South Central Appalachia Team

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Welcome to the Appalachia Project's South Central Appalachia Team. If you're a member of the project and would like to join this team,

1. add your name, interest area(s), and what you're working to the Members list (below).
2. add the team category to your profile: [[Category: South Central Appalachia Team]] - you can also add [[Category: Appalachia Project]]
3. 

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project (South Central Appalachia Team).
   

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project.
   update your Member sticker (or add it): {{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space: South Central Appalachia Team|South Central Appalachia Team]]}} or {{Member|Appalachia}}
4. read through the project page, if you haven't already.
5. check out the To-Dos (below) - you can add to the list or sign on for a task that interests you.

Five Regions of Appalachia

States
North Carolina Appalachians
Tennessee Appalachians
Virginia Appalachians

If you see things that need done, you can add them to the Task list, below. If you have ideas for things that the Team could be doing, let me know! ~ Tabor

The links in the table above are for the "landing level" categories (where people profiles should be categorized; project pages are categorized under Category: Appalachia Project).

The Appalachia Project's Counties of Appalachia includes all 423 counties listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission,^[1] plus some, with links to the WikiTree category pages.

South Central Appalachia Counties

Thirteen states have counties in Appalachia. The South Central Appalachia Team covers counties in three of them: North Carolina, Tennessee, & Virginia (the orange area in the above map). Out of 423 Appalachia counties, the following 87 counties and 7 Independent Cities are in the South Central Appalachia Region.

The state links in the following are to the table in Counties of Appalachia, where you'll find links to WikiTree's category pages for the counties and Independent Cities listed:

• North Carolina (31 out of 31): Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey^[1]
  • Historic Counties... see Task List, below
• Tennessee (38 out of 52): Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon, Carter, Cocke, Coffee, Cumberland, De Kalb, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Lewis, Loudon, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Putnam, Rhea, Roane, Sequatchie, Sevier, Smith, Sullivan, Unicoi, Van Buren, Warren, Washington, and White^[2][3]
  • Historic Counties... see Task List, below
• Virginia (18 out of 25): Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Henry, Highland, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, Rockbridge, Smyth, Washington, and Wythe^[2]
  • Virginia Independent Cities - a separate table following the Virginia Counties table (7 out 8): Bristol (Washington County), Buena Vista (Rockbridge County), Covington (Alleghany County), Galax (Carroll County), Lexington (Rockbridge County), Martinsville (Henry County), and Radford (Montgomery County)^[4]
    Note - although counties are shown, Virginia's Independent Cities are just that - independent of (and equal to) Virginia's Counties.^[5]
  • Historic Counties... coming soon

When adding the appropriate Appalachians category, add any appropriate county-level location categories too. If working on pre-USA profiles, be aware that North Carolina and Virginia are part of the US Southern Colonies Project, which has guidelines for locations. See the Datafield Guide section of the US Southern Colonies Project Editing Guidance for specifics about pre-USA locations.

For instance, if someone was born in Augusta County, Colony of Virginia in 1750, married in Botetourt County in 1770, and died in Fincastle County in 1775, add

[[Category: Virginia Appalachians]]
[[Category: Augusta County, Virginia Colony]]
[[Category: Botetourt County, Virginia Colony]]
[[Category: Fincastle County, Virginia Colony]]

even though only Botetourt County is listed as one of today's 423 Appalacian counties by the Appalachian Regional Commision.^[1] Fincastle County went extinct in 1776, and what remains of the once vast Augusta County is not in the Appalachian Region.^[6]

South Central Appalachia Team To-Dos

Profile Maintenance: Project members are asked to help work on profiles in the project's Maintenance Categories. Note that if you add a maintenance category, you should generally also add details of why you added it to the profile's Research Notes.

Needs categories can be added to a profile using the project sticker (see this template page), including Appalachia Project Needs Sources for a profile that has at least one source but needs additional sources.

Profiles for Appalachians with no sources should have {{Unsourced|Appalachia}} added to the profile, which will put the profile in the project's Unsourced Profiles category: Appalachia, Unsourced Profiles.

