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Womack Early Records in America

Pre-1851 United States Womack Identification Project

Robert E. Burke



This is an attempt to identify individuals of the Womack (various spellings) Family who were alive before 1851. Information is divided up by the places where these Womacks lived, first by state (or colony or territory), then by county (or district or parrish).
States and Territories in the 1850 Census
6 Aug 2007 - Made first pass at identifying Womacks in all states except Virginia (incomplete).

NOTE: When showing Womack lineages, I write them like this:
Gaston >99> William >> Brittain >> William (B.16)

>> means that the link is 100% certain (proved by wills or other records)
>99> means that the link is 99% (or some other number) certain

For classification scheme, see Womack Family in America before 1850 - Classification.

Contributing

If you have documented information to share, please send it to me, and I will be sure to credit you. I really would appreciate some help with this project. Information should be within the project's intended scope (see below). Ocassionally, there may be disputes as to how to interpret various information. Since this is my web site, I will decide if one theory is better than another, or if they are both ambiguous. I will be glad, however, to include dissenting views and alternate theories.


Project Scope

The intent of this project is to identify individuals of the Womack family in America as shown in various records prior to 1851. Records after 1850 are only used when they show the relationships of Womack individuals prior to 1851. For example, a will in 1865 may show that two Womacks born prior to 1851, and living in different parts of the US, were in fact siblings. To keep the scope reasonable, female Womacks will only be traced to their husbands and children, but not their children's spouses and children. The reason for this is simple. There were approximately 2,500 Womacks (of various spellings) in 1850, but this is just a tiny fraction of the total number of descendants of the original Womack family which lived in Henrico Co, VA in the late 1600s. By 1850, they probably had at least 100,000 descendants.


TODO - more intoduction stuff