Pathway: A Family History
Search Index Conclusion and References Autographs Music
Index of Direct Ancestors Postscript and Sources Links to Databases Music
Conclusion
Perhaps millions share at least one ancestor in this book; a dozen people share every one. Based on the ethnic background of his ancestors, the compiler is approximately 1/4 English, 1/4 German, 1/8 Bohemian, 1/8 Irish, 1/8 miscellaneous British, 1/16 Scottish, 1/32 Welsh, 1/32 Dutch, 1/64 Swedish, 1/512 Finnish and 1/1024 French, plus miniscule fractions of medieval Hungarian, Spanish, Norse, Ukrainian, Vandal, Swabian, Luxembourgeois, and Italian.
Do we descendants look like any of these ancestors? With a little imagination, one could say that Michael McGinnis has Oliver Henry O'Bryan's eyes, Christopher O'Bryan's height, Addie Sylvania Lawson's teeth, David Allen McGinnis's jaw, Christoph Heinrich Ashorn's upper lip and Alexander Stephens Garrett's lower lip.
Beside unpublished records, email and interviews, the sources include the 1911 History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther, the 1891 Origin and History of the Magennis Family by John Meginness, Seven Pines: Its Occupants and Letters by Camilla Davis Trammell, Vermilion Parish History by the Vermilion Parish Historical Society, Our McGinnis Family by Irma McGinnis Dotson, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim, Scissortails Still Return to Schoenau, Burke's Peerage, and other books. Important sources not acknowledged elsewhere include Margaret Strebel Hartman of Alexandria, KY, researcher on the O'Bryans and Perrys; Walt Davis, provider of Stalcop information, Judy McGrew, provider of McGrew information, Phyllis Arnett Vines and Jack Meredith, provider of Meredith information and Mack Kidd, provider of Kidd information. I am grateful to dozens of other cousins who helped provide information for this book, too many to list here.
Musical Themes
Each chapter is symbolized by the small illustration found in the upper left corner of the first page of the chapter, and if you click on the symbol at the top of each page, you can hear theme music for that chapter. Other musical links are indicated with the notes-on-staff symbol shown above. To play MIDI files unobtrusively, I prefer LiveUpdate's Crescendo.
- Sweet Mystery of Life (Victor Herbert, 1910)
- Frog Galliard (Medieval)
- La Uitime Estampie Real (Medieval)
- Brian Boru's March Máirseáil Bhriain Borumha (Early Irish)
- Choupiquet Two-Step (Unknown Cajun)
- Cajun Fiddle (Unknown Cajun)
- Faith of Our Fathers (Henri F. Hemy, 1864)
- My Father, How Long (American Spiritual)
- Over the Hills and Faraway (Traditional, ca. 1705)
- Lady Iveagh (Thomas Connellan, ca.1640-1700)
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Traditional)
- Holly Manna (William Moore, 1825)
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (African-American Spiritual)
- Pisgah (Traditional American)
- Psalm 5 (Geneva Psalter, 1551)
- Saint Anne's Reel (Traditional Irish)
- Unclouded Day (Traditional American)
- Resignation (American Hymn)
- The Empty Chair (American Spiritual)
Index of Direct Ancestors Postscript and Sources Links to Databases
Narratives are taken from Pathway: A Family History, ® 2001, Michael McGinnisand may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes. To receive your own paperback copy, email pathway@biographiks.com, or write to Michael McGinnis, P.O. Box 73, Waring TX 78074.
