Ron Goodman’s Direct Ancestors

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My direct ancestors are all in the primary level. Sub-pages under each ancestor are for spouses and other known children of that ancestor.

Below is a DNA results summary snapshot from my Ancestry.com DNA test, showing the world regions these ancestors came from. These results include Y-DNA and MtDNA results, so it combines origins of maternal and fraternal ancestors.

 

This section covers ten generations of my direct ancestral lines, from about 1668 to current day, as they moved from Virginia to Ttnnessee then to Barren / Hart County, Kentucky, on to Knox and Henry Counties, Illinois, and finally into western Kansas and central Missouri. Although many of my father’s generation, born 1920s to 1940s, remained mostly in Missouri or Kansas, as with nearly all families in this century, the age of interstate automobile, train and air travel has caused later generations to be spread across the USA.

This section also includes information about many related families of those times. The information in this section has been determined to be solidly documented fact. It is drawn primarily from early land, military and other Colonial America records, US Census records from 1800 to date, court records, church records, family letters and from the earlier primary research done by Josephine Goodman Routh and others.

The below are my direct deceased ancestors, earliest known and confirmed, to the most recent. Follow the links for additional information on their families, spouses and related families. On each page, you will find additional links to their individual records on FamilySearch.org, where I and others have attached lots of original sources and notes, and you will be able to see all of their other family members, not just my own direct ancestors.

Probable

Based on naming patterns, locations, old family letters, DNA Results

Benjamin Goodman, ca 1678 York or New Kent, Virginia – about 1735 Hanover, Virginia, Spouse: Lucy Blackwell

Robert Goodman I, ca 1698 Saint Peter’s Parish, New Kent, Virginia – after 1763, probably Hanover, Virginia, Spouse: Mary ??

Robert Goodman II, ca 1725 Saint Paul’s Parish, Hanover, Virginia – after 1770, probably Cumberland, Virginia,  Spouse: unknown.

Certain

Documented and Proved by family bible, court, land and bible records

John James Goodman, ca 1752 Hanover Virginia – after 1790 Middle Tennessee, probably Wilson County, Spouse: Epharilla Thorp/Thorpe

Amos I. Goodman, 1782 Bedford, Virginia – 1854 Hart, Kentucky, Spouses: Sarah Conway, Mourning Jones.

Anselm Goodman, 1802 Greene, Tennessee – 1861 Knox, Illinois, Spouse: Nancy Fowler,

Socrates Euroclydon Goodman, 1825 Hart, Kentucky – 1915 Ravanna, Finney, Kansas, Spouse: Mary Bright Reynolds

John Anslem Goodman, 1860 Knox, Illinois – 1960 Garden City, Finney, Kansas,  Married: Estella Fenton

Roy Eugene Goodman 1897 Ravanna, Finney, Kansas – 1977 Stockton, Missouri,  Married: Florence Viola Blocher

Clifford Eugene Goodman 1920 Garfield, Finney, Kansas – 2021 San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Ronald Eugene Goodman (me!)

My Goodman Families – Migration Path

North Wales and/or England ??. Late 1400 to 1600s

York, New Kent, Hanover Counties of Virginia from early 1600s to mid 1700s

Hanover, Lunenburg, Cumberland and Bedford Counties of Virginia from middle 1700s to about 1788

Greene and Blount Counties, Tennessee ca. 1788-1805

Barren and Hart Counties, Kentucky ca. 1805-1830s

SE and NW Illinois ca. 1830s to 1870s, Primarily Knox and Henry Counties, Illinois

Western and Central Kansas Pioneers ca. 1870s to early 1900s

South Central Missouri ca. 1920s-1950s

Various USAF military stations 1950s-1960s

San Antonio, Texas, 1960s to present