Jerry,
The best Campbell info I found was the statement by a bedridden 90+ year
old widow that was suing her late husband's grandson for her part of his
estate 55 years after his passing! Named everyone in three generation and
their relationship. At stake was thirty acres of poor red clay and rocks. I
would have been stuck at my g granddad if not for her. You get help from
the strangest places
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry H" <jay8ch(a)comcast.net>
To: <campbell(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Campbell] IT Baffels the Ficklist figument of Imagination
Jim I agree with your response to AT. To leave footprints one must have
instituted legal paperwork, Owned land which was sold back and forth, left
a
will
which takes us back to owning land and goods. or lived in an area where
TVA
buried everything. My earliest "proven" ancestor was Zachariah settled in
East TN.
Jerry Hodge
> AT,
>
> The reason that we haven't posted is that we have traced our genealogy
> back to our "brick wall". We have posted what we know but no one has
> that person in his line. We read each posting hoping to see a familiar
> name but "no joy". Perhaps we need to institute a "roll call"
every so
> often on this list. Once a "roll call" is announced everyone posts
> his/her earliest ancestor.
>
> I have been researching my family's genealogy for 30 years now. I knew
> who my g-g-grandfather (John D. Campbell 1812-1890) was as soon as I
> started. In all that time I have been unable to determine who his
> parents were. I am relatively sure that I know who his parents were but
> I don't have documented proof. For 20 of those years I lived in Raleigh,
> NC and had ready access to the NC State Archives. I spent many Saturdays
> there going through the files.
>
> Why was I unsuccessful? I have concluded that the reason is that my
> g-g-grandfather was a poor farmer, and the poor leave very little in the
> way of a paper trail. I suspect that a lot of Campbell researchers are
> in the same boat. Their ancestors came from Scotland or Northern Ireland
> with not much more than the shirt on their back. They probably worked as
> an indentured servant to pay off the cost of their passage. Once they
> had completed their indenture they left their former master with little
> in their pocket. The indenture papers may be located in the archives of
> Pennsylvania, but there wasn't much to distinguish "my" John Campbell
> from scores of other John Campbells.
>
> DNA is part of the way out of our problem. For example, my DNA and that
> of several other Campbells is very close to being the same. Some of
> these Campbells have their genealogy traced back to Union County, SC and
> from there back to Pennsylvania. Union County isn't all that far from
> where my g-g-grandfather spent most of his life in NC. The other part of
> the way out of our problem is to find a connection to a cousin who has
> been able to trace (and document) his genealogy further back.
>
> Jim Campbell
> Kannapolis, NC
>
> On 2/18/2011 5:20 PM, Atpowelljr(a)aol.com wrote:
>> Just How on earth did so many Campbell's Get on eato therth as
>> reluctant
>> as
>> their Descendants are to Comunicate,___________________??? CUZ AT
>> <atpowelljr(a)aol.com>
>>
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