Tasks

Team members - if you're working on a listed task, please "sign" it by adding ~~~~

• Looking for work? Check out the table of South Central Appalachia County space pages at Workspace for Appalachia Project - Tennessee & see if one of the red counties is one you have an interest in (red means a space page for the county does not yet exist).
  Note: Contact Nan, PC for the Tennessee Project before creating a space page.
• Research county formation history to establish a timeline people can use to properly categorize profiles. Working - see Tennessee Workspace page - Space: Workspace for Appalachia Project - Tennessee.
• Check location categories for profiles of people who were born in, who lived in or who were associated with this region.
  • Add the appropriate Appalachians category.
  • If the person is associated with Appalachia, check the qualifications posted by the Notables Project to see if [[Category: Appalachia, Notables]] should be added to the person's profile (whether or not they're associated with the South Central region of Appalachia).

Member Details

See Appalachia Project Membership for the Project's membership.

Members can add details of their interest area(s) and what they're working on for the South Central Appalachia Team in this section.

• Member: Interest area(s)
  • Working on/intend to do/have an idea to do...

• Mary (Todd) Allen: Adding my SW Virginia family to Wiki-Tree and adding or identifying all slaveholders and the associated enslaved persons that were early settlers in Montgomery and Pulaski County. My family surnames include Poindexter, Pate, Williams, Jackson, Clark (Pulaski County, Virginia), Kyle (Hawkins County, Tennessee, Pulaski County, Virginia and Mercer County WVA), Hounshell (Wythe County, Virginia, Pulaski County, Virginia).

• D Armistead: D to add
  • (D to add)

• Sjana Lee (Dreyer) Bauer: I live right here and have done a lot of research and study on the area
  • Virginia

• Cindy (Worley) Beam: I'm interested in the South Central Appalachia Team. Born and raised in the Foothills of North Carolina, I have extensive family in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. My father and his family are from Haywood County, NC.
  • (Cindy to Add)

• Karla Beatty: Virginia, NC Ancestors
  • (Karla to add)

• Craig Bible: Bible family of Greene County, Tennessee
  • (Craig to Add)

• Donnie Blackstone"': (Donnie to Add)
  • (Donnie to Add)

• Karita Blackwell: (Karita to Add)
  • (Karita to Add)

• Jacqueline (Young) Braddy: My family was born in Tennessee and North Carolina.
  • (Jacqueline to Add)

• E Bridges: I was born in Burke County, North Carolina, and many of my ancestors had been in the Western Piedmont since the 1700's. I have advanced knowledge of North Carolina history, migration from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and some experience with western Virginia ancestry.
  • (E to Add)

• Darrell Brown: My ancestors lived primarily in Watauga and Ashe Counties of NC, with some spillover into adjoining counties and states.
  • (Darrell to Add)

• Donovan Brown: I have many Ancestors who lived in Alabama. The Brown Family comes from Abbeville, SC which is adjacent to Anderson County, SC under Southern Appalachia. I really would like help on Paternal line as I have done BigY-700.
  • (I'm a member of Brown-Browne-Braun Project at FamilyTreeDNA. I'm in Subgroup #45. It has a YDNA Haplogroup of I-FTD56372

• Loretta Buckner : Has Central ancestors + PA to VA and NC, and now finding lots of twiglets in KY and elsewhere.
  • (Loretta to Add)

• Laura Carter: This is my first time joining a project, so I may need some hand holding for a bit. My interest lies in the Southwest Virginia counties where my ancestors settled. They include Washington, Botetourt, Russell, Scott, Wise, and Lee.

• John Carter: John to add
  • (John to add)

• Linda Church: My roots from Western North Carolina with counties; Caldwell, Wilkes, Burke, Watauga and Alexander. My most recent surnames I'll be working on; Church, Nelson, Reid, Pennell, Sudderth, Crisp, Bryant and Harriss.

• Sharon Cobb: Grainger and Sevier Counties in Tennessee

• Gary Coleman: My ancestry largely straddles the Kentucky-Virginia border.
  • (Gary to add)

• Elizabeth Coltrane: Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Henry, Patrick, Pulaski, Smyth, Washington, and Wythe Counties. Researching Coltrane, Hines, Gollehon, Gregory, Hill, Umbarger, Mitchell and Price.

• E. Compton: Tracing my SW Virginia ancestors from Russell and Buchanan Counties, and from Staunton, and Lexington. NC ancestors are in Rutherford and Cleveland Counties. I enjoy rummaging in old newspapers for glimpses of what the ancestors were up to day-to-day.

