Family Genealogy and History
M. M. Black
Your Trip Down Black Road Begins Now

Welcome cousins! I have been researching my family genealogy since 1995.  I began with the help of my great-grandmother, Mrs. Lerlean H. Black, who provided me with names, dates and pictures of some ancestors.  I am most grateful to her for this information.  During the past ten+ years, I have worked very actively on my research and have visited numerous cemeteries, courthouses, and libraries.  Besides Georgia, my family interests span into Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri, Massachusetts, England, and Scotland where I have visited.  This site is dedicated to the current family of M. M. Black with hopes they will explore their family history and genealogy.  

Michael's recommendations for researching at your state archives facility (February 17, 2006).

List of my 1812, Confederate, Indians Wars, Cherokee War, and Revolutionary patriots.

Surname report of all 17,568 individuals in my family file (March 20, 2013).  The following are descendant reports for several of my direct ancestors, grouped by surname.  There is overlap between some generations and surnames; reports do not include living generations. If you find a name of family group, email me because I probably have primary source material such as estate records, pictures, grave pictures, certificates, census records, obituaries, etc. that I have scanned and saved.

Black	Lane	Perry
Thomas Black (c1740-1800) Tracing Thomas Black (timeline) Following Lemuel Black (timeline) Black Cemetery-Oglethorpe County, GA Black Cemetery-Madison County, GA	William Carr Lane (1737-1770)	Samuel Haggard (c1749-1811)
Robert Culbertson (1750-1840)	Richard Stephenson (  -1765)	Benjamin Rogers (c1722-1802)
Martin Streetman (c1770-c1835)	Francis Adams (1678-1766)	Thomas Perry, Jr. (1768-1844) Tracing Thomas Perry (timeline)
John Williams (1679-c1755)	William Peake (c1688-1761)	Hix
Martin Deadwyler (c1734-1809)	Thomas Stonestreet (   -1706)	Nathaniel Hix (c1750-1821) Hix Cemetery-Madison County, GA
Young William Short (1775-c1852)	Obediah Overton (c1745-1811)	James Thomas (1751-1836)
George Allen (c1770-1806)	Jonathan Finnell (c1699-1755)	Norris
Yelland	Martin Nalle (1675-1728)	Warren Norris (1803-c1889)
John Yelland (c1766-aft 1821)	James McAfee (1707-1785)	James Rylee, Sr. (1755-1835)
John Ponsford (    -1742)	Benjamin Bohon (c1737-c1785)	David Taylor (1791-1877)
Maxwell	Nathaniel Ely (1737-1823)	Michael McElwreath (c1766-1857)
John Maxwell/Elizabeth Banks	Elisha Winchell (1728-1798)	Daniel Dowdy
James Henderson	Christopher Threlkeld (1675-1710)	Dale
John Scott/Jane Cowan		James Dale (1745-1810)
John Scott/Lettice Brown		Richard Riley (c1726-   )
Thomas Peel (1725-1786)		William Blackman (1789-1865)
Alexander Walker		William Levett (1785-c1836)
		Thomas Colston (1716-    )

The family pictures which I have scanned can be found in the above File Index; however, I have posted some of these old family pictures to this website.

This is a link to my grandfather's short snorter. 

This is a link to some of my Lane and Winchell ancestor's pictures in Palmyra, MO.

This is a link to an article on my book with transcribed Dale family letters.

To make more of my research available online, I am starting to upload all grave and tombstone photographs to www.findagrave.com   If you click here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSmpid=22012499& you can retrieve a listing of all photos I have submitted that are related to my principal family groups of Black, Dale, Hix, Lane, Norris, Perry, and Yelland (April 21, 2008).

If you find someone or something listed in the index, email me at michael_m_black@yahoo.com and I can email you a copy of the primary documents I have. 

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