Some of these earlier generations, particularly those in
Tennessee, got confused by researchers in the formation period and first few years of the
Poindexter Descendants Association. The information was given to the PDA by direct line descendants and placed into the database as given. That was the case with Daniel L. Poindexter and the marriage of a Joseph
Poindexter to Nancy O. Price.
We are an association made up of all volunteers who are
Poindexter cousins. Research of specific lines was left up to those who were descendants of those lines. Some lines had experienced genealogists working with their newer research cousin buddies. Other lines struggled with their detail gathering. Most importantly, we were all sharing. And as often happens, when we are looking deeper into one of our own co-lateral lines, we occasionally came across data about a
Poindexter we knew nothing about before and shared it with the group. This is how we helped each other and continue to do so to this day.
There was a massive about of information being accumulated in those early days, which is also still true today, and the proofs were left to be provided by those direct line descendants themselves. A couple of PDA researchers did come across a marriage bond for Joseph
Poindexter and Nancy O. Price. However, no documentation seems to have been provided for the relationship of that Joseph
Poindexter to
Capt. Joseph
Poindexter. Actually
Capt. Joseph's will would indicate that it was not his son Joseph
Poindexter Jr. who married Nancy O. Price.
Today the PDA has another tool in its genealogy kit that it did not have 20+ years ago. We sponsor a
Poindexter Surname DNA Project through FamilyTree DNA. We have been having excellent results connecting up family members, proving disconnected lines, and confirming a second
Poindexter family group that immigrated to
America. This second group descends from a John C. Poindexter who first settled in
Virginia and then moved his young and very large family to
Hawkins County,
Tennessee. It is possible that the Joseph
Poindexter, who married Nancy O. Price, comes from this family group.
If you can locate a
Poindexter male who is a proven direct descendant of Daniel L. Poindexter, we could at least confirm which
Poindexter emigrant Daniel comes from. Then we may be able to have some leads as to where to look for the paper documentation you are seeking.
Hopefully we can help each other. For more details about the
Poindexter DNA Project and FamilyTree DNA, go to
http://www.familytreedna.com then follow the links to Surname Projects and click on
Poindexter.
Sincerely,
Robin
Butler Daviet