I became interested in genealogy after my father passed away in 1990 and I discovered the family papers he had tracing our Abernethy ancestors from William Abernathy who died near Winchester Virginia in 1780. For many years I used the "shotgun" approach to my family tree, filling in any relatives and in-laws no matter how far removed. Now I generally focus on descendants of William.

I became interested in genealogy after my father passed away in 1990 and I discovered the family papers he had tracing our Abernethy ancestors from William Abernathy who died near Winchester Virginia in 1780. For many years I used the "shotgun" approach to my family tree, filling in any relatives and in-laws no matter how far removed. Now I generally focus on descendants of William.