• Cynthia (Bryant) Crafton: TN, NC, VA
  • (Cynthia to add)

• Eric Christensen: North Carolina & South Carolina
  • (Eric to add)

• Bill Crews:
  • (Bill to add)

• Cheryl Cruise: Patrick, Henry, Floyd, Montgomery, Giles, Pulaski and Carroll Counties
  • I'm adding my SW Virginia and WV family to WikiTree. I'm also working on identifying all slaveholders in my tree as well as the associated enslaved persons and their ancestors and descendants, if possible, and am using USBH Project standards to document them on WikiTree. (I lead Team Virginia for the USBH Project.) Some of my surnames are Cruise/Crews, Hill, Justice, Bird/Byrd, Howell, Herd/Hurd, Moran, Perdue, Martin, Walden, Witt, Dehart/De Hart, Jordan, Hollingsworth, Handy, Harris/Harriss, Hylton/Helton/Hilton, Cannady/Canaday, Blankenship, Conley, and Wright.

• Olivia Cunningham: where I live and most of my closer family lives/lived as well.
  • (Olivia to Add)

• Becca (Brown) Cutsail: Becca to Add
  • (Becca to Add)

• Karen Doerr: Tennessee
  • Specifically working in Greene County, TN with my ancestor John Crum and his son, Robert Sevier.

• Lecia (Alley) Dorfler: Clay, Floyd and Pike Counties in Kentucky with others from Scott, Russell and Fincastle Counties in Virginia.
  • (Lecia to Add)

• Kathy (Foote) Durham: Tennessee + Virginia Ancestors
  • (Kathy to add)

• Rachel Estridge:
  • (Rachel to add)

• Mary Lou (Guinn) Finley: Guinn and Finley Family Lines
  • (Mary Lou to add)

• Tabor (Hoff) Fisher (Team Leader): NC and Eastern TN
  • I have been researching relatives in Macon and Swain Counties in the antebellum period and through the Civil War.

• Pam Fraley: Working on creating free space pages for the counties in my region.
  • Cocke, DeKalb, Hawkins, Knox, Roane, Sevier, and White Counties In Tennessee.
  • Look toward picking up an idle county page to adopt.

• Paula (Brewer) Franklin: Blount and Sevier County Cemeteries/Profiles
  • Adding, Sourcing Profiles mostly in Sevier and Blount County, TN, but also some in Hamilton, Bradley, Polk, Monroe, Knox, Loudon counties. Adding Cemeteries from TN.

• Christine (Johnson) Gephart: Some are even founding families in some areas. My families are Gilbert,DeHart,Tabor ,Warren and Davis for starters.
  • Christine to add

• Dan Gilbert: I have ancestors around the Yadkin river North Carolina as well as Caldwell, Rowan, Wilkes counties in NC. I also have branches of my family in Stewart, and Robertson counties, in fact some of my ancestors were the founders of Roberson. I also have family scattered from PA to SC. I am wanting to focus on the names Collett, Fitzgerald and Boren.

• Gregory Gilbert: Some are even founding families in some areas. My families are Gilbert,DeHart,Tabor ,Warren and Davis for starters.
  • Gregory to Add

• John Graham
  • Highland, Rockbridge or Bath, or Independent Cites of Lexington, Buena Vista and Covington.

• Lora Hand: North Carolina and Virginia
  • Researching and adding Profiles.

• Glen Harris: I am from east Tennessee with roots in south west Virginia and western North Carolina
  • (Glen to Add)

• Sarah Harrell: Most of my paternal ancestors traveled the South Central area, from NC -> TN/KY -> AR/MO after arriving from England, Ireland, and Scotland.
  • I am currently tracing my Harrell family (unk. homeland), Thompson family from Derry, Ireland -> Guilford, NC -> TN -> AR/MO, and the Hawkins family of Mo, who may be of the same migratory line as the above mentioned Thompson.

• Anonymous Hauschel: Back Creek, Frederick County (east of North Central Appalachia)
  • (Anon to add)

• Peg Hill: I have an abundance of ancestors that resided in Carroll County VA, and Surry County NC.
  • (Peg to Add)

• Rhonda Hill:
  • (Rhonda to add)

• Bob Hvitfeldt: I have no ancestors at all in Appalachia, but I live here and love it. Will do photos of gravesites in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania, etc., North Carolina.
  • Mostly cemetery work —Categorization and creating profiles for them—in and around Buncombe County, North Carolina.

