This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Pangela84 Surnames: WRIGHT, RILEY, SULLIVAN Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Diana, I am betting that there is some kind of connection with our family line, however distant it may be. I too hit brick walls when researching the WRIGHT side of my family tree. I think it's because they travelled all over the place! You mention that you have a great uncle named Thomas Wright who worked for Kodak and moved to Rochester. I have a great uncle named James Thomas Wright who moved to Rochester, New York around 1925 with his wife, Arlene Amelia McCarthy. They married in 1916 in Frontenac (Kingston, Ontario). James Thomas Wright, my great uncle, worked as a perforator (whatever that means) and the census says that in 1930 the company he worked for was 'Kodak Manufacturing'. Anyway, Arlene was born in Syracuse, NY. As for the Riley and Sullivans you mention, Riley is a predominant surname in my tree, esspecially with the Wrights. I have a Catherine Jane Riley (1855-1905) who married a Joseph Wright (1852-1910) and they are both from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Catherine has a brother named William and, their parents are Henry Riley (1806-1887) and Catherine Kivney (1808-1860) both of Ireland. Perhaps your Mary Riley is associated with these Rileys. As I may recall, there may be some Sullivans in this tree too. My e-mail address is: [email protected] if you want to chat in depth. -Angela- 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: Pangela84 Surnames: WRIGHT, MCCARTHY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/4244.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi there, I have a McCarthy and Wright union in my line as well only it is more recent than the one that you described (Arlene Amelia McCarthy & James Thomas Wright) married in 1916 in Frontenac (Kingston, Ontario). James Thomas Wright's grandfather is from Digby, Nova Scotia or some part of Nova Scotia (not quite sure) and he would have been born in the mid 1800's around 1850 or so. Anyway, hopefully by now you have seen many more connections in your tree with the surnames. Perhaps parents to their daughters, "Marry a McCarthy boy!" Anyway, just a thought! Angela 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for all the advice and direction. Knowing info about Liverpool in 1808 is helpful. I've also learned to make time for the other half; and not to forget sometimes it's more than half, lol. I'm glad you've already built up a genealogy road map of skills. I'll be sure to contact you for advice. Thanks, David 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: t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16607/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT John W honor our hero who died in Vietnam - Wall section 57W Honor our Veterans. This is one of many photographs of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Parker Co, TX. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,649 photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is 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.

I am placing my family again I am looking for any family of Walter Wright he was born in 1917 I think he came from Vermont usa his parents may have been Ernest and Lois from Vermont. He married my husbands Aunt in England in 1939 he was a bombardier in the royal artillery I can't find any records of where he enlisted his wife was Barbara Constant .This all seems a bit vague but is all I have. Beryle Mason.Australia

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16606/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Gladys A 1913- I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,566 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.

