Welcome
Being the Web publisher of genealogical research that I am, the intentions are to
write and publish stories of happenings about my ancestors;
therefore:
You better Bookmark this page. In the meantime, please step in
and have a look around. Read the results of my 68 years of genealogical research. You won't get lost here. There will always be a table of
contents on the left side of every page you visit.
My interest in
genealogy was first challenged sixty-eight years ago. Since then, family
history has always been a part of my life. Some of the family history books
I researched and wrote were:
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Grandpas, Inlaws & Outlaws
(A Lindsay
Family History),
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Bits of Lore About Folks of Yore, later expanding on
this story concerning the descendants of Darby Shawhan, to a book titled, Whiskey Makers for Thirsty Colonists
(The offspring of Darby Shawhan -
originators of bourbon whiskey),
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The Descendants of James & Eliza
Cartmill Green (1740-1811),
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Descendants of Berend Diederich Munsterman
(1722-1772 & Anna Margareta Meyer (1724-1777) of Furstenberg, Prussia.,
among others.
This genealogical
Web site was built for my family who are scattered all over the USA. My
children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren extend from Atlanta,
Georgia, to Evansville, Indiana, to Houston, Texas,
to Seattle, Washington. However, ken-lindsay.com is dedicated to all my
ancestors who passed before. Most every family came to America while
under British rule and helped forge this nation. Their lives were varied and important part of our nation's history.
You will find news worthy articles written about everyone of them. These are
some of the surnames you will find here:
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Berkley
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Bryant
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Cartmill
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Dorsey
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Green
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Greenberry
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Griffith
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Howard
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Hughes
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Koressel
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Lindsay
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Mays
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Meadows
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Muensterman
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Scott
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Shawhan
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Traylor
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Wilson
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What's New
The following is a list of recent additions to Bridges from the Past to the
Future. Whenever I publish a paper, submit a status
report, or add anything else to this web, I will put a notice here. In time
we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and
each item is linked to the page with the updated content.
16 August 2007
Newest Family History Tools
Create a Need to Know
My father, Ben Wilson Lindsay, died in July 1962 at
the age of 79. At his wake, my mother handed me an unopened letter
addressed to Dad from Andrew Jackson Lindsay of Cloverport in
Breckinridge Co., Kentucky.
The letter expressed certainty of a family
relationship between Andrew and Dad. This was the spark that first
ignited the fire that drove me into the quest of my Lindsay heritage.
Armed with this letter, I drove to Cloverport and a
group of guys sitting on a bench, overlooking the wide and beautiful
Ohio River, quickly directed me to "Andy" Lindsay's home.
Andy Lindsay was 73 years old and a dead ringer for the likeness of my
Grandpa, James Benjamin Lindsay. I spent a productive day with Andy and
practically filled a yellow legal pad with notes concerning Andy and his
family extending back to his Grandpa whom he knew little about except
his name was George Lindsay and there were some "real outlaws" in the
family. ...More>>>>
29 October 2006
My obsession with
family history
I must admit, I am totally addicted to genealogy. My
friends often asked, "How are you going to spend your vacation?" The oft
reply was that I would spend my vacations in courthouses, libraries, and
cemeteries...More>>>>
07 October 2006
Famous frontier
explorers: Two Lindsay brothers, John Tolson and Anthony and Anthony's
sons, Nicholas Dorsey Lindsay and John Lindsay
Charles LeCompte led a group of brave Maryland men
through the wilderness of Frederick county to Fort Pitt where they
joined a Pennsylvania branch of the Lindsay family led by Robert
Patterson and William McConnell. It was in the spring of 1775, John
Tolson Lindsay, age 44, his brother
Anthony, age 40, along with two nephews, Nicolas Dorsey Lindsay, age
21, and John C. Lindsay, age 16, were
among the Marylanders led by LeCompte.
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