Anne Goodwin's
Family Source Compass

This entire web collection is undergoing (Fall, 2009) revision and is incomplete in its current state. Family Source Compass has provided history and genealogy data in materials published electronically and on paper. The central research and publication effort is upon the surname Hooper.

Emphasis is upon collection, transcription, and analysis of primary source records. The core interest is upon the southern and frontier United States areas of Hooper settlement, especially during the period of 1750 to 1890.

At present, research materials have only slight reference to Wyoming (during the territorial period from 1868 to 1890). A major Wyoming publication may become available at a later date.

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Print publications:

Attention: An interstate move shut down the Family Source Compass temporarily while Volume 6 was being created. Since then, two more interstate moves have occurred and delayed progress on the volume. Those who had already subscribed to Hooper Compass Volume 6 will receive a bound volume with all four issues as soon as possible (this is being updated in September 2009). Most of the fscompass webpages will continue to be available via the Internet. A small amount of new family data was added to the site in November and December 2006.
No new subscriptions to Volume 6 or Volume 7 of the Hooper Compass will possible. All those who had subscribed to Volume 6 will receive a complimentary copy of Volume 7.

Hooper order form. Price list for paper publications covering several different Hooper families. Not currently available.
Absalom Hooper Federal Pension File. Boy soldier of the Revolution, Absalom Hooper ran away from his Carolina home to join the Continental Line.
Hooper Compass Quarterly Newsletter - description, contents, index (annual and quarterly).
Index to WPA Biographies. Life stories from Wyoming's pioneers. Order form and description of index to files at state archives in Cheyenne.

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Interested in electronic versions of original and transcribed data? Many of these web pages were originally developed to provide supporting data for articles in the Hooper Compass. Follow these links for information stored at this Family Source Compass site:

Hooper (and a few Hopper) families

Bible records

Biography

William Hooper of North Carolina is one of the most famous American Hoopers. Unfortunately, many different unconnected Hooper families incorrectly claim him as an ancestor and have done so for several generations. Fortunately, much documentation exists for the life of the William Hooper. Also check out his will and family Bible records.
Clemmons Hooper, 1770-185_, was a younger brother to the Revolutionary War pensioner Absalom Hooper.
One Hooper daughter bore many different names - Salena has notes and documentation for a child of Dr. Enos C. Hooper.

Census records

Hoopers living in Tennessee in 1850 for links, by county, to information on persons surnamed Hooper who lived in Tennessee in the mid-nineteenth century. Additional counties will eventually be added.
Hooper families who appear in the NC Census.
Abraham Hooper and kin includes Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas census transcriptions regarding Abraham Hooper, Isaac Hooper, Jacob Hooper, and Letitia [Hooper] St.John, migrants from east Tennessee to western Missouri before 1850.
Miscellaneous Hoopers on the Census.

Court records

Hooper versus Hooper is a full transcription of a vicious court case pitting ten children of Absalom Hooper against two of their brothers in antebellum Jackson County, North Carolina. A full discussion of the case appears in the first volume of the Hooper Compass.

Deeds and other land records

Macon County, North Carolina deed from Clemmons C. Hooper - probably a transaction marking his move to Alabama.
Monroe County, Tennessee deed between two Hooper men.

Marriages

Ongoing project of transcriptions for early middle Tennessee marriages. These Davidson County records date from before the earliest extant census for the Cumberland area.

Military and pension records

Civil War Confederate Pensions - Virginia has abstracts from state records.
Two Hoppers in the American Revolution: Harmon Hopper and Moses Hopper notes. Both men lived close to Hooper families and could easily be confused with Hoopers.
Petition of James Hooper to the South Carolina House of Representatives about his Revolutionary service.
"Lost" Revolutionary Pension Documents contain transcriptions and scans for two Hooper families.

Probate (wills and estate records)

1825 will of William Hooper of Montgomery County, Tennessee, with names of his heirs.
1807 will of Churchill Hooper of [then] Davidson County, Tennessee. Transcription and images of the will submitted for probate in 1808.
1811 will of Absalom Hooper of Davidson County, Tennessee.

Hoopers worldwide

Transcribed documents for Hoopers in the British Isles.
Hoopers also came from Europe - see evidence for a Swiss immigrant. Documents here refer to Hoopers in Europe, or of European origins.

non-European Hoopers

Most of the data collected for this site links to Hoopers living in the United States. Further, most references are to families with European (i.e., white, causasian) origins. The reason for this emphasis is simple - documentation regarding white Hoopers in the United States is more readily available to me than is other Hooper data.

This collection of data will be different. It will eventually include evaluations of DNA testing for people who have admixtures of non-European ancestry, and who also have links to someone with a Hooper surname. Also, I will post articles and documents here about such Hooper families. I suspect most of the material to be posted here will refer to Americans who also have African ancestry. However, Native American peoples also bestowed the name Hooper on some children. I also welcome input from the families from continents other than Europe.

Off-site links - Hooper DNA studies

One of the newest and most exciting tools for genealogists is Y-chromosome testing of the DNA in Hooper males. A project for such testing of Hoopers began in 2002 and already has yielded sufficient results to prove and even disprove links to a common male ancestor. Be sure to check these links for more explanation and data:
Links to genealogical data, including the Hooper DNA projects.
Detailed explanation of the Hooper Y-DNA project
Hooper DNA test results grouped into male-ancestor linked clans.

Lineages

Often, I refer to so-and-so or this-or-that lineage. Infrequent viewers may not understand. So here is a guide to the families I write about most frequently.

Wyoming territory

Wyoming Territory Indian Attacks Herman Nickerson's personal account of some 1869 and 1870 deaths in western Wyoming territory.
1858 Fort Bridger Poll List identifies some of the voters in what was then Green River County, Utah Territory [now Uinta County, Wyoming].