Averetts In Early Georgia Website

The gold that one can sometimes find just by idly Googling on different search strings! David Averett married Martha Ann Timmerman on 8 December 1864 in Tallahassee, Elmore County, Alabama, C.S.A., apparently just before he returned to his unit after recovering from wounds received at the Battle of the Wilderness. Last night, I was bored with what was on television and began searching on the string "david averett martha timmerman" --- and stumbled across a full website called "Averetts in Early Georgia and South Carolina".  And I already knew that David Averett was born in Thomas County, Georgia so it definitely got my attention and quickly.

It was found by way of a "Register Report for John Averett" in PDF format at the same site -- which is what actually "hit" in Google. It was easy to work up the site hierarchy until reaching the home page. Now, John Averett and Mary Ledbetter are widely cited on Ancestry.com and the Internet as being the parents of David F. Averett but, as is all too often the case, there is no proof given. And, as a genealogy amateur, my main stumbling block is the very attenuated amount of information given in the US Census prior to 1850. Generally, the census forms provide the name of the head of the household and then bin the rest of the family data such that you'll see a count of the number of boys and girls (separately) from age 0 to 10 years, 10 years to 20, etc. It doesn't even provide the name of the wife, much less those of the children. The really exciting thing about this register report is that it is fully footnoted and my initial scans of the footnotes are very, very encouraging. Whoever constructed this web site took a lot of care researching and documenting his work.

It is also worthwhile to note that the "John Averett" in the register report is not the father of David Averett, who was born about 1809; it is actually an earlier John Averett who was born about 1750. So this has the potential to break things wide open for this line in my own family tree.  Terrific stuff!! I have not found the name of the owner of the site yet. But I'm definitely going to send a grateful message to the email address it provides!