• Emily (Boy) Holmberg: The majority of my ancestors settled in East Tennessee or Western North Carolina by the 1790s. Most of my family settled in Carter, Sullivan, and Washington Counties in Tennessee. I have a bit of overlap into Central Appalachia for relatives who settled in Wise, Lee, and Scott Counties in Virginia.
  • Currently am starting to work more on my Boy One Name Study and tie that into both the Appalachia Project and the US Black Heritage Project by working on my Boy family relatives who were slaveowners in Sullivan County. I am also working on Civil War Veterans specifically from Bluff City (f/k/a Zollicoffer) and Piney Flats.

• Ida (Gray) Houston: I am mostly interested in the North Central, Central and South Central.
  • Areas of South Central I am interested include Ashe and Rutherford Counties in North Carolina; Franklin, Grainger, Hawkins, Knox, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Roane, and Warren in Tennessee; Botetourt, Grayson, Tazewell, and Wythe counties in Virginia

• Marcia (Coffman) Hicks RN-Ret.: I have paternal ancestors who settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by 1765 and stayed until the late 1800's.
  • Still exploring my Appalachian Roots

• Susan (Kovach) Hughes:
  • (Susan to enter)

• Laura Hyde: Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia
  • (Laura to add)

• AmyLynn Hunt: Virginia Ancestors

• Robert Hvitfeldt: Western North Carolina and have been working on cemeteries and creating profiles in the area for several years now.
  • I’d be pleased to take gravestone photos for cemeteries in Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Rutherford, Transylvania counties, if there’s a need.

• Dusti (Brown) Ide:
  • (Dusti to Add)

• Janine Isleman
  • White, Van Buren counties of main interest but also, Dekalb, Putnam, Warren, Smith in Tennessee

• Jessica James:
  • (Jessica to Add)

• Frank Jarvis:
  • (Frank to Add)

• Ashley Jones: Mainly interested in my father's family who came into the southern colonies (PA/northern VA/the Carolinas) and ended up in central TN. TN counties: Cannon, Coffee, Jefferson, and Warren. NC county: Buncombe. VA counties: Henry and Washington. Known surnames are Belt, Bender/Painter, Blanton, Brown, Bynum, Fuchs/Fox, Gannon, Gilley, Hill, Hoover, Jones, Keele, Lavender/Laubinger, Lentz/Lance, Malone, McKinny/McKinsey, Moser, Prater, Reitsman/Wrightsman, Rigsby, Sear, Smith, St. John, Stacy, Wilkerson/Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, Woods.
  • Adding/improving extended family profiles

• Heather Jones: My husband's maternal line has been in Pulaski County, Virginia and surrounding since early 1800s. Known (and verified) surnames include Robertson, Thomas, Parker, Nester, Goad, Spence, Craig, Kirby, & Schraeder.

• Larry Jones: Many of my ancestors arrived on this continent in different parts of Appalachia, specifically in Virginia and North Carolina, and from there participated in migration to Tennessee and beyond to several other states.
  • I am interested in making more connections within and between the families of my ancestors and cousins.

• K. Jeffries: VA counties of: Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Fincastle, Giles, and Wythe; NC counties of Ashe, Stokes, Wilkes.
  • (Kelli to Add)

• Jason Jones: GA, SC, VA Ancestors
  • (Jason to add)

• Martha Keys: Washington County, VA research
  • (Martha to add)

• David Kitts: Southwest VA Ancestors
  • (David to add)

• Karen (Gosnell) Kontrath: TN/KY/SC Ancestors
  • (Karen to add)

• Emily (Cole) Ledford: East Tennessee and Kentucky descendant
  • (Emily to Add)

• Doug Leeper Jr.:
  • (Doug to Add)

• Mark Lemen: North Carolina
  • Adding ancestors from Stokes and Surry Counties in North Carolina

• James Little: James to add
  • (James to Add)

• Karen Lowe: Tennessee
  • (Karen to add)

• Deb (Burch) McCarter: I live in Blount County Tennessee but not actively researching here even though my husbands family has been here since the 1700's, leaving this mostly to the nieces. Willing to travel in the area to collect information: Blount, Sevier, Knox, Monroe, Jefferson TN and Swain, Haywood, Graham NC and others. My brick wall is Surry, NC about 1750-1820 when the ancestors all (most) left for Greene County, Indiana.