Is anyone on this list a descendant of or have information about Stephen P. Wright, born about 1809 in Kentucky? He married Elizabeth Billingsley in White County, Indiana in 1845. They had children: Malissa, John, Walter, Mary, and Charles. Stephen died in 1880. I'm trying to find out if this Stephen was the brother of my great-great-grandfather Charles Wright.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Good Luck David. If you go to Liverpool, I would hope that you would be able to spend enough time to follow leads into the Lancashire countryside or beyond, if it turns out you can find something that tells you they were not from Liverpool, but from somewhere else in the North or Northwest of England. By 1808, Liverpool was beginning to be a jumping place. The docks of Liverpool were handling over 40% of the world's trade, including 40% of the world slave trade and over 80% of the slave trade for England. Wealth was literally pouring into the city in those days. That fact alone makes me wonder why anyone who got to Liverpool would want to leave for America at a time when work was plentiful and money was flowing like never before in Liverpool, and England was beginning to edge toward doing something drastic to get their American colonies back. If your ancestors were going to America to take up some land, then they were probably country folks and not from Liverpool but from somewhere in the surrounding countryside. Searching for them in the surrounding countryside is where membership in Ancestry.com.uk might be of some help. On that site, you can search the parish records and other pre-census records by surname and given name and an approximate birth date and get back a slew of possibilities to investigate. For instance, you can do the search with the brothers name and ask it to search also for that name in association with the sister's name to narrow the choices. Of course you can ignore any census records hits, because they were gone before the first census was recorded for England. From what documents are left in the search list you might be able to go further, but my bet is you will eventually have to go on over and visit the areas you identify as possible origins and look at the local records. I never go over there without a fairly detailed itinerary of places I need to visit to answer a specific set of questions and most of that is developed using local history center assistance, the occasional hiring of a professional local genealogist and Ancestry.com.uk resources. Once you have done all that you can do from this side of the pond, you'll have to go on over to the other side. As small as England is, its history is vast compared to ours, and it is easy to get lost in just their index systems if you don't know what you are doing. SOG (The Society of Genealogists) of London put out a series of guidebooks describing the many different types of records in England and how to use the indexes to them to find what you need without wasting too much time. I'd recommend you get a set of those before you go and study them. Don't feel too badly if your first trip seems less than entirely successful. Like anything else, you can't know it all at once. However, if you keep trying, you will eventually master the essentials of the English way of cataloging records, and start to see good progress on every trip. On a personal note, if you are married, please consider this: don't spend all your time in the records offices and local history libraries with your nose buried in a folio or book. Make sure you make time to get out and about to have some fun seeing the local sights. Liverpool has an abundance of things to see and do, second only to London in my opinion and it isn't all about the Beatles either. In addition, if driving on the wrong side of the road and navigating round-abouts puts you off from renting a car to get about, know that the train/bus system in England is excellent and relatively inexpensive. For the price of a week's car rental, you can get to Manchester, Leed, York, Edinburgh and points north or London, Bath, Stonehenge and other points of interest in the South quite easily. The reason I am mentioning this, is that many years ago during our first trip to England to do genealogical research, I made the mistake of delaying our departure from the SOG library in London for a planned side trip out to the country to see Stonehenge; something my wife had told me all along she very badly wanted to do. I was not so keen on sitting on a train and bus for an hour and a half and then wandering around among a bunch of big stones as I was about finishing a hot pursuit records search at SOG. My reluctance to leave the library on time nearly caused us to miss the outbound train and my wife was fully prepared to leave me over it. She fumed the whole way out there. Once there, I was ashamed of my reluctance and failure to take that amazing adventure into proper account in my priorities. I have never made that type of mistake again. Now we plan every trip carefully and typically spend 50% of our time doing the tedious research stuff in the libraries and records offices, and the other 50% touring about to see sights we haven't seen before or going to a play or concert or getting involved in some activity with the locals at a sports field or bar or spa or whatever. We discovered that getting out to meet new people is not only great fun, but can have unexpected benefits. We find that most of the people we meet are very curious about what we are doing to find our origins in their community, and it has happened more than once that someone knows something or someone else who knows something I found very helpful to my research in that area. Anyway, have fun chasing these ancestors down because if you can't find the fun in doing it, it will wear you out in a hurry, and can even cost you your most important companionship. It is an addictive pass-time at best and does require some discipline to keep everything in perspective so your life doesn't go wonky on you. Again, good luck! Mike 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.

Right you are, Bud! I was too tired to go over ALL the pitfalls there are out there, so thanks for having my back. Mike -----Original Message----- From: samuels <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 9:07 pm Subject: Re: [WRIGHT] Wright - origin of name?? Mike I would add one item; Just because it is in print does not make it fact!!!!! I have several things where using the three civil source rule has turned up conflicts which must be worked thru and will be disputed. AF from LdS is one, and complied, printed by publishers and reprinted especially those without sourcing, and abstracted data. And I have files full!! I continue to search for the Carolinian WRIGHT families and their possible "old country " origin. Bud in Mo. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jkwright113 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Regarding Family Search and LDS records, I have a relative with LDS Sealing dates etc. When I have requested the documentation of the facts for the individual I have been advised they are not available. Sad if the work has really been done. John 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.

Hi Shirley You are not alone. I realized a long time ago that LDS had inaccurate information. I've talked to many people that sweared by LDS and I would always tell them of the errors I have found. It's easy to discover the errors when it's about people that you have actually known personally. I will never use LDS data. The only way you can be somewhat sure about your Gen. is if you use original records and cross reference those records with other original records. Preston ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [WRIGHT] Wright - origin of name?? > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: shirley_gragg > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Mike - Hello! I am so glad I'm not the only one thinking the LDS Family > Search program is flawed! I've tried repeatedly to get errors corrected, > even to the point of contacting the 'contact' point, when one is > available. It's all been to no avail. So - as you said - use it with > great caution. It's another to that's useful, but as with everything > else, needs to be considered as another source and used with care. > > As always - excellent commentaries! > > Shirley

Seeing the original can be very illuminating!! I had always wondered why a very important document had so many holes at vital places. So take a Pen light(small flash light) illuminate the backside of the page, interest what one may find. My light is a magnifier but used backward and I am sure anyone observing me thinks I am loosing it. It is small about the size of a lipstick tube, my son has one that is a pointer but lighted. A censured document can often be read with the light trick. Bud in Mo.

