We Shall Not Forget-A Family Saga
Publisher: Zamounde S. Allie, Jr.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mascoutah, Illinois
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
Description: A collective genealogy project connecting descendants to key ancestors; spanning the North American continent from the late eighteenth century to the year 2014.
This collection of research is a multifaceted ongoing project; not simply a family tree in the traditional sense, but, to maintain what began with the unions of Hugh Morrison and Lydia McDonald, both born in Scotland; immigrated to Canada with their six children in the late 1840’s to early 1850’s where it is recorded that their daughter Christina Ann Morrison married John Thomas Chambers (escaped from slavery in the United States) around 1860 having approximately 13 children, and at least five more with her second husband, Leroy Grant in October of 1888 following the death of John earlier that year (1 January) in Ontario Canada. Secondly, Lewis Jasper Carter escaped the plantations of Tennessee, successfully settling in Ontario, too where he met and married Sarah Elizabeth Hawkins (native-born); having 12 children. Followed by Thomas Nolan, noted as having Chippewa (Native American) and African heritage met and married Mary Jane Reid; having eight children of their own.
The authors chose to refrain from labeling the book with specific names to encourage the reader to explore the hundreds more and not just familiar ones. Family reunion committees tend to commit this discounting act without malice, but, resulting in the inadvertent exclusion of hundreds of family members that span mainly the North and Southeastern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The research methods and perspectives used may be useful to anyone seeking to grow their family tree.
The book is dedicated to our family lineage with kinship, pictures, records etc., to help family understand how they are related to each other directly and indirectly. Contact the authors for purchase information.
Table of contents: title: Introduction............................................................................................................................................................ix ** Sampling of Contributing Accounts........................................................................................................11 **Eliminating Myths and Connecting the Dots.....................................................................................................36 ** History and Our Story ..........................................................................................................................................39 ** Winding Up the Saga............................................................................................................................................48 ** Key Ancestor Research Status Tracker ..............................................................................................................51 ** Sampling of Ancestors & Descendants...............................................................................................................54 ** Sampling of Official Records................................................................................................................................88 ** Sampling of Relative Family Events: 1619-2014..............................................................................................104 ** Pictorial Sampling of Family .............................................................................................................................123 ** Bibliography.........................................................................................................................................................237 ** Index.....................................................................................................................................................................242