This website contains the ancestors of my daughter, Alexandra Catlin Vaut, and related families. It represents nearly 60 years of research, but still contains errors, omissions and unsupported information. My principal purpose in posting this family tree is to provide some research guidance to others with an interest in some of the people I have identified. As the product of many decades of collecting information, my research reflects considerable change (improvement) over time to better document facts and assumptions and to cite reputable sources. In more recent work, I have been particularly diligent. In my older research I often did a very poor job of documentation and sometimes accepted bad information without any substantiation. I now try to consistently note where I have made speculative assumptions about various relationships and facts, but I know that I have still not been entirely consistent in this, so don't trust unsubstantiated information. I continue working on this genealogy and make regular changes to the data and additions to the tree.
September 6, 2025: Spent time on the HUMPHREY/FERGUSON links.
August 31, 2025: I am particulary focused on building out my pre-1800 HUMPHREY family line now. Once again, I have found that it is helpful to add the parents of non-direct line spouses, particularly when working on the early 17th and 18th century VA and MD families. I often find individuals cropping up in my research years apart and it is satisfying to tie them into a family I had already identified.
August 24, 2025: Now working on my CROW, HUMPHREY and FERGUSON families. There is some new information for people I worked on 10-20 years ago. Have a few loose ends to tie up on the GENTRY family, as well.
August 12, 2025: I have been working on my GENTRY family line, slowing building it out, adding census materials, etc.
July 25, 2025: Another important change: I have severed the link between Eva (KREIDER) GRAY (1748-1820) and the man I had thought was her father, Joseph KREIDER (1773-1821). For a long time I had attributed Eve/Eva Ann (KREIDER) GRAY (1748-1820) #1371 as the dau. of Joseph and Eve (RUMBARGER) KREIDER. However, I now believe that her birthdate (1748) makes this attribution impossible and am severing the connection. If the DOB I have is close to being correct, she was old enough to have been either his sister or even a young aunt (or completely unrelated).
July 15, 2025: I have made a decision regarding the ancestry of the Centre Co., PA MEEK family that I have researched. Based on information from Chris MEEK, I have broken the tie between Robert MEEK (1732-1756) and his purported parents, John MEEK (1686-1765) and Elizabeth MITCHELL, bak to Adam MEEK (1640-1699) of Lincolnshire. I have posted more information regarding this on Robert's personal page at https://www.acvancestors.com/g0/p51.htm#i1510.
Note: If you see anything wrong or questionable in my data, PLEASE contact me and let me know about it - particularly if you have and are willing to share evidence to supplement, correct, contradict or disprove what I have written here. I am happy to share my work with those who are serious about their own research and am always willing to correct my errors.
Feel free to contact me via email (gregvaut "at" gmail "dot" com) if you have a question or comment regarding this research.
The scond edition (expanded, with major revisions) of my book Such Lives As These is available for download without charge at Academia.edu. (For more information on what the book contains click on Such Lives As These at the top of this page.)
BEWARE
Beware of information that is supported only by references to Ancestry Family Trees and that is not confirmed with other evidence. I sometimes include such information to guide my own research, but you shouldn't trust these sources unless you can confirm them and their sources yourself.
Please cite all sources of information, including this website.
Recommended citation: Vaut, Gregory, Ancestors of Alexandra Catlin Vaut, http://www.acvancestors.com : accessed (insert date), (insert name or item of interest).
[Based on Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence Explained. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2015, p. 657.]