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I have been interested in Genealogy since I was in high school. It all started when I was given a high school assignment. I wasn't able to fill out much information at the time, but now, thirty years later, I probably have 5,000 people in my database... I add more daily. Now that my children are grown, I have more time for research.
The names I am working on at this time are: Johnson, Knorr, Morgans, Cumpton, Compton, Zorn, Loos, Geodeke, Jenkins and Simpson.
I am Chickasaw métis - a combination of Chickasaw American Indian and European ancestry (German, Irish and Welsh). The American Indian side has been the most challenging. Although I have membership in the Chickasaw Nation and proving my heritage was never difficult, trying to trace back beyond the Dawes Rolls of 1898 has been much harder.
My family removed from Mississippi into Indian Territory during the Trail of Tears. I have information about my Great Grandfather, George W. Johnson, full blood Chickasaw, born in 1844 in Indian Territory, but I have no idea what his mother and father's names were. Somewhere along the way, they changed from using their Indian name to using the surname of Johnson, and whether or not they were married at the time of removal, I don't know. Once removed, they lived the rest of their lives in the Chickasaw District of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.
I have a list of those Chickasaw who removed to Indian Territory, but most of the names are Chickasaw surnames.. so far, I haven't found the piece of information that connects my great grandfather to one of those names. The search continues.....
Tracing my European roots has been much easier. I have traced my Cumpton name to the late 1700's(grandmother Lula Cumpton married my grandfather, Samuel Johnson), my 3rd GGrandfather, Reverend Thomas Cumpton, married my 3rd GGrandmother, Sina Jane Simpson. My Simpson line traces back to 1663, Baltimore Maryland, to Richard Simpson, born before 1663, married to Anne Gilbert, born in Leeds,Yorkshire, England before 1670. And to Anne's father, Thomas Gilbert and mother, Elizabeth (-?-).
My German and Welsh names: Knorr, Morgans, Jenkins, Geodeke, Fischer, Zorn and Loos, have been researched back to before immigration from Germany and Wales. These families immigrated to America around 1840. They settled primarily in Wisconsin. I was blessed to have both my Grandparents, Lincoln D. Knorr and Phoebe Elizabeth Morgans Knorr, live to 95 and 102 (nearly 103!), respectively. Together they were able to pass on to us a wealth of family information and photographs.
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