Genealogy Home Page

This is the introduction to an early attempt to document my family tree. After starting this project I realized it was too time consuming to add additional people. Instead I now keep track of everything with a software program, which is much easier and faster. Thanks to some other distant relatives who sent me their files I now have over 7000 relatives recorded. The software has a web page generating feature which I used to document all descendants of my great great great great grandfather James B. Shackleford. The new web page may not have the homemade look of what I started but contains much more information, especially the descendants of my great great great uncle Sprigg Shackleford.

The index of the new web page is here. However you may still explore the old pages with the links to the people below.

Me ,Michael Whitney Shackleford (1965- ).
My wife, Jiang Chen (1971- ).
My mother, Christa Anna Melsheimer (1933- ).
My father, William Lewis Shackleford (1937- ).
My father's fatherJohn Lewis Shackleford (1905-1979).
My father's motherEthel Genevieve Gear (1908-1994).
My father's father's fatherLewis Pinkerton Shackleford (1875-1929).
My father's father's motherMartha Shane (1877-1953).
My father's father's father's fatherJohn Shackleford (1834-1921).
My father's father's father's brotherDr. John Shackleford (1862-1927).
My father's father's father's brother's daughterElizabeth Shackleford (1895-1989).
My father's father's father's father's fatherJames Shackleford (1801-1885).

Here are some other relatives.

Many other relatives in the tree, just hunt around.

What is the origin of the Shackleford name? According to Robert Shackleford, " Shackleford is an ancient hamlet in the parish of Goldalming in the County of Surrey, and there can be little doubt that from it the Shackleford family derives its name. In 1349 John de Shackleford was one of three trustees appointed by Richard atte Welle to hold his manors of Eastbury in Coompton and Unstead in Shalford, both in Surrey, for the benefit of his wife, children, and brother. No later occurrence of Shackleford as a surname has, however, so far come to light in Surrey, or indeed anywhere in England save in three small districts of the adjoining county of Hampshire. ... The status of all of the Hampshire Shacklefords so far traced seems to be that of yeomen or propsperous tradesmen. ... No coat of arms was ever recorded for the family" -from The Shackleford Family by Robert B. Shackleford, Jarman's Inc. printers, Charlottesville, VA, 1940.

Other sources on the Shackleford/Shackelford family:

The descendants of Francis Shackleford by Sandy Shackelford
ECHOES, A GENEALOGY PAGE
Roots Web