Regie Stites
Honor Code SignatorySigned 2 Dec 2017 | 5,787 contributions | 159 thank-yous | 1,097 connections
Signed 2 Dec 2017 | 5,787 contributions | 159 thank-yous | 1,097 connections
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I am interested in early American history and am working on a One Name Study for the Stites clan in America tracing all descendants of Richard Stites (1625-1702) and any others with the Stites name. My primary geographic areas of interest are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. I welcome collaborators and if you would like help with Stites ancestors, I am happy to offer my assistance.
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
I am interested in early American history and am working on a One Name Study for the Stites clan in America tracing all descendants of Richard Stites (1625-1702) and any others with the Stites name. My primary geographic areas of interest are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. I welcome collaborators and if you would like help with Stites ancestors, I am happy to offer my assistance.
I am also a student of Chinese history and read Chinese. The Chinese side of my wife's family is from the Yangtze (Changjiang) River Delta Region (Suzhou and Shanghai).
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Regie D. Stites
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Son of Max Stites
and Dorisann Culberson
Brother of
[private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Father of
[private son (1980s - unknown)] and [private son (1990s - unknown)]
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Biography
Regie Dean Stites was born on May 7, 1955 in Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois. He was the second child of Max and Dorisann (Culberson) Stites. Regie attended the University of Illinois from 1973 to 1977, spending one year abroad (1975-76) at the University of Birmingham, England.
He moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1977 and then to Madison, Wisconsin in 1978 to begin graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He left Wisconsin in 1981 to move to Berkeley (1981-1982) and San Francisco (1983-1984) where he attended San Francisco State University.
In 1984 he moved to Changchun, Jilin, China where he worked as Foreign Language Teaching Expert for 2 years, first at the Changchun Normal College and then at the Changchun Optics and Precision Machinery Institute. In 1986 he moved to Xiamen, Fujian, China and taught for one year at Xiamen University. In 1987 he moved to Los Angeles to continue graduate studies at UCLA.
He earned a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1992 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow there for two years. From 1994 to 1997, he lived in Philadelphia and worked at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, he moved to Palo Alto, California and began work at SRI International. He moved to Oakland, California in 1998 and still resides there in 2019.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Regie Stites at registration.
- U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Repository: R-1247377144 Ancestry.com
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Regie's formal name
- full middle name (D.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (2)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Regie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Regie:
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100.00%
100.00%
Regie Stites:
23andMe, GEDmatch ns3377691 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NS3377691 [compare], Ancestry member Regie_Stites
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~6.25%
Julie Craig
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Chris (Krug) Whitenack :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A181192 [compare], Ancestry member cwhitenack25
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Regie:
- Regie Stites is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 17, 2020.
- Regie Stites is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 6, 2019.
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I'm sorry to be a pest but I discovered the following documentation that says there is a reference to John Stites, surgeon in the will of Richard Stites.
www.jstor.org/stable/40194028 top of page 59
Source: James, Edmund J. “New Jersey Families in Illinois: The Casad and Stites Families.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), vol. 7, no. 2, 1914, pp. 39–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40194028. Accessed 13 Nov. 2020.
Best regards, Robert Stites
I'm familiar with the Edmund James piece, but the source he cites is a record in a family bible (not a will) and was probably filled in with the information about "John Stites, surgeon" long after 1717. James was highly respected and rightfully so. I also grew up in Illinois and when I went to the University of Illinois, I was named a James Scholar Designate (James was a former President of the U. of I.). But James wrote at the turn of the century and by that time, the legend of Dr. John Stites (1595-1717) was well-established in family lore. James searched but could find no evidence of Stites origins in England - which is, I believe, because the name in England was Stiches (Sticks). If a Dr. John Stites died on Long Island in 1717, why is there absolutely no record of his presence there in contemporary documents? There is a lot on Richard and his family. It just defies logic to think Dr. John was there and somehow never was mentioned in any document, town annals, property claim, will,... nothing. Richard's wife Mary Underhill Stites was related to the Hall family in Connecticut and there were several doctors in that family. Also, one of Richard's great grandsons was a Dr. John Stites who spent time in New York and this later Dr. John was the owner of the bible James cites. There are many possible explanations for the story about Richard's father being a surgeon named John, but no documentation.
Best, Regie
edited by Regie Stites
I have seen your work with the Stites family tree and I am most impressed. I believe that I am a direct-line descendant of Richard Stites (stites-250) but I've become stumped at determining ancestors for Richard Stites. I have seen many suggestions but have failed to identify anything that is reasonable, much less verifiable.
I do not have any formal training in genealogy and I've made a lot of mistakes that have taken a lot of time and effort to correct. That said, I believe my version of the Stites tree is reasonable. Please take a look around and let me know what you think. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Stites-15&public=1
Best regards, Robert Stites
Very nice to hear from you and I agree you (like me) are definitely a direct descendant of Richard Stites (Stites-250). I'll send you a private email with my notes on what I think is known (and unknown) about Richard's ancestors.
I had a quick look at your Stites family line and I found the place where our lines cross -- Benjamin Stites (Stites-515). Unfortunately, I have not been able to discover the surname of Rachel, Benjamin's wife. I visited her grave in Scotch Plains and searched a bit in local records, but no luck yet. I may have to go back to NJ, a bit difficult now since I live in California.
Best, Regie
Thanks for offer to share information. I have not done as much work on the Cape May Stites lines as I have on my own, from Essex/Union County, New Jersey. I think you can be pretty confident that your George is from Cape May, almost certainly a descendant of either Henry or Benjamin Stites of Cape May (sons of Richard Stites of Westbury, Long Island). I'll have another look and see what I can find.
Best, Regie
possibility the birth certificate I have does not belong to our George. I've managed to find some distant cousins. We're all, as far as I know, unable to get past this brick wall (George). I have some daguerrotypes and ambrotypes of this branch, and I believe one is of George. I have a tree and DNA on Ancestry.com, and I'm happy to share whatever I have.
Dawn
I believe William married a Mary Jane Henderson and had a daughter by the name of Missouri Ann. William also had a sister by the name of Missouri Ann
William was taken by bushwhackers around Mt. Vernon Arkansas and never heard from again.
William is my GGGG Grandfather on my Moms side.
I believe all this correct.
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