Resources:

• Research done through The Church of Latter Day Saints, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Social Security Death Index, various war records of the deceased, including Revolutionary War pension records, mostly through state archives, the US Census of 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, United States Mortality Schedules, 1850 to 1885, state census records from the 1800's, land grants, wills, court documents/ filings, church registries, cemeteries, and various historical societies. (For anyone just beginning a search for Civil War soldiers, the new site under construction by the federal government's National Park Service is looking quite lovely: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/.)
• Information not covered under the Freedom of Information Act or Public Domain include:
1. Personal accounts, histories and interviews, with permission.
2. Family histories, with permission.

Photographs:

• Private family collection.
• Those gathered from newspapers, microfiche/film, databases, libraries and Universities.
• Gifts from private individuals, with permission.

Living People:

• All genealogy reports stop at the generation which would include living people, unless by permission.
• If death records could not be confirmed, people born roughly in the first 30 years of the 1900's were considered the cut off generation. (In case of error, all dates and particulars were stripped from these individuals.)
• No pictures are posted of living people, without express permission.

Use of Site:

• This site contains information on seven different family lines. Basic content includes the history, name origins, migrations, and genealogies of seven early American families:
  1. The Pennsylvania Dutch and Quaker Families of early Pennsylvania: Merold and Hand.
  2. The American Scots-Irish families of the early frontier and Appalachia: Kinningham, McDonald, and Robinson.
  3. The Braintree, Massachusetts family Spalding, of the Edward Spalding (1574) descendant line.
  Some of what is found here may be information available elsewhere online. For instance, the Spalding family, in particular, is heavily researched online, as well as in hard copy. Still other information will be from what I've gathered from personal family documentation, interviews with descendants, and private family publications. This information is posted for your benefit, as well as mine, in a community of sharing. Materials for personal use only. For individual's on their own family quests, take whatever you like; however, please write for permission if you would like to post or reuse any photos or information on the personal pages of the Descendant Outlines. Any commercial reprinting or use of materials strictly prohibited.
• Navigation of this site is, I hope, self-explanatory. The family names are in the upper left hand corner. Once you are on a family page, more links will appear in the upper right hand corner. These links will all be family particular to the surname you are currently reading about.

Please notify me of any mistakes found, or liberties taken. All issues will be seen to promptly. If you are posted here and would like your name taken off, or if, on the other hand, you do not find your branch here and would like it posted-- or shared in confidence-- please write. Anyone related to the names here, looking for similar names, or just wanting to exchange photos or stories are also encourage to e-mail. Thank you! (For interested parties: You and me and a man named Jeffrey Badger.)