Welcome To My Genealogy World
My websites are here to share information about me and my research. My passion is family history research and sharing that passion with others! I love the “hunt” and the detective work it entails. I’ve visited many large and small-town libraries and courthouses over the years, to try to document my family and their history. I’ve corresponded with a lot of cousins along the way, and that is by far the most gratifying of all.
As I go about my day-to-day activities, I often think of the hardships that my ancestors endured — sailing for a new world on a small, overcrowded ship for weeks on end; plowing fields with only horse-drawn plows; cooking over hot fireplaces with long dresses on to prepare daily meals; raising many, many children with no “modern” conveniences; and moving from state to state by wagons to try to improve their lives and those of their children. My admiration for my strong-willed and brave ancestors is matched by my desire to tell their story.
I love teaching others how to research their family history and to document that history in scrapbooks and stories.
To find a list of the classes I teach, go to the links on the right of this page.
If you find a family connection, have a question, or would like me to present a program or teach a class to a group, please contact me — Elaine Hatfield Powell, by commenting on this website.
”As you look toward the future, always remember the treasures of our past. Every generation stands on the shoulders of the generations that came before. Guard the values and principles of our heritage. They did not come easy.” – Ronald Reagan
Elaine, We communicated back in 2006, and perhaps I am the Waring you refer to in your comment on the Warren family history page? It was fun to find my grandfather in the list. I was interested to find out if you ever resolved the question of whether there was a Richard Jr, or if the same Richard was married twice? From the history page it seems they are in fact father and son, did something you found confirm that or is it still in doubt? I have only recently gotten back into exploring the information on the web, bolstered by genealogy’s recent prominence on tv, and finding my other set of grandparents on the Irish census of 1910 that was recently published online… I just wanted to reconnect and if you find any earlier Waring information I’d love to hear about it!
Hi Michael,
Yes, I recall our emails. I spoke to cousin Glen Warren and unfortunately his memory is fading and he could not recall our earlier conversation when he told me that he mistakenly had listed Richard Jr. (wife Lydia Akerly) as a son of Richard Sr. (wife Elizabeth Ivatt). I personally doubt Glen’s deduction because that means that Elizabeth would have been 58 years old when she had her son John, and that is just not possible. I don’t know what originally made Glen think that there was no Richard Jr. I could find nothing to indicate his theory was correct.
Yes, I believe that the recent and continuing NBC series will spark a new interest in genealogy.
I’ve not yet gotten up to Long Island to do searching there for early Waring info. That was the one location that Glen and his wife never personally visited to do research. Don’t know that I’d really find anything from the 1670-80 time period, but you never know. I’ve been busy working on my Bridger and Hatfield lines.
If you find info that you’d like me to add to my database, I’d love to have it. That’s great that you found your Irish grandparents! Did you know I found one of Richard’s descendants who has the surname spelling of Wearen? That surprised me!
I wish that we could get some of Richard’s descendants to get a DNA test. My dad got his tested and that broke down my brick wall on my Hatfield line. And my husband had his tested and we found he descends from the Colonial Thomas Powell family from Isle of Wight County, Virginia. I previously had a brick wall and could not get back further than Benjamin Powell in 1801 in Tennessee. Perhaps in the future…
If you’d like to send me some info without posting to this log, you may email me direct at Elaine64@aol.com.
Regards,
Elaine