ARCHIVED GUEST BOOK ENTRIES, 2004


Cynthia A. Maret
E-mail: cynreed1965@aol.com
Ricks family connection: Eual s. /

Peggy Ricks Reed
Ricks family connection: Eual Stanley Ricks
State of orgin: Mississippi

Comments: hello I am hoping you are the relative I remember. My parent lived in Decatur Ala. Daddy,s people all had a ruddy complexion


Susan Ricks
E-mail: susan.ricks@langley.af.mil
State of orgin: north carolina
Parental lineage: Robert Lee Ricks

Gail Vaught
E-mail: vaught_gl@adelphia.net Your web site URL : www.afnav.com
Ricks family connection: See comments
State of orgin: Virginia - Surry Co 1678
Parental lineage: Jensen
Maternal lineage: Futral

Comments: Thomas Fewtrell, Srs son John Futrill, Sr married Martha Ricks and then Benjamin Futrell, Srs son Thomas married Sarah C. Ricks; dau. of William Ricks of Northampton CO, NC. Seems William Ricks and family and the Futrell/Futrill/Futral families not onl


Ralph L. Hanson
E-mail: RLHSIDEWINDER@aol.com
Ricks family connection: Eli Ricks
State of orgin: Virginia
Parental lineage: Ricks/Watkins/Reynolds/Hanson
Maternal lineage: Clayton/McCarty/Sims

Comments: Don, thanks for your help in locating my Temperance Ricks, b 1807, d 1829 and Lavinia Ricks, b 1827, for me. Lavinia died about November 22, 1852 in Greene County, AL.


Garnet Murphey
E-mail: pettibone48@yahoo.com

Comments: I am very interested in your MURPHEY records


Barbara Mollahan
E-mail: bmollahan@aol.com
Ricks family connection: Hannah Ricks
Parental lineage: Daniel Potter

Comments: Daniel Potter married Hannah Ricks in 1818 in Guilford Co N. Carolina Daniel was my 3rd greatgrandfather. I have the book and am still studying it after more than a year. You did a marvelous job, Don


Leslie Ricks
E-mail: lricks@mail.utexas.edu Your web site URL : www.geocities.com/dumbest3
Ricks family connection: Fathers side
State of orgin: TX
Parental lineage: father - Charles Ricks, Youngest son of Glenn and Geneva Ricks,
Maternal lineage: Pinckard

Comments: I was born in Lufkin TX where the Ricks have lived in this part of the country for several generations; originally my family is from the Moffett area which has now been incorporated into the area of Lufkin.


Morgan
E-mail: Ricks
Ricks family connection: Richard and Luella Ricks
Parental lineage: Lynn W. Ricks
Maternal lineage: Marcia K Porter

Phillip H. Ricks
E-mail: forsythfurnishings@adelphia.net
Ricks family connection: Georgia
State of orgin: North Carolina
Parental lineage: Donald R. Ricks
Maternal lineage: Winona Drummond

Laneta Livesay Mayfield
E-mail: letsquilt@comcast .net
Ricks family connection: Benjamin Ricks
State of orgin: North Carolina
Parental lineage: Francis Elizabeth Ricks

Comments: Francis E. is the Dau of Richard Allen Ricks and his first wife Alpha Dixon. He was the son of cousins, John Ricks and Charity Ricks. Johns father was Richard son of William son of Benjamin. Charitys father was Jonathan son of Lewis son of Benjamin.


Loretta Robbins Hood
E-mail: lrhood@hotmail.com

Comments: You have Isaac Robbins of Lee Co. Va. this is my ggggrandfather& Isaac M. Robbins of Scott Co.Va. is gggrandfather & Gale Robbins is my ggrandfather, & my grandfather is Joseph Dee Robbins Married Millie Bloomer they had 14 children....


moses ricks
E-mail: mary4u20052003@yahoo.com
Parental lineage: looking for dads line in family
Maternal lineage: son of mosis ricks

Comments: to any one who knew him please contact me im looking for my fmaily to ge to know them my dad was killed when i was a boy moved to east coast with my mom


Frank Ricks
E-mail: faric ksiii@msn.com
Ricks family connection: Louisiana German Ricks/Rueckes
State of orgin: Louisiana1854/Rennerod,Nassau, Germany 1500
Parental lineage: Albert Ricks/Rueckes
Maternal lineage: Wade English Louisiana

Comments: My family came to Louisiana in 1854 to New Orleans, setteled in Tangipohoa Parish La where there are many Ricks from 1830s. Must have changed spelling of German name from Ruckes) with .. over the u, and written in english Rueckes with an e after the u.


