Thomas Howell Holmes was born in 1832 in Hamilton County, Ohio, son of Samuel DeWitt Holmes (1803-188) and Mary Frazer. He married Isabella Gilbreath who was born in Fairfax, Wisconsin in 1843. Ancestry is traced to the following families: John Holmes who immigrated to Pennsylvania from Ireland ca. 1740-1760; Thomas Frazer, a native of Inverness, Scotland, who immigrated to Pennsylvania ca. 1783 and later moved to Ohio, husband of Agnes Kenney (1774-1833);...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Cosden (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England. Some allied families came from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Sweden, and Wales. Some lines are traced through Charlemagne to British and European royalty. Some American ancestors include Thomas Cosden (d. 1683) who lived in Clavert County, Maryland; and Catherine Cosden (1778-1812) who married Fredus...

Jorg Martin Dällenbach (b.ca.1690) and his family emigrated from Switzerland to Neu Castle (near present West Camp) along the Hudson River, New York, moving in 1722 to Stone Arabia in the Mohawk Valley, New York. Includes records of other Dällenbach immigrants from Switzerland to New York and Pennsylvania. Descendants of all these immigrants (chiefly spelling the surname Dillenbeck) lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Utah, Minnesota,...

Leonard Higdon (b.1795) was born in Burke County, North Carolina, served in Florida and Louisiana in the War of 1812, married Eva Hoffman after the war, and moved to Jackson County, North Carolina in 1828. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Maryland and elsewhere.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the More families who descend from John More (1745-1840) and Betty Taylor who married in Elgin, Scotland in 1770. They immigrated to America in 1772, and settled in New York, where they lived in Schoharie, in Harpersfield, in the Catskills, Roxbury, and ca. 1786 established the More settlement known as Moresville or Grand Gorge, in the Bearkill valley in the northeast corner of Delaware...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Overholser (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany and Switzerland. One immigrant ancestor was Samuel Oberholtzer (d. 1748), who left Switzerland in 1727, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some Overholsers were Loyalists who immigrated to Ontario, Quebec, and Upper Canada; others moved to California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio,...

Christopher Tillman came to Virginia from England in 1638. "Gibson Tillman, son of Christopher Tillman, the Virginia emigrant, was born about 1640 in Accomac County, Va., and died Mazy 9, 1720 in Somerset Co., Maryland."--P. 3. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi...

Thomas Smith was born 17 June 1785 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. He married Rebecca Wilson ca. 1814. They moved to Rutherford Co., Tennessee prior to 1816 and by 1836 settled in Washington Co., Arkansas. They were the parents of eight known children. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, California and elsewhere.