How to Navigate Martygrant.com

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This page is meant to give some helpful hints on how to find what you are looking for on my web pages.

The search engine can be used to find anything on this site.

Surname Specific information

The major part of martygrant.com is divided up by my ancestral surnames. Each Surname section is roughly equivalent to an entire website unto itself. Each Surname section usually has the following sub-pages:

What's New page showing recent updates to this surname section.
My Lineage pages showing my ancestors of this surname, as well as a history of my research of the family, some acknowledgements, etc. (Sometimes the acknowledgements are on their own page.)
Researcher Lists showing names and e-mail addresses of others researching my ancestral line (and branches). Each Documented Family page will also have researcher lists (if not connected to my family.)
Documented Family Lines with documentation, commentary, etc. for each family. I also include Register Reports for each family as well as researcher lists for each line, if applicable.
Census Records for that surname, with census abstracts for the surname (usually 1790-1850, but sometimes including 1860 and more recent.)
Helpful Web links for each surname with links to other surname or location specific sites that should interest researchers of that surname.

Other pages (not surname specific)

Besides the Surname sections, I also have other pages that are of interest. I have a section devoted to my Ethnic ancestry. Although most of my American ancestors were of western European origin ("white"), some of mine were dark skinned and of a more mysterious origin. They could be Native American (Cherokee), or "Black Dutch", or Melungeon, or part Black (of African origin.) I don't really know the answers. I've included census records for those "Free Persons of Color" in Western NC (1790-1850), and various commentaries and links.

I also have some reference pages including a couple of census abstracts for various counties, pages showing common nicknames, and other data.

I have set up Information pages for various states and counties giving data on their creation, status of records, links to online data, and links to published records that can be purchased online.

I have my own bookstore of books I've written, all genealogy related.

Finally, last but certainly not least, I have Christian pages set up with testimony about my faith, information on salvation and other interesting data.

If you can't find what you are looking for on my pages, even after trying the search engines, then that means the data isn't here, or else there is some kind of problem. Let me know.