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That’s all very helpful, especially the research tip; thanks Marc!
I’ve just started a spreadsheet for myself where I’m tracking results of surname searches. I think that will help me decide which surnames to start more in depth searches. I was doing searches and not tracking which ones I’d done, and whether I had done them with my own matches or my father’s and so now I’m trying to be more systematic so I don’t keep redoing things.
I wish there wasn’t a limit on the groups you can create on Ancestry… that was a part of the reason for the spreadsheet… too many names to search!
Ahhh… that’s where your notes come in… I get it!
And then I want to cross match locations…
But again even though I’ve done some of the things you suggest I hadn’t done it in an organized fashion or figured out what to DO with the results… so your feedback is quite validating !
And, I hadn’t realized Canada was a relevant surname… or that it’s a variant of Kennedy…
besides the personal relevance of this research… the historian in me (I’m trained in art and architectural history) is having a field day ☺️!
Hi I’ve learned a little more about my family and it seems the Colemans were in Brunswick County, VA in the mid-1800s and then moved to Roanoke district, Halifax County by the 1870s. Also, I’ve discovered a lot of DNA matches with Evans in their trees… so maybe there is a connection? I have yet to be able to expand my tree past my great-great-grandmother (a Coleman) but might her parents I believe were a Coleman and a Gundy from Brunswick County.
Do you by chance have any Gundys in your tree (Sallie H Gundy/Sallie Gundy)?
I know this is a really old post, but I wanted to comment because I’m pretty sure that John Coleman was the brother of my great-great-grandmother Kittie Coleman (or possibly her name was Emma/Erma, and “Kittie” a nickname??). At least that’s what the census records indicate. While I haven’t found a census record that shows them both in the same household, my great-grandfather Marcellus lived next door to John and Ellen Coleman on one side, and John’s sister Kittie on the other (and her other brother? Nick on the other side of John (so it went Kittie, Marcellus, John, Nick).
Anyway, if my research is accurate, then John’s death certificate gives the names and birthplaces of his parents… Willis Coleman and Sallie Gundy from Brunswick County, VA.
P.S. I was replying to nativelady’s post about her family John Coleman and Ellen Rice (Coleman). I also have Lacks, Pleasants, Collins, and Coleman in my family tree besides this very strong evidence for direct connection… Is nativelady still on the forum?
Hi Marc,
Apologies for taking so long to reply. I have been trying to answer your question and keep getting bogged down in analyzing my matches’ trees to figure out the most common surnames, or more importantly, which ones are relevant. Sometimes I look and find that the surname is only mentioned once and it’s the married name of someone lower down the tree…
Do you have any recommendations for how I might go about determining the more common names? I have an easier time, so far, telling which names are NOT coming up, than which ones that come up may be potential leads.
I’ve been trying to examine trees to find the matches who have ancestors who were in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1700s and early 1800s. Can’t for the life of me tell how they might be connected though.
So far, surnames that have made several appearances across matches’ trees are Canada, Lacks/Lax, Collins, Bolling, others I’m investigating are Chavers, Scott, Richardson, Harris, Evans, Johnson, Jones, Brown too maybe. Basically most of the Saponi surnames from the Haithcock list come up somewhere in my matches but I have to cull them down to the meaningful ones. Stay tuned! and Thanks!