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Zoom Meeting – Tracking Ancestors Along the Great Wagon Road
Tracking Ancestors Along the Great Wagon Road
by Dr. Bill Lindsy
The primary focus of this presentation will be to provide clues for those whose ancestral research is “stuck” in some region west of Pennsylvania or Virginia, but who have strong reason to believe that their ancestors came from one of those states, with roots reaching back to the colonial period. The presentation will focus in particular on families that made the trek down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania to Virginia and the Carolinas, and then migrated west.
The lecture will suggest a number of approaches to bridge the gap between the period/area in which you are stuck, and colonial Pennsylvania/Virginia. The point of the presentation will not be to provide an exhaustive overview of genealogical research in Pennsylvania and Virginia, but to assist researchers who are beyond the beginning stage, as they try to push backwards to Virginia and Pennsylvania.
William D. (Bill Lindsey is a Little Rock native who holds a B.A. in English from Loyola University, an M.A. in English from Tulane University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College of the Toronto School of Theology. Among other published works, he’s the author of Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher, which won the Booker-Worthen prize in 2014; and (with William L. Russell and Mary Ryan) A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799-1989.
Bill maintains a genealogical blog in which his goal is to place online his research of nearly fifty years. The blog is called Begats and Bequeathals: A Southern U.S. Family Documented and is found here: https://begatsandbequeathalsasouthernusfamilydocumented.com
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0:02:06 Meeting Starts
0:05:40 Presentation
1:02:32 Questions and Answers
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