My Eastern Kentucky Family

I think it's time I started looking more closely at my family history. I've done a little over the years, but I want to get more serious about it. So let's consider this a beginning.

I want to particularly look at the half of my family that comes from Appalachian Kentucky. This is my mother's side of the family, largely from Floyd and Pike counties in Kentucky. My grandfather was John Riley Bays, born 30 May 1910 in Rowan county, died 21 May 1997 in Floyd county, Indiana. My grandmother was Bertha Cymenthia Bentley, born 15 October 1911 in Pike county, died 25 November 1970 in Floyd county, Indiana.

Here is a list of family names I'm pretty comfortable saying are directly related:

• Akers
• Barker
• Bays
• Bentley
• Blankenship
• Bryant
• Caudill
• Collier
• Crase
• Flanary
• Foster
• Hale
• Hammonds
• Howard
• Jackson
• Mullins
• Osborne
• Perry
• Roberts
• Salyer
• Tabor
• Tackett

I'll start putting more information up later. Right now, I need to get to work. If you have any interest in these families, please let me know.