Joshua Myers

Wow looks like it is going well, were the How-Tos pages helpful or did they leave you with questions?

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Welcome to Wikitree. 235 people are collaborating on various branches of the Barnes family. If I can be of assistance, please contact me. If you trace your roots to my Irish immigrant, Brinsley (1713-1794) [Barnes-1145] or Solomon [Barnes-368] also an ancestor, let's connect. I am the President of a non-profit Foundation and operate a website devoted to research on Brinsley and Solomon Sr. (1751-1807) and their descendants. Both men migrated to what became Wilkes County, NC in 1777. We have five Ph.D.’s and a former State Registrar of the DAR volunteering their time to assist us. Solomon, although not born there first, came to Orange County, NC and later migrated to Rowan County in about 1771. This became Wilkes in 1777 and until his death but is present-day Alexander. Brinsley migrated from Dublin to Chester, PA then to Orange now Chatham Co., NC before arriving in Wilkes now Alexander about 1784. At the time this was Indian Territory. Solomon’s roots are English, and he descends through the same line as James and Keturah Shipley Barnes. The website also discusses their descendants who migrated to Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. Brinsley’s Irish family has been in America since 1734. The two families have seven Revolutionary War Patriots, one served under Washington at Valley Forge. By mid-2018, we will begin building a tree and database based on facts and free of much of the miss information found in other people trees on Ancestry. Learn more by clicking on the next link but read the rest of the message before doing so https://competitivestrategies.us/barnes-ancestors-and-history/. A new article is announced every three or four months. To be notified of this, fill out the form at https://competitivestrategies.us/newsletter-sign-up-page/ . By doing this we will also send you research aides that are not on the website, and they come from counties where our family lived, but the courthouse is not automated and online.

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Happy tree climbing

Karen ~ WikiTree Greeter

I am pleased to confirm you as a full member, and welcome you to the WikiTree family, your contributions will go a long way to joining the world together.

I would suggest starting with the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:New_Member_How-To pages, they will save you a lot of time and frustration.

I am here to answer any question you have, no matter how trivial you may think it is. There is no such thing as a silly question. Please add as much information as you can, it all helps to turn a “name” back into a person. I hope you enjoy the site, and find many cousins you never knew existed.

Happy tree climbing

Karen ~ WikiTree Greeter

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