• Reta McCollum: Reta to Add
  • (Reta to Add)

• Russ McDaniel: The family migration path was from at least Monroe (County), VA to Charleston, WV
  • (Russ to Add)

• Terri (Solomon) McGhee: My interests are North Carolina, Tennessee & Alabama.I have created many profiles in these areas.
  • (Terri to add)

• Audrey (Hoppes) Martin: (Audrey to add)
  • (Audrey to add)

• Evelyn (Goode) Miller: White Oak Flats (which is now Gatlinburg, Sevier County TN) Ancestors
  • (Evelyn to Add)

• Doug McCammish: My McCamish ancestors left Virginia after the Revolutionary War to settle in Greene County, Tennnessee and have spread from there.
  • (Doug to Add)

• Susie MacLeod: paternal family are in Catawba County, North Carolina
  • I'll begin by adding project stickers for the Catawba County profiles
  • My focus will then be on improving profiles throughout Catawba County, with a particular focus on the Newton/Conover area

• Curtis Milton: Southern WV + Southwest counties of Virginia
  • (Curt to add))

• Shelley (Mair) Monson: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia
  • Working on tracing my maternal lines, chiefly in Lee Co., VA; Claiborne Co.; Bell Co., KY; TN, Burke Co., NC;, Rabun and Gilmer Cos., GA. Direct line surnames: Arnold, Ball, Benfield, Brooks, Brown, Chadwell, Kerley, Lawson, Melton, Nevels/Nevils, Pearman, Rackley, Ramey, Sutton, Teem, Yeary.

• Bob Moon: East Tennessee and SW Virginia. My paternal roots are in Knox and Sevier counties in TN back pre-1800. My maternal grandfather was from Scott and Washington counties in VA, so I'm interested in Central Appalachia as well. My maternal grandmother's roots are in Chilton county AL, so I guess I'm Appalachian to the core.
  • I have a special interest in Sevier County TN families, where my brick wall ancestor settled after migrating from PA. I'd like to focus on documenting and building out those families.

• Rebecca (Tucker) Morris: VA ancestors
  • Tazewell, Smyth, Wythe, Lee, Tazewell and parts of West Virginia.

• Loretta Morrison: (Kentucky see Central Team. ) North Carolina Research interests: Surnames: Ward, Beeson, King of Ashe County, North Carolina, Adams of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Tennessee Research Interest: Surnames: Craft of Cannon County. Essary, of Fayette County. Robinson of Carter County. Horn & Morrison of Greene County. Virginia Research Interests: Surnames: Sturgill, Hash, Calloway, Anderson of Grayson County. And Surnames: Wells, Williams, Sturgill, Bolling of Russell, Virginia (migrated from Wise County), Larrimore (migrated from North Carolina) Surname: Cherry of Independant City, Virginia.

• Melody (Tice) Nabors: Ancestors in TN, NC, AL, GA, SC, MS
  • I have family in Tennessee counties of White, Putnam, Roane, Rhea, and Knox. I also have family in Appalachia area counties: Lamar and Fayette counties in Alabama; Yalobusha, Calhoun, and Chickasaw counties in Mississippi; Scott county in WVA and Wirt county in Virginia.

• Todd Obradovich: SW Virginia and E Tennessee
  • (Todd to add)

• Sharon Oldaker: Ancestors in TN, NC, AL
  • Working on Profiles for Tennessee, North Carolina

• Michelle (Wyatt) Oviatt: Ancestors from South Central Appalacia
  • I have ancestors in Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, so will be researching these areas to see where I can begin.

• Brian Parton: Ancestors in Tennessee and Kentucky
  • The majority of my ancestral research is focused in south and southeastern Kentucky region (Pulaski, Whitley, Bell counties to name few). Their western migration however seems to have begun in Jamestown area in the early 17th century traveling west through Virginia, and south down through North Carolina, up through Tennesee, landing in Kentucky. Surnames: Parton, Henderson, Woodall, Lay, Clary, Mounce, Thompson, Hayden, Peyton, Millburn, Casada/Cassada, Simpson, Hughes, Taylor, New, Watkins, Howard, Lynch, Bingham, Anderson, Ryan, King, Mize, Sharp, Moore, Cox and Wash...to name a few.

• Sandy (Craig) Patak (Project Leader)

• Amy (Childers) Phillips: I do a lot of Pike County, Floyd County, & Johnson County in KY and work some in Buchanan County, Dickenson County, & Russell County, VA. I am still adding and improving my ancestors' profiles.

