Wow!  It has been a long, long time since I came to this Blog Page on Searching for Strickland Ancestors!  So much has happened in my personal life since my last post. Perhaps I can "Try" to do a better job at this.   Time travels on...

It has been quite awhile since I posted anything to this blog.
Now it's a new year and I plan to try to do more postings

Strickland Information on the Internet

When searching over the Internet, I have come across so many web sites that blatantly give out the "WRONG" information and NO PROOF for their information. The persons out there portraying this information Do NOT indicate whether their information is speculative or proven with verifiable documentation. This is very frustrating since many other people "May" take this information and continue "Publishing" the same errors over and over again. I do wish that people would state whether their family information is proven or not and get rid of the many errors that are "Circling" on the Internet. One example of this is that so many people have William Strickland as married to "A Mary Whitehead". I have proven that this is FALSE with documentation from the Quaker Church Records in North Carolina which states that Mary Whitehead married someone else (Benjamin Denson). Anyone who has listed William Strickland with a wife named Mary Whitehead should Correct their information immediately as William Strickland Did NOT marry Mary Whitehead!!

This William Strickland was also reported to have been the son of William and Olive (?Pittman), Again this is NOT True! This William Strickland, who Did marry Martha Brown (proven), was the son of Mathew Strickland, Jr and wife Ann Braswell (proven). This William Strickland (and Martha Brown) lived in the Tarr River, Edgecombe County area of North Carolina.

Searching for Strickland Ancestors is and has been a unique experience for me. The journey, at times, has been and is difficult, but, at other times, gives me a true sense of satisfaction when I find accurate information that documents my ancestors' lives. My Strickland line has been documented with DNA from a "family member" donor that traces back to Matthew Strickland of Isle of Wight, Virginia. The family of Matthew Strickland of IOW grew and spread out over North and South Carolina and down into the southern part of the U.S., Southeast Georgia. Without the sharing of documents from other Strickland researchers, my search for my ancestors would not have reached as far as it has. I owe these researchers my sincere gratitude.