Arnett Forest
tracks...trails...clearings

Welcome

This site (first uploaded about 2000) features some scouting guides to assist those cousins who are searching for their family trees in our Arnett Forest in America.

There are Tracks which consist of data arranged more or less chronologically by state and county. This collection is but a small portion of the data available (especially if one digs through all the county deeds) and is aimed to suggest areas for further research. A rough index is available for each state or groups of states.

Some of the tracks have led to the creation of Trails through the woods which are the pedigrees of certain family groups. Where enough data has been collected some of these tentative pedigrees are being listed. There are many folk who have helped to blaze these trails and who continue to maintain them. They\\'ll be listed as permitted.

Finally, there are the Clearings. These are the open spaces where we can appreciate the view of the trees and enjoy the family stories. These are most evident in the records persons have left us in the form of memoirs and biographical sketches. And there are also the stories of our origins in France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, England, etc.. Some of these will be presented here.

As time permits more guides will be added to the lists which follow. This is a work in progress, and I welcome additional information about early Arnett names and facts, further delineation and correction of pedigrees, and additional family stories and links to other internet sites. Additions to the tracks section will be collected separately and periodically folded into the main group. You may contact me as you wish, but I can\\'t guarantee a timely response. [Note: In 2011 my e-mail changed from aol to gmail. If you tried to contact me at the aol address, I\\'ve been unable to access that for the past year. JWA-july 2012]

February 2021 and May 2023:  I have started back to fix some of the broken links in the Arnett Forest pages.  Eventually I hope of have a section in the "Trails" section listing some of the main Arnett genealogies which have been worked out more or less reliably.

Happy hiking!

John Arnett

View from the Ranger Tower - an overview

In this Ranger Tower section I have a document devoted to the history of the Arnett Forest, a listing by first name of all those cited in the "Tracks" section, and a listing by date of those I had citations of before 1778. -- John Arnett, Feb 2021, another revision in May 2023

 

TRACKS

The states are arranged more or less geographically according to migration patterns:

Barbados, Canada, oceans


New England (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT), New York

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

Maryland

Virginia, West Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina, Georgia

Tennessee

Kentucky

Ohio, Indiana

Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Alabama, Mississippi, Florida

Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas

Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska

Arizona, California

ND, SD, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, UT, NV, NM, HI, AK, DC


Track additions

I probably will not be adding any more tracks to his site.

 

TRA ILS

These family groupings are listed by country, state, and county.   Though may of the trails or pedigrees have been worked out, not all have been uploaded. I\\'ve made an attempt to avoid listing living descendants in the trees, but will make links to existing online related family sites. I recently looked at Ancesty.com and noted there are some 350,000  people who have an Arnett in their family trees.  About a fifth of these are publicly available trees.  In addition there are some 711 pages of entries on Genealogy.com forum for Arnett.  Obviously, we\\'ll never figure everything out, but we can pick out a few trails and enjoy vicariously their experiences.

Many of the lines being searched fall into some of the family groups listed below.

2023 update.  As noted on the "Ranger Tower" page I\\'m hoping to create a chart merging the eight DNA groupings Mike had found with the family groups I\\'ve identifited (and corresponded with) thus far.  I\\'ll probably list the chart at the end of this page when completed:


There are also "Trail Letters" which are family stories about the origins of the pioneers and "Trail Connections" which is a collection of Arnett related websites by State and topic and a listing of some researchers.

Scotland

England

Ireland

France and Germany

Australia

Barbados

New York and New England

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Maryland, Delaware

Virginia

West Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida

Tennessee

Kentucky

Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan

Missouri

Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas

Montana, Idaho, Dakotas, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico

Colorado

California