Ginger Rogers

One time, between my birth (May 1968) and 1974/5 (when we moved to Mare Island, my dad, David A. McMath was a Hospital Corpsman, E7/Chief at the time) we visited "G.G." when she had a big BBQ (like a family reunion of sorts)...I was a toddler then (at least age 3 since my dad's dad, Voy, died in 1971, so it very well may have happened around his last year of life); I only remember chasing chickens, enjoying a hay ride, and dipping in the pool with my mother. I liked her movies before I was cognizant of the fact Ginger Rogers was Virginia McMath.

From my own "digging for digits" of genealogy, discovered that Virginia/Ginger is connected via my grandfather (Voy S.) who was originally from Arkansas, likely via one of his uncles/aunts, as the McMath's of that region lived in Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee (maybe even Kentucky). When looking up phone books when I first got interested in genealogy (1977), California from Los Angeles up to Santa Rosa was full of McMath's.

The big picture dates of Scotland mentioned below are taken from https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/index.html.

Because of the number of character limit (8,000 characters) I have removed the main dates.

At this point, the cycle appears to be about every 15 years since 1695 [1695-1698, 1715, 1730, 1745-47]; this leads into the French-Indian War (also known as the English 7-years War).

There are three big known surges of McMath families that I can determine from looking at record distributions, histories (those on Ancestry.com, here and others), as well as big-world events. You have 1689-1699 AD, 1715-1745 AD (pre-French-Indian War) and after the Revolutionary War (1776-1781 AD), after 1784-1812 (pre-War of 1812). There is another (fourth surge) during the Irish Potato Famine (mid-1800's) as many McMath's "laid over" in Ireland after 1695 and a few just prior to the turn-of the 19th-20th Century (1890's-1910's). Most of the 4th and 5th waves settled (and remain) in the North East. Those arriving 1695-1745 started in the North East (Pennsylvania) stayed or migrated southward (Georgia, Alabama, Florida, etc.) post French & Indian War, then moved westward post Revolutionary War (settling along/near the Mississippi River and in then 'colonies' or 'territories' in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana). Then after War of 1812 (1812-1814) and the results of the Lewis & Clark expedition were released, McMath's started heading further west (Arizona and California territories), with an additional surge post-American Civil War (1861-1865 AD) with McMath's finding work in logging, gold mining (by then moved from California to Alaska), and agriculture. Most of this information I gathered from reading where McMath's were at during my tracing of the McMath name from my direct lineage to a McMath from Pennsylvania moving to Georgia just prior to the Revolutionary War and his successors moving to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas then California.