After working on my family history on and off again since 1973; this is my attempt to web-enable my research. I am using the program "The Master Genealogist" by Wholly Genes Software to maintain my family history data and John Cardinal's "Second Site" program to create the web pages.

This website tries to document the descendants of the following main family lines and handful of collateral lines; also records some of the family of my wife, Terri (Struck) Redman: William Hearne (1627-1691), Jacob Ruple/Rupel (1735-1797), Henry Perkins (1555-1609), Francis Purdy (1595-1658), Dirck Hoogland(1637), Jeremiah McCarthy (1787-1882), William McGinnis (1831-1918), Frank Sklenar (1828-1904), Jacob Nestaval (1801-1885).

Over the years, I have corresponded with many near and distant relatives in the search of the elusive name, date or place. Looking for even the minor additions and corrections.

In the last few years the amount of genealogy research that has been made available on the Internet has grown dramatically. You are now able to locate some vital records, obituaries, census images and so much more on the Internet. With tools provided by such sites as www.ancestry.com, you able to search a census name index and then go directly to an image of the census page. This has provided a boom to my research, on numerous persons that I thought were at a dead-end.

As this is still a work in-progress, I know there may be some errors in the data, and I take full responsibility for that. If you detect an error or missing data, please let me know.

Depending on what site you are viewing this on, not all of the data is available. Specifically, all living and probable living persons are excluded from any data that is presented on a public web site. If you are viewing this from a CD-ROM that was distributed to family members, then everyone in the database is visible.

 

To find the page for a particular family member, you can either click on the "Surnames" or "Index" button at the top of this page. If you click on "Charts", you can select some pre-built descendant and pedigree charts. If you click on "Places", will bring up a place name index.

In the Name Index, the portrait icon preceding a name tells you that the page for this person has an image, usually a photograph.

On the page for an individual person you may see one or more of the following icons, click on it to see or hear:


A photograph or image. Almost all of these are JPEG files.
A photograph or image. Almost all of these are JPEG or TIFF files.
A Document. These will be HTML or text files.
These are Adobe PDF files, viewable with the free Adobe Reader..
These are audio files.

Each numbered footnote at the bottom of a person page is a short citation of a source of information. Each footnote has a link to the full citation, shown as [S125] etc. Some of the full citations are followed by an icon which is a link to an image, text or audio exhibit with useful and interesting information related to the source. Be sure to follow these links to see or hear the source exhibits.

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