December 13, 2013

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
to each and every one of you.

Burkett Family Cousins

This is to inform you about the latest updates to the Burkett Family Web Site.  We have now identified nearly 12,200 descendants and spouses, about 1,000 more than that reported in early September, three months ago.

Click here to visit: The Burkett Family Web Site

Henry Burkett, Sr. & Henry Isaac Burkett, Jr. 

The suffixes Sr. and Jr. have been removed from the web site  This was done to solve a problem that has been created by others.  They had incorrectly presumed that if Henry Isaac was a Jr, then Henry, Sr. had to have been named Henry Isaac also.  This is simply not the case.  We are unaware that any record shows our Henry Burkett to have any middle name.   The suffixes were added to early Burkett Family Newsletters and the early version of the web site in an attempt to clearly define that these were two separate people only and it was made clear that there was not a Jr.-Sr. relationship here.    

Family Group Updates

Eight of the eleven family groups have been updated or rebuilt since September and ten of the eleven family groups have had manual updates added to bring the information current.

New Pages Added

Several new pages have been added. Clicking on the links below will take you to these pages on the web site.  They include the following:

Who We Are
This is a discussion page were from time to time, information will be added in attempt to define our Burkett family.  There will be demographics about the family, including occupations, countries or states of origins or residence. 

Who Am I?
This page was added to see if we could get people inforlved in guessing the identity of people from old photos.  So far no one has made any kind of guess so we may end up removing this page in the near future. 

Family Photo Albums
This is an ongoing project.  Photos of our ancestors and some current members will be placed here as time allows.  We have some photos now and other have been located.  We will try to obtain permission to post these when we find them on other web sites and credit will be given to those who send photos to the site to be posted.  If you have some photos you would like added to the albums, please send them to us

Queries
This page was added after we received a question about which Burkett family member once owned a dairy in the Williams Ranch area near Mullin, Tx.  It turned out that this particular dairy was once owned by Edgar Burkett.  His granddaughter, Sharon Burkett Fleming has been in contact with the person who asked the question.