This website contains the ancestors of my daughter, Alexandra Catlin Vaut, and related families.  It represents nearly 60 years of research, but still contains errors, omissions and unsupported information. My principal purpose in posting this family tree is to provide some research guidance to others with an interest in some of the people I have identified. As the product of many decades of collecting information, my research reflects considerable change (improvement) over time to better document facts and assumptions and to cite reputable sources. In more recent work, I have been particularly diligent. In my older research I often did a very poor job of documentation and sometimes accepted bad information without any substantiation. I now try to consistently note where I have made speculative assumptions about various relationships and facts, but I know that I have still not been entirely consistent in this, so don't trust unsubstantiated information. I continue working on this genealogy and make regular changes to the data and additions to the tree. 

November 17, 2025: First attempt to rebuild my website. In the process of editing, I made a major change in my PARKS line: new parents for Alexander R. PARKS (1824-1893). I now believe that Alexander was the son of William D. and Sarah (RYLAND) PARKS.

I set up a new computer and transferred my files. In the process, I erased my work from June 2025. It took me weeks to fix everything.

And then disaster hit!

I set up a new computer and transferred my files. In the process, I erased my work from June 2025. It took me weeks to fix everything

October 17, 2025: I have pretty well wrapped up several months of work on early American colonial (ca 1550-1750) families in my database. I know that I have spoken of this resource before, but I want to once again thank the harworking team responsible fo building and maintaining the website Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties (https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/index.php).

This heavily documented source has helped me add several generations of ancestors in more than a dozen famiy lines, including: ALDIN, BALL, BELT, BRASHEAR(S)/BRASSEUR/BRASHER, BROWNE, COLEMAN CROW, FERGUSON, GENTRY, GITTINGS, HAYNIE, HUMPHREY, LANE, MORRIS, NALL(E), NEWMAN, NUTHALL/NUTTLE, PRESSELY, SPANN, SPRIGG, STROTHER, and TYDINGS, among others.

September 20, 2025: A 17th century MD BELT/TYDINGS Divorce: I have severed another long-standing connection in my family tree. I had an Elizabeth TYDINGS (1659-1737), daughter of Richard TYDINGS and his wife Charity (ADAMS), marrying 1st. John BELT (1645-1698) and secondly, John LAMB (c1656-1715). However, I am now convinced that though Richard and Charity (ADAMS) TYDINGS did indeed have a dau. Elizabeth, she in fact married Robert Green CRUMP (1673-1748), not any BELT. The evidence that has convinced me to alter my database is summarized at two locations:

  1. Early Colonial Settlers: Elizabeth {Unproven} Ramsey 1656 - 1737 seen on 20 Sept 20-25 at https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I12776&tree=Tree1

  2. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116324713/elizabeth-crump: accessed September 20, 2025), memorial page for Elizabeth Tydings Crump (1673–1719), Find a Grave Memorial ID 116324713; Maintained by Gresham Farrar (contributor 47643741).

July 25, 2025: I have severed the link between Eva (KREIDER) GRAY and the man I had thoght was her father. For a long time I had attributed Eve/Eva Ann (KREIDER) GRAY (1748-1820) #1371 as the dau. of Joseph and Eve (RUMBARGER) KREIDER. However, I now believe that her birthdate (1748) makes this attribution impossible and am severing the connection. If the DOB I have is clsoe, she was old enough to have been his sister or even a young aunt (or completely unrelated).

July 15, 2025: I have made a decision regarding the ancestry of the Centre Co., PA MEEK family that I have researched. Based on information from Chris MEEK, I have broken the tie between Robert MEEK (1732-1756) and his purported parents, John MEEK (1686-1765) and Elizabeth MITCHELL, bak to Adam MEEK (1640-1699) of Lincolnshire. I have posted more information regarding this on Robert's personal page at https://www.acvancestors.com/g0/p51.htm#i1510.

July 13, 2025: Lots of updates on my STEWART line and on the MEEK family of VA and KY.

June 30, 2025: A lot more work on families from Accomack Co., VA and Somerset Co., MD on Chesapeake Bay, including: BEAUCHAMP, DIXON, GRAY and TURPIN.

Note:  If you see anything wrong or questionable in my data, PLEASE contact me and let me know about it - particularly if you have and are willing to share evidence to supplement, correct, contradict or disprove what I have written here. I am happy to share my work with those who are serious about their own research and am always willing to correct my errors.

Feel free to contact me via email (gregvaut "at" gmail "dot" com) if you have a question or comment regarding this research.

The scond edition (expanded, with major revisions) of my book Such Lives As These is available for download without charge at Academia.edu. (For more information on what the book contains click on Such Lives As These at the top of this page.)

BEWARE

Beware of information that is supported only by references to Ancestry Family Trees and that is not confirmed with other evidence. I sometimes include such information to guide my own research, but you shouldn't trust these sources unless you can confirm them and their sources yourself.

Please cite all sources of information, including this website.

Recommended citation:  Vaut, Gregory, Ancestors of Alexandra Catlin Vaut, http://www.acvancestors.com : accessed (insert date), (insert name or item of interest).

[Based on Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence Explained. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2015, p. 657.]