A collage of family photos.
My Families are varied:
Goodlaw, Hampton, Newton, Rogers, Trotter, Webb, Wheeler, and York from African-American lines from Bradley Co., Arkansas.
Byrne, Cory, Cunningham, Massy/Massey, Packer, Shea who came from Ireland, England, and Scotland by way of Ontario, Canada and upstate New York to Leelanau, MI and then Grand Rapids, MI.
Baker, Gilbert, Gordon, Grove, Johnson / Surfling, Lapham; Helsel, Holden, Morningstar, Porter, and Skiff, most of which ended up in the four corners of Kent County, MI at Algoma, Cannon, Courtland, and Plainfield Townships.
I have also spent time on my adoptive Great-grandfather’s family the Baileys (married a Porter) and their cluster lines (Groner, McCormac, Dunn, King, etc,) from Kent Co. back to Rhode Island because Grandpa was one of the first people to help me when I started researching the first time for a Girl Scout Badge (more than 20 years ago).
