A plea to those who perpetuate bad limbs on their family trees

There are many in the genealogy world who copy erroneous information to their family trees, picking the rotten limbs off other trees and passing them on and on. This blog is created in a hope of helping to end some of this. It does no one any good to pass on misinformation and blatantly fraudulent branches on your tree. Put some effort into your work and produce a tree your family can be proud of, accurate and reliable.

Friday, March 1, 2013

More on the Burkitts/Burketts-NOT SWISS and not Burkhardts

After much time and effort I have located evidence that Joseph Burkett of Butler Alabama was descended from a line of Burkitts (original spelling) going back to North Carolina (Thomas who married an Indian woman, or possibly a Melungeon) and further back to an early Burkitt arrival in colonial Virgina (there was an Ellis there 1654 and another Burkitt in 1633.
There is no evidence that anyone by the name of Burkhardt/Burkhart ever changed their names to Burkitt.
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