Perhaps it is time for a short review of documentation; Prime source, that made at the time(same day?); secondary source, all recorded accounts( news, they were not there at the event), Vitals( often considered prime but subject to error of understanding or interuption; Oral; historical ; and compiled.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: shirley_gragg Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mike - Hello! I am so glad I'm not the only one thinking the LDS Family Search program is flawed! I've tried repeatedly to get errors corrected, even to the point of contacting the 'contact' point, when one is available. It's all been to no avail. So - as you said - use it with great caution. It's another to that's useful, but as with everything else, needs to be considered as another source and used with care. As always - excellent commentaries! Shirley 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks Mike, I'm in agreement on accurate research as well. I've got a gut feeling I'll have to make a trip to Liverpool one day and look at original records or legal copies. Thanks, and I may contact you from time to time. It's good to correspond with someone of discipline and scholarship. David 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: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16605/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Cecil M 1918-2000 I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,566 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: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: David, The LDS library repository is accessible on-line and through most Family History centers and libraries around the country, and their records are first rate from all over the world. Nevertheless, I use their genealogical interpretations of the data with great caution. it is full of mistaken connections and other types of errors. That is because it was not compiled by the LDS for genealogical purposes, even though that is how most non-Mormons use it. It was compiled in order to save as many souls (living and dead) as possible. So, the LDS compilers always err on the positive side when making connections and there is nothing in the way of notes to justify why they decided to make certain connections. They do not check their proposed connections for accuracy relative to all the records they have photocopied, just enough to make the apparent connection. In short, it is a great place to start, but I wouldn't take anything they offer at face value and would do my own research of the original records group (Vitals, Probates, Land transactions/Feet of Fines, Court/Quarter Sessions records, ect. before I accepted anything they said about family connections. Good genealogy is a lot of hard work and huge amounts of time spent poring over obscure dusty records. There isn't much posted on the Internet that meets the standards of what I would say is good genealogy, so be wary of all the postings you find in random searches. Believe nothing unless you know where the records are and have satisfied yourself that what is claimed is adequately supported by documentation or scientific evidence. If you want to speculate yourself on some connection or other, please be thorough in how you justify it so others can consider your theories and the evidence you rest your case on. Its just good scholarship to do so. Good luck with your research and do not hesitate to call on me if you think I can help is some way. Mike 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Michael, Thanks for your information. I may try a good DNA project and look to the ancestry site you recommended. I've also heard that the Morman's keep a good genealogy record. How reliable would their sources be? Roll Tide, David 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: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: David, Let me answer you by the numbers. 1. Yes. 2. Access UK Family History Center records for Liverpool and the surrounding county. You will want to focus on ship records first and then start branching out to parish records looking first for birth, marriage and death records. It is possible they left because their parents had died and left them ship passage money. You might also access the Public Records Office in Kew (listed as UK National Archives on the Internet)and do name searches to find any records that might mention you ancestors within the pre-1808 period. Consider joining Ancestry.com.uk. UK census records will do you no good as they do not start until 1841, but you might find family members in Liverpool or the surrounding counties using same given name combinations or look for similar occupation information from guild records appropriate to what the men did as a trade or other records that Ancestry has on line for the early period of UK history. 3. I recommend only Family Tree DNA (www.familytreedna.com). for testing and joining a surname project. They are the oldest and the best in the genetic genealogy field. The y-DNA program is fairly mature at this point and can be extremely helpful for the rarer haploids, which are everyghing except R1a and R1b haploids. For those who are of Haploid R1 the going is much more strenuous. To make much use of the STR profile from R1 Y-DNA you almost always need to pay for a full 67 markers in order to be sure of family grouping within any surname. Beyond its genealogical uses, Y-DNA is a great anthropological tool for discovering where your family group originated prior to 1000 C. E. The new Family Finder DNA test is less directly helpful at this time largely because not enough people in the various surname projects have had the test performed, so you have a limited number of other possible people to match profiles with. That will change over time, but for now it would ! probably give you only an overview of your own ethnic 'composition' without significantly advancing you kinship with others in the database. Hope that helps some. Mike 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.