Family shunning and ostracism

[censusdata]

I'm estranged from many 2nd / 3rd cousins not because of a family rift but because siblings of my paternal grandfather moved to various places from Eastern Kentucky. My grandpa was one of 2 that didn't move far away, 5 of his siblings moved to Detroit or Flint Michigan, 2 others moved to NW Indiana near Chicago, 1 somehow ended up in a tiny town in northern Wisconsin. Based on the obits and Facebook pages I've found there must be a dominant gene for fishing.

[Mattks]

My family ancestors had two major splits. The second split was just prior to the civil war, the family was residing in Tennessee and the family split, they sold the entire family farm, and roughly half went to Alabama and half went to Wisconsin. I have an aunt who contacted the group in Alabama once and she said they were nice enough people. The first split, or what we assume was a split or fued, was in the 1760s, my direct lineage on my fathers side simply showed up in N Carolina and purchased about 2,000 acres. We know very little about him, except he was a Quaker, likely came from Pennsylvania, and we knew nothing of any parents or siblings. We don't know his wife's name either. But we did some research and the whole Quaker community split from a different Quaker group in Pennsylavania. We have some hints on where they came from and there is someone with a similar surname as ours, but no direct link, so we can't be certain. The family had a son who "died young" and has a similar birth year, but it again doesn't quite match.

I figured someone who owned so much land must have some information on him, but my aunt has looked for 20 years and found basically nothing. We have a death certificate for him, but the birth location is empty, just a year is marked and his children's names. No parents, siblings, or even wife's name.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Mattks

My family ancestors had two major splits. The second split was just prior to the civil war, the family was residing in Tennessee and the family split, they sold the entire family farm, and roughly half went to Alabama and half went to Wisconsin. I have an aunt who contacted the group in Alabama once and she said they were nice enough people. The first split, or what we assume was a split or fued, was in the 1760s, my direct lineage on my fathers side simply showed up in N Carolina and purchased about 2,000 acres. We know very little about him, except he was a Quaker, likely came from Pennsylvania, and we knew nothing of any parents or siblings. We don't know his wife's name either. But we did some research and the whole Quaker community split from a different Quaker group in Pennsylavania. We have some hints on where they came from and there is someone with a similar surname as ours, but no direct link, so we can't be certain. The family had a son who "died young" and has a similar birth year, but it again doesn't quite match.

I figured someone who owned so much land must have some information on him, but my aunt has looked for 20 years and found basically nothing. We have a death certificate for him, but the birth location is empty, just a year is marked and his children's names. No parents, siblings, or even wife's name.

I have Quakers who landed in NC in the 1760s, from Pennsylvania. .

Have you looked in Quaker records? Have you checked SC & Wrightsborough, GA?