Genealogy Resources

Benton County was originally Tippah and Marshall County and was formed in 1870  when reconstructionist laws came into effect after the Civil War.   The land that makes up Benton belonged to the Chickasaw Indians before settlement.  In 1834, the Treaty of Pontotoc was signed between the State of Mississippi and the Chickasaw Nation allowing the purchase of land by white settlers. 

  • Tippah County, Mississippi Genealogy

    Tippah County is located in the northeast portion of the state of Mississippi. The county was established  in February 9, 1836 and is one of ten counties created by the Chickasaw Cession.  In 1870, the reconstructionist government divided the county and parts that were once Tippah County now belong to Union, Prentiss, Benton, and Alcorn Counties.

                    Free Family Tree Programs

Family Tree Legends version 5.0 is a powerful and sophisticated genealogy program designed to make it easy for you to collect, display, and organize information about your family history. Whether it’s notes, medical facts, pictures, or multimedia files, Family Tree Legends provides you with a single tool to capture every bit of information about the history of your family.

Family Tree Builder – offered by the genealogy site MyHeritage.com. It takes information from  the MyHeritage website to help you build begin building your family tree. It features a dedicated online space to publish your tree and the ability to load family photos. Their SmartMatching feature compares your family tree with other MyHeritage users to help you find even more relatives. A premium version is also available that offers more features.
Personal Ancestral File – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides Family Search. The program allows users to enter names, dates, citations and source information into a database, and then to sort and search the genealogical data, print forms and charts, and share files with others in GEDCOM format. PAF can also link images and other media files to individual records, and handles Unicode.

Genealogy Books

This long out-of-print genealogical reference has become much sought after by residents of Washington County, Virginia, and the numerous scattered descendants of that county’s forefathers. The work identifies 333 Washington County cemeteries and cites the inscriptions of each tombstone. Seven detailed maps aid in locating the burial sites. This edition also includes a newly compiled comprehensive index of more than 2,400 surnames, many of which include multiple entries. The Overmountain Press, 1995 – 442 pages. Note: This is a Google Books Edition link and does not include all chapters of the book. However, since it is out-of-print and hard to find, I hope that it will assist you in finding information that pertains to your ancestor in the pages shown.

Contains much genealogical information on the Genung – Ganong – Ganung families. Jean Guenon was probably born in France and as a Huguenot, left France with others of the faith and went to Holland. He was on board the ‘Draetvat’ when it left the port of Amsterdam on April 2, 1657 for New Amsterdam – later named New York. In 1675 he was living in Flushing, Long Island.
“After twenty years of work by many members of the Genung and Ganong families, and seven years of work by.the present editors, the genealogy is finally published of the descendants of Jean Guenon of Flushing. In many ways this genealogy is unique. The first ancestor in America was the only Huguenot of the Guenon family known to have come to America.”Contains a Chart of the first four generations of the descendants of Jean Guenon with Index. Publisher:  A.W. Heinrich’s Printing Co., 1906.
Note: This is a Google Books edition link that goes to page 504 of the book that gives information on Rachel Townsend who married David Cole. Rachel and David were the parents of Cornelius Cole, the California state senator and Emmaline who married John Townsend Smith. John Townsend Smith and Emmaline were the parents of Gilbert Smith who married Lola Oury.

  • Early Western Augusta Pioneers – George Washington Cleek

    From its establishment in 1745, Augusta County, Virginia served as a haven for Scotch-Irish, German, and, to a lesser extent, English immigrants who failed to find economic opportunity or religious freedom in the colonial settlements along the Middle Atlantic coastline. This little known but important work contains detailed genealogies of the twenty families mentioned in the title of the work, who settled in that region of “old western Augusta” that today encompasses Bath and Highland counties, Virginia. In addition to the family histories, the compiler has provided introductory chapters on the history of German and Scotch-Irish settlement to the region; a table of family members who fought in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, and a full name index with approximately 10,000 entries.  Note:  This is a Google Books edition link that shows only pages 1-85.  Great information on the background of this county and a lot of data/information. If you want to read the entire book, there are links to help you buy the book.
  • Revolutionary War Almanac – John C. Frederikson

    With the possible exception of the Civil War, no other period in American history rivals the American Revolution in importance. Originating in 1775 as disorganized, local violence over rights and taxes, it quickly escalated into full-blown armed conflict. By the time the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, a new nation had emerged. Offering a day-by-day chronology of the people and events important to the American Revolution, Revolutionary War Almanac provides an up-close look at this historic time. The A-to-Z dictionary covers people, battles, and other exciting details. More than 130 maps, photographs, and illustrations pair with a detailed index, a bibliography, and cross-references to make this reference more accessible than any other. Coverage includes: *Ethan Allen *Benedict Arnold *Anne Bailey *Battle of Bunker Hill *Continental Congress *Dragging Canoe *Benjamin Franklin *Nathanael Greene *Patrick Henry *Hessians *John Paul Jones *Marquis de Lafayette *Loyalists *Jane McCrea *Treaty of Paris (1783) *Privateering *Quebec Act (1774) *Paul Revere *Deborah Sampson *Tea Act (1773) *George Washington. NOTE: This is a Google Books edition of the book and the link goes directly the the pages about Arthur Campbell and William Campbell. There are many other pages available on the link – perhaps you will find more family members!
  • History of Western Maryland – Volume II – “being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men” by J. Thomas Scharf, A.M. Digitized by the Internet Archive with funding from the University of Pittsburgh Library System. Copyright 1882.  A great book full of information and names. If you have a relative who passed through Maryland during this time, you may find them listed here!




                    Genealogy Websites

  • Campbells of Southwest Virginia

     If you are researching “Campbells” this website hosted by Phil Norfleet is a great and trusted resource. Research on the Campbell family can be very confusing because there are so many of them, they often marry their cousins and  there is a lot of mis-information out there from well-meaning researchers. Mr. Norfleet has done extensive research and backed up his information with facts. If he doesn’t agree with the research of an author, he will give you detailed information on why he does not agree. Much of the Campbell data I have included in my research on the Campbells related to our family comes from this website.

  • Walton, Jackson and Raper Family History, England to Virginia

    Descendents of Richard Walton, John Jackson Sr. and William Raper and includes the diary of Hannah Walton Sanders

  • New River Notes – Historical and Genealogical Resources for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia. This includes Ashe, Alleghany, Watagua and Wilkes counties in Northwest North Carolina, Grayson and Carroll counties in Virginia plus adjacent counties in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.

  • TeaFor2.com – website author Allen Wheatley started photographing just his relatives in their cemeteries but found he needed to go back often to get newly found cousins. So he started photographing complete cemeteries. You may freely copy individual pictures for your personal use as long as you credit his website.

  • Find A Grave – See the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world. Use the link below to get started.

Search 58.6 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname:

 

Mark B. Arslan [Cary, North Carolina has spent over 40 years researching the genealogy of Michael and Mary Kiser, working very hard to get the information correct. I consider this a great, trusted source of information if you are researching this family and their descendants. On the preface of his page, Mark states:

“This web site is intended to be a compendium of the research done on Michael and Mary Kiser and their descendants. Much has been published on this family in various Virginia historical books and family histories, some of it accurate, some not so accurate. As is often the case with family histories, once something is in print, it often is considered to be “gospel”. It is my hope that this web site will facilitate a critical examination and discussion of the facts, legends, and myths surrounding this Kiser family and to allow us Kiser researchers and descendants to learn more about our origins and our relatives’ contributions to early America.”















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