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Welcome to our web site!
"Wood" is Scottish and/or English in origin. Spelling variations include: Wood, Woods, Wode, Would, Woid, Voud,
Vould and others. It's mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, or an occupational name for a woodcutter
or forester, from Middle English term wode (-- Old English wudu).
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The Wood family traces their ancestral roots back to a Norman origin, before the year 1100. The family name was first recorded
in Dumfriesshire, England, where they held a family seat from about 1150, after losing their previously held lands in Thorpe
Arnold in Leicestershire under the Earl of Leicester. From here they branched and migrated, gaining prosperity as a notable
family of England and, later, other countries. The coat of arms above features an Oak tree, fructed on a silver shield. The
tree is a symbol of antiquity and strength. Trees symbolize home or property in heraldry, and they are also generally considered
a symbol of life and strength.The Family Motto is "Defend".
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Click here to download Legacy Family Tree Standard Edition Free from Legacy Family Tree. You can then download the woodfamilytree.ged
file and view it and/or add to it. This file includes the Chilton, Berry, Fromer, Martinez,...Families and was last updated
by me on April 3, 2009. I plan on major updates by June 2009.
If you are a relative and would like to have the Wood Family Tree in .ged (gedcom) or .fg for Legacy7 just e-mail me.
I will post a file later that will protect living persons from identity theft. Last file update was: April 4, 2009 with apx. 52 individuals
listed. This file was also uploaded to http://www.genebase.com/node/p7775665
http://www.kindredkonnections.com/family-tree-access.html/ Family Access Account#: 440372, password: wood; Names on our geneology
are listed as: wo000684 This file has been updated as of April 4, 2009! Living persons are protected on this website.
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Our family has 5 generations that we know of born or spent most of their lives in Indiana, We believe they moved there from
Virginia or West Virginia.
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New US Government Genealogy Resource: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=d21f3711ca5ca110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=d21f3711ca5ca110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD
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