Group Administrator:
- Email:
Herb_316@bellsouth.net
- Email:
martin.hendrix@charter.net
Project Surnames
Hendrick, Hendricks, Hendrix, Hendryx
Project Background
Project Background: The Root of this research effort is Dorothy N Lloyd Wright’s research into her Hendricks Family History. Beginning about 1989 Dorothy hired Dr. John Scott Davenport to begin research into her family history. As word of this effort got around to various Hendricks researchers the project grew in terms of contributors. Some of these contributors were Marilyn Coalla, Col. Meredith E Hendricks, Caroline Crabtree, and Roberta Hendrix to just mention a few. In the very early 1990s Dorothy died but her work was carried on by what was to be the Hendricks Family Association put together by Col. Meredith E. Hendricks.
The research effort was named Frontier Hendricks due to the fact a lot of the early Hendricks were Indian Traders on the Frontier and could speak the variety of Indian languages.
A coalition of Hendrick/s Family member supported the research from their own personal funds and carried the work forward resulting in two Volumes called Frontier Hendricks Vol 1 and Vol 2.
In addition research was carried forward into the Albemarle (NC) Hendricks (sponsored by John Henry Hendrix) and recently Patti Mulnix has completed a book on the Hendricks which of this area of NC and elaborates further on this set of Hendricks [DNA data shows that there are two groups in Eastern NC]. The Pamunkey (Virginia) Hendricks DNA data base has expanded as well as the South Carolina Hendricks DNA data base. Two groups who seemed to have gone through Westmoreland Co., PA and then into IN were originally connected by lineages to the Frontier Hendricks. DNA data to date on these two groups; 1) VP Thomas Andrews Hendricks line has been shown to be from Daniel Hendrick of MA; 2) the other group Henry Hendricks b 1755-65 which thought they were kin to V.P. Thomas Andrews Hendricks and the Frontier Hendricks has also been separated by DNA. In all work in PA, MD, DE, VA, NC, KY, TN, SC, GA and a little of AL was documented. These files and contributors of other Hendrix/Hendrick/Hendrick/Hendricks research (>2GBits) are available free to DNA participants and helpers on a DVD-R.
However there still remained uncertainties such as 1) the exact lineage of Thomas A. Hendricks, VP of the USA Ancestors Family. (Note: recent research shows this line not Frontier Hendricks but Daniel Hendrick of MA), 2) the origin of Moses Hendricks of SC m Susanna, 3) James Hendricks of SC m Jane? and a growing number of others. Of particular note was the separation of another group called James Hendricks m Christinia (from MD to NC) from the Frontier Hendricks group via DNA testing.