RESOURCES and LINKS of INTEREST
to PICKENS researchers
part of the Pickens Genealogy Information Group
If you know of a site that would be of interest to PICKENS researchers, please contact
Terry.
LOCATION, RACE, or EVENT SPECIFIC LINKS
*** Just For The Fun Of It ***
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VIRGINIA |
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DISTRICTS AND TERRITORIES
JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT....
Thomas Pickens’ Finger Lickin" Pickens' B-B-Q Sauce at http://recipesource.com/side-dishes/sauces/09/rec0982.html
Zesty Pickens Crispix Mix Recipe - http://www.kelloggs.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/recipe/recipe.pl?id=933;skin=kelloggs
There appears to be a marine slug named for a PICKENS - I stumbled across the photo of the lovely creature, but could not find any more information. The link in 2001 was at http://siolibrary.ucsd.edu/slugsite/pan/pickens.html, however that link is no longer valid.
Mini Pickens Donkey Ranch - Located in central Oregon, they raise and sell Miniature Donkeys http://www.minipickensdonkeys.com/
Palmetto Home builders of South Carolina had a home style option called 'The Pickens' in 2001. The link to view it is no longer valid, so it may not be a current option – tmc.
See a photo of Pickens Nose Mountain in North Carolina - http://www.turnstonecabins.com/picknse1.htm
PICKENS OF NOTE
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this is for historical PICKENS only, and does not include links to individuals now living.
General Andrew Pickens –
Brief biography - The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/65/pi/PicknsA.html
http://www.nps.gov/cowp/links.htm – links related to the Cowpens National Battlefield and the Revolutionary War in the South links related to the Cowpens National Park and Ninety-Six Battlefield
Governor Israel Pickens -
third Governor of Alabama -
portrait and biography http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_picken.html
Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869) - elected Governor of SC 1860 - Governor of the Secession
Inaugural address 1860 - http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/sccccn01.htm
The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/65/pi/PicknsFW.html
Ruby Pickens Tartt (1880-1974) - internationally known folklorist. Member of the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame Biography and photo - http://home.judson.edu/extra/fame/tartt.html
Alton Pickens (1917-1991) surreal-satirical artist; member of Fine Arts Faculty, Indiana Universitiy - summary of his works at - http://askart.com/artist/P/alton_pickens.asp. Faculty photo at: http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/1025/1025text/hope.htm
RACE SPECIFIC RESOURCES:
AMERICAN INDIAN - FREEDMEN - AFRICAN AMERICAN – SLAVES
The Black Indians; Black and Freedmen and Slaveholder Connections:
Links to sites with connections and / or resources for those PICKENS who have Black/Freedman heritage - many of these also have American Indian heritage also.
Many of these lines are difficult to prove and records are non-existent or full of discrepancies and inconsistencies. Many families have extremely strong traditions of their PICKENS heritage. In most cases, the 'preponderance of evidence' is all there is to support these family lines, but it may be all there will ever be. Strong family tradition, tied to time, locality, known slaveholders, and family association, offer the best evidence available in many cases.
Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes - Black Indians Eleanor Wyatt's site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ewyatt/_borders/index.html
Pickens/Roberts Genealogy - Eleanor Wyatt's Pickens lines - Eleanor is researching the Freedmen of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. Surnames of Roberts, Pickens, Stevenson, Colbert, Wilson, Harris, Denson, Moore, Wyatt, Abrams, Christian, Clay and others. http://familytreemaker.com/users/w/y/a/Eleanor-Wyatt/index.html
List Of Chickasaw/Choctaw Slave Owners And Their Known Slaves http://www.rootsweb.com/~mspontot/chick.htm [link not valid – if anyone knows where this has moved, please let me know – tmc.]
