It is my pleasure to present this webpage. I hope you are able to use it to expand the knowledge of your genealogy. Family and friends are two of the greatest blessings any of us can have and I hope you enjoy yours as much as I've enjoyed mine.
I have PUBLISHED a huge book of over 900 pages size 8 1/2 x 11 with many old family photo's, entitled
Follow the link to get a form to print out. Price is $75 which includes tax and shipping. This is a great bargain for the material covered in this fantastic book that will be treasured in your family for years.(If the link to the book order page doesn't work, just email me from the link at the bottom of the page and I'll get you the info).
To see all the names in the book, If you would like, you can view the complete index for the book showing the names and dates of the people in the book. If you find anyone that ties into your family, you should order a book today. I know, this is a LOT of money for one book. However, I've never had a person tell me that it wasn't worth every dime and I know you will enjoy it also.
Ok, so my book listed above has the descendants of John and Rachel Bradford Dorminy of Irwin County. There are a lot more Dorminy or Dorminey's. Most of the Dorminy/Dorminey family can be found in these books listed below. However, there is a problem. The software I had to use several years ago
to make up these books created Wordperfect files which was the top of the line software for word processing back then. If you are running Internet Explorer and can open a Wordperfect
file, you are in business with perfectly formatted documents. I have converted these books to Microsoft Word format, but it screwed up everything, but the information is still there, you
just won't have the benefit of perfect formatting. Might have to use your "search" button in Microsoft Word to find certain people as the page numbers might line up with what the index says.
Also, some people might still be using the old browser Netscape and if so, you are
out of business right now until I figure out the problem why it won't load. realize that the formatting
and page numbers might be off. The "Jonathan" and "Frederick" files are large
files (1758K and (796K) but worth every minute of the wait. (Usually 4-8 minutes on old dial up connections but pretty quick on broadband which most people have now.)
If you can send me any updated information on any of these families, please do so as soon as possible as
I'm not getting any younger. (ö¿-)
I do want to give a special thanks to Heinz L. Burkhardt of Germany who is a descendant also of Jacob Dominig and is researching in Germany even now to find more information on our family. It is a slow process as he is employed full-time, but this will be more information to fill in our jig-saw puzzle of family history. He has already sent genealogy sheets that helped get us this far, but more will be forthcoming as he has time.
With thanks to a genealogist, Siegbert Frick of Germany and Carl Nichols of America, we can now go back 5 more generations on our Genealogy. Mr. Siegbert Frick, a native of the Reutlingen area, has kindly provided information for this web page from the areas of Baden-Württemberg. Facilities of the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart and the Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe were used in his research. In the 1998 book, Dorminy/Dorminey, Descendants of John and Rachel Dorminy of Irwin County, Georgia, it referenced Andreas Dominig who married Barbara Reyler as our ancestors who came to America from Machtolsheim, Germany (now merged into the city of Laichingin), in 1752. Now we can go back in history another 110 years to 1637!
Also, I'm putting some German information here that I need help translating.
A friend, Barry Chandler has completed a book "Cemeteries of Tift County, Georgia" that I did the layout and design for in my spare time.
If you would like to order a copy, please check it out. It is a complete record of Tift County Georgia Cemeteries! I think he has a few copies left, but only a few.
Our Dorminey/Dorminy family funded and with the generous help of Roland and Menita Pabst who input all the information ( it took almost a year of 8 hour a day work!). The recording of all the records in the Irwin County Probate Office located in the Irwin County, Georgia probate court from the beginning of the county in 1818 up to the year 1959 have been completed. I have put the complete index to these records online for all to have available access. If you would like an actual copy of the record itself, you can get it in one of two ways, by either contacting one of the Family History Centers at a local Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Morman) Church and getting them to order the microfilm for you, (short term loan for just a few dollars each) or you might go to either the Ocilla Library in Irwin County, Georgia, or the Tift County Library in Tift County, Georgia and look up the microfilm yourself free of charge and make a copy from one of the two sets that I donated for their use. Please do not contact me to make you a copy because I won't, but rather seek out the source yourself.
