Where I've registered information about our family...

With the hopes of hooking up with anyone that has information about our oldest ancestors (to find out who they were, and where they came from), I've registered some information at the following places.

• One great site is/was Hughes & Related Families, Barry Hughes' new site. [A check on 19 April 2001 shows this site to have changed content! I'll need to find where things went, if they still exist...] I had registered Ira Hughes down through my grandfather, Kelly Hughes, as well as a couple of great-great-grandpa Hiram's siblings, all in "family groups" in Barry's previous site, now disconnected. I'll have to try again...one of these days.
• One Daniel J. Hughes (of Michigan) has created and is maintaining a page that lists Hughes' that have served in the Civil War. To get to the actual listing of soldiers, click on the "Hughes in the Civil War", then on "The List of Soldiers" links; there you will find Harrison, Howard, and Israel Hughes listed. These are three sons of Ira Hughes (my great-great-great-grandfather), who served in the Civil War; only Howard survived the war. (Incidentally, great-great-grandpa Hiram wasn't idle during the war; he served as a teamster.)
• The Tombstone Project is a laudable project underway to register all the old cemeteries. I've registered the Hart Family Cemetery and the Hughes Cemetery with them. I've also submitted the St. Paul Cemetery listing.)
  "We live as long as we are remembered." (Old Russian Proverb, as quoted on their site.)
• The Missouri Pioneers page is a compilation of settlers that settled in the state of Missouri by 1890. I've submitted William and Rebecca HART, Mary A. (WALTERS) Hart, as well as Hiram and Sarah Ann (MCDONALD) Hughes.
• Mercer County Lineages lists the first members of various family lines to have moved into Mercer County, Missouri. So, William Morgan Hart and Rebecca Hart Hart, and Hiram Hughes and his wife Sarah Ann McDonald are now listed there.
• There are now links from the "Mercer County MO Cemeteries" page to the Hart Cemetery and St. Paul Cemetery information stored here at "Our Family Lore", and a link from the "Harrison County MO Cemeteries" page to the Hughes Cemetery page kept here.
• Steve Johnson maintains a website of cemeteries on the web, and the Hart, Hughes and St. Paul Cemeteries should appear there soon.

I've also posted queries for various ancestors on a number of bulletin boards. That's not really the same thing as registering data...still, here are some of the places:

• Genealogy's Most Wanted site. You can search for postings a little further down on that page.
• Greene County, New York Query page (for Ira and Sally again) at the Hope Farm Press & Bookshop site (they host the NYGenWeb's Greene & Ulster County Pages).
• Albany County, New York Query page (for Ira's brother, Josiah, who is reputed to be buried in Medusa, Albany County, NY.)
• Cloud County, Kansas
• Geauga County, Ohio
• Harrison County, Missouri
• Mercer County, Missouri
• Ulster and Greene Counties, New York
• Alexander Family Genealogy Forum
• Ferris Family Genealogy Forum
• Hughes Family Genealogy Forum
• McDonald Family Genealogy Forum
• Morin Family Genealogy Forum
• Overton Family Genealogy Forum
• Sorrell Family Genealogy Forum

Here are some general resources that I've found to be helpful in searching:

• The folks on the St. Anne Mailing List have been tremendously helpful in providing information on the Sorel/Morin lines, as well as on the Alexandre/Lajoie lines. These people are all researching various French Canadian families that migrated through the Kankakee County Illinois area, particularly through St. Anne and Bourbonnais. A great group.
• The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is an excellent place to start for relatively recent ancestors. If someone has had a Social Security number and has passed away, they will likely turn up here. There are several places on the web that offer searchable versions of the SSDI; Ancestry.com's version is nice because it also automates the writing of letters asking for copies of the social security number application.
• The US Geologic Survey (USGS) maintains a national mapping site where one can look for the names of towns, cemeteries, streams and other landmarks, including some that no longer exist.
• The US GenWeb Project is the "granddaddy of them all" when it comes to genealogical information maintained on a geographic basis. Each state and most counties now have their own set of pages maintained in conjunction with this project.
• The Mormons maintain a site that provides access to their unsurpassed genealogical database. Researchers should note that this site also provides links to sites focused on various family names, so even it you don't find who you're looking for, you may find who else is looking.