Families I am researching are: Bedwell, Higens, Orr, Vance, Hill, Fell, Geyer, Cureton, Palmer, Byrd, Dudley, Cass and many more.

Have been interested in family history and where abouts for many years. I was born in Des Moines, Iowa during WWII and came to California when family moved here in 1945. Since my retirement I have been focused on trying to find and document family to leave something for generations to come. Was in the Air Force after high school and work in the retail industry before going to work in health care where I worked for 41 years before retirement in 2009.

Began writing poetry in 2003 and have been a prolific writer since.

Some of my family history:

Information for those interested there is a book that was published by Larry King called "A Bedwell Family". It not only was published by Larry King he also was the Author. His book covers Robert Bedwell, Sr. from 1635 through 14 generations of family members.

This book was published by Larry Kind and I don't know if any or how many books are available. Information I have is this: Longview Acres – 100 Longview Drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075. Additional copies of "A Bedwell Family" and copies of "Keith Kinfolks" and "Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolks" are available from Author/Publisher at address given above or from any of his children at addresses below. (There is a note in the book for future interest…see below).

For future interested parties that if the author/publisher can't be reached you can contact his children at one of the following addresses: Dr. Hershell King, Oak Ridge Tennessee Hospital, 115 Adelphia Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Patricia King Briant, 215 North Street, Cape May, New Jersey; Carolyn King Barley, 12817 Chestnut Street, Clifton, Virginia; Sandra King Scott, Station Camp Creek Road, Gallatin, Tennessee. Of course this information may or may not be current I can only give your what information I have.

Of course some of the family doesn't have all the aunt, uncles, cousins etc for as members' moved and names change they get lost in the shuffle. This I know from experience for my family is one that got lost. Yes my grandparents are in there as my mother and her siblings but there it stopped. As with any information you will need to double check some for I have found that a few members have added siblings where there was none. i.e. according to the book my grandparents was to have 4 children where as they had only 3 and this fact was verified by my mother, my aunt, 2 cousins and a great-aunt.

There is so much information and those making there "Bedwell Tree" it can be extremely helpful as for someone else has already done all the leg work and verification of information.

If for no other reason another great source to look through and fill in where family has forgotten or didn't know.

I know this has helped me in my journey with my "Bedwell Tree" and I have noticed that many who make trees do not check and recheck dates of births and deaths to verify that the mother is to young or old enough and out of childbearing age to have had the children listed. I have seen where on occasions the mother is 9 or 10 years old and on others where they are 50, 60 or 70 years old. Now most of us know that this is not possible and I would only hope you would check and recheck as I found out that I should have done when I first started and I wouldn't have to go back and redo my trees.

Good Luck and enjoy your family research.

By Sandra L Conway-Hoban

Families I am researching are: Bedwell, Higens, Orr, Vance, Hill, Fell, Geyer, Cureton, Palmer, Byrd, Dudley, Cass and many more.

Have been interested in family history and where abouts for many years. I was born in Des Moines, Iowa during WWII and came to California when family moved here in 1945. Since my retirement I have been focused on trying to find and document family to leave something for generations to come. Was in the Air Force after high school and work in the retail industry before going to work in health care where I worked for 41 years before retirement in 2009.

Began writing poetry in 2003 and have been a prolific writer since.

Some of my family history:

Information for those interested there is a book that was published by Larry King called "A Bedwell Family". It not only was published by Larry King he also was the Author. His book covers Robert Bedwell, Sr. from 1635 through 14 generations of family members.

This book was published by Larry Kind and I don't know if any or how many books are available. Information I have is this: Longview Acres – 100 Longview Drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075. Additional copies of "A Bedwell Family" and copies of "Keith Kinfolks" and "Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolks" are available from Author/Publisher at address given above or from any of his children at addresses below. (There is a note in the book for future interest…see below).

For future interested parties that if the author/publisher can't be reached you can contact his children at one of the following addresses: Dr. Hershell King, Oak Ridge Tennessee Hospital, 115 Adelphia Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Patricia King Briant, 215 North Street, Cape May, New Jersey; Carolyn King Barley, 12817 Chestnut Street, Clifton, Virginia; Sandra King Scott, Station Camp Creek Road, Gallatin, Tennessee. Of course this information may or may not be current I can only give your what information I have.

Of course some of the family doesn't have all the aunt, uncles, cousins etc for as members' moved and names change they get lost in the shuffle. This I know from experience for my family is one that got lost. Yes my grandparents are in there as my mother and her siblings but there it stopped. As with any information you will need to double check some for I have found that a few members have added siblings where there was none. i.e. according to the book my grandparents was to have 4 children where as they had only 3 and this fact was verified by my mother, my aunt, 2 cousins and a great-aunt.

There is so much information and those making there "Bedwell Tree" it can be extremely helpful as for someone else has already done all the leg work and verification of information.

If for no other reason another great source to look through and fill in where family has forgotten or didn't know.

I know this has helped me in my journey with my "Bedwell Tree" and I have noticed that many who make trees do not check and recheck dates of births and deaths to verify that the mother is to young or old enough and out of childbearing age to have had the children listed. I have seen where on occasions the mother is 9 or 10 years old and on others where they are 50, 60 or 70 years old. Now most of us know that this is not possible and I would only hope you would check and recheck as I found out that I should have done when I first started and I wouldn't have to go back and redo my trees.

Good Luck and enjoy your family research.

By Sandra L Conway-Hoban