Harness Family Genealogy Links

This page includes links to sites that would be of interest to someone researching Harness family history. Other sites on this page are useful for general genealogy research.

Coming to America

This site, maintained by Charles Harness, features extensive graphics, including maps and photographs, covers such landmark events as the Revolutionary war period, including the Indian attacks on the South Branch settlers...conflicts inspired first by the French and later by the British, that preceded the war. The site also features a look at the Civil war era, and the involvement of descendants of Michael Ernst Harness, Sr. on both the Union and Confederate sides of the tragic conflict.

There are many pages of information in Coming to America. Here is a site map:

The Tulpehoken Settlement
Lord Fairfax - five million acres
Life and Times on the South Branch
George Washington and the South Branch settlers
Harness family neighbors on the South Branch
South Branch families ... where they lived
Indian raids on settlers
John Harness frontier rifleman
The story of Fort Harness
Hawthorne - Michael Harness Sr's home

Ohio History

Over the Alleghenies ... to Ohio country
Joseph Harness heads to Ohio country
Cattle Industry Pioneers - the Renik and Harness families of Ohio
Peter and Leonard Harness head west
The Harness family and slavery in colonial Virginia
The Civil War years
1874 historical atlas of Greene County

Arkansas History

The Harness family comes to Arkansas
Heber Springs, Arkansas
The children of Roscoe and Nelle Harness


   

Hardy County West Virginia Genealogy page

   
Johann Michael Ernst Hoerner and his Harness Children    
Hardy County WVA Genweb Archives    
The McNeill Rangers - A Study in Confederate Guerilla Warfare    
Harness Cemetary, Pleasants Co. W VA    

The Allegheny Regional Family History Society Home Page - George Yokum Interview

   
The Story of Jane (online) Harris has been substituted for Harness    
Ohio Underground Railroad Association - Solomon Harness reward sign    
Letters of Helen Yoakum Black - interesting Harness stories    
Harness Family Genealogy Forum    
Cleburne County, Arkansas    
Cleburne County Historical Society    
Palatine History    
Ellis Island Records