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Welcome to my family history site!Hammond, Massey, Spoor, Coldren and more... I have created this web site to share the information I have gathered on the various ancestral lines I have researched over the last 30 years. I am starting with my maternal lines for the simple reason that American history has always been an interest of mine (even before I began my genealogical searching) and my mother's line is more varied in that respect. While six of my father's eight great grandparents immigrated to the U.S.between 1830 and 1859, many of my mother's ancestors were here 200 years earlier. Perhaps at some point I will have traced all of my ancestors to the earliest arrivals on these shores. If that ever happens, I will undoubtedly try to learn how to conduct research on English, German, Irish and Scotch ancestry. For now, however, I still have many, many "dead ends" that leave me in places like Vermont, Pennsylvania and North Carolina and I am content to keep trying to dig up those roots. Famous relatives Part of the fun of genealogy is discovering the links that connect you to a specific person you may know or know of - whether from the history books, from yesterday's newspaper or from your neighborhood. Some of my "notable" relatives include Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, John Cooke and Richard Warren; Presidents George Bush (and, of course, "W"), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce; actor/director Orson Welles; and author Laura Ingalls Wilder (of Little House on the Prairie). Surname Pages After more than 30 years with this hobby, putting everything from my files on the Internet at once would be a huge undertaking (probably impossible and certainly it would mean spending all my spare time creating web pages rather than doing more research). Instead, I plan to add surname pages one at a time, beginning with my mother's four grandparents' surnames (Hammond, Massey, Spoor, and Coldren) in no particular order. I have started with the Coldren family because I found very little that had been previously pulled together in one place; therefore, most of the research is a result of my own discoveries. In many of my other family lines, someone else has previously done much of the work and my contribution has been more limited. The list below includes some of my ancestral surnames. Only the surnames which listed as active links (in blue-underlined text in most browsers) lead to additional web pages. However, all is not lost! If one of the other surnames interests you, please visit my database on Rootsweb WorldConnect and see my information on that surname. Although the information on my Rootsweb WorldConnect pages is similarly constrained by my lack of time to enter all my information into my genealogy database, it will generally be the most up-to-date information I have available.
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Other Web Pages
In addition to my genealogy pages, you may want to visit some other web pages I have made:
Illinois Business Attorney David K. Staub - This is a site I created for my most complete curriculum vitae. Since "Illinois business attorney dot com" is much easier for people to remember than the long URL on my firm's website, I will generally refer people to this site and it will lead them to the law firm's site. Limited Liability Company Center - This is a site I am working on to answer basic questions on limited liability companies and provide references to other resources on LLCs such a links to secretary of state web sites. I have written several articles and seminar materials on limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships (as well as other forms of business entities), so this is primarily a place to pull my LLC research together. Some of the topics will be how to form a limited liability company, LLC vs. S corporations, what should be in the operating agreement, choosing a Delaware LLC over an Illinois LLC, etc... Right now, it is a work in process. Harvard Law School Class of 1977 - This is the site I created for my Harvard Law School graduating class, recently redesigned with CSS and no tables. David Staub's Genealogy Pages - This where I have started some information on my paternal ancestral lines and some more personal (i.e., non-genealogy) pages. My Family Tree - David K. Staub - This is a version of my genealogy database on GenCircles, which allows you to discover "Smartmatches" with names in the datebase.
Or, visit my law firm's site at:
Staub Anderson Green LLC - A Chicago law firm serving business clients in the areas of corporate transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; business organizations; real estate; tax; technology law; litigation; and estate planning.
View a response I posted on lawguru.com regarding the doctrines of commercial frustration and impossibility of performance under Illinois contract law; this response on FreeAdvice.com regarding incorporation of a business; or general contract law issues for small business. Or view my FindLaw listing as an Illinois mergers, acquisitions and divestitures lawyer.