Njila

Maternal lines through Dorothy Burgess Jackson Haynes, Lena Kelly, Rev. Isaac Kelly, Susie Lee, Willie Burgess, and Louisa Winfry. Paternal through Samuel Smith, Silas Smith, Scott Smith Sr., Gatsie Augustus, and the Johnson families. The shallowest of the six trees, and the one where the next research push matters most. 6 generations deep, back to 1820.

The Acadian and Creole line: Richard from Pierre Richard (Beaubassin, 1730) through Lufroy, Valery Senegal, and Joseph Adolph Richard, with Sonnier (Saulnier), Judice, Dugas, Comeau, Gaudet and LeJeune beside it. This export pushed the French side back to the 1470s in Picardy, Normandy and Provence, and added the Acadian deportation generation in Nova Scotia. 19 generations deep, back to 1475.

Descendancy from John Allen Dougherty (1809, New York) and Lucy Russell Stewart (1827, Mississippi) through Katherine Eleanor "Nellie" Dougherty Prescott and the Prescott children. Held in a separate Ancestry tree, and the one page that runs forward through descendants rather than back through ancestors. 3 generations deep, back to 1809.

Col. Joseph S. Williams and Samuel S. Williams, who held the people of Carolina (now Port Allen) and the Woodfield Place, and sold Carolina with 80 named people to John A. Dougherty in 1859. Shown as context for the Kelly and Williams lines, not as kin. 3 people, 2 generations.

Dr. John B. Hereford (1794–1852), whose 1852 inventory names Berrum, Harriett, Louisa, Jefferson, Jim, Washington and Grace, B's Williams line; his wife Catherine Stirling Hereford; and his brother Dr. F. M. Hereford, who sold Belair to James McCalop. Shown as context, not as kin. 56 people, 4 generations, back to 1769.

The families who owned Arbroth beside Walls, the Stewart and Williams home ground: Lewis Stirling (founder), W. D. Winter, and Major Martin Glynn, whose 1880 store stands at the West Baton Rouge Museum. Shown as context, not as kin. 24 people, 5 generations, back to 1786.

The deepest tree in the archive. Tilley from Duncan Alvis Tilley (1869, North Carolina), Prince and Reels out of Oklahoma and Mississippi, and through Brandi the whole of the Richard, Sonnier, Wilderson, Johnson, Jackson, Smith, Burgess and Kelly lines. 21 generations deep, back to 1475.

Thompson and Statham through Fletcher Thompson Sr. of Campbell County, Virginia. Callaham, Cheatham and Marshall out of Appomattox and Bedford County; Rose and Scott out of Amherst. This export opened the Ferguson line — Alexander Ferguson and the Statham-Hill-Hubbard connections around Lynchburg. 10 generations deep, back to 1716.

Both parental lines at once: the Richard/Sonnier/Judice/Gathe Creole lineage through Michael Ronald Richard, the Johnson and Wilderson line through Joseph Wilderson Johnson, and the Jackson/Smith/Burgess/Kelly lines through Sabra Jean Jackson. 20 generations deep, back to 1475.

The stories of 182 relatives drawn from the records: who they were, where they lived, worked, died and were buried, with the source for every fact, including uncles, aunts and cousins who are not drawn on the trees.

A map of the places where 3572 ancestors and kin were born, baptised, married, lived, died and were buried, filterable by tree and by era, with the 16 Njila family places moved here from the Black Heritage Map. Living family is never shown.