Table
of Contents
(Updated:
Saturday, 08 October 2005)
Welcome Friend!
Now come the
Autumnal Days of 2005
Branches
of My Family Tree
My Family Tree stems
from the Roots of Two Main Branches.
CLICK on the LINKED names to go to that section:
DRIGGS
~ my Paternal Ancestral families
HINDORFF ~
my Maternal Ancestral families
You may note that there are quite a number of ancient ancestral families
that I hold in common from both lines of my pedigree.
Table Listing
Click on the Family Name Links in Table to go there now!
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Comments
by the Author:
FAMILY HISTORY
has been one of my life-long
interests. I began researching in 1976 to find the origins of all my
Ancestral Families.
Primarily, I have
Two Main BRANCHES in my
FAMILY TREE:
DRIGGS
from my Father &
HINDORFF
from my Mother.
More
recently,
in 1999, I concentrated my research in Sweden and the translation of an old
family
Swedish HINDORFF family "Dokument" document. The new information I discovered from the
translations gave me NEW clues and led to the discovery of Family records &
other information about our Hindorff Family's native homeland. MASSIVE
accounts and records about VAUGHN & BRADSHAW
families, with stories & old Photos.
NEW
HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS and FAMILY RECORDS regarding the LAMB, LEWIS, GIRD,
KINSLEY & many related families are being discovered in old Civil or Church
Records & other old Documents, as well as Cemeteries, Court Records, old
Bibles and Letters written centuries ago. Historical Records, Biographies
and Church records have shed much new light on the origins of our family,
and helped me link other families with those same surnames, to my family. To
my surprise and delight, there have even been found many records in the
Library of Congress. One of the greatest things to happen since I began to
post all this information in these many web pages has been the contact with
distant cousins, who write to thank me or to share with me, or who write to
correct me when my information is not correct. They share their stories, old
letters, documents and even photos of their ancestors. They represent
families, not only throughout the U. S. A., but in also in England, Ireland,
Scotland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, whose records have
brought to light New Information from their Old Family Stories and records.
RECORDS
of DRIGGS, NIMROD, GOULD, HAYES, BAILEY
and other related families stories & data is growing, as well, with stories
from my father and many old photos, letters, & documents, as well as family
histories from newly found cousins and a wealth of information from their
family records.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Many people have
contributed to the Driggs - Hindorff
Family research, and
therefore it should be seen as a result of the years of dedicated work being
carried on as a family endeavor.
Records
will
be continually updated as new information becomes available
and should not be seen as a finished account of our History.
Please check back from time to time for any new updates.
My Thanks
to the "family" members who have contributed their efforts at all levels to
this work, AND the many wonderful people I have met through the Internet who
have contributed so much of their time & resources in my behalf,
as well.
STOP THIEF!!
NOTE: The information I have posted on my
web site pages comes from years of research & are a compilation of that
research, either by me or other individuals. My family history, graphics and
original heraldic artwork are all copyrighted. Whereas public records are not
protected by copyright law, original works are. PLEASE respect that and abide by my
copyrights or I will pull all my information off these pages! I am tired of
having my years of hard work stolen by people too lazy to do their own research,
and/or who thanklessly take the information I offer freely to all, and then post it on their web sites
and/or share with others, my work as their original work, with not so much as a thank you and
without giving credit where credit is due. I will not tolerate it!!!
- Annie Driggs, January 2004.
These pages may not all be new pages.
Some may have faulty LINKS or missing graphics, incorrect dates,
etc. If there are "grievous errors", please to let me know. And
people, please don't contact me, asking for info not shown on
the page. If it isn't there, I probably don't have it! Don't
bother me with spelling errors on these pages. I tried
to update and make spelling corrections on them a few days ago,
and my spell checker went nuts with the Swedish, Irish & Welsh
words, and is still lingering in a dark & confused state,
nigh onto death. Thanks! ~Annie
THANK YOU MY FAMILY.
I LOVE YOU ALL!
Keep checking back...New information added
every few days
Please
sign my
Guestbook before
you leave, & each time you VISIT! I like to know who visits my
website & it sends a good message to my Sponsors at ROOTSWEB.
The LINK is at the bottom of this page and on other pages as
well.
FAMILY REUNIONS Bulletin
page
created: 15 March, 2002
Post your
upcoming Family Reunion here!
Check here often to see if your family is having a gathering.
For Complete Family Group Records with Pedigree
Charts, go to my Off-site pages at...
