Are you one of them?  Do you know where they are?  Do you have any information that you can contribute towards my search?  Genealogy information that I have collected todate (12/2005) is now available online.  

• Navigate   Navigate to view the entire Family Tree of 1758 individuals in 622 family groups   Updated Dec 17, 2005
  
  The following reports were manually created on October 7, 2001. Since they are a manual process, they could contain inaccuracies or be incomplete since their last update.
• McFarrin/McFerrin   Genealogy Report
• McFarrin/McFerrin   Outline Descendant Tree
• Barrows      Genealogy Report
• Barrows      Outline Descendant Tree
• Currier      Genealogy Report
• Currier      Outline Descendant Tree
• Geng         Genealogy Report
• Geng         Outline Descendant Tree
• Good         Genealogy Report
• Good         Outline Descendant Tree
• Jordan         Genealogy Report
• Jordan         Outline Descendant Tree
• Mader         Genealogy Report
• Mader         Outline Descendant Tree
• McDonald       Genealogy Report
• McDonald       Outline Descendant Tree
• Myers       Genealogy Report
• Myers       Outline Descendant Tree
• Penn         Genealogy Report
• Penn         Outline Descendant Tree
• Scherr       Genealogy Report
• Scherr       Outline Descendant Tree
• Stein         Genealogy Report
• Stein         Outline Descendant Tree
• Schoeffel         Genealogy Report
• Schoeffel         Outline Descendant Tree
• Watson      Genealogy Report
• Watson      Outline Descendant Tree

Any additional geneology information that you may have can be mailed to Me

Look Here !!

If you don't receive a "save" dialog box, you will need to save the contents of the GEDCOM page by selecting from the pull down menu "file -> Save As" and then enter a filename. When using Netscape, be sure that the file is saved with a .txt extension. You can rename it later to a name with the .ged extension.

Front page headlines, Chillicothe Gazette, summer of 1963!
There are only 3 occassions where the McFerrin family made headlines news in the local newspaper. One was my grand-uncle when he accidentally shot and killed one of his daughters in KY. The second one was when our family in Chillicothe had their family dog quarentened due to rabies. The third appearance was myself with 2 of my pals building a talking robot. Click here to view the newspaper account and picture.

What's in a Name

Today our family spells the McFerrin name as McFerrin but it wasn't always that way. It is rumored that my grandfather Charles O. McFerrin changed the spelling from McFarrin to McFerrin to get rid of a bill collector trying to collect someone else's debt. We have no idea whether this name change was done legally or not.

The birth certificate of Charles O. McFarrin does verify the original spelling of McFarrin. It also list his parents as Eliza and Harrison McFarrin. I have determined from 1870KY census records that Harrison was from Indiana and his mother's name was Elizabeth and was living with Harrison and his wife in 1870. Harrison spelled his name McFerrin in the KY census.

In the KY 1860 census, I found Harrison older brother named John McFerrin. Their mother Elizabeth was living with John during that census. Harrison was living within a few household numbers of Harrison during the same census.

Harrison later moved to Ross County Ohio. In year 2005, I discovered that Harrison's brother John also moved to Ross County Ohio. The wrinkle here is that John changed the spelling of McFerrin by dropping one of the "R"s from the name. Today, there are many descendants of John McFerin still living in central Ohio!

Thru KY marriage records, I have determined with great certainly that the father of Harrison and John McFerrin is named Aaron McFerrrin. No other information is available.
 

Release 4.0 of McFerrin Family CD went out in Oct 2001

The final release of the McFerrin Family CD was released in 10/2001. A total of 50 CDs were shipped to the various McFerrin family members and our relatives.

I wanted to get the first version out to all of you without delay because we never know when a person might expire from this earth and if that would happen, the McFerrin Family CD would never get finished.

This CD contained many contributions by family members and our relatives. They included photos, geneology data, and audio clips. There arel some very important convience additions to the CD. With version 4.0, you will be able to use your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator) to view all of the photos on the CD. You will also be able to view the entire collections in organized groups as a slideshow.

Version 4.0 also contain some MP3 audio clips of family members telling of stories. Who knows, they might be talking about you.

With version 4.0, you don't have to install any software from the CD if you already have a web browser. Just insert the CD and click away. You can view everything with your browser; including geneology information. There are of course be a few optional programs on the CD should you desire to install and use them.

Release 6.0 of Our Family History CD coming out soon

Since the release of version 4.0 of the McFerrin Family CD in 2001, my research of the McFerrin Family name has yielded a larger family. In order to be fairer to our expanded families, the next CD (version 6) will be titled "Our Family History CD". I'm anticipating this CD to be release around Jan of 2007. Feel free to contact me concerning updates or additions to this CD. Members of other families may want to check out my Genealogy Service.

Descendants of the Watson Family, please check out these links:
         Here  for a picture of Carrie Watson in her "upper" years and
         Here  for the text of her death notice that appeared in Chillicothe Gazette in 1942 at her age of  91 !.

Descendants of the Scherr & Penn families......

Please check out this picture of Peter Scherr who imigrated to the United States from Germany. Born on Feb 14, 1817 in Baden, Germany.

Then check out this picture of Augustus Scherr, son of Peter Scherr.

Here is a picture of George Penn, our great-grandfather.

Here is a picture of the residence of George Penn in Kingston, Ohio around 1890.

A picture of George's brother, Sherman Grant Penn.

Descendants of the McFarrin/McFerrin families.....

Here is a picture of my great-grandfather Harrison McFarrin with one of his brothers. They both lost one leg each in fighting the war.

Hello World

I'm Paul McFerrin originally from central Ohio now residing in Florida.

I offer you the following links of interest:

Jon's Place - Congestive Heart Failure patients, visit this monster site of information and support:

The Owl Pages - Information, pictures, and sounds of Owls around the world.

Snowy Owls - Picture of Snowy Owl with Report Sitings

Various bird links - Contains many link to birding sites serving Washington State and Vancouver.. Just the tip of an Ice Berg!




To the McFerrin Family Members - I need your help to identify some of the images I have scanned from the McFerrin Family albums. Please click HERE to view the images. It will take about 30 seconds to completely load.

You can email me by clicking Here

# Hits Since July 1, 1999

Search Engine Text: Genealogy Site for surnames: MCFERRIN, MCFARRIN, MCFERIN, CURRIER, DELONG,
GENG, GOOD, JORDAN, MADER, MASSIE, MCDONALD, MYERS, PENN, RECOBS,
RINCONES, SCHERR, SCHOEFFEL, STEIN, WATSON and WHITE Families. Looking for lost relatives!
Chillicothe Ohio Gazette 1963 headlines.
Family Genealogy CD Creation Services, Family History CD Creation Services,
Creating a Family History CD, Sharing your Genealogy,
McFerrin / McFerin Genealogy Information,
McFerrin / McFerin - Our Family History,
Multimedia Family History CD,
Genealogy Service, Preserve your Family History, Create Your Own Family Genealogy CD !
GEDCOM presentation, audio clips, images, & genealogy,
Family Tree Maker Reports included, Auto-runable genealogy CD works with most Internet browsers,
URL: http://pmcferrin.honedns.org/demo/
Easy to view, just insert the CD. Bound to be a family hit!