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Bert Austin donated his "McAninch Family Genealogical Data: ca 1746-1988" papers to the

Family History Center in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. There is no ‘Title page’, and the

manuscript can only be identified by the text "Queen Creek, Arizona" "May 8, 1989" "BAA"

(Bert Addis Austin) on the first page. [Note 1]

"McAninch Family Genealogical Data: ca 1746-1988, in Kentucky" manuscript is a free-form

compilation of loose-leaf papers, Family Group Sheets, Census, Land and Deed records, and

miscellaneous notes about Daniel and William, their families, and their descendants in Kentucky.

The pages are not numbered, there is no ‘page identification’ scheme, and there is no index.

The majority of the pages are typewritten ‘family group sheet’ forms, with names and dates,

and many of these sheets have extensive notes about the children, names, dates, spouses, etc

(however, some sheets have only one name at the top, with no other info about that person).

The collection is only ‘semi’-organized, mixed by family lines, in partial chronological order.

The ‘Census, Land and Deed records’ pages are well done, with typed extracts from the original

documents (Bert Austin was a Notary Public). One ‘quirk’ in the manuscript is the frequent use

of double periods ‘..’s, with no explanation (do single ‘.’s and double ‘..’s mean the same thing?).

A. On the first page, Bert wrote: "Queen Creek, Arizona" "May 8, 1989"

"Several people who are searching the McAninch family name have said that brothers,

Daniel & William McAninch, can be found in the 1790 census of Pennsylvania. That they

left Pennsylvania and came to the area of Lincoln and Pulaski Counties of Kentucky in 1800.

They may have been in the 1790 census of Penn. but evidence indicates they did not come

directly to Kentucky as their older children give their birth place as Virginia.

The Pulaski County, Kentucky, Court Land Records prove that both brothers were in

Pulaski County in 1800. They both bought land from the Court.

Now the question is where & how did they enter Kentucky. Through that part of Virginia

that is now West Virginia or did they come through the Cumberland Gap and up the

Wilderness Road into Lincoln and Pulaski Counties?" "BAA" (Bert Addis Austin)

(Analysis) Generally valid, especially when it was written in the 1980s, however:

A.1. “several people . . . have said” is really just hearsay, no valid genealogical evidence here;

A.2. Brothers? no evidence of that relationship, could be cousins, uncle and nephew, whatever;

A.3. 1790 census? William was not listed on the 1790 census, although he was probably counted

with Daniel McAninch in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the 1790 First Census;

A.4. William did have land grants, deeds, surveys and Tax List entries in Pulaski County;

A.5. through the Cumberland Gap and Wilderness Road, after a few years in Greene County,

(eastern) Tennessee (Daniel bought and sold land, William married "Doshia Dosey", etc.).

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McAninch Family History NL v.XXVIII n.2 / Oct.2020 / Copyright Frank McAninch / p.2020-21