Some Genealogy Keys to Some Georgia Family Trees: Histories and Genealogies of Assorted Jackson, Fricks, Neel, Anderson, Jordan, Gravatt, Hudgins, Tanner, Pettyjohn and R

by R. Olin Jackson

Overview

Gathered here for the first time are the documented backgrounds of ten interrelated genealogical lines: the Jackson, Fricks, Neel, Anderson, Hudgins, Tanner, Jordan, Gravatt, Pettyjohn, and Rogers families. This unusual book will prove indispensable not only as a permanent family record, but as a valuable research tool for those interested in these families.

Detailed within these pages is an intense historic account of each family, with fascinating back-stories, and captivating first-person accounts. The author has also provided a complete genealogical break-down for one line in each family.

Records and historic details in this book extend historically back to the earliest days of these families in what today is the United States as they arrived in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Read about the tragedies and triumphs they experienced as they sought their fortunes anew while fleeing religious and political oppressions which clouded their lives.

This fascinating book also includes valuable original source materials, including family photos; original federal census, birth, marriage, death, and burial records; photos of gravesites; original military records, including pension records; original real estate purchases; wills; and much more, all of which allow the reader to trace the progress of these families from their earliest arrival at their original ports of entry in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Virginia, to their subsequent migrations to Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and beyond, as they traveled ever westward in pursuit of the American dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987228654
Publisher:	Whippoorwill Publications LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2023
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

R. Olin Jackson founded Legacy Communications, Inc., in 1985, where he became the award-winning executive editor and publisher of his flagship creations – North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads magazines. He ultimately built these endeavors into the premier travel and history publications of Georgia.

During his tenure at Legacy Communications, Olin was the recipient of a number of awards from the Magazine Association of Georgia (MAG) for excellence in publishing. He parlayed this business endeavor into a long and fruitful career before selling it in 2005. Georgia Backroads, now under new ownership, is one of the longest-running magazines in the state.

In the interim of his work at Legacy Communications, Olin also wrote/co-wrote a selection of books, including Moonshine, Murder and Mayhem in Georgia (2003); Tales of the Rails in Georgia (2004); Georgia Backroads Traveler (2005); and Georgia’s Doc Holliday (2006) to name a few.

More recently, Olin has embarked upon a new business venture, founding Whippoorwill Publications, LLC in 2021. His current projects within that realm include “Mystery & History in Georgia, Volume” I (2022) (which has been honored with a Five-Star Award by Readers’ Favorite book awards) (available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and Ingram Books); “Mystery & History in Georgia, Volume II” (2023); “John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday” (2023); “Memories of Army Life and MPs of the 529th” (2024); and “After All That We’ve Been Through” (2024).

The Mystery & History in Georgia volumes are fascinating accounts and information on the history of the state. John Henry “Doc” Holliday” is an equally fascinating historic account of this famous Georgian’s life. And Memories of Army Life and MPs of the 529th is historic account of this unit - rated the Army’s finest in the 1970s - and the author’s experiences therein in the 1970s.

Olin is married to the former Judy Grizzle of Dahlonega, Georgia. The couple make their home in Roswell and Rockmart, Georgia.