Holcombe Family Genealogy
Welcome to the Holcombe Family Genealogy home page where we post the genealogies of the descendants of Thomas Holcombe and related families. In addition we will keep information on the unverified ancestors of Thomas in hopes that we might promote research that will verify his ancestry.
Passengers on the Mary and John
William Hayden Elder John Strong Joseph Loomis
Michael Humphrey William Alderman
Founders of Ancient Windsor
Thomas Holcombe Mathew Grant Benedictus Alvord
Alexander Alvord William Hayden Joseph Loomis Thomas Stoughton
William Buell Henry Wolcott William Phelps Sr.
Others
Jimmy Carter Rutherford B. Hayes Thomas Chappell
Our Mission
Our intent is to expand the work of Seaver, McCracken, Bowman and others into the 20th Century. The first step of this process is to post on the web their genealogies compiled into one web site.
We then invite others to send their documented additions and corrections that will be posted as quickly as possible to promote additional feedback. We would like to use the web and its tools as much as possible.
Lastly, it is only appropriate to "give something back" so some of the census records we have come across have been transcribed and enhanced and are now available on the web.
Links
The following links are directly to the sites we are maintaining on Family Gathering and Family Tree Maker sites where we store the output from our software. You will have to use your Back button to return to this site. Please use this data freely to extend your own research, but please, please, please use what little documentation we have included. We try to post all documentation and source material, and hope you will too so as to avoid some of the web postings that are total dream works.
Thomas Holcombe The 14 generations descended from Thomas compiled primarily from Stiles, Seaver, McCracken and Bowman, with contributions from many others. Includes photos of recent generations of my immediate family. Also, the descendants of Thomas' son-in-law, Sgt. Josias Ellsworth, are included. There is no evidence that he is the son of Gilbert.
Rutherford B. Hayes The ancestry of our 19th President whose Hayes relatives frequently married into the Holcombe line. Compiled from an article in The American Genealogist, by McCracken. The Hayes' and Holcombe's married one another frequently in the 17th century.
Richard Skinner. Our Skinner ancestors who came from England to Virginia and North Carolina. Includes photos of recent generations.
Hiram Ulysses Grant. The descendants of Matthew Grant who came over on the Mary and John with Thomas Holcombe. Hiram was mistakenly registered at West Point by his congressman as Ulysses Simpson Grant and he was stuck with that name an became the 18th President. We are related through the Buell's - thank you Matt and Ella. All of the information is from George McCracken in a TAG article.
James Earl Carter. The family of our 39th President who is also related to Senator Sam Nunn. We are related through my Holcombe cousin whose wife's sister married Jimmy's nephew--what a stretch! All of the information is from Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., who published it during Jimmy's presidency. Includes a few pictures courtesy of the Carter Library in Atlanta.
We hope to put up links to the major families from Windsor/Simsbury/Granby, like Phelps, Barber, Bissell, and Griswold that all married Holcombe's at one point or another.
Related Links
This web research is not possible without the thousand of people who contribute to their local genealogy societies and post their own research to help others. Below are some sites of individual users and also some "commercial" sites that have searchable data bases. These are but a few of the many we have had the pleasure to find.
GENDEX, Salmon Brook Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society,
Sergeant Noah Phelps Family Research, Eastman's Weekly Newsletter
Census Files
Hartford County, Connecticut on the USGenWeb; this site changes frequently and is not under my control. This is an FTP site. Start with the "indx" files at the end to find the surname you are looking for. It will tell you which text file has your data.
Granby, Connecticut PDF file. You will need Adobe's Acrobat reader to view this file. This is a 154 page document that is nearly half a megabyte in size and will take about 5 minutes to display on your computer. If you want to print the whole thing, be sure to load a lot of paper. This is the entire copyrighted book as it was printed and bound and submitted to the copyright office.
Contributors
We would like to graciously acknowledge our contributors:
Contact Information
Please contact us as often as possible with as much information as you can provide. We need your data, in any format, GEDCOM, or in the native format of your own genealogy software.
- Telephone
- 404-810-7597
- FAX
- 770-491-8724
- Postal address
- 3600 Eaglerock Drive, Atlanta, GA 30340
- Electronic mail
- General Information: jhholcombe@worldnet.att.net
Webmaster: jhholcombe@worldnet.att.netCopyright © 1997 James and Randal Holcombe, Last updated Sunday, 13 July 2003