Introduction
Five years ago I created a web page for the ancestors of my paternal grandmother, Minnie May Welch. I have decided it is now time to make a complementary page for my paternal grandfather, John Daniel Crawford, who was born in Sedalia, Missouri, but who lived most of his life in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The migrations of the two sets of ancestors took a much different trajectory. The Welch ancestors came in The Great Migration to Massachusetts between 1630 and 1640, and stayed in New England for as many as ten generations before Minnie May's parents ventured west to Kansas. The Crawford ancestors came further south, to Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. After a few generations in these states, they headed west to Kentucky where they spent one or two generations before moving on to Missouri and eventually Colorado.
The following map shows where the John D. Crawford ancestors settled when they first arrived from Scotland, England, and Ireland: ...
The images below represent the ancestor tree of John D. Crawford. There are 158 of his ancestors represented, of which 53 were immigrants. [There are several branches that we have no information on, so the numbers should be larger.] Abbreviations used are: "b." birth, "d." death, "i." immigration. The first, round chart can be printed on letter paper. The other charts are sized to print on legal paper. The left row of names on the last four charts are the same as the names in the outermost ring of the round chart. Click on each one to open up in it's own window. Make sure you view them at 100% zoom to ensure the text is legible.