Scott J. Ricks
E-mail: ricks1974@bellsouth.net
State of orgin: Arkansas
Parental lineage: Marvin
Maternal lineage: Glenda Yelverton

Comments: lost track of lineage scott;marvin;c.e;king william;simpson reilly;simpson;???????????.


Jason Wall
E-mail: jwall_31@hotmail.com
State of orgin: North Carolina

Comments: Hello I am Jason Wall. I was looking around, and I played baseball in Grifton, North Carolina with Jason Ricks. I was wondering if this was the same one. This was about 16 years ago. If so I would like to talk to him just to say hi and to see what has hap


William McMeans Connor
E-mail: wconnor50@msn.com Your web site URL :
Ricks family connection: Alexina Ricks
State of orgin: Franklin County,Alabama
Parental lineage: Isaac Smith McMeans
Maternal lineage: Jane Caroline Dunklin

Comments: Thank You for your creating your geneology,which I accidently found and saw my GGGGrandfather and siblings names helping me to further my geneology research and welcoming new family members along the way.


Barbara Jo Butler
E-mail: cca2000@alltel.net
Ricks family connection: daughter of Josie

Comments: Don, Just wanted you to know the school has used your web site for work on their genealogy. Thanks for your work. Barbara Jo


Dawnine
E-mail: pcvdkc@yahoo.com
Ricks family connection: maternal grandmother
State of orgin: PA
Parental lineage: Clews
Maternal lineage: Grim-Ricks

Comments: I do not know if the Ricks I am researching have any connections with this family. I have not made much progress with them... but it is lovely to find a page that may hold possibilities in the future!!!


Jon Russell
E-mail: jonrussell5@yahoo.com Your web site URL : http://www.hubert-e-russell.com
Ricks family connection: Mary Ricks - Married James Russell
State of orgin: North Carolina
Parental lineage: James Russell
Maternal lineage: Mitchell/Ericson

Comments: My line is through the marriage of James Russell and Mary Ricks (1875)  who bore Milton Russell (Marie Cooney), who bore my father Hubert E. Russell.


Jenny Ricks
E-mail: jennyjgricks
Ricks family connection: just intrested in Ricks surname

Comments: i live in england, my aunty in England has been researching our Ricks family tree here


Naomi Ricks
E-mail: deavric@earthlink.net
State of orgin: Mississippi
Parental lineage: Ricks
Maternal lineage: Jones

Comments: Unsure if any connection but very interesting.


Clyde Rix
E-mail: crix@verizon.net Your web site URL : www.towson.edu/~rix/Welcome1.html
Ricks family connection: n/a

Comments: I love your web site. It tells the truth about the Rix families of Brancaster. I dont know if that branch of the family is extinct, I was told of a gardener living in Brancaster with the last name of Rix. My Great Great Great Grandparents are Samuel


RAYBOURNE RICKS HANK GUPTON
E-mail: themistergupton@hotmail.com
Ricks family connection: GRAND SON OF WALTER BOONE RICKS
State of orgin: MISSISSIPPI
Parental lineage: MARVIN AUBREY GUPTON OF WEST COLUMBIA, TEXAS
Maternal lineage: THERESA C. RICKS OF WHEELER AND LATER JACKSON, TENNESSEE

Comments: looking for information on the following families im related to. the downing family (grandma sina ellen downing ricks) and the kemp family ( paralee finley kemp olive, grandma olive.