If you want copies of the records or marriage certificates, there are two ways to obtain them. First, you could go to the Tift or Irwin County Library and make a copy from the microfilm. Otherwise, you ould rent for just a few dollars or you can order a copy of the microfilm for about $30 a roll. from the Family History Center in Salt Lake City. There are 17 rolls, which include the estate records of Irwin County also. Order from :
My father was born a "Dorminy" and evolved into a "Dorminey". A long story that is explained in my book listed above. However, his family
consisting of three brothers and his mother and father can be seen in the William H. Dorminy Family Portrait.
Also I am researching related lines in the family like the Petty Family. This page has an extensive database and some pictures of the family you will enjoy. They are from my Maternal Parentage. Look at Petty's at Lake Blackshear for a picture of our "group".
One particularly successful part of my research has to do with related lines of South Georgia families. Around the "turn of the Century" (1912) there was a man by the name of Gus Adams (friends called him "Pat") who lived near Chula,GA with several families. First with William and Louisa Jane Branch and then at the home of some of their grown children. After a while he moved in with the D.H. Hogan family. Gus was from Brooklyn, New York and came to Georgia about 1878 where he followed his occupation as a painter and decorator. While residing and working around the Chula area, he went from home to home and knew all the old residents of this section and visited with them. He attended family reunions, annual meetings and celebrations, and his writings of these gatherings were an interesting feature of the "Tifton Gazette" in Tifton Georgia for many years. Gus died in 1933. These stories live on to tell some very interesting histories of the different families of the area. Look especially at the "Whiddon" write up as it is very interesting in relation to the Dorminy family and where they originated.
CAUTION!!! Please be aware that Mr. Adams did not have the benefit of a computer to cross check
his information. He has a LOT of mistakes in these histories but if you use them, and are aware
of this fact, you can benefit by having a starting point. Do not use this information
as your final reference . I know for a fact that a lot of Dorminy information as well as other information
is partially WRONG so to be forwarned is to be forarmed.
Dorminy Family
Gibbs Family
Harper Family
Henderson Family
Hobby Family
Lott Family
Luke Family
Paulk Family
Ross Family
Sumner Family
Sutton Family
Vickers Family
Walker Family
Warren Family
Whiddon Family
Whitley Family
Willis Family
Young Family
My family enjoys hobbies of Waterskiing, Fishing , Tennis, Scuba Diving, Golf (well at least I do), and other outdoor activities. We enjoy the beach when we get a chance to go and our lakehouse on Lake Blackshear which is only 40 miles away. .
My lovely wife, Janice, graduated from LaGrange College also and then worked and received her Master's Degree and is a Consultant with the Psycho-Educational Services in Tifton. She is very good at what she does. She is a real "master" at getting me to do things and making me think it was my idea!
My two girls, Jennifer and Jeanine of whom I am proud, excel at almost all the athletics they have been involved with and both knock the top off the academics! While they each have a wall full of trophies in their rooms, I'm most pleased with the large trophies for highest grades in their respective organizations! (They get it from their mother!)
Jennifer is now a practicing attorney with the firm of Hall, Booth, Smith and Slover where she specializes in defending Doctors and Insurance Companies along with working on Tift County's Attorney staff. She is really good at what she does and is making a fine attorney.
Second daughter, Jeanine, married Luke Webster and after putting him through Dental School by teaching Math at Greenbriar High School in Martinez Georgia, she is going to teach Math again along with being the Assistant Basketball Coach while helping to put him throug Pediatrid Dental School at the Medical College of Georgia. To show you how prestigious it is to get into that school, they only accepted 3 students for next year and the total class only has 5 students ! He wants to come back to Tifton and open a practice in 2010. We are proud of all of them. We are working on a website for him.
Send email to preparer:
edorminey@dishmail.net
