Gary Scott Collins's ancestors and related family archives

Gary Scott Collins's ancestry file and related family archives

Surnames by frequency

Collins, Furman, Smithson, Dickerson, Bransford, Lake, Adams, Chamberlain, Steelman, Scull, Miller, Davis, Lippincott, Hatchett, Sooy, Crichton, Smith, English, Webb, French, Ingersoll, Leeds, Clark, Somers, Woodson, Patteson, Ireland, Allen, Hatcher, Blackman, Butler, Taylor, Carnefix (and variations), Todd, Hays, Albertson, Garwood, Buckman, Holsapple, Barnard, Conover, Espy, Leek, LeFevre, Montague, Burr, Connolly, Doughty, Lucas, Morse, Rossiter

Welcome. Here are links to my ancestry file, family documents, photos and DNA records, history links, and tips telling how I constructed my ancestry file. There are also links to some pedigree and descendancy charts from the ancestry file.

Ancestry file: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/   (roughly 1200 of my ancestors and 6000 others)
Documents:    http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/   (documents with links to ancestry file)
Photos 1:       http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/   (photos with links to ancestry file)
Photos 2:                      http://picasaweb.google.com/garysancestry   (collections of photos)
Port Republic Diary:    http://garyscollins.wordpress.com/ (Newman Collins, 1887-1890: vacation visits of my grandfather to his family's ancestral home)
My DNA record:   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/dna.htm   ('Niall of the nine hostages')
Surname Maps:          http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/name-maps.htm (showing possible points of origin)
Histories of peoples: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/
Web genealogy tips: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/tips.htm

Charts from the ancestry file (outdated charts from ~2003; see ancestry file for more current information. View only using IE or Firefox+IE Tab):
   My father's pedigree: John Dillard Collins (1912-1959) Ancestors
   Descendancies:         Richard Collins (1725-1808) Descendants
                                     John Firmyn (1490-1550) Descendants
                             Dillard Collins (1760-1821) Descendants
                               Thomas Smithson (1660-1732) Descendants
                           John Woodson (1586-1644) Descendants
                         William Dickerson (1623- ) Descendants

Virtual cemeteries for family subgroups in my ancestry file:
                                    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=vcList&contribId=47022063

Other ancestry files for Collins and related families, southern coastal New Jersey:

   Charlotte Muskett's "Miller/Irelan/Lake/Muskett Genealogy": http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~camuskett
   Jerry Ueckermann's "Elwood Adams & Kate Bowen Ancestry": http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukes4
   Tim Stuart's "Stine, Smith, Saulnier and Lemieux families": http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tstuart
   Bill Abram's "Families of Burlington Co., NJ (plus more)": http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~teincnj

Books and other resources about old southern coastal New Jersey

Absegami: annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic city, 1609 to 1904, by Alfred Miller Heston, 1904: http://books.google.com/books?id=AqClBNCoIUQC

The Daily Union History of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey,by John F. Hall, 1900: http://books.google.com/books?id=pZE-AAAAYAAJ

The history of Atlantic County from 1600s through 1812, by Georgiana C. Blake, 1933: http://www.njpinelandsanddownjersey.com/open/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=147 Early history of Atlantic County, New Jersey; record of the first year's work of Atlantic county's historical society, 1915: http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofat00atla/earlyhistoryofat00atla_djvu.txt

A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lake of Gravesend, Long Island ; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family (1915): http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyoflakef00adam

Other ancestry file for the Furman family:
Dudley's "The Richards Family of Massachusetts": http://awt.ancestry.com/~rich1

Corrections, comments and suggestions welcome. Contributed documents and photos greatly appreciated. Contact Gary S. Collins at garyscollins(at)gmail.com.

Thanks to many individuals living and dead whose research and/or contacts contributed to these pages, including, but not limited to, the following:

Ancestry file: Bit Miller, Ruth Virginia Miller, Margaret Rucker Smithson, Rosalie Woodson Collins, Francis Chamberlain, Lucy Salome Furman, David Smithson, Patty Luthy, Addie Rickey, Mary Rhoads, Alice Rupe, Joy Watkins, Kim Johnston, Phyllis Crickenberger, Sue Day, Bill Dickerson, Pam Stockton, Mark Costello, Margie McDonald, Thomas deSaussure Furman, Richard C. Furman, Terry Ritz, James Amis, Marilyn Margaret Miller, Charlotte Muskett, and Nancy Wilson.
Documents page: Patty Luthy, Michael Spera, Robert Schutt, David Smithson, Paula Smith, Linda Koenig.
Photos page: Rosalie Woodson Collins, Francis Chamberlain, Liselotta Hinterleitner, Gerald Ueckermann, Mildred Corda, Patty Luthy and many unidentified photographers.

Apologies for anyone I forgot! Let me know! And warm thanks to hundreds of other wonderful individuals whom I have had the pleasure to communicate with and learn from since July 2002. Finally, thanks to all who freely share their ancestral information.

Gary S. Collins, 765 SE Glenwood Court, Pullman, WA 99163, garyscollins(at)gmail.com. Hallowe'en, October 31, 2009.
This page is http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/ You are visitor since September 2006.