Category Archives: Special Topics

Cousins or First Cousins-Once Removed What’s the Difference? A cousin at any distance or level in your family tree is truly your “cousin.”  One of the things I’ve enjoyed mostContinue reading “First Cousin – Or, First Cousin Once-Removed”

“I’m Proud of My Country Roots” Wayne Haston About 1951 – Left to right: My Dad (Boyd Haston), sister Marilyn, me (Wayne), cousin Mickey McWilliams, and of course – theContinue reading “Proud of My Country Roots – Wayne Haston”

Comb (or Tent) Graves = “Born” in White County, TN? Visitors who are not familiar with White County, Van Buren County and some of their neighboring counties are often surprisedContinue reading “Tent Graves: A Middle TN Phenomenon”

Be Careful What You Hang on Your Family Tree It May Haunt Your Family Forever! When I began researching my family history, I was totally at the mercy of otherContinue reading “Be Careful What You Hang on Your Tree”

Building a USPS (Snail Mail) List for Occasional Mailings Related to the History and Heritage of Daniel Haston & Haston Family Events If your current surname (or the surname ofContinue reading “Submit Name and USPS Address for Occasional Snail-Mailings”

DNA – An Introduction by Darvin Martin, Scientist & Genealogist View the June 7, 2021 Zoom Session with the Daniel Haston Family Association View Another Video: Darvin Martin Teaching theContinue reading “DNA – Explained by Scientist and Genealogist Darvin Martin”

One Family – Many H-Surname Spellings Colonel Howard H. Hasting, Sr. – a 1950s–early 1980s Haston family researcher – opened his research report on the family of Daniel Haston with thisContinue reading “Surname Spellings in Daniel Haston Family”

Book Progress Update – December 2020 The work on this book actually began in the fall of 1999, when I started interacting with other people who were researching our HastonContinue reading “Book Project – Heritage of Daniel Haston”

Hastons – A Family of Pioneers Daniel Haston and his family were American pioneers, in the truest sense of the word. And we can’t begin to imagine how tough itContinue reading “Hastons – A Family of Pioneers”

Why Study Dead People? Or “Discovering Your Family’s History” Written by Deborah Johnson This article is based on an interview I had with Dr. Wayne Haston, an expert on discovering family history.Continue reading “Discovering Your Family History”