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Been a bit busy this past week, so not a lot of genealogy actually happening. I did have a couple DNA matches with an common ancestor identified pop up so I am always happy to see those. Nothing on the lines I am currently focusing on, but something for future work. I may take a few weeks later this year and just focus on incorporating some of those into my tree.

Looking through the documents I have on the early Cox generations, I have an typed copy of an article by David Hall that was published in the Kentucky Standard in 1985. Unfortunately, the 1985 issues of this paper are not digitized on newspapers.com. At any rate, this article heavily relies on information in Coxes of Cox’s Creek by Evelyn Adams. At least Ms. Adams’ article from the Filson Club History Quarterly contains references.

Re-examining the Adams document, I believe my best course of action is to simultaneously work on the families of Isaac (my 6th ggf) and his brothers Gabriel and Friend. I will be able to incorporate everything from this document with one pass instead of having to come back to it yet again later.

Adams does reference The Cox Family in America by Henry M. Cox, published in 1912. Unfortunately, CFA does not include citations for the information it contains. I can only surmise that any information I cannot substantiate with other documents was provided as family traditions and may or may not be fact. The information on Isaac, Gabriel, and Friend was presented as separate family units. Because they seemed to be in many of the same locales at nearly the same time, it could be postulated that the three men were related in some fashion. The identity of their parents was not presented to the reader, only that the earlier generation(s) of the family likely were from England and migrated to Switzerland to escape the religious and political volatility of the 1670s.

Error resolution. The last available update: I have 4906 errors in the tree–382 possible duplicates, 4078 with no documents, 446 other errors.

  • The wife of a distant cousin needs some sources. She lived in the early 20th century, so I have several documents from her, especially census records. I was able to fill out her family as she had several children. Because of the census records, they are sourced and will not add to my error total.
  • Another wife of a distant cousin needing sources. She also needs a maiden name. Not having much luck tracking her or her husband down.
  • And yet another wife of a distant cousin in need of sources. I was able to supply a source for both her and her husband.

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,088 people
End of Week: 27,092 people
Change = +4 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
  • Review Coxes of Cox Creek
  • Run newspaper search, especially for articles recounting local history
  • Review the Cox package of information from Sweden
  • Look for documents in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky