I have only recently started my heritage search, and could only trace my Allender roots to Thomas Allender b.1784. When I found this site I was so excited to find it tracing back to William b. 1640! I am descended from the Fairfield, Iowa branch - Great grandfather was Emory Morris Allender. I did not change my name when I married, as my father Leo only had daughters and I wanted to keep the name alive for a little longer at least. How great to find so many Allenders! Would be happy to share any info I have on the more recent Allenders from this branch.

do u have any family in ky.

I want to thank you for making a wonderful website devoted to us Allenders. I have always been fascinated by the Allender history. When I was young, my father and I would go up to lehigh and meet up with my grandmother and grandfather at the Allender family reunions. My father has some sort of Allender book that I will try to get a hold of that may better help this site. I dont know much about our ancestry, but I do remember someone mentioning a long time a go that we may have been called the "earlanders"? and that we came from the Island of Earl? I dont know if that is true or not, as I have searched for such an island and came up with nothing. Interesting.

I am Celia Allender Shoemaker's grandaughter. I am just starting to find my father's family. He was Richard Wesley, Celia and William Shoemaker's youngest son. We know so little, would love to hear from anyone with info on them. Thx Judy Schumaker Cummings

I want to thank Kristina for her dedication to this repository of family history. It has been a sincere pleasure in getting to know you and share this knowledge back and forth. I am the grandson of Howard Allender, the last male Allender of the Maryland lineage. His six daughters (one of whom is my mother Anne) have rededicated themselves to preserving our lineage before all stories and records are lost to time. My role in assisting them is to ensure that the documents we have to offer this cause are electronically available, whether they be pictures of gravestones and properties, audio recordings of songs and recountings, or archival finds. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, or simply to reach out. -Brian

Researching descendants of immigrant ancestor Thomas Axtell and ancestors of Axtells' spouses.

Just wanted to verify the date of death of my Grandfather, Alonzo Larue Allender.

I have been researching the Guyton line, and found where a generation of Guytons and Allenders married each other in Maryland.

My sister passed July of last year. She had one son who now has a girlfriend. His girlfriends mothers is very familiar with researching her ancestors. She contacted me wanting any information I could give. She found a great deal of information and gave me this website to check out. It sounds like I may have some distant cousins.

I am searching for the Allender's from West Virginia/Virginia. John L Allender is my great-great-grandfather. Please contact me by e-mail if you have any information about the Allender's from this area. I will list what I know so far below. Thank you!

John L Allender was born in 1870 Frankfort, Mineral County, West Virginia and died 1935 in Springfield, Hampshire, West Virginia. His father, George Allender, was born around 1845 in Virginia. John L's brother was Dennis W. and their mother's name was Catherine. I found recently that George Allender died of Consumption in 1880 according to the US Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index. His wife Catherine died sometime prior or around then, because both sons, John L and Dennis W were living with the Simpson family in 1880. (John L later married Simpson's daughter)