• Bob Pickering: Augusta, Montgomery, Botetourt, Fincastle, and Scott Va., Green and Metcalfe, Ky, and Jefferson and Harrison, Ohio.
  • Patton, Thompson, Preston, and Dougherty families, of early Augusta,Fincastle, Montgomery and Botetourt County, Virginia; Dowell family of Maryland and Albemarle County, Virginia; Sandidge, Graves and Pulliam families of Virginia; Skaggs familly of early Augusta County, Virginia and Green County, Kentucky; and Gaddy family of Virginia and Green County, Kentucky.

• Jason Roberts: Northeast Tennessee (Sullivan, Hawkins, and Carter Counties), Southwest Virginia (Scott County), and Western North Carolina)
  • Jason to Add

• Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson: Virginia
  • Adding, Sourcing Profiles in Virginia

• Azure Robinson:
  • (Azure to add)

• Ronald Robinson: Ancestors from Virginia (Augusta is only Appalachia: 1738-1745 and Greenbrier is only: 1777-June 20, 1863 at which time it became Greenbrier, WV), Tennessee (White, Warren, Van Buren, and Bledsoe counties), and Western North Carolina (Lincoln X, Tryon [(1768-1779)] and Rutherford counties)
  • My maternal ancestors (Dodson, Howard, Bouldin, Donelson, Edwards, Green, Morton to name a few) migrated down into Tennessee from what is today Virginia and West Virginia areas. They settled in White, Warren, Van Buren, and surrounding counties, Tennessee in the late 1700's and early 1800's. Other maternal ancestors (Moore, Wilson, Battle, McGregor, Panter, Williams, Welch) came from Virginia down to North Carolina (Rutherford, Tryon, and surrounding area) late 1700's and then within a generation or two migrated in to Tennessee.

• Patricia Rye: My ancestors are in Buncombe, Rutherford and Surry Counties in North Carolina, and in Hamilton and White Counties in Tennessee.
• (Patricia to Add)

• Leslie (Oyler) Shapiro: Virginia Ancestors
  • (Leslie to add)

• Elizabeth Schafer: My family tree includes people from all five regions of Appalachia, and I have lived in the South Central and Southern regions.
  • (Elizabeth to add)

• Pippin Sheppard: Interest area(s): Southern NC mountains
  • Direct ancestors in Macon, Swain, Jackson, and Transylvania countries, NC; collaterals also include McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey, Polk, Cherokee, Burke, and Buncombe counties among others. Main lines: Shepherd, Welch, Dalton, Patterson (includes E. Tennessee), Kerr (includes E. Tennessee) Galloway, Owen, Butler, and Reid.

• Liz (Noland) Shifflett: I'm actively involved in Virginia profiles and projects, as most of my ancestors either landed in Virginia or came through there on their way south to Mississippi. Ancestors - or extended family - with connections to Appalachia include Gills and Aldridges in VA (pre-West Virginia) and Dixons, Halls, and Nolands in NC. I have Brien and Neal ancestors in Wilson County, TN, but it's a neighbor of counties listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) rather than itself considered to be in Appalachia.
  • Work on NC & VA Workspace pages for the Appalachia Project (see the TN Workspace page, for example).
  • Work on the history of Virginia counties (started in Space: Workspace for Appalachia Project - Virginia, publicly viewable, but it's still a bit messy).
    • Coordinate with William Foster (leader, Virginia Project) on Virginia Workspace page when finished
  • Single County for focus, by state:
    • North Carolina: Space: Burke County, North Carolina (started research)
    • Tennessee: Category: James County, Tennessee - tasks...
      Go through categories for Bradley and Hamilton counties, looking for people who should be in James County category (1871-1919)... add appropriate {{Appalachian Roots...}} & location categories to profiles looked at (whether or not they're James County profiles).
      Look for James County Notables ... start with [Wikipedia page].
    • Virginia: Botetourt need to research/coordinate
      Category: Botetourt County, Virginia Colony, Category: Botetourt County, Virginia

• Eric Stamper: I have a large number of ancestors from the Appalachian area of North Carolina and Virginia, in particular Grayson County, Virginia and Ashe and Alleghany Counties, North Carolina.
  • (Eric to Add)

• Tim Stamps: I am a descendent of the original settlers of Catawba County, North Carolina, which split off Lincoln County. That would be “South Central”. I have all my information in other genealogy platforms so I’m gradually duplicating it on Wikitree. I hope to continue to add to Appalachian history over time, including adding stories.
  • I also have ancestors from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, who came from Fauquier County, and an early settler of Jamestown.
  • And others from Grant (Hardy) County, West Virginia (which would be the North Central region).

