Our search has only begun to find the shadows of our ancestors' steps upon this earth.
This place, these pages, are a gathering of many, many cousins and their efforts, their contributions. We are working together, searching courthouses, transcribing records, decoding cryptic notes on the backs of faded photographs, stepping through cemeteries to find sometimes moss covered or broken stones, discovering the faint trails and clues that allow us to begin to tell the stories of the days of our ancestors.
It was the decisions and choices of our ancestors that have, collectively, led us to the places we inhabit today and the opportunities with which we are presented, to make our own decisions and choices that will lay the way for our progeny. The stories here are meant as an honoring, a celebration, of the lives of our grandmothers and grandfathers, all our relations.
Links to individual families below
FAMILIES:
McCoy
Descendants of John McCoy and Nancy Hatfield
This is the family of my grandmother's father, John Robert McCoy. Included are records primarily from Tennessee and Kentucky (although some family removed to other locales so records from those places are included as discovered and obtained) covering many of the siblings of John Robert McCoy. Also records of the families of his father Joseph McCoy and Joseph's siblings and their progeny (of which there are many), and records of Joseph's parents, John and Nancy Hatfield McCoy.
Many records from Barren Co., Ky, Campbell, Van Buren and White Co's., Tn
Deweese
Descendants of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler
This is the family of my grandmother's mother, Tabitha Florence Deweese. Included here are many records of her siblings and their families, her father John Tyler Deweese and his siblings and their families, her grandfather Samuel H. Deweese and his siblings and their families, and those of her great grandparents, David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler.
Many records from Barren Co., Ky
Mauk
Descendants of George Mauk
and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
This is the family of one of my grandmother's great grandmother's family, Catherine Mauk, and the descendants of Catherine's siblings who were the sons and daughters of George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain. This family story contains much ongoing controversy and research with many continued mysteries, and record of a very early (1865) granted divorce. An interesting family to study...
Many records from Barren Co., Ky
Dalrymple
Descendants of David Dalrymple and Jeanette Clark
This is the family of my grandfather's mother, Grace Dalrymple
More records will be added as time allows
Cordova
Descendants of Trinidad Cordova and Maria Martinez
This is the family of my husband's father
This page will always be a work in progress.
Come back often to see what new family treasures we have to share.
This page created and maintained by
Lois Cordova
I would like to extend a special Front Page THANKS to Debbie Coulter. While researching and contributing substantial Deweese Family records (her husband's line), she has also been instrumental in my research of the McCoy and Mauk families. Debbie has generously and graciously located and assisted in my acquisition of many Barren and Metcalfe County Kentucky records for these families. Debbie has also been an untiring and "brutal" editor, ferreting out my typos and misspellings and bringing them to my attention.
Thank you Debbie Coulter!
And, in case you were wondering, I have added "A Little About Me"...
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