MAP - Slavery and Emancipation in the United States, 1777-1865 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/map.asp?ImageID=427 [this was a free image in 2001, but apparently is now available only to subscribers - tmc]
Afro-American Sources in Virginia - A Guide to Manuscripts. Michael Plunkett, Editor, University Press of Virginia. This site is a comprehensive listing and brief description of manuscripts containing information on African-Americans, slaves and freemen, at the Virginia Historical Society. Please note - the documents themselves are not online to my knowledge - just a description of their contents and where they are housed - tmc. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/mfp.html
ESTELUSTI FOUNDATION - for descendants of Oklahoma Freedmen to discover their heritage. http://www.estelusti.com/
Chickasaw Historical Research Page Kerry Armstrong's great resource for Chickasaw Indian Nation information. Lots of stuff you probably won't find anywhere else. Has links to the Alabama/Mississippi Nation, as well as the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Site updated frequently http://www.chickasawhistory.com/
INDIAN NATIONS
Chickasaw Historical Research Page Kerry Armstrong's great resource for Chickasaw Indian Nation information. Lots of stuff you probably won't find anywhere else. Has links to the Alabama/Mississippi Nation, as well as the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Site updated frequently http://www.chickasawhistory.com/
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
THE HEIR OF SLAVES - William Pickens, 1881-1954 - The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography. - Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1911 Online version is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill project - Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South - Collection of Electronic Texts http://docsouth.unc.edu/pickens/menu.html
The African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide - for the Study of Black History and Culture. Among other features of the site, there are some first-person Ex-slave Narratives http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html
Monthly Archives of African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion - afrigeneas@lists.msstate.edu
AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy http://www.afrigeneas.com/
Monthly Archives of African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/
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- The following resources were listed in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 6- February 5, 2001 and is copyright 2001 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author.
"African American Family Research," an excellent article by Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D.: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/2052.asp
"The Challenge of African American Research" by Curt B. Witcher, another excellent article: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/1586.asp
African American Lifelines: http://pages.prodigy.net/cliffmurr/aa_life.htm
African-American Genealogy Research Resources: http://www.libraryofmichigan.org/genealogy/abramscghnov99.html
Afrigeneas, probably the best-known Black American genealogy site: http://www.afrigeneas.com/
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Revolutionary War Letters, diaries, and orders: South Carolina Historical Society - includes correspondence of Gen. Pickens http://www.schistory.org/displays/RevWar/archives-online/
MAJOR BATTLES: Cowpens, Kings Mountain, etc.
The Battle of Kings Mountain, by George F. Scheer - a short summary of the Battle, and links to local events, from Kings Mountain , North Carolina website: http://kmfire.com/kmbattle.html
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail - Battle of Kings Mountain - from National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/battle.htm
The main OVNHT Index has other listings and info for tourists - "The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVNHT) follows the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia, today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings Mountain..." http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/home.htm
BATTLES AT KINGS MOUNTAIN & COWPENS - This site has 4 major pages: Related mostly to the Battle at Kings Mountain; Related mostly to the Battle at Cowpens; Common events schedule; Material common to both battles. There are also a lot of great links for media and printed resources, events, other sites with Revolutionary War info: http://www.jrshelby.com/kimocowp/
70th Congress, 1st Session House Document No. 328 - Historical Statements Concerning The Battle Of Kings Mountain And The Battle Of The Cowpens South Carolina, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/revwar/KM-Cpns/AWC-KM-FM.htm
CIVIL WAR
MAP -
Slavery and Emancipation in the United States, 1777-1865 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/map.asp?ImageID=427 [this was a free image in 2001, but apparently is now available only to subscribers - tmc]
Civil war letters - including a brief letter from Fort Pickens - reportedly moved to http://www.letterscivilwar.com but in Oct 2005 I could not get the page to load properly – tmc.
Mississippi Civil War Rosters - "Original Roster of Those Men Who Enlisted Within the Boundaries of Old Tishomingo County [MS] Which Now Consists of Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo County in Mississippi and Part of McNairy County, Tennessee. These Men Fought for the South in the Civil War" – http://www.tsixroads.com/~spardue/roster.htm [this link not working - if anyone has an update, please let me know – tmc].
CRISIS AT FORT SUMTER - website established by Richard B. Latner, Department of History at Tulane University is found at http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/ This page isn’t working well – you will need to copy and paste some url’s to get where you want to go as of Oct 2005, but it isn’t hard to do – tmc
OLD FORT PICKENS at Duffy, West Virginia stood 1861-1863 - erected on the lands of James Pickens Sr, near the southern extremity of Lewis County, WV. This site has a sketch and history of the Fort, as well as a roster of men and officers of Co A. 10th West Virginia Infantry Volunteers. .
http://www.walkersvillewv.com/rusticroots/pickens.html
ALABAMA
Alabama Newspapers on Microfilm - inquire about interlibrary loan.
