My grandmother asked me to continue her research on the Boone connection to her family that she found just before she published her White genealogy in 1983 which I have done. I want to compile a source list for those who keep pestering me for info on the Boone Family. Since so many have kindly shared with me, I think it's only fair that I pass on the favor. I have many bookmarked Boone websites at the moment, but it is nothing like the one I had before my computer crashed in June 2021. So here goes (and by the way, if you find a dead link, let me know in the comments below, so I can fix it. Thanks.)
I met the Boone Society's official genealogist, Dorthy Mack, in person for the first and last time in 2016 and we took her out to eat at Jack Stack's Barbeque Restaurant in Martin City, Missouri on Father's Day of that year. She was returning home after a Boone Family Reunion. Sadly, she passed away on the 8th of April 2021. She was my feisty friend. The new Boone Society genealogist is Dorthy's Find-a-grave's memorial manager, so if my list doesn't work for you, go ask her.
Some Allied Family Surnames: Berry, Boone, Bradley, Brooks, Bryan, Callaway, Castlio, Day, Elston, Darst, Douglass, Fletcher, Frey, Grow, Grubbs, Harmon, Hays, Howell, Lander, Liggett, Linville, Martin, Mock, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Muir, Pennington, Scholl, Strode, Theobald, Van Bibber, Watts, Wilcoxson, Yeates
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By the way, I DNA match several Boones on Ancestry. Too bad many of them don't have trees.
Before you begin to research your family roots, write down everything you know about your family, beginning with yourself and work backwards. There are fill-in worksheets at most libraries/genealogical centers that can help make this process easier, but failing that, take a spiral notebook and fill out one sheet per person, beginning with yourself and working backwards. Write down your full name, your birth date and where you were born, your marriage record and place, etc. in a list form. The worksheets usually have fill-in-the-blank spaces for birth date & place, marriage date/place and death date/place. It would be nice to create another couple of lines for a burial place as well for the deceased members of your tree. Then, create a sheet apiece for your parent's basic stats. You can list your siblings on your parent's sheets as "children." And so on, up to your grandparents, as far back as you can go. Interview your parents and your siblings for as much information as they remember about your family tree. It may take several tries to jog the memory center of the brain. Also, ask them about family photographs or certificates while you are asking for family information. That may also help shake memories loose as well.
Next, before you ever check out the genealogy sites on the internet, take your spiral notebook with you to your local library or genealogy center or historical/genealogical society. Be sure to ask the staff for help if you get stuck. Their job is to assist their patrons and they may be a wealth of information too. I take advantage of mining people's brains when I can. My dad always said if you don't ask questions, you won't know what you want to know. Be sure to write down what information you found and where you obtained it. That's called citing your sources. Let me tell you, once you get into researching your family, you won't remember where you got that information, unless you are one of the rare individuals with a photographic memory. Write it down!
Look for records that mention your family members to document your BOONE ancestors at the library. Begin with Hazel Spraker's Boone Family genealogical book (see book list *** below). You may also be able to order books and periodicals through World Cat at your local library.
You may have to order some certificates from Vital Records (courthouse) in the state in which your Boone relatives lived, although some may be available online. For instance, Missouri has death certificates from 1910 to 1963 online and there are a few previous to 1910 at the same database. And I mention many of the other types of records your ancestor and relatives may have in their possession that you can use to document their lives in several posts on this blog. Look under the labels "Paper Trail" and "Research Basics."
Seek the truth and document everything with the appropriate records. Don't accept every Tom, Dick, and Harry's say-so, especially if he doesn't have paper records with a source listed to back it up. The more records you have, the better you get to know your ancestors and I have found that useful when someone wanted to write "fiction" about one of my ancestors.
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There are many counties, schools, and streets named in honor of the Boone and allied families such as Boone County, Missouri; Boone Street in Lecompton, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri; Liggett and Strode Roads in Blue Springs, Missouri; etc.
Books:
My Google Library Boone bookshelf
- The Boone Family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1922. Internet Archive.
- The Boone Bible has been donated to the Missouri State Historical Society.
- "Boone Family Echoes" newsletters. Beulah Boone Collection. Jackson County Historical Society (JCHS) (Recommended by David W. Jackson)
- Before Abolition: African Americans in early Clark County, Kentucky. By Lyndon Comstock. 2017. Amazon
- Bristow-Douglass; the Rev. James Jackson Bristow and Sarah Douglass Bristow, their ancestors and their descendants, 1640-1961. Compiled by Julia J. Bristow. Lincoln, NE, 1960. Internet Archive.
- Hannah Boone and Her Descendants. By Bess L. Hawthorne. Chedwato Service, Burlington, VT., 1960. Internet Archive.
- A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri. By William Smith Bryan & Robert Rose. Genealogical Pub, Co, Baltimore, 1977. Internet Archive
- Boonesborough; its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals by George Washington Ranck, J. P. Morton & Co, 1901. Open Library.
- The Callaway Clan. By Bessie Callaway Hoffmeyer. College Press, Collegedale, TN, 1948. Internet Archive.
- The Elston Family in America. by James Strode Elston. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1942. Internet Archive.
- The Duncans of Bourbon County, KY by Judith Spencer Ardery. Internet Archive
- History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky. By David Lander. Regan Printing House, Chicago, IL, 1926. Internet Archive.
- The Linville Family in America. By Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. Google Books and Internet Archive.
- A Second Visit with the Linvilles. by Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976. Google Books.
- Lost Souls of the Lost Township. By Paul R. Petersen & David W. Jackson. The Orderly Pack Rack, Kansas City, MO. 2011. Amazon.
