This could be very interesting!

Our prevalent names are:

Womack

Gravitt

Hansard

Smith

Tate

Aiken

I've been working on our family tree for 15 years or so. The major surnames are:

McKinnis

Woehler

Murphy

Ernspiger

Zeitz

Quick

I Have Griffith, Woodard/Woodward, Redding, Melton, Mims, Davis, Sanderlin, McDavid, Barberie (and lots of spelling variations of it), Dyess (also spelled many ways), Goodwin, Jackson, Parham, Myrick, Morris, McMillan, McLellan, Acker, Beasley and lots more. I've been researching for years.

I am researching both my own line and the Hub's. Popular surnames are:

Ackley, Allen, Clinton, Davis, Linden, McClary

and

Butler, Green, Kitzmiller, Thayer

Pangman

Eckerson

Hall

Clough

Hallenbeck

Van Schaick

Van Hussum (or Hoesen)

Petracca

Perry

My family started in New Orleans and upriver before 1780. Marius Pons Bringier sailed on his own ship from South France to Martinique to partner with his brother, there were many in France, in a sugar plantation venture there. Soon later due to disagreements, social unrest, or ? he sailed to Louisiana. My GG grandfather, Michel Douradou Bringier was born at sea.

Significant but hardly all related names are:

Bringier

Colomb

Trist

Kenner

Wood

Tureau

Watterman

Thomas

And list goes on, back from me:

Fulk, Ryan

McGalliard

Lots have been written on the family as they established a dozen or so Plantations along the Mississippi river, and many stand today.

Let me know if you are perhaps related, or have an interest in the family's history. I organized a reunion in 1998 to benefit a family tomb that had been damaged in a storm. It is located in Donaldsonville, LA, and was built in 1848. We got a total of 140 people from 14 states who attended the 3-day event!

Give me a shout & reply....

Mine are

Orr

Osborne

Gordon

Parks

Martin

Mires, Miers, Meyers, Myers (whew!)

Malloy

Wiggs

Mostly in the Utah and Texas areas (depending on which name)