Annie's Webs
Searchable Surname Index
posted at WorldConnect with RootsWeb.
com
GEDCOM files of My Ancestry & other Relatives
. . .of
DRIGGS
&
HINDORFF families, BAILEY *
MILLER * NIMROD * CRAWN *
* GOULD * LAMB * GIRD * VAUGHN * BRADSHAW
and much more. . .
NOW Contains Over 21,000
individual records !
Please be
aware that not all of the people listed in my family records
"Annie's Webs" are my
direct lines - I list lines of known cousins & those of their spouses
...and
even the known lines of shirt-tail cousins.
STOP THIEF!! Although
my GEDCOM files have been available to download from my web
site, I do expect to be given credit as the SOURCE of those
records, not only in personal records, but especially if it is
to be posted or published on a web site or in printed material,
or is shared with others via e-mail or other means of
correspondence. And, although PUBLIC records are NOT
copyrightable,
my original works are
copyrighted.
These include, photos, original graphics, music, stories,
copyrighted books, all original writings and material. Also
biographies, histories, compilations of records, theories, research,
and the express views of an author. I recently discovered that some
"Cousins" having downloaded my GEDCOM
files, then posted my records mingled with theirs on their web
sites as their original works, and/or at least made no mention
of me nor my web site whatsoever as their source.
Furthermore, these same records now have appeared on still other
web sites, and credit given to the cousins who "pirated" my
work!!!
I have not uploaded anything new to my
ANNIE'S WEBS
in over a year now, and that is precisely the reason
why!!!!
I am
therefore, curtailing the DOWNLOADABLE option, and seriously
considering yanking all my Annie's Webs files posted at
WorldConnect!
Either give Credit where Credit is Due or I will stop posting my
new information and stop helping anyone find their families!
Stories, Biographies & Legends
Here are a few of my Family
Stories with photos & documents to learn more about some of my ancestors.
Each name below has LINKS to the other related families. More may be added,
if I can get to them & determine whether to post them or not.
Swedish-American Hindorff Family
Includes: Lamb, Vaughn, Gird, Bradshaw, Stephenson, Bates,
Fillmore, Lewis, Grant, Calkins, Smith, Kinsley, Duncan,
Littlefield, and many other related families
There are
many pages still in the process of being finished...will I ever
get to it all?
And to think....I used to wonder what in the world I would
even put on here that anyone would want to read!
~ of
Prussian, Swedish, English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish
Origins ~
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
HINDORFF Family
Origins & Family Stories
- My Maternal
Grandfather's Family (circa 1500-2003)
Migration:
Prussia (18th Century Germany) > Sweden-> U.S.A. > Iowa >
Illinois >Iowa > California
The Descendants of Johan Fredrik
Hindorff and others of this unique surname, are the remnant of an ancient
family who's origins may be traced to the Black Forest area of Germany, went
to Sweden and married a Swedish girl, Catharina Larsdotter (Kumlin), daughter of
Lars Larsson & Cajsa Olsdotter,
a farmer and "Rusthållare" of Långgälla, an ancient family farm in Kumla
Söcken, of Örebro län, Sweden.
Today
their descendants can still be found in Sweden, Canada, and the U. S. A.
Includes the families of:
HINDORFF, LARSDÖTTER, PERSSON, ANDERSDÖTTER, FALEIJ, WIDMARK
(PEHRSDÖTTER), JONSSON, PERSDÖTTER, KUMLIN (LARSDÖTTER), OLDSDÖTTER, SVENSSON, &
ENGELBREKSDÖTTER.
VAUGHN Family
<- click to read
Early Pioneers of Missouri & Iowa
Includes the
Families of:
VAUGHN,
FULLER, BREEDEN, BRADSHAW, KEELER, SHINLEY, HINDORFF, MACHADO, &
NEWCOMB.
And
Read about this Old Spanish California Family
M.
MACHADO
who married a
Vaughn
Updated
Our
Bradshaw Roots
17th
Century Bradshaws of the Virginia Colony
Includes
the Families of:
BRADSHAW, HARPER, CLEMMONS, HUTCHESON, BATES, STEPHENSON, DAVIS,
BREEDEN, NAPIER, ADKINS, & more.
Updated!
BRADSHAW
Families of Iowa
Migration:
Virginia > Ohio > Illinois > Missouri > Iowa
Family Records, which includes
BREEDEN
These
Two Web Sites include stories about the families of:
BRADSHAW, CHIZUM, SHINLEY, KEELER,
HINDORFF, MACHADO, NEWCOMB & MACK Families
These families are part of my Maternal
Grandfather Hindorff's lineage.
