Family Genealogy

A Genealogy Web Portal

Portal Schematic

I. ABOUT THE COMPLETE DATABASE
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This genealogy database includes (a) individuals in my

pedigree (the ancestors of an individual)¹,

(b) non-pedigree

blood relatives (people descended from the same ancestor)¹

and (c) members of unrelated¹ families mentioned in

family folklore (community tales passed down through generations)

pages and official

imaged documents (paper documents converted to digital images).

As you look through the database sections you'll find hyperlinked items, including selectable Snapshot Icons (

) and Pedigree Chart Icons (

), that lead to additional subject insights. See the following for details and the Portal Schematic for a graphical overview of all the Web portal sections.²

Database Surname List - There are 908 surnames in the complete database, accessible from a menu item in page headers or from the Portal Schematic. Selecting a surname from the list will present all 'given' names associated with that surname. There are a total of 3,316 given names in the complete database. Particular given names may be associated with multiple "as parent" Family Group Sheets (e.g. multiple marriages) and/or with multiple "as child" Family Group Sheets (e.g. adoptions). Selecting a particular "as child" or "as parent" hyperlink for a person will then present that Family Group Sheet.

Database GEDCOM File - Names, sources and notes are collected in the de facto open standard format for exchanging genealogical data. This has been removed from unfettered public consumption to help protect against nefarious Data Scrapers that don't give due credit (though there's really no technical way to make information freely available while preventing its theft for profit).³
Database Members Military Activities Table - There are 41 database members who are known to have participated in the Colonial Militia, Pequot War, King Philip's War, French and Iroquois Wars, American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I or World War II. Individual names are hyperlinked to an appropriate Family Group Sheet, and those in my pedigree are marked with a selectable Pedigree Chart Icon (). This table is also directly accessable from the Web Portal Schematic or by selecting the 'military' entry Snapshot Icon () of a Family Group Sheet member.
Database Family Group Sheets - There are 1,280 pages of immediate-family relationships with hyperlinks to additional internal information pages and external sites (). Any individuals in my pedigree are marked with a selectable Pedigree Chart Icon (). These sheets are accessible by selecting a surname and then a particular 'given' name from the Database Surname List or by selecting a person's hyperlinked full name anywhere on this site.

II. ABOUT THE RH PEDIGREE DATABASE
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My earliest American

ancestors (people from whom one is descended)¹

immigrated to the early colonies: the Virginia colony beginning in 1620, the New Netherland colony beginning in 1624 and the New England colony beginning in 1630. Here's a 1630 map⁴ showing their general 17^th century settlement areas. Below, individuals in my pedigree are organized by various shared traits into lists, tables, charts and maps:²

RH Pedigree Surname List - There are 187 pedigree surnames, accessible from a menu item in page headers (110 surnames from the
ADAMS/WALKER(ADAMS, ANDERSON, ATHEROLD/ATHERALD, BAGNELL, BALL, BALTZELL, BARBARA, BENDY, BERNARD, BLOUNT, BORDON, BOWER, BUCKNER, BURCH, BUTLER, BYSCHE/BISH/BYSSHE, CHILTON, COLLINS, CONSTABLE, COOKE, CORBET, CORBIN, CORDEROY, DAUNDELYON/DAUNDELYAN/DAUNDELYN, DE ASTLEY, DE ERDINGTON, DE LA LEE, DE LEE, DE LEGA, DE VALLETORT, FERRERS, GAGE, GIFFORD, GODDARD, GRAMMER, GRAY, GREEN, GRIFFITH, HARRISON, HAWKINS, HAZLEWOOD/HASLEWOOD, HENEAGE, HENSON, HOPER, HURST~~/HEARST~~, HUST/HURST, (HUTCHENSON), INGRAM, IRONMONGER, JAMES, JONES, KINGSMILL, (KNIGHT), LEE, LINDSEY, MORRIS, MORRIS/COXWELL, MORTON, MUSCOT, NEALE, NEWMAN, PACKINGTON, PAINTER, PAULETT, PEARSON, POPE, PORTER, PRESLEY, PRICE, RANSDELL, REVELL, ROMNEY, SALING, SANFORD, SCROPE/LE SCROOPE, SEAMORE, SHAW, SPENCE, SQUIRE, STURMAN, SULLICK, SUTLEY, THOMPSON, THRASHER, TODD, TOPE, TUNSTALL, VERMILLION, VERNON, VOLLMER, WADDY, WALKER, WEEKS, WHARTON, WHEAT, WHITCOMB, WILLIAMSON, WINGFIELD, YEE, YOUELL/YOWELL)
lineage, and 77 from
HOFFMAN/SEELEY(BARRENTSDOTTER, BENNETT, BERRY, BINGHAM, BINGLEY, BOSCH, BRADT, BURR, CALKINS, CARLSON, CHIPMAN, COEYMANS/KOIJEMANS, COOK, CRAIG, DE VOS, DOCKSTADER, FREEMAN, GARDENIER, GERRITS, HALSEY, HANNA, HARRIS, HAWLEY, HEATH/MASON, HOFFMAN, JACKSON, JACOBSEN, JONES, KERR, KINETAS, KING, KUNST, MALLORY, MEBIE, MICHELL, MILLIKEN, NIEUWKERK, NILSDOTTER, NILSSON, ODELL, ORSELLA, OTSEN, PIERCE, PRETT, PUDNEY, RICKER, SANFORD, SCHERMERHORN, SEELEY, SEGERS, SHEPPARD, SILLIMAN, SLECHT, SPECK, SWARTWOUT, SWEETMAN, TERWILLIGER, THORNE, TOMPKINS, TURNEY, VAN PELT, VAN VOORHOURT, VEEDER, VON ROTTMER/VON ROLMERS, WADSWORTH, WARREN, WHEELER, WIEKLE)
). Selecting a surname from the Pedigree Surname List will present all pedigree 'given' names associated with that surname. There are a total of 469 pedigree given names in the database. Selecting a particular "pedigree" hyperlink associated with a given name will present a page of the Detailed RH Pedigree Chart showing that person's place in the overall Chart. Individuals may appear on multiple Chart pages.
Detailed RH Pedigree Chart - There are 84 pages showing relationships between RH Pedigree List members. This Chart extends back into the 11^th century and covers more than 27 generations. These pages include hyperlinks to Family Group Sheets, hyperlinks to internal and external information pages (), and "Pedigree Level" numbers⁵ (to the left of each individual ancestor call-out). This Chart is accessible from a menu item in page headers, from entries in the RH pedigree 'given' name list, or by selecting Pedigree Chart Icons () embedded in Family Group Sheets and elsewhere. Individuals may appear on multiple Chart pages.

