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A Few Hints:  Use the Site map to go from web page to web page.  Use "Find" ("control" key  plus "F" key) to get a window in which you can type a word or number that you want your computer to find for you on a web page.  Highlight a part of a web page and use the "selection" option in print window (select "File" at the top left of the screen and then select "Print") to print the highlighted part of the web page.

Most of the pages on this web site contain historical information about the development of the families of the people of the United States of America.   No one person can claim credit for all of the research which has been required to collect the data which I have analyzed and am disseminating on this web site.  Other than my personal research, inherited information which my parents researched, and sometimes information from the books of the Sigler Family Organization edited by Robert Howard Sigler and Gregory L. Watson, I have given credit for my sources.  If an author does not give credit to his or her sources then the author not only takes credit for the source's correct information but also for the source's mistakes.  That would be unfair to both the source and the author.  This is our history and is meant to be read and disseminated by anyone who desires to do so.  However, if material from this web site is copied, printed, and/or published on other web sites, in books, or in research papers it would be very much appreciated if I and this web site were given credit as being the most immediate source for the material. A link to this web site would also be appreciated.

 

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Home Page  This page is an introduction to this web site.  Among other things it contains links to images of my name written in many of the world languages.  

 

Dad's Page  Introduction My Biographical Information

Scholar,  This page is a narrative of my education starting with elementary school in a four room primitive school in Camp Creek, Ohio. 

Soldier,    This page contains my story of the Cold War and my part in it.

Craftsman, This page contains a narrative of my development as a trade union worker since 1973.

Traveler,   This page is a narrative of my many travels and relocations to various parts of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.  Some relocations were for permanent resident purposes and some were for military training purposes.

Eagles and Arrows  This page is a narrative of my association with the Boy Scouts of America during my teenage years.

 

Tim's Page  Outdated Personal Information

 

Emily and Leia's Page  Pet Rabbit's Photo and Information  Leia lived 7 years and 3 months, all but a couple of months in our home.  Leia died in November 2004.  Emily was born in April 2005 and came to our home in June, 2005.

 

Mind Work

I.Q. Test (Answers), 

Sunday Quiz (Answers), 

Internet Quiz (Answers)

Special Code (Answers)  Do not judge a book by its cover.  This looks very complex but is very simple.  The answers page does not contain the solution.  However, it does contain a key for the code.

 

Dad's Genealogy  Introduction and Ahnentafel

Families,   Information on Families in My Direct Line

Tree Charts,  Genealogical Charts of My Direct Line 

Photo Album,  Photos of Several Generations of My Direct Line and a Chart Showing My Probable Native American Ancestry According to Oral Family History 

Cemeteries  List of Cemeteries in Which My Direct Line is Buried in Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia

 

Mom's Genealogy  An Ahnentafel for My Wife, Jeanne Louise Parks Sigler 

Tree Charts  Genealogical Charts of Jeanne Louise Parks Sigler

 

Chalybeate Springs  This group of pages present the History and Development of the Old Chaylbeate Springs Community and Cemetery on the Union County and Webster County Line in Western Kentucky during the century of the 1800's until the middle of the 1900's.

GPS Coordinates  This page lists GPS coordinates for the Chalybeate Springs area and specific points of interest in the cemetery and meeting house lot.  I used my Magellan Explorist 500 to collect the data for this page.  It is supposed to be accurate to within ten feet or less.  However, that is theoretical under excellent conditions.

Community, This page contains a brief introduction to the community.  The page contains a brief history of the community and numerous commentaries by people who either lived in the community or whose parents or grandparents lived in the community.

Churches, This page discusses the probable connections of the community with the General Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal Churches.  There are three church building locations associated with the community.

Schools, There were at least two schools in the community.  The deed for one of them is copied on this page.

Meeting Houses,  There were at least two meeting houses during a time span of over 130 years.  The last meeting house is well documented on this page.   Sketches   This page contains links to sketches of the Last Meeting House which were drawn by Cletis Woodring Jr., a career member of the United States Air Force.

Cemeteries,  General information concerning the Chalybeate Cemetery is found on this page.  A 1983 article about the cemetery which was published by the Evansville, Indiana, Courier is reprinted on this page with a permission statement from the Newspaper.  There are two other cemeteries in the area which are associated with the community.

Families,  This page contains information about the families that lived in the community.  Information is documented from cemetery stones and courthouse records.  Courthouse records are cited by courthouse, book, and page. 

Descendants,  A List of Some of the Descendants of the People Buried in Old Chalybeate Springs Cemetery 

UGRR?,  It is widely known and understood that the Underground Railroad was active in the area in or near the Chalybeate community.  However, it is not known how much, if any the community took in the Underground Railroad.  This page simply presents a hypothesis that some members of the community might have been involved with the Underground. Railroad.  

Charts,  This page exists as a storage location for large charts associated with the community.  Dial Up connections are slow when it comes to downloading large charts so I placed them on this page so that dial up users would be able to download the other pages faster. 

Real Estate  This page contains some of my courthouse research about some of the parcels of land in the community.  Deeds are identified by courthouse, book, and page.  I have copied the descriptions of the parcels that are presented in the deeds  

 

Old Bethel   A Page Detailing the History and Development of the Old Bethel Community and Cemetery in Union County West of  Sturgis  in Western Kentucky

Descendants  A List of the Descendants of the People Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery

 

Niagara Falls  This page contains a narrated video of selected points along the Niagara from the U. S. side.   I have included my list of tourist tips and information based on my trips to Niagara Falls in 2003 and 2004.  There are photos on the page which were taken during a trip which my parents and aunt and uncle took while on a trip to Niagara Falls in 1948.

