The Rockett and Allied Families' Journeys Through Time
Welcome! This site represents decades of work on the Rockett and allied families and their connections to our ancestors. I've been an avid family history enthusiast since I was age 10. In my early thirties, I began to take genealogy more seriously, and I set out on a quest to apply standard genealogical research procedures to my family lines. There's been no looking back!
This site is also a work of love and dedication in order to tell the story of our ancestors. If you have something to add, please let me know. The more we can share with others the more we receive in return. Thank you again!
✔ A knowledge of 10 generations of proven paternal ancestry was required of ancient Britons to secure all that was valuable in blood, station, and property.
✔ Druidic Bards in Ireland were responsible for knowing and preserving family histories.
✔ Surnames became common in Europe around the 11th Century A.D.
✔ Going back eight generations, most people will have approximately 256 ancestors.
"...In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors – to put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: tell our story. So we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves....
It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today.... It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. 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 them and they are us. So, as a scribe is 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 their place in the long line of family storytellers.
That is why I do genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones." by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
Here you will find links to blog pages, lineages, and favorite sites.
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. Charlemagne
Who is Charlemagne and why do we care? For starters, he united most of Europe meaning that the spread of Christianity soon followed. He restored the Western Roman Empire and became its first emperor. He reformed military, economic, governmental, cultural, educational, and religious areas of life for everyone. Over the course of his life, he really loved the ladies having four wives and five mistresses.
Now that science has shown that most of the people in the Western Hemisphere are descendants of Charlemagne, it is up to genealogists and historians to provide the names that link us back to one of the most important historical figures in early medieval times. Sources like the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy's project Medieval Lands by Charles Crawley (fmg.ac/projects/medlands) (FMG), Geni.com (Geni), McKenziesOfEarlyMaryland.com (MEM), Wikipedia (WP), and WikiTree (WT), to name a few, were cross-referenced to create lineages for BOONE, CUTRER, DODD, ROCKETT, and WATKINS. Click on the "More" button to the right, then find your surname, and enjoy!
Photo Credit: Charlemagne, oil on limewood by Albrecht Dürer, 1512; in the collection of the German National Museum, Nürnberg, Germany.
I make every effort to document my research. If you have something you would like to add, please contact me.
