CURRENT PROJECT NC DEATH CERTIFICATES. YOU'LL FIND LOT OF COMPLETE BIRTH AND DEATH NAMES NOT ATTACHED TO A FAMILY YET SO BEAR WITH ME.

PLEASE READ MY MAIN LINES LIST AT THE BOTTOM. IT'S NEW AND UP TO DATE.  ALSO NEW IS LIST OF IMMIGRANTS. Also adding sources to verify information. Most of this history traces my family thru the 18th and 19th century. The  majority were from Pickens, Anderson, Greenville, and Oconee Counties in SC.  My grandmother's family was from Macon County NC and she was related to many  in the Foxfire books. I dedicate this research to my grandparents, Davis V.  and Elizabeth Carpenter Taylor. To my grandmother because she remembered  everything and to my grandfather who knew little about his family and sent me  on the search of a lifetime. MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN ROBERT TAYLOR HAS BEEN MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE.  The family story told by my grandmother by Robert Taylor's wife Nancy Mahala Boggs was that she thought he was dead and remarried and then he came back and then he left again. I've searched for him since the 1970's and finally found proof of the family oral and written history.  He is listed on Gist's Rifles for Hamptons Legion
 Company D as "dead" at the end of the war. I have recently found quite a few confederate records of his service in Hampton's Legion. I also found that his brother Thomas F. Taylor enlisted in the same legion at the age of 16. I have copies of a page out of the family Bible that listed John Robert Taylor as dying in the Summer of 1869 in Longswamp Florida. It is found on this site under Vital Records  I recently contacted Florida concerning where this town
 was and it was listed as having a post office from the mid 1840's until 1869. Longswamp was located in Marion County Florida and I feel confident the information in the Bible fits the story. Earl Preston Taylor and Levi Thomas Taylor are the Taylor men who first went to Texas after the Civil War. 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of my research now is done using FamilyTreeMaker2010 software. It took a few days to figure it all out but I would highly recommend it. The software works online thru Ancestry.com. I've been using the census records and adding individuals as unrelated until i find the correct family tree for them. For example on my Black line I'll look for census records in Greenville, Anderson and Pickens counties in SC. The program pulls up the names and I connect them like a jigsaw puzzle. It also adds sources and records to verify the search. Family Tree Maker also lets me view 4 generations at once. It merges duplicate persons and is easy to export to upload to a website. A lot of people like to do their research directly onto a website but I have 3 sites and upload new info and corrections at the end of each night. TribalPages is my photo website but for downloading in book form I use Rootsweb.com because it produces my information with a crisp professional look.
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My family history begins in SC and traces the family as a large portion travel west from the Carolinas to Texas. Most directly related to me are still in the Carolinas. Most of my ancestors came from Scotland, Ireland and England plus a few from Germany. Most migrated here from Pennsylvannia, Mass., and New Jersey. They came to the Carolinas only 1 generation back from the Civil War.  It may not have been a war fought brother against brother but in our case cousin against cousin.

My mother was a Taylor and they have been a real challenge. I knew a lot of them moved to Texas and there is very little information on my line on the internet.  Most of my information on this line is from letters I've kept since my original research in the 1970's. My mistake was in thinking that all of the Taylor family who relocated to Titus and Grayson counties in Texas came from SC. Many of them are from other states and I don't know if they tie in with my line.

The Holcombe and Ingram lines on my mom's side also have very little documentation on the internet.  Most of this information I have included came from my great grandmothers baby sister Estee Holcombe Ellis who lived until I was in my 20's and i visited often.

My dad's line on the Black family is not as scattered but is very incomplete on the internet. The Pace line is the same line who founded Pace's Gap, NC which is now Saluda, NC. The Burrell line is mostly from NC and upstate SC and the Castleberry line from Spartanburg County, SC. I'm making a lot of progress on the Pace and Burrell lines.

The situation I'm finding on all of the lines using Rootsweb.com is that most of the information is there-just not by one contributor. I'm weeding thru it and piecing it together like a jigsaw puzzle. I work for accuracy but some information may be wrong.

If anyone would like to have old pictures from the 19th century posted on my site please email them to me individually and I'll be glad to put them on.  My site can hold 5000 photos.

If you don't find what you need today please check back in a week or so as I am continually adding more information as I pull all of this together, hopefully for the last time. Feel free to email me .

I've also added a Vital Records and Memories photo album where I plan to copy things such as death certificates and personal letters I received in the late 1970's. Many of my important papers burned several years ago but many survived and this is the safest place I know of for them. My next goal is to add a recipe index under the photos-

I AM CONTINUING MANY OF THE LINES TO INCLUDE PEOPLE NOT DIRECTLY RELATED BECAUSE IT ALL SEEMS TO BE COMING FULL CIRCLE. MY DADDY'S LINE AND MY MAMA'S LINE EVENTUALLY CROSS. LISTED BELOW ARE MY MAIN LINES.  I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY OLD PHOTOS FROM THESE LINES TO ADD TO MY SITE.

TAYLOR, BLACK, BURRELL, CARPENTER, RENO, CLARK, GOSNELL, PRUITT(SEVERAL DIFFERENT SPELLINGS), HOLCOMBE, INGRAM, PACE, LOFTIS, MCCONNELL, MCCLELLAND, ALLEN, LONG, COX, ROGERS, CASTLEBERRY, WOODRUFF, WOODLIEF, HARGRAVE(HARGROVE),BOGGS, HAMILTON, GARNER, GRIFFIN

My direct descendants immigrants are: John Cox(1675-1711) Berkshire, England; James Montgomery(1690-1756)Donegal, Ireland; John Garner(1634-1702)Shrewsbury, Shopshire, England; Thomas II Keene(1593-1653)Otley, Suffolk, England; Matthew Long(1725-1775)Donegal, Ulster, Ireland; Anne Thompson(1695-1756) Donegal, Ulster, Ireland; Richard Allin(1613-1658)Cantebury, Kent, England; Lucy Rogers(1675-1760)Worchestershire, England; Giles Rogers(1643-1730)Edinburgh,Scotland; Rachel Eastham(1635-1745)Berkshire, England; Anne Churchman(1617-1672)Huntington, Herefordshire, England; John Clark(1681-1759)Dervock, Antrim, Ireland; Pierre Peter Chastain(1659-1728)Charost, Province Berri, France; Anne Bryan Soblet(1675-1723)Sedan, Ardennes, France; Louis Reynaud(1677-1755)Dauphin, Provence, France;M. Louise Reneau(1687-)France; William Thorne(1617-1664)Dorset, Devon, England; David Hamilton(1725-1801)Lanarkshire, Scotland; Jean Jane Wallace(1730-1815)London, England; William Gosnell(1660-1709)St. Andrew, Holborn, London, England; Johannas Hans Black(1720-1806)Amsterdam, Holland; John Clark(1685-1759)Antrim, Ireland; George Pace(1609-1655)Wapping, Middlesex, England; Samuel Maycock(1594-1622)Northhamptonshire, England; Heinrich Kasselberg Castleberry(1670-1729)Bakersdorf, Germany; Heinrich Kasselberg Sr.,Germany; Katrin Derrick, Germany; Drew Woodlief(1560-1631)Prestwood, England; James McConnell(1698-1764)Rostrevor, Ireland; Mary Ross(1703-1791)Antrim, Ireland; William Nicholas McClelland(1700-1778)Antrim, Ireland;Thomas Prewitt(1616-1692)Salisbury,Wiltshire, England;Walter Burrell(1715-1800)Falkland, Fife, Scotland; Elspeth Martin(1725-1800)Scotland