Hello cousin’s and kinfolks connections, 

I started my research into the Casey Family Tree December 7, 2016.  I thought it would be a good idea to connect and reconnect with family members through Facebook for my project Casey Family Train. The FB Group page is for the Casey Descendants and Family and it is a closed group page on Facebook. This is in collaboration with our Casey Family Train and the Casey Family Reunion branch from Facebook. As promised over the next 5 years we would produce a Family History Booklet sort of a yearly chapter of the Casey Family Train Family Reunion Booklets. I had received copies of the 1990 and 1994 Family Reunion Booklet from my cousin Jean Pompey Bowie in January of 2018.    She said she had just 2 copies left and that they were meant for me, so that I don’t feel distant and helping to complete documentation of our Family Tree.  My goal is to start identifying the Casey Family Tree parts from the roots up and all of the new leaves. 

About a one month into the Casey Family Train Project.  I realized that I was missing out on a greater opportunity to connect and reconnect with Kinfolk’s of my Family Tree. I created an Ancestry.com account and began to build my family tree. This is where I found other family members who are doing the same thing I’m doing, researching their Casey Family Tree and Roots. My hope is that together we all can share and compare our information and documentation.

I always say “The more people you get involved in your search, the better off you are”. They may have pictures of relatives that you and others may not have. They may have family stories to share and / or information to give. These are things that cannot be replaced. A picture, once lost is gone forever. In some cases, it can be all that someone has to remember another person. We need to collect information, document it, verify it and digitized it for future generation.

 I met Alberta Casey Foster in Spring of 2020, and ever since the start we’ve been trying to figure out our possible Casey’s family connection. In April or so of that year I received an Ancestry DNA message from Sherrie Reeves who was trying to figure out the DNA connection between her son and my cousin Austin, whose Ancestry account I help manage. Sherrie, wanted and needed answers regarding this connection so, from what I had learned based upon the DNA at I think they are fourth cousin level. From her questions, I could tell she was looking for more. We talked and I diffused her concerns. Her last response was, “you need to talk with Alberta Foster, my Husband’s sister in Cincy” here is her number give her a call. She invited me to join the FB Casey Family Reunion Page. I figure we’d take it slow. She talked with other family members about who I was and some of them even contacted me. We had a small conversation on FB and Zoom Call interactions…

As Our Journey continue

We had tried to make plans to visit sooner, as Cincy is just 88 min from our back door.  But schedules never really matched up and in 2020 COVID-19 hit America.  Never forgetting Ms. Alberta, we began to talk every Tuesday about family and world concerns.  ‘It’s important to know your past’, she would say and being one of the youngest in her family and at her age it would be fun to do.  I asked her if she would be interested in taking a DNA test because I had seen other of her family members with Trees on Ancestry. After seeing Sherrie’s daughter DNA results on Ancestry, she responded YES.  Our non-profit, Claiming Your Roots, provides free DNA tests for family members over 80. Alberta says let’s get this done. 

While the pandemic was raging across the country, we’ve been talking sometimes on Tuesday and Thursday’s.  I shared the results with her and we’ve already begun writing and mailing information to each other. As we’ve delved deeper into our kinship, I told her at the end of this experience, I was going to adopt her into the Casey Family Train.

 We’ve started to document her Family Tree and then it started to hit me there are mint more connection than just with:

Alberta and I have been researching her Casey Family Reunion Facebook Group for close to 18 months has been amazing, a delightful eye-opening experience for me as well as other family members. Our roots go deep down in history. Where the Mississippi Delta or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwestern part of the state of Mississippi, parts of Arkansas and Louisiana which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers forms this region. 

The Ball Ground area lies within the southern boundaries of this delta where Warren County, Mississippi and the surrounding communities where a broad floodplain that was cultivated for Cotton Plantations before the American Civil War.  This is where many of our roots began but know that we came from somewhere else to get us here, so this where we have concentrated as a starting point for this journey.

As the country begun to grow and as the Industrial Revolution happened as the country transformed from Farming labor to manufacturing labor. So, families begun to leave the rural areas to seek a better life. Some branches of Our families migrated east towards to Cincinnati, Ohio this is a report on some of those family’s branches. My main goal is to inspire the family members: to collect, to document and to share information collected. Many of us have volunteered Our time and Energy in helping our community of family branches to discover our family history. We need to collect information, document it, and verify it.