Conrad Fornia's Geneology Page

Some of my ancestors were here when the others arrived. Some came with the Puritans, some as indentured servants, some were well financed. Some were adventurers, some were laborers, some were farmers and entrepreneurs in GA, TN, AL, MA, ID, WA, MI and NY. It's an all American story.

Everyone thinks their ancestors should stand out. Most geneology work is very tedious because most people didn't leave much of a mark so you look through census records, birth and death records, and try to guess where they went and why. It's especially neat to be able to direct your attention to my Farrington, Fisher, Hill, Taylor and Fornia ancestors because they made their marks in several interesting ways & as pioneers in Dedham Mass, Harrisville MI, St Maries Idaho and Spokane Falls, WA.

Researching Native American or African American ancestors is worse because most were illiterate and their communities didn't keep written records. Fortunately my Native American ancestors were prominent enough to have been mentioned in many histories of the Cherokee people, including African American histories and my great grandfather James L Puckett wrote his own history of the Cherokee Territory, starting with his adventures upon arriving in 1880.

Click here for Conrad's: Fornia, Hill, Fisher, Lewis, Farrington, Taylor, Wilkes, etc ancestry with descendent charts for root ancestors
Click here for Conrad's: Cherokee, Puckett, Chaney/Brown, Rinker, Zink, Fagen, etc ancestry with descendent charts for root ancestors
Included are biographies for selected individuals. Use your browser's text find feature to find the instances of specific names.

Looking at the picture of Joe Puckett's mother and his attitude toward blacks makes me suspect that I have some slave ancestors. I went thru the slave & free lists for the 1860 census @ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/census/ and couldn't find Blevins or Fagan. I've got nothing on his mom except the names of her parents. They aren't in any of the Cherokee Rolls. Will have to continue the search.

TIP: You can customize these pages to emphasize your own ancestors or descendants by using a document editor such as Microsoft Word or an HTML editor such as FrontPage.
Save the page to your computer's Documents folder, open it in the editor, chage the paper type, margins and fonts as necessory.

Alternatively you can download my family tree data file, add your other fanily members and use a geneology program to create your own charts.

Click Here to download my Fornia, Hill, Fisher, Lewis, Farrington, Taylor family tree data file

Click Here to download my full family tree data file

The format for these files is standard geneology 'GEDCOM'. They can be viewed with a standard text editor/viewer. If you use a geneology program like the
free Personal Ancestral File (follow this link, choose the 'Order/Download Products' tab, then the 'Software Downloads - Free' tab)
the links between generations will be usable. I used the shareware program FamTree v4.2 to generate the web pages and separate out Fornia-Hill-etc gedcom file.
It's a good, inexpensive, general purpose geneology program.

Names included: Blevins, Broadbent, Brow, Brown, Bullard, Chaney, Cherokee, Fagan, Farrington, Fisher, Fornia, Hayford, Henkle, Hill, Janes, Jones, Lyon, McKown, Pierce, Prickett, Puckett, Rinker, Ruggles, Stephenson, Thorp, Wade, White, Wilkes, Zink

Featured fornia's and relations:
Robert Francis Fornia, Arthur Farrington Fornia, Stanley Frank Fornia, Lawrence Mack Fornia
Henry Roberts, Paul Tuthill

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Page created by: Conrad Fornia, Last updated 9-5-2005