South Georgia & Dorminy/Dorminey
Family Genealogy !
J.E. (Edd) Dorminey
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.
In my spare time I
enjoy Genealogy Research. Matter of fact, if you want
to see some old Dorminy/Dorminey photo's, click on
this link that will take you there!
I have PUBLISHED a
huge book of over 900 pages size 8 1/2 x 11 with many old family photo's, entitled
DORMINY/DORMINEY: DESCENDANTS OF
JOHN AND RACHEL DORMINY OF IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
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.
Send email to: edorminey@dishmail.net
DESCENDANTS
OF JACOB DOMINIG of near SALZBURG, AUSTRIA (Wordperfect
file)
DESCENDANTS
OF JACOB DOMINIG of near SALZBURG, AUSTRIA (Microsoft Word file)
DESCENDANTS OF FREDERICK
DOMINY of WILKINSON CO., GEORGIA
DESCENDANTS
OF JONATHAN DOMINY of LAURENS CO., GEORGIA
(This is probably better known for his son. James H. Dorminey of Irwin County, Georgia)
I offer three books
that are available ONLY online. If you are running Internet Explorer and can
open a Wordperfect file, you are in business with
perfectly formatted documents. If you are running Netscape as your browser, you
are out of business right now until I figure out the problem why it won't load.
If you can only open a Microsoft Word file, one has been converted with some
formatting problems but it will still open, you just have to 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) If you can send me any updated
information on this family, 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.
This is an update on the genealogy going back as far as we
can trace it. This goes back to 1637 and is our direct line of ancestors.
HISTORY
OF THE DAMINIG FAMILY IN EUROPE 1637-1752
German
Information
Our family came from a small village in Germany, Machtolsheim.
(Between the city of Ulm and the city of Stuttgart, just
about a mile or so south of the Autobahn). It is near the village of Laichengen and is sometimes now only referenced that way
even though they are two distinct villages. I am assembling some interesting
pictures that show the village and some of the information that we have about
the family. I hope you enjoy this information! Anyone that has more information
please email me as listed above.
Also,
I'm putting some German information here that I need help translating.
Machtolsheim
If you know enough to help, please look through this file
and see if you can translate a few pages (or more)
Irwin County Probate Records
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.
Index to
Microfilms
Irwin
County Wills
Irwin
County Estate Records
Irwin
County: Death Dates
Irwin
County Guardianship Records
Irwin
County Various Other Records
Irwin
County Georgia Marriage Certificates (almost 7000!)
If
you want copies of the records or marriage certificates, you can order the
microfilm from the Family History Center in Salt Lake City for about $30 per
roll. There are 17 rolls, which include the estate records of Irwin County
also. Order from :
Family History Department
50 E. North Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
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.
My favorite family photo of my Great Uncle Budger Hampton Dorminy is a
sight to behold. He liked to hunt, fish and save money
according to his grandson. My father used to refer to him and he was known
generally in the family as Uncle "H". He lived near the Alapaha River and had all daughters! Here he is with his
deer horn, dogs and double barrel shotgun.
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".
GUS ADAMS
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,dove
hunting, quail hunting, Golf (well at least I do), and other outdoor
activities.
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, excelled 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!) Jeanine obtained her Masters Degree in Math Education. She is teaching Math in
Martinez, GA and has now married Dr.Luke Webster who
is specializing in Pediatric Dentistry and will open an office in Tifton in May
2010, Pediatric Dental
Center of Georgia . Jennifer is an attorney with
Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover in Tifton and she
defends doctors and other forms of law practice
Here they are standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1996. Jennifer is on the left with Jeanine on
the right.
And here they are with Janice standing on a hill overlooking
the town of Salzburg, Austria in the Spring of 1997. We
were in Germany and went to our ancestral village of Machtolsheim
also.
L-R Jennifer, Janice and Jeanine
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