Genealogy Index
A Guide to Genealogy on Howder's Site
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| Old Howder Homestead, Lower Mountain Road, Cambria (Niagara County), NY. George Howder built the stone house in the 1830's. The family built the barn in the early 20th Century after the original frame barn burned. The property remained in the Howder family until about 1945. Special thanks to Herman Stephan for supplying these photographs. | |
PEOPLE
FAMILIES
STORIES
- The Old Howder Homestead - Cambria, Niagara Co., NY
- Abbreviated History of my Hull Ancestors in America
- The Hull Homes through the Years (Edwin Alonzo Hull family)
- Letters from War
- From Maine to the Midwest - The Sylvester Family Journey to Wisconsin in 1844
- The Sylvesters of Plainview, MN (book)
- Sylvesters of Plainview, MN reunited (August 2002)
RESOURCES
- GEDCOM converted to HTML (public database of family members)
- Extended Family in the Civil War
- Photograph index
- All photographs on a single page
- Interactive Map of Family Descendants in Dodge & Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin
- GPS waypoints for select family sites
HOWDER
A lot of speculation surrounds the origin of the Howders and I have not discovered the original immigrant. In the late Eighteenth Century they resided in Pennsylvania. They then migrated to Niagara County, New York where they resided from about 1810 through the 1940's.- Howder Surname Resource Center
- The Old Howder Homestead - Cambria, Niagara Co., NY
- Earliest Known Howder in this Line (Christian Howder)
- Photographs
- Howders in the Civil War
HULL
Henry Sealy Hull immigrated to the United States from England probably between 1815 and 1817. He settled originally in North Carolina, lived briefly in Georgia, and returned to North Carolina. His sons moved to Texas in the 1850's where many of their descendants remain today.- Abbreviated History of my Hull Ancestors in America
- The Hull Homes through the Years (Edwin Alonzo Hull family)
- Thomas Hull's Mexican War Letter
- J. H. L. Hull Civil War Letter Collection
- The immigrant (Henry Sealy Hull)
- Photographs.
- Hulls in the Civil War
GERMAN IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS
One side of our family came almost entirely from Germany. Many of the newly-arrived immigrants or their children settled in Dodge & Jefferson Counties in Wisconsin primarily in the vicinity of Watertown.McGAUGHY/McGAUGHEY
William McGaughey was born in Ireland and moved to Scotland where he married Margaret __ [surname unknown]. They immigrated to the colonies around 1738 and settled in Pennsylvania. My branch moved to Tennessee then to Alabama, to Mississippi and finally to Texas.- The immigrant (William McGaughey)
- Photographs
SYLVESTER/SILVESTER
Richard Silvester and Naomi __ [surname unknown] arrived in the colonies from England in 1630. The family settled in Massachusetts, and my branch moved to what would become Maine in 1762. They next moved to Wisconsin in 1844, and to Minnesota soon thereafter, before settling in Texas around the turn of the twentieth century.- From Maine to the Midwest - The Sylvester Family Journey to Wisconsin in 1844
- The immigrant (Richard Silvester)
- Photographs
- The Sylvesters of Plainview, MN (book)
- Sylvesters of Plainview, MN reunited (August 2002)
- In Memorium - William Sylvester Jewell & Kenneth Vance Olson
- Sylvesters in the Civil War
WHITNEY
John Whitney and Elinor __ [surname unknown] traveled from England to the colonies in 1635, settling in Massachusetts. By the 1660's my branch relocated to what would become Maine, where they remained until 1844 when Joanna Whitney Sylvester moved with her husband and children to Wisconsin (see Sylvester, above).- The immigrant (John Whitney)
- Whitneys in the Civil War
- The Whitney Research Group. I highly recommend this site for anyone researching the Whitney surname