http://wf-page.net/

The form and format of the site will stay the same with a few simple additions. The updates page will continue to keep you apprised of the changes as they occur. I won't repeat that information here.

http://dailystarjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=25&ArticleID=16012

The ancestor search engine at Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System lists George Wampler (~1756), George Wampler (1736), John Wampler (~1745), John Wampler (1761) and Michael Wampler Sr. (1724). The descendants search gives 257 entries associated with these Wamplers and Wampler women that married into other DAR families.

As the Internet grows with so much useful genealogical material, there are some very useful new web sites (see here) as well as some much updated older ones. The list of sites with specific Wampler information has been updated. Of particular help to this update is the "Rudisill, Sponseller, Deardorff, Blettner and Allied Families" site maintained by Vanessa Rudisill Stern. Her World Connect pages linked there have data on 109 Wamplers and many allied families.

Still, the contributions from mail and e-mail communications continue to be very valuable. The following are acknowledged for sending in a block of material that expanded our database significantly. The abbreviations in {} brackets point to the Bibliography.

• Theresa M. Markland {tmm}
Theresa sent information on the lineage Joseph->Samuel->Samuel Cleophus (1862)->Milton L (1904) (entered here as [mc0-40] and following. This adds another family to the McKeesport, PA, Wamplers. While this line can not directly linked to the others, they come from the Allegheny and Westmoreland county area. The only Joseph from there in our database of the correct age would be [mc1-1] Joseph P.
• Kathleen Stoker Overton {kso} Kathleen sent some helpful data from her book, its index and the index pages from one of Roy Wampler's books and the Mason Book. This bootstrapped the new set of indices pages.
• Jami Wampler Scannell {jws} sent information on her family starting at [hm8-157].
• Marguerite Stetson {mst} Over the years Marguerite has help us build a family tree for ancestors and descendents Daniel Wampler of Armstrong County PA.
• Georgann Wampler {gw} Georgann cleared up two of our "Who is.." listings with further information on the family tree assigning [hm4-5] as the Elizabeth WAMPLER [hm4-5] who was mother of Samuel Logan WAMPLER and Rev. William Henry WAMPLER. Her data includes thirty eight of Elizabeth's descendents. What a nice contribution!
• Randall Curtis Wampler {raw} Randall has sent a couple of updates to the information for the line starting with unknown progenitor [?4]William (Bill) Wampler and [mc0-6] Charles Frederick Wampler. Along with the information from his cousin, Kimberly A. Wampler {kaw}, we now have a very nice family tree for this line.
• Roy Wampler {rhw1}, {rhw2}, {rhw3}, {rhw4} Roy Wampler has written extensively about Wampler and allied families. I found a nice of collection of his books in the Frederick Co library and Roy sent me an index of one of his books. Later, Kathleen Overton also sent an index of one.
• Stephen Wampler {sw} sent information on his family starting at [hg8-15].
• Theodore Richard Wampler {trw} sent more information on his family [mc0-13] and following.

• Don Matson {dm} deserves acknowledgment for his past, unacknowledged contributions to the initial site information. He has been a long time genealogist researching a number of families including the Wamplers. He recently donated a large group of over 800 files to the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, IN, where he has been an active volunteer. Thirty six of the family folders in their collection, that have been indexed to date, contain Wamplers. He recently wrote to point out that some of the base material that resulted in the start of this web site may also be traced back to his work and to that of Harry Smith of Stanford, IN, before him. At his request, I've included his comments verbatim below:

  "The info. that Terry Wampler gave you, came from me & I've been doing genealogy since 1959 & I got it from the person who really put it together back in the 1940-50 era & that was Harry Smith of Stanford, In. He had married 2 sisters whose maiden name was Sylvester & had traced their lineage back to the Wamplers. He spent a lot of time traveling to Va. & Pa. & looking up the old records & talking to a lot of the older Wamplers who are now deceased. As far as I know, he is the first person to make a study of the Wampler genealogy & I feel should be mentioned in your work.

  From the info. that Harry gave me which was one of his 5 Wampler workbooks, I added many notes of my own research & all that Terry did, was just to xerox this workbook & put the info. into his computer. Terry always told me, that he didn't like to go out & do the research, but only liked to download/copy the info. into computer. Terry's aunt lived in my bldg. & when he would come & see her once a year, we would get together & do this Wampler thing. After his aunt died, I never hear from him any more."