- Morgan & Strode. By Jim White. 2010. Lulu.com
- Rebeckah Boone's Bible
- Richard Callaway Family of Va. and Ky. and allied lines. By Jessie Williams Hart, 1933. Internet Archive.
- Scholl, Sholl, Shull genealogy: the colonial branches. By John William Scholl. The Grafton Press, New York, 1930. Internet Archive.
- Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the ST. Charles District by Lilian Hays Oliver. Chedwato Service. 1964. Seeking My Roots.
- Tallman Family History. By G. Tallman. Van Wert, IA, 1939. Internet Archive.
- The Jenkins, Boone & Lincoln Family Records. By Warren Y. Jenkins. Canon City, CO., 1925. Internet Archives.
- The Pioneer and the Prairie Lawyer: Boone and Lincoln Family Heritage. by Willard Mounts. Ginwill Publishing Co, Denver, Co, 1991.
- The Old Hand Carved Walnut Box. by Jim White. Lulu.com
- The Spear and the Spindle: Ancestors of Sir Francis Bryan (d. 1550), KT. by T. A. Fuller. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1993. Personal library and Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.
- Three years with Quantrell; a true story. As told by John McCorkle. Armstrong Herald Print, Armstrong, MO, 1914. Internet Archive.
- White's Family & Their Kin. By Mrs. Gladys Esther White O'Neal & Elma Leota White Stoops. Paper Graphics, Garden City, KS, 1983. Personal Library or Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO.
Links: (be sure to check out the other links on side menu)
Albert Boone, Kansas Memory
Bald Eagle Mercantile, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS.
Ballad of Daniel Boone- Fess Parker. YouTube.
Birth Records - Write down the birth year by day, month and year and the place where the person was born like the city, township, county, and state. Birth records can be found in adoption records, old family Bibles, church records, birth announcements, doctor records, letters, newspapers, and a hospital or state issued birth certificate.
Walters, Sanders, Soots, Russell, Morphew, McCloud Families by Mary Anne Walters.
Index to the Boone Family Collection at Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.
Boone Family Association Boone Bulletin Newsletters
The Boone Page (Facebook)
Bryan-Morgan (blog)
Joseph Boone at the Bushong United website (Rootsweb)
Business Cards
Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records Search Engine
Plat maps at Historic Map Works
Census Records - Every ten years, the US takes census records. States and counties also sometimes take a census. In addition to the census records, there are agricultural, mortality and slave schedules from 1850 and 1860.
City Directories
Court Records
Crosthwaite's Family Tree/Tribal Pages
Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)
Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)
Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association (VA)
Daniel Morgan Boone’s Missing Years (MO)
Rededication of Daniel Morgan Boone's Gravesite (NSDKC)
Boone Trees (Rootsweb index)
Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb)
A List of Children
A Reading of the Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb text)
Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List
Fort Boonesborough's Living History and Early Settlers List
A Reading of the Douglass-Grange Cemetery (Rootsweb text)
Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List (Goodman)
Freedom Frontier National Heritage Area
Full Name. Do not add in a middle name if there is none listed in your primary records. Yes, some children received their mother's maiden surname as a middle name, but that doesn't mean everyone did. I received my mother's middle name as my middle name, but my mother-in-law does not have a middle name at all. Nicknames can be added in between quotation marks. My grandmother taught me to add in a woman's maiden name between parentheses, such as mine - Dolores Jean (O'Neal) Rush. It's to remind you that before a certain date, I was once single and after that date, I was married. You don't know how many times I've seen people add in a dated record with a woman's maiden surname on it after she was married on genealogical websites.
Geni's Boonesborough's Pioneers
Hays House 1857 Restaurant, Council Grove, KS.
Historical Marker Database
Isaac Van Bibber (Rootsweb)
KY Kinfolk's Fort Boonesborough Early Settlers List
Kentucky Stations & Settlements
Jackson County, MO Marriage Records 1826
The Landers (blog)
Marriage/Divorce Vital Records.
Mattock Family Heritage Resources (Bible Records-Strode)
Military Records. Enlistment cards and pension applications. Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database.
Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1963
Death date/place can also be found using not only death certificates, but also using cemetery sexton's records, church records, funeral leaflets from a funeral home, obituaries or newspaper notices, old letters, stone carver's mortuary records and tombstones.
Missouri Pioneers - 'Gone but Not Forgotten'
New Santa Fe, MO Historical Society & Watt's Mill, Dallas (present day south Kansas City), Jackson County, MO.
Free Newspaper Databases such as Chronicling America Newspapers.
Primitive Baptist Library. (By Appointment)
Church Records - Baptism, Cookbooks, Directories, Membership, Minutes, Sunday School, and Newsletters.
Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Independence, MO
Quaker Records.
A Collection of Letters Written by the
Scholl Family and their Kin: (1836-1897). by Isabel S. Giulvezan. St. Louis, 1959.
Septimus Scholl Letters
Ship/Boat Passenger Lists
Social Security Card (after 14 Aug 1935)
Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Database
Tax Records
Trekking the Swope Park Blue River. By Don Bradley for the
US Federal and State Census Records
Voting Cards
Watts Burying Ground (Rootsweb)
The Watts-Hays Letters (1849-1861).
Waldo's Santa Fe Hills: An Exclusive Indian Village with Layers of History. New Santa Fe Trailer (blog)
Will, Estate Inventory, and Probate Records.
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If you know of any other Boone genealogy books or websites, please share it with us in the comments below. Thank you.
Researched by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 2/28/2023
