NEW FINDINGS · OCTOBER 29, 2026
A few intriguing branches
A Boone brother, the Vanderbilt family and a seventeenth-century jailbreak: promising stories with their unproved links left visible.
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Wood & Darsey
The recorded Wood and Darsey branches meet in Dan and Nova’s family, with older records opening new questions.
THE FAMILY ALBUM
Two roads, one family
The Wood and Darsey branches come together in Dan and Nova’s family.
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Donna Kay: three names, one family
A marriage index joins the names. Family records connect Donna to Dan and Vera, to Michael, and to Teena and Eric’s family.
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TEENA’S TWO QUESTIONS
Henry Wood: where he lived, and who his parents were
Original Missouri census pages now support a birth around 1806 and strengthen the Freeman connection. His exact Buncombe home and parents remain unproved.
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Were Benjamin Darsey Sr. and Jr. really father and son?
Still unproved. Sr.’s recovered will, the 1810 guardianship and newly located legacy receipts sharpen the question without settling it.
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WOOD & DARSEY · UPDATED OCTOBER 28, 2026
A household, a factory, a farm
Mollie’s household, Nova’s newly documented Northrop employment and Dan’s wartime and farming records bring the family into view. Original notices also name three Wood sisters in California.
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