Some families know a great deal about their roots; others know very little. This site is an attempt to show you what I've learned about our family history from the earliest Colonial days to the present.  Tosay, families are scattered all over the America, if not the world.  One of the goals of this web site is to help our family stay connected even though we live far apart.  The reader should note that I have so far concentrated on only those Cherrys found in North America -- which is 99 percent in the United States -- from the American Colonial days to the present United States of America in the year 2007.

 

 

 

The information in my data base represents the efforts of and contains information from several hundred people who freely contributed to this Cherry Family History Project.  Some of those contributors were Professional Genealogists.  I have personally spent about 25 years working on and studying all the various branches of Cherry families.  I found early on that to extend my knowledge of my own lineage, I had to examine hundreds of other families.  So, while examining all these other families I documented them with the help of personal computers and various application software. This data base now contains over 43,000 names (Cherrys and near relatives - which include in-laws and sometimes the families of in-laws as we deemed appropriate).

 

A huge number of people have contributed to my Cherry data base (which has grown into the largest Cherry data base in the world).  Several of these people are now deceased.  I think it is therefore appropriate that I dedicate this site to their memory.  As this project continues, I think it would be correct to put a link here to a special acknowledgement page where we can include some narratives about these people.