RH Pedigree 17^th Century American Immigrants Map ⁴, showing general family settlement areas - There are 33 pedigree family surnames shown, listed adjacent to their approximate / predominate colony settlement areas and with hyperlinks to Family Group Sheets.
RH Pedigree American Immigrant Tables and Pie Chart Nationality Summaries - There are 69 pedigree individuals born overseas with a record of immigration to or marriage/children/death in America; this covers the period from 1620 to 1870. Individual names are hyperlinked to the Detailed RH Pedigree Chart. Table nationalities are based on reported country-of-origin at the time of immigration to or the time of marriage/children/death in America. Family DNA ancestry pie charts are included for comparison.
Zoomable Virginia Colony Pedigree Chart - my mother's partial pedigree (ADAMS, SALING, WALKER, PEARSON, ...) extending back to the late 16^th century; covers up to 14 generations. This one page Chart is not as up-to-date or as complete as the Detailed RH Pedigree Chart nor does it include any Snapshot Icons, but it gives a broad high-level overview, identifies repeated ancestors and notes Jamestown Society Register members.
- Includes three (PEARSON) ancestors immigrating in 1620 to the Virginia colony and settling in areas along the western shore / tributaries of Chesapeake Bay:
- Includes seven (PEARSON) ancestors on the 'Jamestowne Society Register of Qualifying Seventeenth Century Ancestors' who also settled in areas along the western shore / tributaries of Chesapeake Bay:
- Includes John ADAMS , immigrating in the mid-1600s to the Pamlico River area of North Carolina.
- Includes Giles VERMILLION , immigrating in 1699 to the Prince George's County area of Maryland.
Zoomable New Netherland and New England Colonies Pedigree Chart - my father's partial pedigree (HOFFMAN, SWARTWOUT, SEELEY, CARLSON, ...) extending back to the late 16^th century; covers up to 13 generations. This one page Chart is not as up-to-date or as complete as the Detailed RH Pedigree Chart nor does it include any Snapshot Icons, but it gives a broad, high-level overview and identifies repeated ancestors. Of specific interest in this grouping are the following items/families/ancestors:
- New Amsterdam / Albany Area Pedigree Chart (subset of above).
- Robert SEELEY , Puritan immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) and settler of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
- Several (SWARTWOUT, SEELEY) families immigrating (1624 to 1662) to the New Netherland colony and settling in areas generally along the Hudson River:
- New Amsterdam map⁶ showing year 1660 property owners, including two RH (SWARTWOUT) ancestors:

III. 18^th, 19^th AND 20^th CENTURY INFORMATION
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Genealogy and folklore from more recent times -- additional sources, notes, documents, biographies and pictures, some pedigree related and some not.

¹ See "This Web Site's Terminology".
² For a more individualized organization, a rudimentary ad hoc site search capability is embedded in the top-left corner of the genealogy page headers. This search may return references to some non-manncreek.com pages (a.k.a. advertisements) -- and since I didn't develop the tool (it's a utility from Google), I can't certify that selecting those non-manncreek.com pages will be safe. But the tool does do a safe (yet some times incomplete) search of pages on manncreek.com.
³ In addition, all full-scale imaged documents have been digitally watermarked with "manncreek.com".
⁴ This map is part of a larger collection of period maps on a Fordham University Web site, acknowledged on The New Netherland Project Web site.
⁵ Calculate Great x? Grandparent number by subtracting 2 from the "Pedigree Level" number.
⁶ Original map from the book "The Legend of New Amsterdam" by Peter Spier, as noted. Interactive map from http://www.teachout.org/ (select building icons for owner information) [ evidently this Teachout site is no longer active -- find the archived (6/1/14) interactive map here ]. Follow this link for an explaination of this New Amsterdam land ownership data (archived 8/9/17), and this link for a brief history of the "Castello Plan" and other related maps.

Last genealogy update January 2021.

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