Alabama History on-line
Ruby Pickens Tartt (1880-1974) - internationally known folklorist. Member of the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame Biography and photo - http://home.judson.edu/extra/fame/tartt.html
Chickasaw Historical Research Page Kerry Armstrong's great resource for Chickasaw Indian Nation information. Lots of stuff you probably won't find anywhere else. Has links to the Alabama/Mississippi Nation, as well as the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Site updated frequently http://home.flash.net/~kma/
ARKANSAS
THE HEIR OF SLAVES - William Pickens, 1881-1954 - The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography. - Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1911 Online version is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill project - Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South - Collection of Electronic Texts http://docsouth.unc.edu/pickens/menu.html
FLORIDA
Civil war letters - including a brief letter from Fort Pickens
FORT PICKENS - located at the western tip of Santa Rosa Island, Florida - Fort Pickens was partially submerged in water after hurricane Ivan in 2004. As of Aug 2005, the Gulf Islands National Seashore Site reports "Historic Fort Pickens which has been standing since 1834 held its ground during the hurricane with only minor damage" http://www.nps.gov/guis/FLA/Hurricane%20Ivan/Hurricane.html
link to a brief history and map of the location Fort Pickens of Florida http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Pickens.html
National Park Service official site description http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_ns/fl/his3_gul.htm
GEORGIA
MISSISSIPPI
Northeast Mississippi Museum Association - links to historical information
Mississippi Civil War Rosters - "Original Roster of Those Men Who Enlisted Within the Boundaries of Old Tishomingo County [MS] Which Now Consists of Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo County in Mississippi and Part of McNairy County, Tennessee. These Men Fought for the South in the Civil War" - link not working - if anyone has an update, please let me know - tmc.
Chickasaw Historical Research Page Kerry Armstrong's great resource for Chickasaw Indian Nation information. Lots of stuff you probably won't find anywhere else. Has links to the Alabama/Mississippi Nation, as well as the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Site updated frequently http://home.flash.net/~kma/
OKLAHOMA
ESTELUSTI FOUNDATION - for descendants of Oklahoma Freedmen to discover their heritage. http://www.estelusti.com/
SOUTH CAROLINA
THE HEIR OF SLAVES - William Pickens, 1881-1954 - The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography. - Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1911 Online version is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill project - Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South - Collection of Electronic Texts http://docsouth.unc.edu/pickens/menu.html
CRISIS AT FORT SUMTER - website established by Richard B. Latner, Department of History at Tulane University is found at http://www.tulane.edu/sumter/
Revolutionary War Letters, diaries, and orders: South Carolina Historical Society - includes correspondence of Gen. Pickens http://www.schistory.org/displays/RevWar/archives-online/
TEXAS
The Handbook of Texas Online has several short biographies on PICKENS family members - a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical Association http://www.tsha.utexas.edu http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
WEST VIRGINIA
OLD FORT PICKENS at Duffy, West Virginia. Civil War era, it stood 1861-1863 - erected on the lands of James Pickens Sr, near the southern extremity of Lewis County, WV. This site has a sketch and history of the Fort, as well as a roster of men and officers of Co A. 10th West Virginia Infantry Volunteers. . http://www.walkersvillewv.com/rusticroots/pickens.html
THE JACKSON COUNTY PIONEERS PROJECT - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bbriggs/index.htm Betty Briggs has a great, easily searchable site where she is compiling families of Jackson Co., WV. There you will find links to census, photos, and maps, among other records. These families are connected to North Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio families. An ongoing project, it is continually growing. She welcomes corrections and additions.
MISCELLANEOUS
Life Histories - Library of Congress - WPA project - on-line search by keyword "These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states"
CENSUSLINKS.COM - has links to every state. A work in progress, each state has a variety of vital records available which include census, mortality, marriages, slave schedules, obituaries, etc.
The Home Page for T. Boone Pickens' company
How common is the name? How many places are named PICKENS? To find out, go to: http://www.placesnamed.com/p/i/pickens.asp
DistantCousin.com has queries, census records, and some lists of casualties from Vietnam and the Korean conflict. http://www.distantcousin.com/