BUD SKKROCH
E-mail: SKROCH@SBCGLOBAL.NET
Ricks family connection: GGSON OF JAMES BUCHANAN RICKS
State of orgin: OKLA-WYOMING

Dianne
E-mail: dianne_yoesting@eu.odedodea.edu

Comments: Dear Don, I need to know the exact where abouts of Vassincourt. I am a teacher for DoDDS and live in Heidelberg. Darmstadt is one of my schools. I have a friend in Michigan whose family immigrated from Vassioncourt, France. I need to know where it is--wh


Lydia Johnson
E-mail: johnsonlydia@hotmail.com
Ricks family connection: Great-Granddaughter
State of orgin: Florida
Parental lineage: Burney/Johnson (FL)
Maternal lineage: Webster (AL)

Comments: I was wondering if you knew how a portion of the Ricks family ended up in Florida. I am the granddaughter of a Thelma Mae Ricks Johnson (b. 1922), and she grew up in Bradford Co. FL where there were family land holdings. Any information?


Lauryn Ricks
E-mail: beachblonde2008@yahoo.com
Ricks family connection: my last name is Ricks

Comments: that is cool we have the same last name maybe we are related


RAYBOURNE RICKS HANK GUPTON
E-mail: themistergupton@hotmail.com
Ricks family connection: GRAND SON OF WALTER BOONE RICKS SR. WHEELER, MISS.
State of orgin: MISSISSIPPI
Parental lineage: GUPTON FAMILY OF WEST COLUMBIA, TEXAS
Maternal lineage: RICKS FAMILY OF WHEELER, MISS.

Comments: I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM RELATIVES IN THE WHEELER, BOONEVILLE, TUPELO AND BALDWYN OR ANY AREA. IM CONNECTED TO WHEELER BY THE RICKS AND OLIVE FAMILIES. MY GRAND PARENTS WERE WALTER BOONE RICKS SR. AND ANGIE OLIVE RICKS. MY MOTHER WAS THERESA RICKS GUPTON


Jennifer
E-mail: schramer@wk.net
Parental lineage: Robert Blain Ricks Jr.
Maternal lineage: Gaye Lynn Floyd

Comments: My father was not raised by his family. He has recently passed and I am looking for relatives of the Ricks family. I do know that my G.grand fathers name was Robert Blain Ricks. My fathers mother was Viria. I am not for sure what her maiden name was. If y


CHERYL SYPOLT
Ricks family connection: Casteel

Roberta J. L. Ricks
E-mail: ricksanaheim@webtv.net
Ricks family connection: father: Peter Ricks
State of orgin: Virginia
Parental lineage: Hanson Ricks
Maternal lineage: Wheaton of South CArolina

Comments: I saw a message from another Roberta Ricks and was curious. We appear to have the same lineage, namely Hanson Ricks. My family geneology search goes as far back as Hanson & wife Sarah


Douglas F Ricks Jr.
E-mail: dougandnora@aol.com
Ricks family connection: son of Douglas F. Ricks Sr.
State of orgin: Valdosta, Ga.

Andrew J. Ricks
E-mail: ajricks@earthlink.net
Ricks family connection: unknown
State of orgin: Alabama
Parental lineage: Albert T Ricks Sr
Maternal lineage: Violet F Reynolds

Robert J. Stevens
E-mail: bobhist@yahoo.com
Ricks family connection: Author of James H. Saye history

Comments: E-mail follows soon.


J.D. Ricks
E-mail: jrix2@juno.com
Ricks family connection: Isaac Rickesis
State of orgin: Virginia
Parental lineage: Ricks
Maternal lineage: Bennett

Comments: Interesting site. Made any connections with England yet?


Dana Ricks-Tasker
E-mail: katasker@msn.com
Ricks family connection: Charles B. Ricks III
State of orgin: New Orleans, La.
Parental lineage: Charles B. Ricks II
Maternal lineage: Linda Prestenbach

Comments: Any Ricks family from Louisiana?? Email me!


Theresa Ricks
E-mail: tricks6@bellsouth.net
Ricks family connection: Daughter
State of orgin: Kentucky
Parental lineage: Ricks
Maternal lineage: Hight

Comments: Curious about my family history. My father was a great person that people loved and admired.


