Knocks the dust off this blog.
Hey Yall. I have made some interesting genealogical discoveries this past year. I am going to start this series talking about my Chatham County roots. My family surnames from Chatham County are:
Alston
Atwater
*Baldwin
Bynum
Clark
*Farrington/Fearrington
Hackney
Lynn/Linn
Myrick/Merrick/Miric
Norwood
Pendergrass/Pendergraph
Smith
Rogers/Rodgers
Surnames noted with the asterisk are surnames that I have at least twice on my family tree. As you can imagine that gets interesting when sorting out DNA matches.
I also need to put a caveat on this posting that since Chatham County was formed in 1771 out of Orange County. There will be some crossing into adjacent counties during this blog series.
My ancestors from Chatham County were Enslaved Africans, Free People of Color (both African and Native American) and Europeans.
Please leave a comment if any of these surnames are found in your family tree.
