Welcome

We hope you will find information on this web site that will prove beneficial in completing your family genealogy. We are new to genealogy but we have learned that the reason the history of our ancestors is referred to as our "roots" is probably because they are so hard to "dig-up" and identify.

We believe that if you want to improve your proficiency in researching your family genealogy, it is necessary that you become an historian, a psychologist, a detective, a legal researcher and, when trying to interpret census records, a mind reader. If you are able to become proficient in reading old documents we hope that you will share your secret. We think it is important to always attempt to independently verify your information before sharing it with others. We recognize that it is almost impossible to personally verify all information that you use but it is always possible to provide the source of your information when sharing it with others.

The Internet is becoming one of our best "tools" for research but we always try to remember that not all information on the Internet is factual. We have found that some researchers tend to "publish" as much information on their web pages as possible without checking its accuracy or identifying the source. When we locate information on the Internet that we believe to be incorrect we always try to notify the "publisher" and provide supporting documentation for our differences. We have found that reviewing message boards and posting a query on these message boards and other web sites tends to produce good research sources and can often lead to others researching the same family.

Our promise to you is that all information on this web site will be as factual as we are capable of providing. If you find information that you believe to be incorrect, please notify us and provide documentation so that we can correct the information that we are providing to our visitors.

If you would like for us to include information on your Smith County ancestors and/or descendants, please send us the information and we will make every effort to include your material as soon as possible. We hope that every member of the Smith County Sykes families will consider this web site to be an important source of information. If you have a personal web site, we would like to include a link here.

This is a recent project for us and we will try to continue adding new information as soon as we find it. Thank you for visiting and as we say in Tennessee “Y’all come back”.

Questions or Comments: Jim Sykes.
Crossville, Tennessee