i am related to either a washtub woodson or a potatoe hole woodso?

Question

n is anyone out there my kin

Answer 1

Hey WoodsonHannon,

Well, sure someone is your kin. If you are a woodson, see the link below. You should ask some to help you formulate the question a little better if you seriously want help, I think you need it.

Answer 2

We thought you were kidding. I googled "Washtub Woodson" and found:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/navigator/nav1226.htm
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By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
December 26, 1996

As part of his Grandparent Project, due Jan. 4, our second-grader, Holt, was assigned to write about his first ancestor to come to America.

Our only clue was a piddling entry on an old family tree: "Dr. John Woodson, 1619, on the ship `George.' "

Though I'd heard genealogy is the second most popular pastime on the Internet, behind e-mail, I had little faith I would find anything.

I was so wrong. Nothing, not even high technology, gets in the path of a strong story.

In Alta Vista, I entered the name "John Woodson." To help the search gizmo, I added "george" and "1619."

Lo and behold, John Woodson has his own home page. From the work of a genealogist in Virginia who cited her sources, I learned that Woodson was born in 1586 in Dorsetshire, England, and crossed the sea on the ship George in 1619 with his new Devonshire bride, Sarah, and 100 other pioneers.

John and Sarah settled on the south side of the James River in Henrico County, Virginia and had three children: John, Robert and Deborah. In 1622, Woodson and his family survived an attack by Indians. The doctor was not so fortunate the next time, according to one descendant who passed along this impossible-to-check story. The story, along with a politically correct disclaimer, is posted on the page of Sarah Winston Woodson.

One April day in 1644, Dr. Woodson was almost home after making his rounds. A group of Indians attacked and killed him. They then moved toward the house. Woodson's wife, their two sons, and a tutor were in the house. "Their only weapon," wrote the family historian, "was a huge old-fashioned gun which the schoolmaster used so effectively that at the first fire he killed three Indians and at the second, two. Meanwhile two Indians tried to come down the chimney to the house. Mrs. Woodson seized a pot of boiling water from the fire and scalded the first; she snatched up the iron spit from the fireplace and with it brained the second."

The attackers retreated. After the dust had settled, 12-year-old John crawled out from a hole where the family stored potatoes. His younger brother emerged from beneath a washtub.

"Even today," the historian wrote, "when there is a gathering of Woodsons, a favorite question is, `Are you a wash-tub Woodson or a potato-hole?' "

I was astonished that something so vast and unwieldy as the Web could be so simple and convenient. I explored other genealogy sites such as Janyce's Genealogists' Web Pages and Genealogy's Most Wanted and I browsed through a shelf of make-your- own-family-tree CD-ROMs, such as Family Gathering, Family Ties and Swift Family Ancestry, at the local computer store.

Holt was delighted when I told him I'd found some stories about John Woodson. But when I told him to tell anyone who asks that he's a washtub Woodson, he seemed slightly overwhelmed by the burden of history.
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Next I went to
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
and entered Woodson, John
DOB 1586 +/- 5

I checked all 3 boxes:
Has Descendants
Has Notes
Has Sources

I got 110 hits. With all 3 boxes unchecked, I got 624. All of those data bases have e-mail addresses. Pick a couple that look good, click on "Descendancy" and se ehow far they take you.

There are pages on the real genealogy sites, Ancestry and GenForum, devoted to the Woodson surname. I'd wager most of the posters there will know what a washtub Woodson and a potatoe hole Woodson are. Write to me if you can't find them. This YA Category is for beginners; as proof, no one knew what you meant and I was the first of five to bother to look it up. I think you'd do better on a Woodson Surname board.

Answer 3

I am sure someone out there is your kin. I heard that washtub is busy these days washing things and potatoe hole has an "eye" for the young spuds.

Answer 4

If you take it back far enough even grass is your brother. Really. The same atoms circle in most living things, differently and maybe a bit thinly composed but never the less the same. In a wide spectrum, there are not quite as many life forms after all on our planet. Wish well to you and your brothers.

Answer 5

Did someone leave the door to the asylum open?
Please close it now.

Answer 6

not me