Harris & Allied Families of Kentucky

Surnames: HARRIS, JASPER, DEWEESE, SMITH, VANHOOK, BURKET, HALL, WILSON, BROWN, CASH;

Main Locations: Caswell, Orange, Wilkes and Surry Co's of NC; Albemarle, Hanover, Washington, Russell, Lee, and Scott Co's of VA; Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Pulaski, and Rockcastle Co's of KY. Then on to the states of MO, ID, IN, IL, OK, OR, WA, TX...

 Wishing you "Happy Sleuthing" chasing "Your Ancestors"!

"Love" for Genealogy is the reason for "sharing" information.

Please keep in mind that "ERRORS" may have been made.

Please do your own VERIFICATION of names, dates, events, etc...

Use this as a good STARTING POINT, but remember it remains:

"A WORK IN PROGRESS"!

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Don't forget to leave your e-mail address if you would like to exchange info.

If you have data to share, you will find e-mail addresses of each of our Harris researchers on our "Home" page, we're always happy to hear from you.

http://www.freewebs.com/kyharris/guestbook.htm

We base our research on this most valued advice, given us by a long time researcher:

Geneticists at Stanford U are of the belief some of us amateur genealogists are being led astray by this DNA stuff!!!  I think it is all kind of fun, but to base family history on that factor alone is being unrealistic!!!

Hard work is still the answer, but perhaps not the whole answer.  Before we genealogists got hooked by DNA testing [to probably avoid a lot of hard work], a DAR genealogist told me these guidelines.

She said: 

1) You have to determine who the associates were. Always watch such things as witnesses, chain carriers in the land grants, who were the administrators or executors of an estate, etc.

2) You have to determine the watercourses on which each lived.

Our note: While we believe that DNA is a useful tool, it can "only" point a researcher in the right direction, it “can not”  tell you which of the many, many males in a "given group" you may belong to.

Our 1^st Award 14 Aug 2006