Welcome!
Every family has a story. This is ours.
I created this site in 1999 primarily for the purpose of promoting the genealogy of the Bailiff and related families of DeKalb County, Tennessee.
Today these pages include:
- A family tree of over 29,000 individuals spanning three centuries
- Over 1,000 photos with some dating back to the earliest days of photography
- Dozens of documents and articles relating to our family's history
Although genealogy is my passion, I've also included here my other hobbies and items of interest.
Thank you for taking the time to visit.
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Disclaimer: All that genealogists can do with the meager public records of past ages is put the most reasonable construction they can on the "facts" before them. We know that the public record is sometimes wrong or misleading, and we know that we might not yet have found all the records that could be relevant. We also know that oft repeated family "traditions" can sometimes be wrong as well. So these genealogies are presented as an honest attempt to reconstruct the families of the past from the records and other information at our disposal. Our conclusions may be incorrect and we apologize if you find them so. We try to show the evidence we have used and to highlight assumptions when we have made them, but space and time prevents us from recording exactly how we reached our conclusions in every case. But be assured that every conclusion and every assumption was reached after careful consideration of the alternatives.
We particularly welcome any corrections or additions to our work, as well as any further support to our conclusions, or pointers to records that we have not yet found that would improve the accuracy of our work. Please send them, preferably with references to the public record or other personal evidence.
