How To Use This Blog

"Just the facts, ma'am...just the facts" so states Sgt. Joe Friday from the TV series Dragnet 1951 - 1959.
Having just started my genealogy adventures in 1959, this statement would echo in my memory.

This blog contains an outline of just the facts.   It is a topical listing of the readings, research, analysis, documentation, and results of more than 50 years of JONES surname tree climbing.  It list the collection of this work containing the subjects grouped by notebooks.  They are presented as "research notebooks" (RN).  They are numbered from RN #1 through, RN #247.  They cover a multitude of subjects that have been important in my own tree climbing experience.  With the surname JONES, you can imagine what a number of topics this might include.

To use this blog, just put in a topic/subject in the "search this blog" option to the upper right.  The subject/topic that it contains will appear along the top of the page.  You can then go to the notebook by clicking on the title of the RN # that comes to the list you have searched.  The notebook will outline the documents/topics that have been researched for this subject.  A broad general subject list is as follows:

Welsh history, language, culture...etc. type in Wales.
English history, language, culture, society, etc...would contain Anglo-Saxon, Norman, etc...
Colonial Virginia history and settlement...
Early Virginia counties and settlement...
Revolutionary War...
Associated surnames that are linked...(have to type in a surname)
Early Kentucky settlement and migration
Early religious groups, and settlements
The Jones surname in Wales, England, Ireland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina...etc.
My Jones family research by individual generations, groups, topics, chronology, etc.
My Jones family DNA
Cultural and social factors that are important.
Military records and documents
Census records
British archive records
Special collections researched and many other topics you might consider when researching the surname JONES.

Wow...you might say...just the facts.  Give it a try.

My Personal Research

Fifty years of doing genealogy has produced a great deal of research results.   Over the years, these results have been organized and placed into notebooks.   These notebooks have been helpful in storing information, documents, references, and my own family branches which have been explored.  The purpose of this blog is to outline these research notebooks and give the general content of each.   In this way, the genealogist can read the list, and decided if some of the content may be helpful in their own tree climbing.  The notebooks are physically located at The Joseph Wheeler Jones Memorial Library, Danville, KY.  They may be utilized by the genealogist if prior notification is given and I am available to help access the information.  The notebooks are organized by topic, and numbered in series.   This blog will give the subject followed by an outline of the content for each notebook.   Each post will be numbered, then the notebook's research material presented.  I trust this information will help the genealogist who may be seeking research that is perhaps unavailable in most other settings.  At present there are over 250 notebooks!

A "search" option can be used to examine the notebook's content.  Place a topic or subject that you would be interested in exploring.  This will see if any of my notebooks have research on this subject.  Genealogy for generations is my motto.

For a discussion of Welsh genealogy see: http://welshgenealogy.blogspot.com .

The intent and purpose of this information (Research Notebooks) as genealogical helps can be found at:  http://thebrickwallprotocol.blogspot.com under post "Lookup(s)" dated Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.