McKelleb & Harmon Families Genealogy
Celebrating the four families that form the current McKelleb generation.
The four menu links above display the earliest known ancestor of the family, except for McKelleb. We have not found a link between William McKelleb, born around 1797 in New York or Pennsylvania, and Henry McKelleb,born 1838 in Rhode Island,who comes up from the McKelleb link. For most generations, there has been one male McKelleb to carry forward the name. The current generation has three males, currently unmarried - maybe the McKelleb name will survive.
Our first Harmon is Robert Harmon, born in Ireland in1767.
Our first Kelsay is Robert Kelsay, born in Ireland in 1711.
Our first Gates is William Gates, born in 1815.
Known locations of the descendants of these families are across the US from the Carolinas to Nevada and Michigan to Arizona, and in Ireland and England in the UK.
We are the chosen. 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. 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, as it were, 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. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
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