Welcome to Our Family Forest. Here you will find our families. The names include McCollough, Walker, Corporon, Payne, Figueroa, Longoria, plus many more. We have worked MANY years collecting information and tracking down leads to
My dad and husband are 10th cousins! (aka The French Connection)
Mark the day, because today is the day (well, actually yesterday, as I was distracted in the middle of posting this) that I found that my husband and my father are related – 10th cousins! You can see just how in the image below. Cruz Jr is my husband’s father and Chester is my grandfather. …
Our Journey into DNA
We have both tested at Ancestry.com, and mom has tested at FamilyTreeDNA.com. She is also waiting on results from 23andMe.com. (See Our Family’s DNA Links) WHICH IS BETTER? While I like the simple look and feel of Ancestry, mom likes the more detailed setup at Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). She is able to see all…
Why we LOVE Ancestry.com
This is THE website for us. While we use others, this website has been invaluable to us in our family research. We have been paid members for quite a few years and feel it is worth every penny. While we occasionally think it would be nice to reach the end some day, they keep coming…
Research & Resources
This will be a listing of things that we have found valuable to our years of research on our families. Coming soon…
Our Family’s DNA Links
You’re welcome to check out the list of family members who have completed DNA kits at the different services like Ancestry, FTDNA, 23 & Me and GEDmatch. If you’re family and have done a DNA kit, please share so we can add you to the list too!
Horse thieves – Horse Regulators of 1857 – Lynching – A Reign of Terror – Brave McCollough ends it.
Here is a story that was written back in the 1850’s about one of our ancestors, Canada McCollough II. The area they lived in there in Iowa started being plagued with horse thefts, and finally a group of men got together and became what they called the Regulators. They were determined to rid the…
“The Corporon Family Tree” Book
George William Corporon worked many years compiling information on the Corporon family. In 1943 he published the first version of “The Corporon Family Tree” book and then the 2nd update version in 1954. >>> View/Download Here (6.5mb) <<< Per a letter written in 1954, to all the Corporon family, J Ray Martin writes: “We indeed…