Hi! Welcome to our Family website - and to this new blog......

Welcome, Everyone!

This is a brand new blog, begun as a way to communicate about this website, which is a serious “work in progress”. This website was created over three years ago as a project to organize all of the family history files accumulated and created by Patricia Holliday Dorsett, my mother. My three brothers and I have been the recipients of a significant amount of information about our family and its history over 200+ years in America and more than that in England. In addition to the information about our genealogy and the fascinating aspects of our ancestors, we also have a number of “FAMILY TREASURES” and “FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS” that tell the story of our family and its several branches.

On the website (again - a work in progress), you will find short histories of each family in our ancestry. Importantly, our HOLLIDAY family tree is by far the largest, with the most descendants and members of the family who I hope will be able to find and appreciate this website. Our grandfather, ROLLIE CRUMPTON HOLLIDAY, was the youngest of ten children in his family. His parents were Darling Hollis Holliday and Sarah Loretta Thomas Holliday, who lived on their over 600 acre farm in Lamar County, Alabama. His nine siblings, listed in birth order, include James Franklin, Robert Sim (“SimBob”), Richard Dupree, William Floyd, Bessy Tallue (Spence), Mallie Evalee (Gordon), Lucien Redden, Isaac Burley, Nancy Annie Mae (Harris). Of note, neither James Franklin and Richard Dupree ever had children, but there are many descendants from the remaining eight siblings!

I hope all Holliday descendants find this website and enjoy looking through the hundreds of documents and photographs and history. Also, we plan to create access so that other family members can contribute their own treasures, photographs and information, helping to further preserve the rich history of our family.