Hoops, A Documents Resource

Hoops,
A Documents Resource

Last updated on 12 December 2000.

Interested in original data? Follow these links for information:

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 for some of the voters in what was then Green River County, Utah Territory [now Uinta County, Wyoming]. Very few pre-Civil War records mention the earliest European settlers of what is now Wyoming. This election roll records the names of several pioneers of southwestern Wyoming.
Hooper families
- William Hooper Biography. William Hooper, Harvard graduate and North Carolina attorney, attended the Continental Congress. He signed the Declaration of Independence on behalf of North Carolina.
- 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.
- Revolutionary War so-called "Lost" Pension Files are pieces of pension files not found in NARA's selected and non-selected pension application folders (Record Group 15).
- NEW! Transcriptions concerning Hoopers in the British Isles. Information for these files has been provided by researchers other than the compiler of this page. Please use the links provided at each linked page to contact the researchers who located the data.
Hopper families
- Moses Hopper alias Edwards information from NARA Record Group 15 pension folders. This page is the first of an upcoming series of pages covering data extracted from Hooper and Hopper files. The Moses Hopper information is located at NARA under the surname Edwards.

Frequently Asked Questions, or *FAQs*
Why Hoops?	hoop is defined as noun, a circular strip used esp. for holding together the staves of containers; verb transitive, to bind or fasten with a hoop This site contains and holds together primary source data regarding Wyoming territory; the tri-state region of North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee; and specific families. The links above will eventually reflect all these topics.
Where are the bells & whistles?	Many researchers use old computers and must connect to the Internet via slow modem connections. Audio clips and large graphics files dramatically slow downloads without increasing information content (for the types of records found here). When more and more users connect to Rootsweb, the congestion necessarily must slow the servers. Therefore, to maximize functionality, I have omitted flashy graphics and designed the code to load as quickly as possible.
Why do all these pages have copyright notices?	Many of the articles and transcriptions originally appeared at my company website: a c goodwin's Family Source Compass. Other articles began as part of larger works I have published or am preparing for publication. By freely sharing items at this website, I am happy to assist other researchers in their personal research; nevertheless, I must reserve my rights to republish any material appearing here.
What are some coming attractions?	Planned additions to the above links include lists of county and state officials in territorial Wyoming, newspaper accounts of residents and travelers in territorial Wyoming along the Union Pacific RailRoad corridor, genealogical transcriptions of military and pension records for soldiers surnamed Hooper and Hopper, genealogical abstracts of Hooper and Hopper land records, particularly in the southeastern United States.

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