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Welcome to my occasional blog on Gilliam Genealogy. Our family has always been fiercely proud of our ancestors and their stories, where we came from and how we got to where we are. Unfortunately, those stories and details were not always well-documented and as each generation disappears, the oral history is lost. This blog will be my attempt to collect as many of those details as possible and to preserve the oral histories we can recall. Researching the history of our branch of the Gilliam Family is complicated by use of first names that appear multiple times in each generation, multiple marriages between families and the tendency for the next generation of Gilliams to migrate from their place of birth. I will report the basis for my conclusions when there is contradictory evidence and let you make your own conclusion. Please feel free to add, subtract or comment on any of my entries – maybe we can settle the controversies once and for all! Where to start? Based on my resear...