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Gauss and his Children
This web site gathers together information about the descendants of Carl Friedrich Gauss. I envision it as a meeting place for researchers and family members, since both groups have an interest in this information.
I would also like to invite those whose find a relative here to include their own stories.
Families included here are: Chambless ~ Fawcett ~ Gauss ~ Johns ~ Simmons
Please feel free to add comments to the discussion pages, which you can reach by clicking the tab at the top of any page you would like to comment on. You can also contact me directly. I will allow anyone to edit the discussion pages as long as it doesn't become a problem.
What's New
- I have finished adding the William T. Gauss collection, and have been working on indexing it. Also, I have been working on a big index of Gauss descendants, starting with the genealogy in Dunnington's book, and extending it with new information.Susan 04:53, 15 July 2008 (CDT)
- I am in the process of adding material to Ancestral Lines of Helen Worthington Gauss, which I tend to think of as the William T. Gauss collection. This is a photocopy of the material collected by William T. Gauss, and extended by his daughter, Helen Worthington Gauss. It is quite extensive, and was collected mostly in the first half of the 20th century. Susan 07:27, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
Dont know where to start?
Try the letters or the John Jay Johns Journal, 1860 to 1865. I know that there is an awful lot here, but I have tried to organize it into reasonable categories. Starting points are Category:People, Category:Documents, Category:Dates and Category:Places. The places category is not very fleshed out at the moment. You can always get to these categories by way of the links under navigation. There is also a [./genealogy Genealogy Data Site] for people on the wiki, plus many more who are not on the wiki.
Favorite Things
One of my favorite things about the site is the Dates index (see left). There, the 300 years covered by this site are broken up into centuries, then decades. On each decade page, births, deaths, documents written and world and family events are listed for each year, forming a kind of time-line for the site. For instance, see 1860-1869. Of course, this requires a certain amount of attention, adding date properties to the appropriate pages, but I have more or less gotten into a habit with that.
About the site Software
This page is part of a MediaWiki site, like Wikipedia. Every page is editable by any logged in user, although I have been developing some conventions that make things easier to find. See the Help section for more. In addition, there is a genealogical software, Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building. Each person with a page in the wiki (if the connection has been made) is linked to a page in the genealogy. See About This Site for more information.
Blogs
I have added a blog for my commentary on the work I am doing on this site, and also for my other interests.
Thanks To:
- The Collectors who originally gathered these materials: Anne Durfee Gauss, Minna Gauss Reeves, William T. Gauss, Helen Worthington Gauss, Helen Worthington Sansone.
- My brother, Bob Chambless, for his special help and support, and also to the rest of my immediate family.
- Bob Newsome, for keeping the Johns family genealogy, and generously allowing me to use it as a base.
- Skip Johns, for generously loaning me the Virginia Stash.
- Bill Fawcett, for generously sharing with me the manuscript of his privately printed book on the Fawcett family.
- Ruth Ratliff who sent additional information on the Fawcett family.
- Dave Willis and Alan Morgan who shared info on John Jay Johns' daughter Louisa Johns Morgan and that branch of the family, as well as the wonderful portraits of John Jay Johns' sons, Glover, Arthur and Shirley, and the wonderful picture of the Johns house in St. Charles, Mo.
- Countless others who have emailed me and generously shared information with me.
