that the chest was given, along with two slaves, to some Williams in the Culpepper, Va area. I can't for the life of me figure how the lines are connected, or which Williams it was given to. Unless, of course, one of my early northern ancestors went south. How the sugar chest got back up north then, i don't know. It was stored somewhere in Vermont before making it's way to E.V. Williams in Wisconsin, along with a (way to big) spinning wheel from the 1700's. Jeff On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Ain't knockin' nobody, nohow! Just seemed like there were more > southern > Williams searching for ancestors than northerners. Maybe checking > out a return to > real God's coutry? :-) > > Lynn, in Seattle (Mr., that is!) > > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/williams.html > Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >
I was researching some names through Heritage Quest earlier today, and happened upon some Williams info in a book entitled "The Battle Book, A genealogy of The Battle Family in America" by Herbert Bemerton Battle, published in Montgomery, Alabama 1930, by Paragon Press. I will put some of that info in a separate message. While I was at it, I became curious to see if there was anything else at the site for Williams in New York, since there has been so much discussion about it, and I think I hit paydirt for some of you Williams researchers. This may be the book that was the subject of a discussion earlier this month about a Williams family book at Ebay. The book is called " The Genealogy an History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxbury", 446 Pages, by Stephen W. Williams published in 1847, in Greenfield, by Merriam & Mirick. Here is a list from their Table of Contents of what is covered: 9 - Coat of arms 21 - Sketches of the family of Williams 4 - First generation. I. Robert Williams... 178II. Samuel Williams... 254 -Second generation. II. Isaac Williams... 117- Second generation. II. Stephen Williams... 29 -Williams' of Maryland 17 -Williams' of Long Island 30 -Williams' of North Carolina, Tennessee, &c. 249-Graduates by the names of Williams... 24 -Members of Congress by the name of Williams 107-Williams' in Great Britain 100 -Williams' graduates of Cambridge College, England, from 1659 to 1823 66 -Williams' graduates of Oxford College, England, from 1659 to 1782 The Subject Heading is listed as Robert Williams, d. 1693. Both of these books are available to read thru Heritage and can be downloaded, although they are all very large books. You do have the option of downloading only certain pages, which can be stored on your computer using Acrobat Reader. I don't know if anyone on this list has Heritage Quest, but it is available through many libraries which can be accessed from there for free, and some libraries offer access thru your home computer by use of a library card either for free, or for a fee. I myself use the Godfrey Library website, which offers access to many databases including Heritage Quest for a yearly fee of $35. Deloris