This website is centered around the families of Henry Hugh Green and Lillie Belle (Young) Green, Leroy Frank Cowell and Caroline Miller (Cowell) Messenger, and John Leonard Dahl and Eileen Hazel Fitzgerald.  Of course there are many families that branch off of these families, and we’ll try to keep up with everyone.  There are still a lot of blanks to fill in - people, births, deaths, marriages,biographical notes, etc.  Please take a look and send me any information I can add.  Also photos!  Your pictures, and pictures of your ancestors (scans at 300 dpi at least, 600 would be better).  Also pass the word to others.  I’ve more than once gotten critical information from relatives who learned about this family tree from others.

I update the website periodically, as time allows, so check back frequently.  

All of the headings above have drop-down lists with sub-menus. Perhaps the best way to get started is to click on "Home" and then check out "site map".  You can also see your relationship to everyone here by clicking on "People", then "Relationships".

I've relied largely on information I was able to gather directly from family members (notably, on the Green-Young side the research by Darla Robertson St. John, Janiece Green, Tarleton Rutledge, Michael Cook, Robert Stevens, Stephen Rice, among many others, and family records, memories and photos from Joy Green, Sue (Green) Nelson, Zane Turley, Ida Mae (Turley) Blackburn and others; on the Cowell (and Messenger/Miller) side mostly Myron Cowell, Rhoda Messenger, and a few others, and John and Eileen Dahl on the Dahl side.  I've also referred to other existing genealogies to point me in the right direction.  Many are well-documented, others not at all, so I have had to chase down a lot of documentation.  In many cases I have had to throw out large sections of family trees because they relied on a questionable relationship that I could not document.  Most recently, for example, I had to remove the link, from a well-respected researcher, showing Richard Duckett as the son of William Duckett of England (whose line is descended from royalty) because I discovered documentary evidence proving this link to be impossible.  I have tried to be meticulous about  documenting all relationships where there might have been some doubt.  There are still some entries where I’d like to do more research, though.  Any help is always appreciated.

You can contact me by clicking on the “contact me” in blue in the Welcome message above.

This is a semi-private website.  This website will not show up on internet searches for living persons.

Ken Green