of Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota

of Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota

updated 06/28/09

Welcome to my Web site!

My web site is about my family research information and pictures on line. My name is Annette DeCourcy Towler. This is a work in progress of over 40 years, and a lot research. If you take a copy please give credit where it is due.  Many, many, many www.rootsweb.com World Family Trees & World Connect and gedcoms do not have the recognition of who did what.

  DNA Results

DNA tests in the last year have been taken in the DeCourcy line and the Mains line. See Coursey/DeCoursey DNA for results under William DeCoursey b. 1756, Group X R1b. We are NOT related to the Dutch family from New York [Bill DeCoursey of Minneapolis, MN] or the Maryland Family of DeCourcy's.   The Mains/Maines line,  see DNA Mains  under the blue I2b section. 

The Our Ellis & Watts line has been published in "John Watts & Lucy Dalton"  by Lori Watts Linnell.

The paternal line of families of DeCourcy/sey,  Ellis, Mains, Lewis, Spilman, Ball, Davis, Added a relationship chart for the Ball & Ellis family and information of the Downman on this page. 16 June 2007.Update 26 Feb 2009  DNA results are talked about on the DeCourcy/sey page.

The maternal line of families of Pack, Chandler, Wheeler, Fairchild, LeMasters, Jayne, Layne, Milliam/Miller

Both the DeCourcy and the Pack families settled in 1914 in Redwood County, MN near Walnut Grove. (Laurel Ingalis Wilder books refer to Walnut Grove/Little House on the Prairie, TV series) The Pack farm (North Hero Township) is still in the family, 6 more years and will become a MN century farm, is two miles straight east from the Ingalis farm)  My mother and her sisters used to play at Ingalis farm when they were growing up. They would ride Jack [the horse] back and forth.

New Items:

• Towler Family History

• DNA results see above and also new information on the pages.

• Changes on the Ellis page reflecting the letter written in 1912-1913.

• Additions to my site include several pages on Frontenac Methodist Campus at Frontenac, MN

• RootsMagic Software Transfer Files

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