Casey James Ricks

Comments: Hey Uncle Don, This is Casey James Ricks, Love the Photos and will hope to see them soon,Casey!!!!


Mary Ricks Roberts
E-mail: Erinsmuma@aol.com
Ricks family connection: Sherman G. Ricks
State of orgin: Missouri
Parental lineage: Ricks
Maternal lineage: Norton

Gregory S. Ricks
E-mail: megricks@yahoo.com
State of orgin: New Jersey
Parental lineage: George Ricks, Jr.
Maternal lineage: Patricia Lou Jeffress

Comments: Brothers Jeff (N.C.), Gary (S.C.) and Glenn (PA)


Jennie Perry Elliott
E-mail: jennie57@socal.rr.com Your web site URL :
Ricks family connection: Great Granddaughter of Asbury & Phoebe Saye
Parental lineage: Perry
Maternal lineage: Bessie E. Saye Perry

Comments: Would love to know more of Phoebe Ricks Saye and Asbury Washington Saye. I have 3 letters written by Asbury Washington Saye. Phoebe also writes in this regarding some of her relatives.


Jerry D. Ricks
E-mail: jrix2@juno.com
Ricks family connection: Isaac Rickesis
State of orgin: North Carolina
Parental lineage: Dale, George, Joseph Alexander, Lewis, Joel, Jonathan, Lewis, Benjamin, Isaac
Maternal lineage:

Comments: Am seeking any information about Isaacs birthplace and the family ancestral home in England (Norfolk?). I will state up front that I am of the western Mormon Ricks. I have often found in the past that this information will quickly make me persona non gratis. [Not so here, Jerry]


Elisabeth Saffels Spicer
E-mail: ESSpicer@aol.com
Ricks family connection: Huldah Ricks
Parental lineage: Saffels
Maternal lineage: Brothers

Angela M Ausemus
E-mail: angela4alc@hotmail.com
Ricks family connection: Father: Larry Steven Ricks, son of Jerry Ricks (Father) and Joan (Mother)
Parental lineage: above
Maternal lineage: Trimmer

Comments: I enjoyed exploring your website. Ill be back!


Donovan Joseph Ricks
E-mail: dricks3@nc.rr.com
Ricks family connection: Donovan Douglas Ricks

Martha Hill Whitcomb
E-mail: johmarwhit@austin.rr.com
Ricks family connection: granddaughter of Sarah Elizabeth Ricks Hil
State of orgin: Va
Parental lineage: f. Louis Edward Hill; grdf. Lewis Payne Hill/grm. Sarah Elizibeth(Sadie) Ricks; ggrandf. Albert Thornton Ricks/ggrm Catherine Crisp; gggrdf. Petty Haywood Ricks/ gggrm. Sarah Francis Thornton; ggggrdf. Josiah Ricks/ ggggrdm. Sarah Gandy

Comments: Cathrine Crisp, who m. Albert Thornton Ricks, was dau of Leroy Randloph Crisp and Mary Catherine Hill. Mary Catherine Hill was dau. of Berry Hill/ Elizabeth Reach (NC/ Green Co. Ala/ La)This Hill line goes back the Robert Hill/Mary Va 1642.thru their son


Ronald M. Ricks
E-mail: rkbgap@yahoo.com
Ricks family connection: Father was Malcolm M. Ricks son of William Washington Ricks

Comments: I was born in Americus Ga. in 1953 My dad was Malcolm M. Ricks who had 7 brothers and 2 sisters. I think most of the decendants are still in Ga. or La. but we moved to Texas in 1955.


Mr, and Mrs. Terry Ricks
E-mail: sricks@nlamerica.com
State of orgin: Isaac Ricks
Parental lineage: Ricks

Comments: We enjoyed the site it helped us with a little bit of history on our ancestors.


FRANK E. RICKS
E-mail: ALLPHASESER@CS.COM
Ricks family connection: SIMPSON RILEY RICKS/S.R. JR./KING WILLIAM/ CLARENCE EDWANRD
State of orgin: ARKANSAS
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