 

Sigler

Jacob and Margaret,  Introductory Page for a Group of Pages Presenting the History of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret who moved from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, in the Late 1700's. 

Descendant Charts,  This page contains charts (tables) of the first five generations of the descendants and spouses of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina.  Two primary index charts exist on the page.  One is for their children and grandchildren who settled in the Tradewater Basin of Western Kentucky and the other is for Phillip, (buried in eastern Tennessee), Mary ( buried in south central Indiana), Catherine (buried in central Illinois), and Laurance (last known to be in North Carolina). Other charts are linked from the cells on the primary charts to additional charts with the children and grandchildren and their spouses of some of the people in those cells.   Additional information concerning this page can be found at the end of this site map. 

Heartlands,  The Story of the Dispersion of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret Over the Last Two Hundred Years 

Burial Sites,  List of Cemeteries Where Some of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret Are Buried 

Charts,  Charts Showing the Family Relationships of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret Buried in the Cemeteries Listed on the Burial Sites Page 

Sigler Book,  A Resource Page Designed to Enhance the Use of and an Understanding of the 2002 Edition of the Sigler Book, a Book by Gregory Watson, of Information about the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia  

Reunion,  Resource Information Concerning the 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and Future Sigler Family Reunions 

Communities,  A Page Listing the Heartlands   

Sigler Chronology,  A Year By Year List of Events in the Lives of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret During the Last 300 Years

Jewish Sigler Name  This page explores the connection between the Sigler name and Jewish and Hebrew nation.  It seems that there were Jewish people with the last name Sigler in the Holocaust.  However, the question that is yet to be answered is "Did my ancestors leave the Jewish and Hebrew nation or did a group of my distant cousins become members of the Jewish and Hebrew nation?".  There is extreme controversy among my cousins on this issue. 

 

 

Chester and Nora,  A Page Devoted to My Mother's Parents, Chester Collins and Nora Urton

Dad's Mom  (Autobiography)  My mother was a cancer patient during the last twenty-five years before her death.  During the last few years before her death she wrote her autobiography.  I copied her autobiography onto this web page and added subdivisions to make it more reader friendly. It is about her life growing up in Union County, Kentucky, in the time period between the First and Second World Wars and her life after marriage and living in a New Jersey suburb of New York City during World War II.  (Diary)  My mother kept a diary during four and a half years of her life while she was in high school and beginning married life.   I have copied January and part of February  of each year onto this web page.  This is an unfinished project.

Reunion  This page contains information about the 1996 reunion in the Chicago, Illinois, area and the 2005 reunion in the Nashville, Tennessee, area.

 

 

Nissan Family  This page has photos and information about the five Nissans that are parked around our house.

 

Wall of Honor - Iraq  This page presents a state by state and city by city listing of those that have died in the current war in Iraq.  It is currently under construction.

Interstate Areas 

This page has been established to show the walls of counties across the United States created by citizens that are members of the United States military.  This is the real Wall of Honor for United States military people that have died in the Iraq War.  Memorials are made and maintained by people that knew them and have not forgotten that they existed and what they have done for us.  The names of the counties are underlined.  In each area each county has a common boundary with another county in the same area.

 

 

 

The Sigler - Descendant Charts page contains charts (tables) of the first five generations of the descendants and spouses of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina.  Two primary index charts exist on the page.  One is for their children and grandchildren who settled in the Tradewater Basin of Western Kentucky and the other is for Phillip, (buried in eastern Tennessee), Mary ( buried in south central Indiana), Catherine (buried in central Illinois), and Laurance (last known to be in North Carolina). Other charts are linked from the cells on the primary charts to additional charts with the children and grandchildren and their spouses of some of the people in those cells.  If you know the names of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents you may find those name somewhere in these charts.  These charts are an electronic index for what I call the 2002 Edition of the Sigler Book.  The Sigler Book is a book which has been published by Gregory L. Watson  and also has the titles Descendants of Jacob Sigler 1736-1817 and Caldwell County, Kentucky Ancestors - Some Descendants of Jacob Sigler 1726-1817 - 17,529 Person Index.  My charts contain over 2000 of those names and are nothing more than an electronic index for the first five generations of the book.  The book contains extensive information on various people in the book including stories, copies of courthouse documents, and locations of other courthouse documents.  The book contains some names in the eleventh generation.  If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the book, email me for Greg's mailing address.

The Tradewater charts contain the first, second, third and fourth generations of the seven descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina who went to the Tradewater River Basin of Kentucky to live during the first two decades of the 1800's.  Their spouses and dates of marriage are included in the charts.  Many of the descendants of those Kentucky Pioneers still live in Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois.  Others have migrated across the United States over the centuries and some of the living descendants probably live in every state in the United States by now.  

Due to the amount of information and the use of charts (tables) the load time may be as much as four or five minutes with a 28.8 modem.  DSL, on the other hand loads the page in about twelve seconds.  Cable probably has about the same download time as DSL.  It may take a while, but if you are interested in genealogy regarding the descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina the wait will be well worth your time.