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
~And Read About~
One Family
Legend has it that there was an early Vaughn who was an English Lord.
The word 'Vaughn' is a Welsh word that means "small".
Did Our VAUGHN
Ancestral Families come from
The
Tretower Vaughans ?
Tretower
Castle in Wales
~ click on the CASTLE to learn
more
The
Tretower Castle
~
Our
Vaughan / Vaughn Ancestral home
WALES ~
Land of The Red Dragon
~ The Native Home-Land of the
family "Llewellyn"
~> the Anglicized spelling of which ...became "Vaughn"
Need Help???
ENGLAND - IRELAND - SCOTLAND - WALES
Do you have difficulty in locating name places in old
Great Britain? Here is a great GenWeb site to look for
all those places you couldn't find on modern maps.
GENMAPS
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/
These will come in handy for looking up
the places noted in my various British Family records
& pages
LAMBS of Another Fold
Descendants of Isaac & Martha Lamb
Who was Isaac Lamb? Where did he come from?
The Lamb Family -
Early Pioneers of old Genesee County, New York
The Johnsonburgh Story - Town of Sheldon,
Wyoming-
In 1814, there were "five log houses and a shanty" in Johnsonburg
village. The village was named after George Johnson, who caused the first
post office to be built. Around 1824, "Isaac Lamb built the first
framed house" in Johnsonburgh village (Johnsonburg became
Sheldon, NY - part of the village was Orangeville.) "In the early days,
there was a public burying ground opened in Orangeville near Johnsonburg. .
.About the year 1830, Isaac Lamb opened to the public half an acre of
land nearly half a mile southwest from the village for burial purposes. . ."
(now Wyoming County, NY)
LAMB
Family
-
New York Families includes
LEWIS, CASWELL, BLACKMAR, LINCOLN, WILLIAMS, CASE, BROOKS, AND
MANY MORE.
These families are part of my Maternal Grandmother Hindorff's
Ancestral Lineage
with LINKS
to the GIRD - HINDORFF Family Pages
LINKS to
Other Lines of Our Flock
Settling in
Michigan, Iowa, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming & Montana
Latter Day Saint Families
- related families of Fillmore -
Grant - Calkins and other Lamb
Migration:
New York > Ohio >
Illinois > Wisconsin > Minnesota > Utah > California
Fallbrook, California Lambs
and more to be added
Uploaded Feb. 7, 2003
The
DESCENDANTS of VITAL RECHE -
Founders of Fallbrook, California
New information!
LIVE OAK PARK
Read more about how Reche's Grove became Live Oak Park
Ties
to the Sea
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To be
added...LAMB-LEWIS
Families of New York & the Eastern Seaboard
The
Woodsmen .gif)
The American FILLMORE
Family coming soon!
will include GRANT, CALKINS
& OSGOOD Families.
"In 1838, John Adam FILLMORE, JR and wife, Martha
M. CALKINS, they took their large family, and leaving their home in
Western New York State, they removed to the far west region, then
called the Northwest Territory, and located in the area that became
Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, where he purchased a farm,
and carried on in the business of general agriculture. He also owned
and operated a local hostelry, "the Buckhorn Tavern", that was then
widely known in those early days and had a large patronage." - R.
Fillmore
The
History of the Black River Pineries
INCLUDES:
Early Pioneers in the Great Lakes
area & the Great American Desert
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
GIRD Family History
Pages
Rumor
has it that the Gird family name was nigh onto extinction.
Read what I discovered after years of SEARCHING for the roots of this
Grand old family!
Includes:
Gird, Hind, Hatton, Lamb,
Lewis, Stites, Kinsley, Duncan, William,
and more.
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
More Ties to the Sea
GIRD Family's
Roots & Branches
Our Earliest known Gird Families
updated
with LINKS to the Wexford, Ireland
HATTON - FRANKLAND
families - Includes
GOSSETT
Family.
NEW information about the GIRD
family comes in every week! Many thanks to those who share.
It is funny
to think that at one time, my family believed this family was nearly
extinct. It is turning out to be one of the biggest families in my
records!
