A Wilson Family Tree

A Wilson Family Tree


Welcome to my genealogy web site. Much of the information here has been collected from the internet (see the source list below). I have also been fortunate enough to make several contacts with distant relatives through the internet. In turn, I wanted to make what I have (so far) available to others. Be careful, because there are undoubtedly errors here. Places where I am unsure about something, or have conflicting information, may not come across fully because not all my notes and questions about sources are included. I would love to hear from anyone with corrections or additional information. I will update these pages occasionally as I get new info.

So far, I have been able to trace my particular branch of the Wilson family back to Augusta County, Virginia, in the last half of the 1700s. From there, they moved to Howard County and Saline County, Missouri, in the 1820s and 1830s. My direct Wilson ancestors then moved to Denver, Colorado, in the 1880s (some other family members moved to Colorado before that). There was some additional movement around Colorado before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1940s and 1950s. Though I've called this site "A Wilson Family Tree", there is actually a lot more here about other parts of my family tree with more distinctive surnames. There are so many Wilsons it's hard to figure out which ones are mine, plus many of my Wilson families have been relatively small.

RootsWeb has announced that they will be freezing hosted websites like this as of the beginning of 2024. I will leave these pages up as long as they continue to host them, but will be putting future updates at http://wilsonfamilytree.org/ .

Mike Wilson, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.  (contact me)


Achnowledgements Acknowledgements
Ancestors of Michael Leonard Wilson
Ancestors of Mary Lynn Green
List of all surnames in tree (most common: Gathright, Sandidge, Brents, Reeves, Davis, Wilson, Smith, Faus, Shadrick)
List of sources
Reports
Photographs
Images of Documents
DNA Testing
Software links:  RootsMagic   GedPage   AniMap   yEd   KompoZer (see also here)   BlueGriffon   Python   FileZilla