Family Lineage and Descendants of John Beall (Bell) & Alison Donaldson of Scotland, Maryland & North Carolina, Volume 3 of 4, 2021 edition. Note that volume four of the set lists the sources, index, and a list of relations to John Beall (Bell).
This book provides a lineage of John Beall (b. 1575, East Lothian, Scotland, d. 1641, East Lothian, Scotland) and his wife, Alison Donaldson, (b. 580, East Lothian, Scotland, d. Edinburg, Scotland) down through history to more modern-day descendants who were born as recently as the 1900s and living predominately in Talbot County, Maryland; Beaufort, Buncombe, Carteret, Catawba, Cleveland, Craven, Edgecombe, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pasquotank, Pitt, Wake, and Wilson Counties, North Carolina; Accomack and Isle of Wight, Virginia; Chatham, Elbert, and Houston Counties, Georgia; Posey County, Indiana; Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Beaufort, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, South Carolina; Lake County, Ohio; Jefferson County, Alabama; Dade, Orange, and Volusia Counties, Florida; Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Adams County, Colorado; Los Angeles County, California; Essex and Newark Counties, New Jersey.
If you are a serious or hobby genealogist, and researching this surname's lineage, this book could provide you some lineage data and vital statistics information you have been seeking to link your family. Use the information in this book to research and find the primary documents that showcase your ancestor's place in history.
Included in this lineage's volume four is an index of names and resources citations for primary, secondary, or tertiary sources for confirmation of research data. Many of the citations are from county books, personal family stories, family bibles, birth and death certificates, US census data, and then comparatively researched against federal, state, or local certifications, as well as online via FindAGrave, Ancestry, and BillionGraves - to name a few.
YOU WILL WANT TO BUY MORE THAN ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK! Why?
You will want one copy to create a scrapbook collection of your personal copies of primary ancestry data (birth and death certificates, copies of marriage registries, photos) in a three-ring binder or scrapbook. Adding more documentation for an ancestor and building a picture of your family makes your research more impactful.
You will want a second copy as a 'write in the margins' reference tool you take on your research journeys to libraries, book archives, book stores, and collections (e.g., history museums). One seldom is able to carry a computer or have fingertip databases available in these research trips, so using the book to compare notes can help you when you return home to record your findings.
You will want multiple copies to gift to your family members. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.'s journey into the practice of genealogy studies started in her teens when she sat at her paternal grandfather's knee to learn about family members and ancestors as part of a school project. She researched genealogy data for over four decades and compiled family histories and lineages for more than 300 unique surnames in her database. The result of the author's years of research was a database with over 18,540 reference citations for >213,300 names, including her and her husband's family history, her previous employer's lineage, many families from the Monroe County, TN, Dauphin County, PA, and Carteret County, NC geographic area, as well as a robust lineage of Sir John Rolfe, Pocahontas, and their son, Thomas Rolfe with >9,000 documented descendants in the author's database.
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