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Hello, everyone. Kathy from Ohio here. I am looking forward to contributing to WikiTree after working since about 2018 on trees and individual profiles on Ancestry and FamilySearch. I admire what I've seen here so far, especially the emphasis on providing complete sources.

My personal research difficulties involve (a) the highly intermarried Kentucky families, all with common names, on my father's side of the family, (b) uncertain male parentage on two and possibly three generations on my mother's side, and (c) the fact that half of my DNA matches on both sides have ties to the Perry family. (One branch of this enormous clan produced my FMM; some other Perry married into the Sargent family, later resulting in my MFFM.) And—oh, yes!—I have counted 59 spelling variations so far for one German great-grandparent's surname. I must force myself to slow down in my research, document my sources carefully, and pay visits when I can to county courthouses and historical societies for the 95% of our records that are apparently not yet digitized.

Researching: Harper, Martin, Perry, Foutch, Hooks, Allison, Gundlach, Geckley, Nehrer, and many more.

Answer 1

Welcome to Wikitree, Katherine!

Sounds like you have quite a challenging family to untangle! Come back here to the forum if you have any questions along the way.

If you want further assistance, try adding some location tags to your post to get the attention of members with experience in those areas. You can also find the project list under the Find drop down menu. The United States project may have resources that can help you with your research. There's also state subject projects.

Enjoy your journey into the past!

Answer 2

Welcome along Kathy.

I look forward to seeing your work on the Allison line.

Answer 3

Welcome to WikiTree. It's a great place to make connections.

My husband is an Allison, and his grandfather came from Scotland to New Zealand. Here is his profile - still more work to do on him.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Allison-5950

Answer 4

Katherine

I noticed you have a family name of Perry,  did any of your Perry's marry any Ham(m)'s? Also where were they in Kentucky?  My paternal line is Allison in Kentucky through several counties.

Hope to be of some help

Cori Caddel

Comments

Hi, Cori,

My Perrys are mainly from Morgan County. I have found records indicating that they came to KY from Framingham, Massachusetts in the mid-1700s. They seem to have married into every family in two states, but so far I haven't come across a Ham or Hamm. I have a Hamm on my mother's side of the tree, but he's a spouse of a 5th cousin, not a blood relation. If I come across a Perry-Hamm match from Kentucky, I will let you know!

Kathy

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Kathy

from what I can tell the Ham(m) line was in Fleming County for awhile.

Cor

Answer 5

Well, I'm not an Allison, but welcome anyway. It seems you are already having good results on your search for your Allison relatives since you just shook 3 out of the tree, bing, bing , bing! LOL! Don't you wish it was THAT easy when you are running the lines & getting lost in the details?

My family is no stranger to the double name thing either. Brothers & sisters marrying brothers & sisters of the same name, multiple spellings of the last name. We didn't even start out as Brunson's, I think we were Brownson's originally.

Anyway, glad you are here & be very Welcome.