A partial list of the families I am researching:

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Many Branches Of A Family Tree started as a genealogy of families and ancestors of the Harris and Whittaker families. A Harris cousin and I spent several years compiling information about the various ancestral branches. He concentrated on the "Harris side" and I did the "Whittaker side." Sadly, that cousin is no longer with us. Other cousins now help me, which helps with the research.

Each "branch" of the family tree that has enough ancestral information to warrant it, has a separate "chapter." Some are brief, others quite long.

Most of the chapters will be updated with biographical detail once we have completed the initial stage of creating a document showing the individuals. Like any genealogical endeavor, this is an ongoing, constantly changing group of chapters. I am in the process of uploading new chapters, as they are completed, which are in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Eventually I hope to have a GEDCOM file available for each chapter.

Most browsers support the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The latest version is available for free from Adobe. The PDF format files contain bookmarks which assist jumping to an individual; however, it only jumps to the first of what may be several references within a document. Please refer to the index and the end of each chapter for additional locations for a specific individual. I have created a master index which shows the various chapters in which an individual can be found. The index will be updated periodically.

Many of the files are now “old” as I have newer information on many family lines. As I update them, I will include a revision date.

• Ackley Part of my paternal great grandmother's family. Her maiden name was Ackley. Direct descendants from about 1635. There is an excellent Ackley genealogy site on the web; apparently it is contained in site one and site two because of the volume of information. A special thanks to Ed Ackley and his family for all their hard work!
• Benezet Part of the Harris ancestral line.
• Berry New line. File uploaded June 5, 2008. It took 20 years to find out the surname of my 3rd great-grandmother. I eventually found a cousin who had it written down on a paper sack! Don't forget to ask all your relatives!
• Bogert Part of the Harris ancestral line and a family that arrived early in the USA. Contains a few biographical bits of information.
• Browne From early 1600 to mid 1700. Part of the Harris ancestral line.
• Burger ~ In PDF format . A family recently linked to Whittaker.
• Childs --(also Childe, Child). This is my step-mother's side of the family tree, and I have been fortunate to find sufficient information to trace her family back to the year 1130 A.D. The document is 50 pages long, not including the index at the back. I have set the file parameters so that only the page you want to view will download; this should eliminate a wait while the entire 50 pages download.
• Cochran New line. File uploaded June 6, 2008.
• Coffin File uploaded June 5, 2008.
• Conant Covers the period from early 1600 through mid 1800 where the Conant and Foster families merge.
• Danforth From mid 1500 to the early 1700.
• Dewey My paternal grandmother was Amanda Nellie Dewey. She was descended from another well known family, and some left their mark in history. Rear Admiral George Dewey is someone we've studied in school, and the Dewey Decimal System is another contribution from this family. I have information on the Dewey family back to mid 1500.
• Farquhar Brief one generation genealogy of an older branch of the family.
• Foster Part of the Harris ancestral line. I have quite a bit of information on this family, going back several generations.
• Fletcher Mid 1600 to mid 1700. Part of the Harris ancestral line.
• Flint From 1600 to mid 1800. Part of the Harris ancestral line.
• Greer File uploaded June 6, 2008. My biological mother is/was Betty Jeanne Greer [only picture I have of her is shown to the right]. I do not know where she was born, but to the best of my knowledge she lived in the Novi, Oakland County, Michigan area at the time she and my father met. She and my father were divorced when I was 1-1/2 years old. My father had custody. Shortly after I was born in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan, Betty who was adopted, discovered her biological parents, who lived in the Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan area. I have no knowledge of my biological mother and never saw her again—to my knowledge—after she and my father divorced. From the scant information my father could recall many, many years later I believe her biological father to be Claude Hinchman. I was able to find some information about Claude—see the Hinchman genealogy. I have searched on and off over the years for more information about Betty and always run into the usual dead end common in genealogy searches. Perhaps now that more people are researching families and using the Internet, someone may read this who has knowledge of either the Greer or Hinchman families and can fill me in on the details.
• Hagni Contains information on many of my cousins. A branch of my family tree from a first cousin, twice removed, Merle Whittaker.
• Harris (John) The John Harris Family, not the same as the Harris family below.
• Harris From 1650 England to present.
• Hinchman File uploaded June 26, 2008. It is possible the Claude Hinchman in this genealogy could be my grandfather.
• Jarvis Early 1600 to mid 1700.
• Jones Several generations, 1600 and 1700.
• Nelson Early 1600 to mid 1700.
• O'Connor Not a lot of information yet.
• Pardee File updated June 5, 2008. Contains new information.
• Parker (Abraham) The Abraham Parker family, late 1600, 1700.
• Parker (John) The John Parker family from early 1600 to mid 1700.
• Pickhardt Late 1600 to late 1700.
• Rosenbrook New Line. File updated June 8, 2008.
• Smock Late 1600 to late 1700.
• Snow Mary Louisa Snow was the wife of John Berry Whittaker. I can recall her taking care of me during the day before I started school. A fairly complete listing of her brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and grandparents.
• Titcomb New line. File uploaded June 6, 2008.
• Wallis Late 1600 to late 1700.
• Whitney Late 1500 to early 1800.
• Whittaker File updated June 5, 2008. Contains new information.
• Wilker A one generation genealogy of a family that married into The Wallis Family.
• Wolcott The Wolcott family has excellent published genealogies. The one I have compiled starts in the 1500's and contains direct descendants to my family lines.
• Woods Early 1600 to mid 1800.
• Yale My paternal great, great grandmother was Almira Yale. Many Yale ancestors did become "famous." Yale locks and Yale University are just two accomplishments of the Yale family.

I am also searching for any information anyone might have about an individual named Irene Isabella Bellier. I reocgnize this is probably like finding a needle in a hay stack, but I would appreciate any information anyone might have about this person.