Wolves rampant in early Southwest Nebraska

Friday, November 6, 2020

Genealogy seems to lead me to interesting people. This week I found I had a message from a woman thought to be a distant relative on my Davison side. Davison, Davidson, Davisson…just like many surnames from our migrant past, the spelling doesn’t always mean you are or are not related. DNA may help, but not always. Anyway, we exchanged email, information, lineages, names, countries of origin and because we both have a goodly amount of Scottish bloodline everything was looking pretty positive. That is, until it wasn’t! Once I got all of her records, it was quite obvious that the Davisons and the Davidsons were not related in the least. Strangely, their journey through the early states was similar and they actually ended up just one county apart in Ohio on the Kentucky border, but they were two different families. So, now I have a new friend but no answers to my elusive George.

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