Thanks for visiting. My name is Phil Burns, Charles is my ggg Grandfather. Two years ago my father knew his grandfather's name and when he died and that was the extent of the genealogy available for my father's line. Since then we have been researching his line on the internet, at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and with a trip to Michigan. This research has ended up with Charles and Mahala Burns, we have been unable to get past them.
I have met several folks online who are also descendants of Charles and Mahala and they have not gotten past them yet either. It is my hope in establishing this web site that I can create a repository for information on them and a gathering place for their descendants to compile data. Hopefully together we can find out who their parents were and where we came from.
Over the next couple weeks I will be building several pieces onto this site. For now, it will contain the basic information I have on them and a few pictures. I intend to include a message board (done now), ged files, and a picture repository. I also plan to write a comprehensive data collection and display system that will let everyone interactively add notes and information to the site. This will let everyone add people and information from their specific line and should hopefully help other people find this site.
Hopefully I will have time to get things put together here. For now, the following is available (probably not much new to anyone)
TimeLine of known information on Charles Burns and family
Narratives on Charles and Mahala
Pictures I have pertaining to Charles and Mahala
Documents I have pertaining to Charles and Mahala
Links to information about Charles and Mahala
New York Census research project to find Charles Birth info
Tombstone pictures of Charles son John Justice Franklin Burns on the Burns Memorial
I can be emailed here.
GEDCOM Files and Web Access to GEDCOM Files:
.ged of Phil's family from Charles down (I'll put other descendants in here if I receive them)
Special thanks to the following - I have already been in contact with them and they have a lot of information.
Dan Bell
Kathi Salome