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Welcome to my genealogy page.
For many years now, my greatest hobby has been digging into the history of my ancestry. Although I have been
more passionate about certain lines than others, I have managed to collect a great wealth of information about most of the
branches of my family. When I got married, I also decided to dabble a little in my husband’s ancestry as well. My purpose
for this site is to share some of the information that I have gathered over the many years. Please feel free to have a look
around. You are always welcome to use the information I have posted to this site, but I ask that you PLEASE give credit where
credit is due. I only say this because there is a certain person online (that I will refrain from mentioning a specific name)
that has posted Elzy family information that I shared with him; then he posted my research as if it were his own
research. It was information I have personally written and included in my “notes” in my family tree database -
of which he posted, word for word, as his own work!!! ) I want these pages to be used as guides for others researching
the same line I am working on. I have had (and continue to have) many people that have been so gracious to share their research
- and I will acknowledge my sources as much as possible and will indicate the information posted that I did not personally
research. My intention is also to share with others that are researching these same families as I am. I
wouldn't post it here if I didn't want to share it, I just ask that if you copy any information I have posted, please give
credit where is due -- if we all work together, maybe we can get somewhere!! Happy Hunting! :-)
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Some branches of my tree I have worked very hard on, and others I have not. The purpose of this website is
to help connect people researching the same families. I have done my best to include source information for the information
that has been share with me rather than my personal research - I will NEVER take credit for research that it not mine. My
intention by posting shared information is to get in contact with others working on the same family - not to take credit for
anyone else’s work. If you find information that I have posted that you helped research and I erroneously omitted your
name, PLEASE contact me and I will add you as a source! Again, I will do my best to include all those that I have corresponded
with!
Thank you,
Alicia Woolridge Morgason
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About me:
I was born and raised in Illinois. I have always been fascinated
with history. As a child, I grew up hearing about my mom’s grandpa Phillippo coming to the United States from Italy.
I was always curious in learning more about him and his journey from his birth country to America, living the streets of New
York City, traveling to the Midwest by means of the Orphan Train, then marrying and raising a family of his own in Illinois.
Another story that had always sparked my interested (and probably
the biggest contributing factor to my decision to jump into genealogy head first) was the adoption of my father’s grandma
Elzy. My brother and I would often spend time with my great-grandmother while she lived in a local nursing home. She would
tell us about what she could remember about her brother William. I wanted to learn more. No one in the family knew if William
was also adopted out or if he ever lived beyond childhood.
I went to high school and graduated with two classmates that I knew
were somehow related to the Elzy family. I always wondered how we were related and wanted to know more about the background
of the Elzy line.
A few years after my grandpa Woolridge passed away, my father let
me borrow a book that Grandpa Woolridge’s cousin Gerturde Hartwig had made on the Woolridge family history. I read through
it from to back and at that point I was hooked. I was bound and determined that I would know as much as I possible could about
my family, where they came from, etc. A friend told me about our local genealogy society, so I popped in there hoping to get
my family tree before I went to work that day!! HA! I thought it would be so easy!! Now, over fifteen years later I am
still researching every chance I get and will probably never stop! My research has taken me in many counties in Illinois,
as well as traveling out of state to West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky. There are many other states and places
that I would like to go to and research, but hopefully there are many more years left for that. The internet has been a great
resource, however, it isn’t the same as going into a courthouse and digging through those old records!!
Well, I hope that what I have compiled on this site will help you in the right
direction in your research!!
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