The Mad Genealogist

According to Kat Rayl, a decedent of Hezekiah Nichols (son of Henry Nichols), a Waylon Nichols, also descended from Hezekiah, has submitted a 67 marker Y-DNA test to family tree DNA. The Nichols Results are at http://www.brian-hamman.com/ResultsForNicholsSurnameProject.htm
Greg and I have our results in and we are kit#40533 and Kit#112863. It should take about 6-8 weeks for Waylon’s results to post. Greg and I have also upgraded our 37 makers results to 67 and it takes about a
month for that to show up.

I am calling for all Nichols Researchers with ties to the North Carolina, Virginia, Sumter Co South Carolina and Maryland area to participate in the Nichols DNA Research Project By ordering a 37 marker DNA test. Our next step is to piece together the family of William Nichols Sr., and since the courthouse in Pitt County NC burned DNA and land records are the only way we can sort the mess out. So if you are or think you are descended from the Pitt County area then drop me a email and do a DNA test…. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you well know my big genealogy brick wall was with my Henry Nichols (Family Page and PDF Lineage). The earliest I found him was in Effingham County Georgia in the 1805 Georgia land lottery. Effingham County is not a burn county and has most of its early records. Well there is nothing on my Henry even though he lived there, met his wife and fathered 3 children there. NO RECORDS! he did not purchase land, did not pay tax, did not get married there. The only way I can place him there was from 2 Georgia land lotteries from 1805 and 1807 and from the Georgia Passport he was granted to move through Indian land on his way to Mississippi in 1810.