Ted Steele was born in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Hamilton High School. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Grinnell College (Iowa) and did graduate work in Physics and Business Administration at Cornell University (New York). He is retired from Monsanto Company in St. Louis after a long career in Information Technology.Ted's two sons live in Denver, Colorado and Austin, Texas.
Ted and his wife, Judy, live in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Ted began his family history research in the 1970s. He is a member of
He is a past President and has also served many terms on the Board of the St. Louis Genealogical Society.
Ted is an active lecturer
on a variety of
genealogical
topics.
For information on Ted's lecture topics,
click Here.
My
publication of
A Steele Family History
was awarded First Prize as the
Best Family History
in
the
Connecticut Society of Genealogists’ 2002
Literary
Awards
contest.
This 600-plus page hardbound book is available for purchase now.
Click here
for details
Also available for purchase is my book on
The
History and
Genealogy of the
Ebbets
Family of New
York
Click here for details
The family history information presented here has been extracted from my home database.
I use Roots Magic to record my genealogical data. While the extract I use for this Web Site is fairly complete, I may have additional information on these ancestors in my home database. I also post my data on the WorldConnect site at RootsWeb.
Please send me an email message if you have a question on anything you find here.
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No genealogical infomation is worthwhile if it is not documented with an adequate source citation. For that reason, I have included my list of sources for each Family History on this web site. Please be aware, however, that these pages are very large. if you click on a source code number, it may take a while for the source page to load. Sorry, but that's how it works....
I welcome correspondence on these families, including (of course) corrections or additions. I am happy to share this information with other genealogical researchers who are pursuing these same lines.
The STEELE Family
presents the ancestors of Ted Steele.
It is mostly a Colonial
New
England
family.
The WOOD Family
presents
the ancestors of Ted's first wife, Sheryl Wood.
It presents some Colonial
New
England,
the Colonial South,
and some French
and German
lines.
But, before you go dashing off to
the Family
Histories,
there are some other pages here that also
might be of
interest to you.
(To see them all, be sure to
scroll all the way
down this page.)
Click HERE to see information on...
Mayflower
Ancestors
Founders
of Hartford
Witches
Revolutionary
War Ancestors
Enough already!
Click on this book to
Go to the Steele
Family
History...
Click on this book to
Go to the Wood
Family
History...
But wait...
There are some other fun pages you can
visit.
In the course of gathering all this Family
History
information,
I have found some interesting stories.
For example, you can click here...
for a listing of some of the varied ways
in which Ted's ancestors departed
this life.
Or, you can click here...
for a page of Fun Facts and
Stories
about some of these Ancestors.
Or, you can click here...
to access my Photo Gallery,
containing Photographs and Biographies
of several of these ancestors.
No Family History is worthwhile
without proper
documentation.
To assist in understanding the sources I
used , I have
provided a
Bibliography
of the major
published sources used
to compile these Family Histories.
Click here...
to see this Bibliography.