I live in Dayton, Ohio but I was born in Warner Robins, Georgia, and most of my family still lives in South Georgia. Nearly all of my family research is down south. Most of my research focus is on the Ray, Maloy, Hatton, Williams, Brewer, Clark, Graham, McDuffie, Mizell, and Pickren lines in Telfair & Coffee counties in GA, and their surrounding counties. Mississippi is another major area of focus, particularly the Sheffield, Vines, Wright, Fuqua, Shields, Johnson, & Nichols lines in Monroe, Itawamba, and surrounding counties. Some of these lines also show up in Alabama & North Carolina. I have been researching for about 3 years now and I take my research seriously and am very thorough. I really enjoy it and it has become the major eater of my free time!

I am also a history lover in general and love exploring cemeteries. Whenever I find a page on here with no family links, I start researching to try and find those links. Everyone deserves to have their story told. I like to go out to actual cemeteries too, and enjoy taking photos and adding graves to Find A Grave, as well as fulfilling photo requests for people. I have recently started cleaning old graves in cemeteries in my area.

If anyone has any questions or requests, don't hesitate to ask. I love to talk with people on here and help out in anyway I can. I am on both Find A Grave and Ancestry often. One request I have...Please consider posting photos you have on here. I have found a number of priceless photos for my ancestors on here that I had never seen before. And some of them are the only pictures that we have of that person. It can really help people in their research and really make people's day, so share, share, share!

-John Ray

I live in Dayton, Ohio but I was born in Warner Robins, Georgia, and most of my family still lives in South Georgia. Nearly all of my family research is down south. Most of my research focus is on the Ray, Maloy, Hatton, Williams, Brewer, Clark, Graham, McDuffie, Mizell, and Pickren lines in Telfair & Coffee counties in GA, and their surrounding counties. Mississippi is another major area of focus, particularly the Sheffield, Vines, Wright, Fuqua, Shields, Johnson, & Nichols lines in Monroe, Itawamba, and surrounding counties. Some of these lines also show up in Alabama & North Carolina. I have been researching for about 3 years now and I take my research seriously and am very thorough. I really enjoy it and it has become the major eater of my free time!

I am also a history lover in general and love exploring cemeteries. Whenever I find a page on here with no family links, I start researching to try and find those links. Everyone deserves to have their story told. I like to go out to actual cemeteries too, and enjoy taking photos and adding graves to Find A Grave, as well as fulfilling photo requests for people. I have recently started cleaning old graves in cemeteries in my area.

If anyone has any questions or requests, don't hesitate to ask. I love to talk with people on here and help out in anyway I can. I am on both Find A Grave and Ancestry often. One request I have...Please consider posting photos you have on here. I have found a number of priceless photos for my ancestors on here that I had never seen before. And some of them are the only pictures that we have of that person. It can really help people in their research and really make people's day, so share, share, share!

-John Ray