Just the little state of Franklin
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
March 11, 2016 5:30am CST
It seems that one of my ancestors on my dad's side was one of a few that signed off to form the little State of Franklin. From what I gather, it was in and around what is now Jackson City, Tennessee, spitting distance from North Carolina.
If you scroll down, the last paragraph mentions it. I read something about it on another stie but I don't think it offered much more information than this.
Was not even aware a State had been formed, albeit probably without proper legality in America...
Family Tree Maker user home page for Melinda-M-Ellis-FL.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
11 Mar 16
We had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to trace my husbands roots. When I took a different approach, I got a start on his mother's side. His fathers stayed elusive. We found nothing. Then a friend introduced me to a Dutch site, and told me she had a connection for me. The connection she had, did not line up with any of the information I had available. Wh n I took a back door approach, suddenly I had his fathers family back to 1700.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
11 Mar 16
It is so easy to get confused and all mixed up. You can easily end up in the lin eof the brother's or sister's of the actual ancestor you need. That's great you were able to get as far back as 1700's. Have you tried going further back? I am guessing the site is for Dutch ancestry?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
11 Mar 16
@Morleyhunt Good Luck. Sorry your internet is so slow. Mine isn't so much the internaet as this computer itself.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
11 Mar 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum I'm working on it, but life is keeping me busy and my internet is being slow.
@jstory07 (148749)
• Roseburg, Oregon
11 Mar 16
You did a good job tracing what you did. Sometimes you just can not find out everything that you need to.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
11 Mar 16
I am not even anywhere near done researching and looking. I've gotten further than I have before. I'll keep looking at it.
@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
11 Mar 16
Well, that is a new one. I knew that the Upper Penninsula tried to secede from Michigan and call the resulting state Superior. I knew that Texas has it written somewhere that they can secede from the Union whenever they choose. States rights. I wonder if residents of Franklin have any.
