Greer Name Study

Profile managers: Carole Taylor [send private message], One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message], and Misty Musco [send private message]

Welcome to the Greer One Name Study

We are now opening the name study to all spelling variations and places, as well as the Grierson Surname. Later we may split the Greer all Spellings and Griersons into two name studies, but for now we will just include them. This is where much of the Greer all Spellings descended from. Possible spellings include:

• Greer
• Greir
• Grier
• Grear
• Greear
• Geer
• Grierson

Several places are:

• Scotland
• Ireland
• Australia
• Canada
• United States

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Misty Musco or Carole Taylor co-Leader or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask.

• If you would like to be a Project Members or add your Ancestor to our project: Add the following to the top of your Greer profiles ABOVE THE Biography Heading:
  • {{One Name Study|name=Greer}}
• also add this sub category
  • [[Category:Country of origin, Greer Name Study]]

• This sub category will categorize each Greer according to country of origin. Currently the sub categories are United States, England, Ireland, Australia, Africa, Germany and Scotland If you are or your ancestors falls under another Country of Origin, please let Misty Musco know. Leave the link to the profile and I will create the category.

• If you run across an unsourced Greer profile add them to the Greer Name Study but also add {{Unsourced|Greer}} so that it will show up in our unsourced list.

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

DNA Projects

Cousin's who have the tests done

Richard Greer

Y Chromosome: The Y chromosome is passed down from father to son.

Here are Richard's direct paternal line ancestors.

Richard Baker Greer descendants (01 Mar 1914 - 15 Oct 2006) [confident]

James Richard Greer descendants (Dec 1890 - )

Benjamin Finis Greer descendants (30 Jul 1867 - 11 Apr 1942) [confident]

James Wright Greer descendants (1847 - 1887) DNA confirmed

James Wright Greer Sr descendants (09 Nov 1805 - 13 Jun 1863) DNA confirmed

Martin Henry Greer descendants (1756 - 04 Jul 1822) DNA confirmed

Benjamin Fitch Greer descendants (abt 06 Jan 1727 - bef 28 Dec 1787)

John James Greer descendants (1688 - 15 Apr 1752) [confident]

James Greer descendants (abt 1627 - abt 1688) [confident]

Pre-1500 and Pre-1700 Profiles

Please sign your name Using ~~~~and add if you are certified pre-1500 or pre-1700 or both also list if you have access to any of the paid websites. There are a lot of profiles that fall into these early categories and they are also hard to source out

1. Rish-15 20:49, 18 April 2018 (UTC) pre-1700/pre-1500
2. Taylor-25258 12:00, 19 April 2018 (UTC) Pre-1500/pre-1700

Problem Greer Profiles

Add profiles here if you feel that they are problem profiles. This would include profiles that are often connected to wrong families or that Parents, Siblings, Spouses or Children are in dispute about belonging. These may need to fall under Project Protection.

1. Benjamin Greer b:1740 to William Greer Sr / Mary Ann FITCH
2. John Greer b:1737 to William Greer Sr / Mary Ann FITCH
3. James Greer Progenitor, already PPP
4. Steven Greer He is not listed as a child on the Will of the father, Capt. William Greer ???Which is already in "Research Pending" WARNING
5. John E. Greer Ezekiel Greer born 1840 is just not listed?? They sure look to be one/same??????????The merge went thru....... but the military muster card for the fold3 27th Missouri Mounted Infantry , John E Greer is now a question??? The time line for the 2 Regiment makes this soldier serving in 2 different Regiments at the same time. Ezekiel Greer born 1840 is just not listed?? but he w/b 10 in 1850?? THEY ARE NOT ONE/SAME so it has to be a different Julia A. GREER, living in Georgetown, MO...which IS also IN PETTIS County. The only way they can be one/same is: He served with both at the same time.... John E. joined the 27th 09/23/1861 and is NOT FOUND after Feb 1862....... the other Ezekiel joined 06/21/61 in Georgetown.. and DIED 12/29/1862

US Civil War| enlisted = 09/23/1861/ = 02/15/1862 When 27th was disbanded/ =Co. H 27th Missouri Volunteer Mounted Infantry  :NOTE: There is NO SOURCE found that proves he died during the WAR... If he did die during his service it would have been from disease.

nps.org  :A John E Greer served with my g-g-grampa Morrison M Lee in 27th MO. Mounted Infantry. :THIS IS IN QUESTION will look later Burial: Hopewell Cemetery, Newland, Pettis County, Missouri  :How can these 2 NOT be one/same, too many coincidences....

The names John Ezekiel/Ezekiel

Both living in Pettis County.

