The Beginning

The intent of this blog is to exchange information on the Bell family. Needless to say, my hope is to find relatives to aid in my genealogical quest; however, if anyone makes a connection and is able to further their search, I will feel an accomplishment has been made. Over time, if this method is successful, I will add other surnames, but for now I will keep my focus on the Bells.


I began researching my family tree more than 28 years ago, with a goal of trying to ascertain if I was related to Alexander Graham Bell. After a few trips to the local library, I was hooked! In fact, the more I learned, the more I wanted to find out. I suppose it could be said I was addicted to genealogy, unfortunately it didn't take long to discover I was not related, at least directly, to Alexander Graham Bell and that my Bell line was pretty much a dead end. Oh I found my Great, Great, Great Grandfather, George, but he died in 1843, without a will. My inexperience and limited resources, (there was no internet at that time), steered me into researching other lines, and there was more information available on them.


After a while, maybe a year or two, my time to research became more and more limited, I had pretty much peaked on the local level or so I thought in finding new information and truthfully I burned out, so my journey to find my roots ended.

Several years passed and occassionally I would look over bits and pieces of my information, but it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I decided to complete what I had started. With the benefit of the internet and various websites I have expanded my modest beginning into, well still modest for some, but much more than I originally imagined; however, the Bells remain a mystery to a great extent. I have traced them from North Carolina to Tennessee and on to Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Mississippi and filled in children of children of children, etc., but still George Bell, born about 1794, probably in North Carolina and died in April or May 1843 in Benton County, TN is as far back as I can go. Therefore, I really hope this blog will create some interest and with a lot of luck perhaps I will learn more about George and who his parents were.

Thank you for visiting, please feel free to comment and at no regular pace I will add my family a little bit at a time. Also, as I mentioned, even if you are not related to my George Bell, but have Bells in your ancestry, please feel free to use this in your quest for information.