Woods-Peden Genealogy


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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of James Woods who was born 25 May 1767 in London, England. He married Dunne (surname unknown) ca. 1805 in Wheeling, West Virginia. They were the parents of two sons and one daughter. Dunne died ca. 1808 and James married Rebecca Peden 1 January 1809. They lived in Darke Co., Ohio and were the parents of three sons and two daughters. Descendants of James Woods and his eight children lived in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, California and elsewhere.







Ancestry of John L. Woods


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John Lucius Woods (b.1912) is the son of George Benjamin Woods (1878- 1958) and Helen Smith (1881-1956) of Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. He is the descendant of James Woods (1767-1869) the emigrant, who was born at St. James Park, London, England and settled in Darke Co., Ohio and his wife, Rebecca Peden (1780-1855), the daughter of Obadiah Peden and Esther Dunn of York Co., PA. He married Mary Torkilson in 1938 at Evanston, Ill. Thirteen generations of ancestors are traced.




Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986


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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.







Genealogy of the Pedens of Kentucky, 1756-1986


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Ancestors and descendants of John Peden born 1734 in Ireland, married Mary in 1756. They emigrated to United States ca. 1770 and settled in Virginia.







Genealogies in the Library of Congress


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This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.







The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1


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Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.