• Amanda Stanley: Primarily Central Appalachia, however south central Appalachia also applies
  • (Amanda to Add)

• Nan (Lambert) Starjak: Project Coordinator (PC) for Tennessee Project ; also member of Central Appalachia Team
  • starting with adding Applachia information to the relevant Tennessee counties
  • added spaces for Tennessee Appalacia counties that didn't have one
  • adding Appalachia stickers/categories to Tennesseans as appropriate
  • considering side project regarding TVA moved cemeteries

• Lea (Walker) Sullivan: Wautauga, North Carolina
  • (Lea to add)

• Sharon (Stefan) Sustar: Sharon to add
  • (Sharon to add)

• Deb (Haynes) Swider: Marion County, WV
  • (Deb to add)

• Jeremy Thorne: Jeremy to add
  • (Jeremy to add)

• Bob Tilley: Virginia Miners
  • Working on adding Profiles for the Southeast United States Mining Disasters Team.

• Deborah (Jones) Vietzke: I believe I am a descendant of maternal ancestors in several of these areas but most likely the SOUTH CENTRAL and SOUTHERN sections. So I will start with those.
  • (Deborah to Add)

• Dawn Watson:
  • I'm particularly interested in the Western North Carolina region where most of my more immediate ancestors resided.

• Eric Weddington:
  • Weddington Name Study includes Weddington families in eastern Kentucky and surrounding areas (OH, WV). These Weddington families originated in south west Virginia. Knowledgeable of other associated family names in eastern Kentucky. The North Carolina Weddington families migrated to Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. I have other family lines in Tennessee. Some knowledge of central Pennsylvania. Cemeterist. Multiple ONS coordinator. I work on the Hatfield & McCoy sub-project. Interest in the Melungeon Roots sub-project.

• Teresa (Clary) Willis:
  • Where to even begin, well, Virginia of course! I'm a Virginia girl first and foremost. My bloodlines run from the Natives, ancient European, Portuguese(Mulungeon), to just about every other race that has roamed these hallowed lands. English, Irish, Scottish, Whales, the Netherlands, and German are the main ones. My ancestors have come here to Virginia from all over the world. I have roots from Jamestowne to The Comberland Gap and beyond. My late husbands family is Appalachian and were for many generations. They spread from Clintwood VA up to the northwest part of Rockingham County (just a rocks throw to West Virginia) I have family and friends all throughout Appalachia not just VA. There will be two family lines of mine that I will be adding . They settled in Fincastle for awhile and are a very interesting family.

• Judy (Barrett) Woods: Looney/Luna ancestors settled in Tennessee, very near today's Appalachia, and intermarried with North Carolina Appalachians.
  • (Judy to add)

• Holly (Lay) Yancey: Holly to Add
  • (Holly to Add)

• Susanna Yarber: I have ancestors in Virginia, NC, Kentucky, SC, all over.
  • (Susanna to add)

• Mary (Brawley) Fuat: I have DNA matches in southwest Virginia. I'm researching their trees (and adding profiles) because I am trying to find our link through the Ulster counties of Ireland. Besides, I love the area. I am primarily interested in the surname Gray.

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Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Thanks Sandy! (To do the research, compare the ARC map here with the map of regions on this page. The ARC map is the most current.)
3. ↑ Tennessee County Formation Maps.
4. ↑ The Appalachian Regional Commission includes the independent cities with "an adjacent or surrounding county for the purposes of data analysis and grant management: Bristol (Washington County), Buena Vista (Rockbridge County), Covington (Alleghany County), Galax (Carroll County), Lexington (Rockbridge County), Martinsville (Henry County), Norton (Wise County), and Radford (Montgomery County)". ~ ARC (accessed 30 June 2022)
5. ↑ Some ICs are "enclaved" within a county (e.g., Covington is completely within Alleghany County), some are not (e.g., Wikipedia notes that Galax is "bounded to the northeast by Carroll County and to the southwest by Grayson County"), and some also serve as the county seat (e.g., Covington is the county seat of Alleghany County).
6. ↑ Virginia County Formation Maps.