Vickery Family Acknowledgments Dec 1999

 

I’d like to acknowledge just some of those who have helped compile this database.

 

Augusta Vickery Morris

I found Augusta through a connection on the BBS system in Nova Scotia. A minister in Nova Scotia saw my Vickery query and knew of Augusta. A letter and a phone call later I was hooked. She was my first connection with a Vickery researcher and supplied me with all her information and taught me how the research was done. She also sent me the copy of  “The Vickerys of Nova Scotia” by George Vickery.

 

John Vickery started me down this electronic trail. We found each other about 1989 before AOL was the huge internet site it is today. We would send messages to each other on the old BBS systems. Boy, have things changed. John and I decided to split the responsibilities of the family he taking the southern and I the northern families sharing everything we can. Over the last 10 years the databases have tripled in size.

 

Vernon (Vick) Vickery who found my connection to the Nova Scotia, Canadian families and paid a “Professional” genealogist to find the connection in Halberton. Vick took up the search after his brother George died, leaving his life’s work to Vick.

 

Claudia Vickery   Claudia worked at a library in Wichita and was researching her husband’s line from Kansas up through New York and to the New England area. She had a connection to the LDS library long before they went on line. John introduced me to Claudia shortly after he bumped into her at the library.

 

Jo Vickery   Jo officially adopted me into her southern family. Jo also worked in the library and genealogical society in Anderson SC and had also been investigating her husband’s family line, comparing notes with her friend Kathryn who also happened to be married to Charles Vickery in Anderson, SC.

 

Barbara Rice and her aunt Louise Vickery  I had heard stories about the Vickery’s in the mid west and when I found Barbara and her aunt I uncovered a treasure. Barbara and Louise had started the “Vickerys of Evansville”. Barbara has been very patient with me over the years, correcting my many errors along the way. Louise had been very excited to meet with another researcher, even if it was only on the phone. We will miss her.

 

Kathryn McKenzie Vickery and her sons Bill and Dennis.

One of the contacts we found on the old Prodigy BBS systems was Bill who sent us the collection of work his mother started on the “Iron Co. Vickerys.“ In 1995 I sent out a “newsletter” to as many Vickery’s as I could find. Bill and his brother mailed a copy to every Vickery in Florida and Texas.

 

George Branigan  George has taken the work we have done in the New England family and found new evidence, corrections and many new connections. His work in the last few months has been a wonderful boost that we needed.

 

 

 Jeanne Marie Vickery  My better half. Without whom I would never have been able to do any of this. She understood the need that I had to go to the library or visit a cemetery when there were so many other things that should have been done around the house.