His grandfather Duffey was a drummer-boy during the Civil War as well as the son of a Major in Lee's army. My father grew up steeped in the traditions of the Old South and particularly Virginia. He endeavored to pass these traditions on to me. Nothing was more important to him than family, both those alive and those dead .... the ancestors.

It's been many years since I sat on my daddy's lap and listened to the stories of the ancestors, and I've forgotten more than I remember. But the geneology bug has bitten this "Daughter of the South" and with the information super highway running right through my bedroom I have found access to once unreachable records and unknown sources. This page is a tribute to those from whom I sprang, my ancestors.

This site will continue to grow as I uncover more records and meet more second and third cousins three and four times removed with their own stories to tell. If any of the names and dates on the following pages are in your own records, drop me an email so we can share. I'm researching Duffey, Creegan, Hough, Murray, Saunders, Steele, Bates, Ray, Lotz, Deeble, Stabler, Kinslow, Ballard, McGovern, Baldwin, Schlife, Fraleigh, McCann, and others.

At this time I'd like to admit that much of this research has been done by others. The internet has brought me family I was never aware of before. I wish to thank Irvin Padget and Wayne Rouse for so much of my Duffey information. Their great grandparents are my great great grandparents making us second cousins once removed. Lynn Simpson's husband and I share great grandparents that immigrated from Ireland. She now lives in Australia and has very graciously shared so much of her work on the Creegan's. My brother Tom did his research 30 years ago at the DAR Library and the National Archives.