Our Genealogy

We have chosen to track all family lines related to the Forguson's and Greenlee's because, so many times the critical clue comes from a separate family line. This has resulted in our having over 200,000 relatives in our database. We also have many records that are possible relatives but have not been added for lack of proof. We have many pictures most of which have been scanned and are part of our database.

These WEB pages contain over 31,000 ancestors and their descendants. All living relatives have been withheld and those that are not direct relatives have been omitted to save space.

Forguson Families

We have traced the Forguson family back to Samuel Forguson in North Carolina. He appears with his son Alexander and a William Forguson in a militia roster in 1756. Samuel's place of origin is unknown. Samuel settled in an area along with several other Scotts-Irish families, some of which entered through Philadelphia and temporarily settled in what was then western Pennsylvania (around York County). So far, no likely candidates have been located.

Greenlee Families

The Greenlee's have been traced back to David Greenlee and Lucy Hill born about 1775. They were married about 1795 and their children were born in North Carolina and Tennessee on their way to settling in Missouri. While there are several books on the Greenlee families with lots on ancestries, none seem to tie to this line. At the moment we are stuck on this line.

Robertson Families

The Robertsons are descendants of Arthur Robertson of Scotland, who died in Virginia after 1810. This family traveled from Virginia to Tennessee, and then several lines move on to Greene County, Missouri.

Thomas came from Scotland about 1780 and located in Virginia. His four brothers came later and all served in the Revolutionary War. After the war they all moved to Tennessee. About 1837 Thomas came to Missouri. His wife Elizabeth (Laine) Robertson of Irish descent, had two brothers, Tandy and Middleton Laine.

Thomas settled near Republic, MO., and built the Lindsey Chapel, an outstanding church, and gave the land for the Lindsey Cemetery. He and Elizabeth had eleven children.

Thomas was drafted about age 17, in Amherst Co., VA, in late 1780. He served under Captain Richard Ballinger. He marched towards Richmond 01-01-1781 and arrived after it was burned. He served as a guard at Fort Hood until discharged. Later, Thomas was a 20 day volunteer with Colonel Ross and marched to Shirley's old field. Thomas then went to Mobbin Hill, near James. for three months, until discharged.Thomas evidently had left Amherst Co. VA by 1791. He then went to Coke Co., TN in 1802, then to Roane Co., TN in 1808 and finally to Monroe Co., TN in 1822. Charles Laine and Joseph Laine were his witnesses in 1832. Thomas died in Monroe Co., TN in 1834.

Software

The software we use is a Microsoft FoxPro program that I wrote. Originally I wrote this because nothing else was on the market. Now our file is so large that it either will not fit or it crashes all the current programs. We can create and accept GEDCOM files and we test using Family Tree Maker as the reference since this seem to be the most common commercial program in use. Having our own program also allows me to write code for special situations or interfaces with other systems.

Links to Genealogy files:

William Hodge LENEAVE-Lexie FORGUSON	Doug & Nancy Russell's Homepage
Greenlee Family	Betty Jo Scott's page
Goodwin/Wallis	Wallis - Edwards Family Tree
Wallis Family	of Trigg County, KY
Jim Wilks	Wilks - Craig - Fowler - Kelley
David Paulsell & Elizabeth Delaney
Thomas Lindsey Robertson
The Robbersons and the Robertsons	Piglet's Genealogy Pages