Moses Helm was probably born in Ireland before 1710. He married Sarah and they immigrated to America about 1740. They settled in Virginia where they became the parents of eight children. Information collected on many of their descendants is given in this material which was the background material for a book published on the descendants of Moses Helm. Descendants now live in Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois, Mississippi, and elsewhere.

Virginia Porter was born in Utah in 1909 to Chauncey Union and Marietta Sailor Porter. Her father's family were early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who came west about 1850. She married Howard D. Roberts and they lived in southern Utah. Information on her ancestral lines especially her mother's non-Latter-day Saint lines are included in this collection. These families lived in many areas of the south including, Virginia...

Journal for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ewing (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Some settled in Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia between 1600-1776. Some settled in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee after 1776 and during the 1800s. Later descendants also lived in Nova Scotia (Canada),...

John Porter (1750/60-1830/31) first appears in the 1811 tax list of White County, Tennessee. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and California.

This family are of the north central states.