Pioneers of
the Old West
Henry Harrison GIRD
Pioneer
GIRDS of Illinois
and their 1853 Overland Trek to California
with LINKS to the LAMB FAMILY PAGES
And the LEWIS & STITES
families of Illinois,
formerly of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Long Island, New Jersey & Ohio
see
GIRD Family Christmas
1898 / 1899 
William & Mary
(Stites) LEWIS
-
Early settlers of Illinois
Farmer and Founder of Trenton, Illinois
STITES Family
information discovered! -
Hope to get a
page built for this amazing Family soon!
Edward GIRD and Lucy D. LEWIS
- Stories and photos to be added
Will include their GIRD Descendants of-
GIRD, LEVERING, STARK,
WEDBERG, GILMORE, & WALBRIDGE
The Gird Dairy farm and
Orange business that now is part of Downtown Los Angeles
The
KINSLEY / KINGSLEY FAMILY
The English KINSLEY (KINGSLEY) & Scottish DUNCAN Families (formerly DUNCANSON)
- of the Highlands in Hudson Valley of New York.
KINSLEY Family History coming
soon!
In the Hudson River Valley, Related
Highland Families Includes:
Gird, Kinsley, Littlefield, Duncan,
William, Elliot, Gridley, Faurot, Smith, Drake, Twining, Van Schoonhoven, Hale, Pratt,
Mandigo, & Garrision.
KINSLEY Monument
in the West
Point Military Academy Cemetery
Legend has it that
my GIRD family once owned land that became part of West Point.
Read about the
KINSLEY- DUNCAN LANDS
of Highland Falls, Orange county, NY,
that were sold in 1890 to became the southern part of West Point
Military Academy on the Hudson River...the proceeds of which became an
inheritance to the GIRD & KINSLEY families.
GIRD FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES
<- Click here
A collection of several different Bios about
the Wexford, Ireland GIRD Family.
The DESCENDANTS of EDWARD GIRD,
son of Henry GIRD, Jr. & Mary HIND
"the son who went West"
- an Early 20th century
Richardson county, Nebraska
Biography about
George Gird, son of
Edward Gird who came from Ireland. Further research revealed that
this Edward Gird was
a son of
Henry Hatton Gird (I) & Mary Hind-Gird
of Wexford, Ireland - younger brother of my ancestor, Henry
Hatton Gird II.
updated:
April 11th, 2002
.
. .Under Construction.
The DUNCAN
Family-
ties to
the GIRD Family
Just the Beginnings
of The story of our
Scottish Duncanson Family
and their Highland Homes along the Hudson River Valley in
New York that became the southern part of West Point Military Academy
lands in 1890.
The Family of James DUNCAN(SON)
A Scottish-Dutch-American
family who were among the early settlers along the Hudson River Valley of
New York.
~ will include Revolutionary War Stories ~
Includes in part, the families of
:
WILLIAM(S) - ELLIOT - KINSLEY -
GIRD - FAUROT - TWINING - PRATT -CAMPBELL - MANDIGO - GARRISON - SMITH -
SHOTWELL - TURNER - VAN SCHOONHOVEN
Who was
Col. James DUNCAN
(1811-1849),
Nat'l Hero of the 1848 Mexican
War?
All these
Families - Early
Settlers of the Highlands along the Hudson River, in New York
. . .see their Final Resting Places at
West Point Cemetery
..."Lest
we forget!"
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
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The
American DRIGGS
FAMILY
& related families
Includes: DRIGGS / DRAKE / DeRAET, GOULD,
HAYES, BAILEY, MILLER, SMITH, NIMROD, CRAWN, and related families
I have
only begun to build pages for these families...much more to
come!
~ of Dutch, Belgian, French, English, Scottish, German, & Irish
Origins ~
MORE Early DUTCH
stories are forthcoming!
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
BROUWER Family
<- click
here
of
New Netherlands (New York)
MORE Early DUTCH
stories are forthcoming!
Oklahoma DRIGGS Family
<-Click
here
Read about the
hearty men & women who took part in the Historical Race for Land
in Oklahoma Territory in the late 19th century...the last
Frontier.
"Story of Our Oklahoma Life: Pappa and
I storry of our trip to Oklahoma."
by
Matilda Artnesia NIMROD-DRIGGS - my Great-Grandma
~About "Bert" & "Till"
Driggs~
We are now proud to announce our LINK with
Payne
County Genealogy
OKGenWeb: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb
USGenWeb
Payne county, Oklahoma
A
Part of the USGenWeb and OkGenWeb Project
Added Oct. 25th, 2001
BAILEY Family
<-
click here
Migration:
New
Jersey > Indiana > Wisconsin > Nebraska > Iowa > to old Oklahoma
Territory
[Outdoorsmen: Hunters, Soldiers, Woodsmen, Farmers, Teamster]
Includes:
Driggs, Miller,
Rose, Osborn, and other related families
The
MILLER Family
Migration:
Pennsylvania > Illinois > Iowa > Nebraska > Iowa > to old
Oklahoma Territory
William Miller was a
village blacksmith, like his father before him, of Scottish
origin and the Presbyterian faith
Gramma said the Miller's were
Pennsylvania Dutch. What does that mean ?
