Welcome to Our Genealogy Site

We're so pleased you dropped in to visit our site. We've worked for some time on this and had no idea that the family and its connections to our ancestors was so large.

My brother, Mike, has done most of the research and I have done the technical duties.

Our objective was to do a lineage of the Woods family starting with our great grand father, William Jackson Woods, as the control point. All well and good.....But what about our mothers heritage....Maybe we should include grandmothers lineage also. Wait...we have 2 grandmothers and 2 grandfathers. Can't leave them out.

Things may have gotten out of hand. It was decided to include anyone that had a tie to us, my brother and I, that is. It appears that most folks from Stokes County and surrounding counties in North Carolina and Virginia are related ....at least a little bit.

Our Histories

Meet Our Family

Our Pages

You can use this area to add links to your history pages, people pages or your favorite resources.

• Old Homeplace
• Coming to America
• Moving to France
• Irish Ancestors
• Grandmother Feeding the Dogs

Discover Our Family

My Father .. Thomas Earl Woods

He is standing along with his parents. Picture is dated circa 1945.

Gabe Woods & Family

Gabe Woods and wife Easter Annie Snider. Lady (unknown), William Hassell (son), John Clifton, Sr. (son). Photo circa 1944.

Kettie Lou Hennis

This is head stone of my Great Grandmother Kettie Lou Hennis. She is buried at the Mount Herman United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Bart Robertson & Virginia Ellington Wilkins

My great grand parents buried at the Sandy Ridge United Methodist Church Cemetery

Cousins Rendezvous

The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.' by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.