My ancestor is Nathan Fowler with a son named Zephania. Her ancestor is Nathan Fowler with a son named Zephaniah. Her Nathan was born in the mid 1700s and died in 1817 in Jackson County. My Nathan was born about 1800 and died sometime before 1860 in Gwinnett County. Close, but no cigar.
Nothing is further from the truth.
We have been trying to connect these families for years with no luck. Frances was generous enough to share her Hanson family file with me, though, and I took it home and entered her data into my genealogy program. The Hanson family story, like all family histories, is interesting. Va. The Hanson name is spelled many ways in genealogical records Hanson, Henson, and Hinson are just a few. Several members of the Hanson family migrated south from Virginia along the most common migration pattern, first to North Carolina, then into Georgia.