Currier and Ives
The Village Blacksmith
by Henry W. Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp and black and long;
His face is like the tan;. . .
I am still
researching this family, but hope to have a little bit of the family history
I found posted soon!
Includes: BAILEY, MILLER, CURRY, URE, & other related families as they are
discovered
All of these families can be found in my
Searchable Surname Index File
at
Annie's Webs
Proud to Announce that we are now listed and linked with the
Kansas GenWeb Project.
The
KSGenWeb Project
KANSAS PIONEER
Families
The NIMROD Family Pages
family migration:
Virginia > Kentucky > (Pennsylvania?) > Ohio > Indiana > Kansas > Oklahoma
Includes the Families of:
NIMROD,
DRIGGS, FRANKLIN,
GREIDER, CRAWN, SMITH, HENING, SUTTON, DAVIDSON, PRIMMER, TUCKER,
HIGGENBOTTOM, DYER, and other related families.
With New
Information obtained from divers Census records!
The CRAWN -SMITH
Families
My GG-Gramma
Nimrod's family
family
migration: Virginia > Ohio > Indiana & Michigan > Kansas
1825 - Daniel CRAWN was among the men who were the EARLY
Settlers of Darke County, OHIO
From: History of Darke County
Ohio, Vol. 1, by Frazier Wilson, pp. 161-163.
Reprinted by the Darke County Genealogical Society, 1997.
CLICK
here to view ->
Burden
Cemetery,
Silver Creek Twp., Cowley County, Kansas
The OKLAHOMA
ODYSSEY
"Why My
Parents Left Kansas for Oklahoma"
by
Beulah
May FRANKLIN-GREIDER (1908-2000),
~ A NIMROD / FRANKLIN
Auto-Biography
Beulah M. Franklin-Greider was a dau. Catherine Elizabeth
"Cass" Nimrod-Franklin, a sister of my G-Grandmother, Matilda
Artnecie "Till" Nimrod-Driggs
With New Nimrod family information & photos
posted April 2003!!!
Annie's Webs
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Family Armorials
Crests &
Tartans
Includes:
Legends and facts
Uploaded ~ November 21, 2001
SCOTLAND
home for many of our ancestors...
A
"MUST
SEE
" LINK to OLD INVERNESS,
to see an area of our ancestral beginnings:
Drawings of Old
Inverness
<-
CLICK
here to go there now!
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Cemetery Pages
New Listings ~
Newly
Updated April
2003
Union
Cemetery
Union Twp, Payne County, Oklahoma
(DRIGGS)
<-Click
here to view
Cody
Cemetery, Cody, Wyoming
(HINDORFF) <-Click
here to view
March 2003
Hough
Cemetery, Shelby county, Indiana (GIRD)
<-Click
here to view
(NEW
info just added)
Glencoe Union Cemetery, Pawnee Co.,
Oklahoma (NIMROD -
TUCKER)
<-Click
here to view
April 9th,
2003
Burden Cemetery, Cowley Co., Kansas
(NIMROD- FRANKLIN)
<-Click
here to view
More to Come!
Historical Pages
Old
Temecula, Calif.
1890
Map of Fall Brook, Calif.
1891
Oklahoma Land Run
More
new pages soon!
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Family's
Poetry
& other Fancy
Stuff
HEY!
If you haven't taken a look at this page, you may be missing
out!
LINKS PAGE
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INFORMATION
& LINKS to other sites that might be of some help.
Side-step for a
moment and look at this page. It is loaded with good stuff! Links and Info
that could save you from some searching.
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U.S.A.
Presidents
found in
My
Family Tree
and
how we are related.
Check out the
Links
to
Presidential web sites
while
you're there!
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Gardening
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2005
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Annie's
Extra-Special Family
Memorials
CLICK
on their name to go there.
Charlie
~
my Son
Mr. Magoo
-
more than a dog
Annie ~ my Grannie Hindorff
Angela
~
my Nimrod Cousin
Ida
~
my Grandma Driggs
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