Welcome to my Myers & Currey Roots Site
This site deals with the Myers line from Nicholas Mias (Myers) who moved from England to Holland and then in 1708 came to America and settled in the Rhode Island area with most of the Myers families ending up in New York and Iowa. My maternal Grandmother Curry was from the Myers/Mcleod line from Canada and Iowa so there is a cross in our family line. Having both sides of my family come from the same Myers line sure made tracing some of my family roots a lot easier. My paternal Grandmother was also a Myers but at this time she is appears to be from a different Myers line.
The Myers/Eldred line has been traced back thru the royal line and as far back as Julius Caesar's sister. Although all that information does not appear on this site it can be found elsewhere on the Internet. The Myers/Eldred family is related, by blood directly or by marriage indirectly, to 11 former Presidents, including John Adams, John Quincey Adams, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and even George Bush.
We have had several family members join the DAR and a couple of our known ancestors to serve in the Revolutionary War were Oliver Myers & Aaron Aspinwall. As the story goes, Oliver Myers stole horses for George Washington to use for his troops and served as private under Captians Nathaniel Seeley and Benjamin Bates, Col. Samuel Herrick's regiment, Vermont troops. Aaron Aspinwall served and received a pension for service as a private in Capt. Titus Watson's company, Col. Herman Swift's regiment, Connecticut Troops.
I have been fairly lucky in my research of the Myers family as I had two Great Great Aunts who did lots of research over the years and kept really good records and my Mom became keeper of their books so I had lots of information to get started with. If Carrie and Fannie had only had the resources that we have available today, I can't imagine how much would now be known about our family.
When I was little I learned that my ancestry was English - Yankee, French Canadian, Scotch - Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch and it has been fun finding out where all those different bloods flowed from.
I hope you can find the family link you are looking for and I am always willing to trade files or tell you what I know or don't know. Be sure and let me know if you turn out to be a cousin....
I would like to thank Carrie Bodensteiner for all her help with the Eldred line, it was fun finding a not too distant cousin I didn't know I had out in cyberspace and while doing my own research I also found some cousins I had lost track of 30 years ago the Internet truly does makes this a small world.
This page was last updated on 03/06/03.
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