Re: Hall's on Both Sides of the Family
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Re: Halls on Both Sides of the Family
walter hall 2/13/06
I wanted to repost and give you an update, well I managed to connect with family in New York and Raleigh. Thought a family member in Sloatsburg, NY we finally have our missing name. George Hall. I'm in the midst of tracking a George F. Hall and seeking confirmation on his marriage to Amelia Babcock. The George we are looking at his father came from Sweden, I have found several families in New York who all arrived about the same time as George F. Hall's father Nelson Hall.
on the other Hall side, Well, thats a joke. You would think it would be relatively easy to find one family in Florida in 1860 that the father was from SC the mother from Georgia and one of the children to be named Matilda and list she was born in Florida. Very simple. Then track the same family across country to Louisiana and find them in 1880 in the general vicinity. Simple. Right, it seems like the civil war came through, Dads and Moms died or remarried, and then to beat all, a lot of Dad's went under alias names.
Then we have Dad's and Moms and 1 child listed in the 1860 census and in 1870 they have a whole household of teenagers 12 up to 18. Where did they come from, I wish I knew. Then you have families listed on a Census that the Dad died 2 and or 10 years prior, but he is still kicking on the Census. I think they had some lazy census workers, doing the last census rewrites.
By the time I get through searching for these people I do believe I will have every Hall family census from Florida through Texas. Hope your research is going better than mine.