What’s New ?

May 2008 - Corrected some existing errors in existing links to our e-mail address and links to some other websites.

April 2007 - Modified backgrounds to eliminate multiple images when viewed on wide screen monitors or at very high resolutions. Continued to try to improve viewability and readability of information.

November 2006 - Added "Our Virginia Roots" showing the results of the research of Otis Sikes of Texas and Dennis Maguire of California. In addition to listing our Smith County ancestors, this also list the ancestors and descendants of many other Sikes/Sykes families. If your ancestors lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas or any other southern state, you should review this material. We are grateful to Otis and Dennis for all of their hard work. We also modified the "Ancestor" page to show the addition of the above information, added a link to "Our Virginia Roots" to the Home page and made some minor corrections to the "First Family" page.

August 2006 - Added information that has been located on Carna F. Sykes and added the implication that Major Lewis Sykes is probably the son of Joshua Sikes, Sr's daughter, Elizabeth Sykes Parker as the result of DNA testing to the "First Known Smith County Sykes Family" page. Changed the annual reunion date; corrected the reference to the 39th annual reunion; added the 50th reunion article and added some photographs of past reunions. Corrected the date of death of Robert Harvey Sykes, Sr. Added a link to the Sikes/Sykes Families DNA Project and current DNA Test Results page.

November 2005 - Added newspaper article about 2005 annual reunion and changed the next reunion date.

Added a copy of documents located in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville relating to William's Civil War service and pension records and Amanda's pension records as William's widow with a Link from the "Civil War Record" page. Added a summary of the information in these documents to the "Civil War Record" page.

March 2005 - Added to "Other Related Families": Amanda Virginia Turner Ancestors, Lanna Thomas Wills Ancestors, Rebecca Sykes Waggoner Family.

Revised "Reviewed Census Records" and added "Census Taker Poem" with a Link from the the "Reviewed Census Records" Page.

February 2005 – This web site was first published.

Comments and Corrections: Jim Sykes

Last Updated: May 2008