AYLOR - Jeff Aylor's Germanna and Boone County, Kentucky Genealogy Page

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A Bit of History

In 1720, Hans Jacob Oehler decided he'd had enough of the endless wars and religious persecution that had been going on in the German Confederation for over 100 years, so he packed up his family and his belongings and, along with a large part of the population of Wuerttemberg and other southern German states, set sail for the New World.

The Oehler family came from Southern Germany, near Stuttgart, from towns called Cleebronn, Hafnerhalsch and Botenheim. Click here for a map of the area (from the Broyles home page).

It is not known what happened to Jacob, but his wife, Anna, his son Henry, and daughter Elizabeth turn up in the Spottswood's Germanna Colony in Virginia in or about 1725. Jacob's wife Anna was the daughter of Second Germanna colonist Henry Snyder. Jacob's daughter Elizabeth married Christopher Tanner. Jacob's great-granddaughter Mary (Polly) Aylor married Pastor William Carpenter Jr., who was pastor at Hebron and later at Hopeful Lutheran Church in Boone County, Kentucky.

In 1810, several Aylor's left their Virginia home and took the overland route through the Cumberland Gap along the Wilderness Road to Northern Kentucky. Their story, along with that of the Second Germanna Colony, is a fascinating study in early American history. For more information on this subject, you can write to The Germanna Foundation, PO Box 693, Culpeper, VA 22701, or send me an email. Also check out some of my other Germanna links below.

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The Other Side...

I'm also descended from the Wards, Millers, Hayes's & Guards of Dearborn County, Indiana. There isn't really anything genealogically related to them on this page, but if you have any info, I'm interested.

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My Files

I have a large collection of Aylor and related families in GEDCOM format. Eventually, I'll have a link to it here, but for now, feel free to email me. I am always willing to share info! My research focuses primarily on those Aylors who migrated to Boone County, KY in the early 1800's from Virginia (Germanna and Madison County, where the Hebron Lutheran Church is located).

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Software

As far as software, I use an old DOS-based program called "The Family Edge Plus" written by Carl York. I have been unable to find any web sites that sell this program, and based on the fact that it is DOS, I assume it is no longer available. Which is a shame, really, because it is a fanatastic tool, extremely fast, intuitive, and easy to use. It has tons of keystroke-saving shortcuts built in.

Another program I like, more for printing data than for entering it, was once called GED*Mate, aka Corel Family Publisher. Nowadays, I hear it goes by the name of Family Tree Creator. I have the original GED*Mate (by Progeny Software in Canada). It prints fantastic reports and even an automatically-indexed book right from your GEDCOM file. I can't find a good link to it on the web.

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Book Forthcoming

I am still working on my book. The working title is The Aylor Family of Boone County, Kentucky. Its been 15 years in the making and shows no sign of even getting close to being done. I figure at this rate I may have it done before I retire. :-) I plan to focus on descendants of those Aylors who moved to Boone County, Kentucky in the early 1800's, but I will also have some of the Virginia Aylors.

I may publish the Anthony Aylor (Oehler) line in a separate book, depending on whether there is any interest.

If [when] by some miracle it gets to the stage where its almost ready, I'll make a big deal about it on this web site and the various genealogy mailing lists I subscribe to.

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Online Research

These are some of the things I am working on:

Some Germanna listers were asking about the family of Mordecai Vaughan of Culpeper Co, VA. Here is a short tree. (Note: this tree was made by converting my GEDCOM file to Treepad using GED2TPD, then using Treepad to Export it to the Web.)
Here is some information on my main area of research: Henry Aylor of Culpeper/Madison County, Virginia.
A list of Germanna colonists who settled in Northern Kentucky
TOTALLY REDESIGNED TREE! NEW INFO! Feb 2004
I have been trying to connect the mysterious Anthony Aylor of Rockingham County, Virginia to the Germanna Aylors. If you can help, let me know. New evidence suggests he may have come from Maryland prior to Virginia. Watch this area - I plan on posting an updated GEDCOM soon! Some of his descendants settled in Georgia.
Now, I have an even more baffling mystery! See if you can help me connect Frederick Aylor of Augusta Co. VA to Anthony or Germanna!
Descendants of James Ailor of Maryland/Tennessee. UPDATED May 2002!
Yet another Henry Aylor has surfaced, this time in New York...
Another Henry Aylor, this time of Rockingham Co VA. His descendants are having a reunion this summer.
Here is a link to my Wilhoite page.
I am working on the family of Lawrence Pope, who left Culpeper Co VA for Boone Co KY in 1832.
Browse my Rice lines online.
Browse my UNKNOWN list...

If you have an Aylor family you would like to see posted here, please send me the details and I'll see what I can do!

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eMailing Lists

You can join the AYLOR Family Discussion List by sending an e-mail message to AYLOR-L-request@rootsweb.com with the text SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. You will receive directions from there via email. Do not include any other keywords or signatures, etc.

The AYLOR-L list is very low volume, so if you sign up, you won't be bombarded with a bunch of email. I took over as ListOwner back in November of 1998. I'd like to see some more interest, but let's face it, Aylor isn't that common of a name!

Here is some additional info about this list:
Aylor List Info