Both have mothers by the name of Julia A Greer

and then Ezekiel Greer being called "aka: John Wasson" that is the last name of the Administrator of his father's estate.

LASTLY, Ezekiel was KIA and then John Ezekiel is NOT FOUND again after he was Discharged from the 27th Missouri Feb 1862.....

John RylandWasson could be the John that paid Ezekiel to go to war for him. Ryland died and is laid to rest where the Greer family is also.

Sourcing Profiles

With so many profiles either unsourced are marked as sourced and are not really sourced, I figured I would post what is actually considered Primary and Secondary Sources as well as how to source. While family trees are a great place for getting info for research they are not considered a source, but rather a research tool. Some trees do contain sources, but you would need to cite the source not the tree. Also things like tombstone, census or passed down history is not proper citing of a source. Things like a tombstone should list where it's located and the information on the tombstone. It's also good to list a date when it was viewed and a picture if available. Census records should have a location and a year, in the least. If you obtain information from a family member it should be cited who the information was given to, who gave the information and a date also the relation to the person you are sourcing would be ideal.

Primary sources are Sources that are taken at or close to the time and place and witnessed by the one telling the account. Birth, Death, Marriage, bible, military and census records are considered primary sources. However try to always find as much supporting evidence as possible. Many cases of people born in the late 1800's and early 1900's were born before Birth certificates were issued and applied later for them. The information was given mostly on word of mouth. Also many people pre 1900 were born, died or married in their homes. Someone would then travel to the Registers office with witnesses or written statements to give account for the official records. You must also remember that in Census records, some people didn't read or write. The census taker would write things as they heard it and spellings can be wrong. People also lied about ages and they also often used nicknames and middle names. Military rolls were often written later. Muster rolls sometimes were written a month or so after the fact. This can get messed up or out of order.

Secondary Sources these are written accounts after the fact. Such as encyclopedias, history books, newspaper and magazine articles, obituaries, index and transcriptions. I also link tombstones in this category because they are often ordered after the death of a individual. While most are correct they can have wrong information especially in times before Birth and death certificates were available to verify the information as correct.

Some records can actually be considered primary and secondary. Example is a death certificate or notice. They contain primary source for death, but the birth information is considered a secondary source.

Just remember that no matter the source, we should fully Vet that source and try to find any information that can back it up.

For those of you who use gedcoms to upload your tree, always go through them. Most of the time gedcoms leave junk info on profiles and often do not properly list sources. Even great gedcoms need a little tlc after you add them.

Task List

• link profiles of Greers to Name Study
• adopting and managing profiles that are orphaned
• connecting unconnected Greer profiles to the One World Tree
• Sourcing Greer profiles that are unsourced

DNA

You can find others with your surname who have taken DNA tests by going to your surname index this:

• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Greer
• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Grier
• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Greir
• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Grear
• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Geer
• https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:DNATests&s=Grierson

YDNA test-takers are the most valuable, but anyone who has taken an autosomal test knows the value of DNA for genealogy and may be able to find a male member of their family who could be tested.

• comparing test takers on gedmatch to try to pin point where different Greers line up on Chromosomes snp'S for different lines of American Greers.

TEST TAKERS

Shawn Greer on 4 May 2022 (James Greer GunPowder Maryland)

"I see the comment that the American Greer DNA does not match the Greer and Grierson of Scotland. I descend from James Greer of gunpowder maryland. He is my 9th great grand father. Myself, my brother and nephew have been tested. I have been tested at the highest level on familytree DNA. I share DNA matches with Alpin Macgregor the historic Clan Chief and todays Clan Chief Malcolm Macgregor. I am 10 steps from todays chief but we do show up as a match. I have the SNP R-M123 which I believe is older than the M456 that I believe most Macgregors carry today. I also carry the gene R1b-L1335 which is very old. I'm still working on things but I believe we can now say that we come from a very old bloodline."

Google Group

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/greers-of-america

This is where we can discuss all our information.

PAID Sources

i.e ancestry.com/fold3/ et al............

1. Taylor-25258 12:05, 19 April 2018 (UTC) I have access to fold3 for military/ some census records

Greer Sources

If you have a reliable Greer source, add it here. Note family trees are not sources. For those who don't know any of Burkes work, much of his work is being proven wrong. This will not be considered a reliable source for our profiles. If you are using them, please find other reliable sources to back up the Burke Source that isn't derived from his source or delete him as a source.

1. Cuz' Sue Hosbach's rootsweb TREEs most generally not only have the written out but also gives source down to the page
2. rootsweb.com RALPH TERRY TREEs (aka: capenoch) is another that gives his sources by name/page # he has even gone over there and searched for the PROOF of our John Greer's parentage, Progenitor...
3. http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/grierson.htm

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