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Jones
Related surnames or alternate spellings: Jone
Notable ancestors include:
Bobby Jones, golfer
Charles Cresson Jones, Titanic passenger
Charles “Chuck” Martin Jones, animator
David Robert Jones, a.k.a. “David Bowie”, musician
Davy Jones, The Monkees singer
Edith Newbold Jones, later known as Edith Wharton, author
Edward Davis Jones, co-creater of the Dow Jones
George Jones, country music singer
Inigo Jones, British architect
Jim Jones, cult leader of Jonestown Massacre
John Paul Jones, “Father of the US Navy”
Mary Harris Jones, “Mother Jones”, activist
Melvin Jones, founder of the Lions Club International
Genealogy websites
Descendants of Charles Jones and Elizabeth Teakle (Angelfire)
Descendants of Ephraim and Phoebe (Harned) Jones. (Rootsweb)
Descendants of Walter Jones, Jr. (Rootsweb)
Jones Family History (Wayback Machine link)
Jones Family Name History, JonesGenealogy.com
Jones Genealogy surnameguide.com/jones
Message boards
“Could anyone help me find anything….3x Great Grandma Anna Eliza Jones…” Reddit post
“Jones Family, Denbighshire” Rootschat
“Jones” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards
“Jones” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards -
Social media groups & societies
“Jones Surname - DNA Genealogy” Facebook group, private, 1.5k members
Photographs:
“Abraham Jones, age 112” Library of Congress
“Ada Jones” Library of Congress
“Buck Jones & wife, 1926” Library of Congress
“Capt. Jones, 1860” Library of Congress
“Elliott Jones” 1930/1939. Digital Library of George
“Eunice Jones” Harry S. Truman Library
“Frances Jones” Fort Collins History Connection
“Gary Jones and Willard Jones” Southern Utah University
“Harriet Jones, age 93” Library of Congress
“Jennie Jones” New York Public Library
“Jesse Jones, Georgetown, Colorado” Denver Public Library
“Jones, ca. 1873” Library of Congress
“Jones, K., 1905” Library of Congress
“Jones, M.” Library of Congress
“Jones, Ruth, 1905” Library of Congress
“Jones, Susie, 1903” Library of Congress
“Jones, Thaddeus” Library of Congress
“Jones, Willie, 1894” Library of Congress
“Mr and Mrs. Jones.” 1938. Utah State History
“Mrs Jones, Georgetown, Colorado” Denver Public Library
“Peggy Jones, 1932” Florida State University
“Raymond Jones, 1910” Park County, Wyoming.
“Rosalie Jones, ca. 1913” Library of Congress
Sir Roderick Jones & Lady Jones, 1923” Library of Congress
“The Rev. Samuel P. Jones” New Georgia Encyclopedia
“Winifred Jones, Denver High School” 1890. Denver Public Library
Website clippings, blog posts, etc (no paywalls)
“Four Generations of the Jones Family in Illinois” James Jones Literary Society
“John Jones, The Natick Mapmaker” Natick Historical Society
“List of Enslaved People Belonging to William Jones (1802 - 1885)” They Had Names: African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia
“The Jones Family” Arlington Historical Society
Artifacts
“Bible Records from the Jones Family Bible” Indiana State Library
Diary of Sarah E. Jones, 1867. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Jones Family Papers, collection descriptions. Chester County History Center.
Correspondence and letters
Samuel Jones Family Letters, New York Heritage Digital Collections
Homes & historical markers
Alfred Jones House, Historic Spokane
Charles Pinckney Jones House Monterey, Highland Historical Society
Elisha Jones House, 1740. National Park Service.
J.W. Jones Home at Frisco City, AL. Rural SW Alabama.
John M. Jones House, Galveston, Texas.
John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth Historical Society
Jones House Cultural Center Boone, NC
Jones House, 915 Legion Way SE. Olympia Historical Society
Jones House, c. 1809. North Carolina.
Nancy Jones House, North Carolina.
The Calvin Jones House, Wake Forest Historical Museum
The Jones House, 314 East Madison Street. Livingston County Historical Society
Oral histories and transcripts
Andrew B. Jones, 1980, Washington University School of Medicine Oral History Project.
Oral history with Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, painter, 1964 April 26. Smithsonian
Books (Online & In Print)
Adams, Dorothy Spaulding. “The Jones Family, 1764 - 1956”. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. “Hugh Jones of Salem, Mass and his descendants” Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1908. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Beale, Ellen M. “Genealogy of David Jones” Parkesburg, PA, 1903. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Beatty, Mary C. Jones. “Our Family, the Jones’s, the family of Thomas Jefferson Jones” Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc. Los Angeles, California, 1950. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Caldwell, Augustine. “Jones Records. Nathaniel and Rachel (Bradford) Jones, Ipswich, Mass., and some of their descendants. A Help to a family history.” 1800. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Clark, Myrtle Brown. “Jones genealogy; being a record of the descendants of Hugh Jones of Salem, Mass., emigrant from Wincanton, England, 1635 - 1931” 1931 (Full view on Internet Archive - requires login and borrow)
Hinds, Harold E. Jr. “They were thick as fleas; five generations of Jones and allied kin descended from Ambrose Jones (1756-1833) in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and the Pacific Northwest, 1750s - the 20th Century” 2016. (Full view online at ACPL Genealogy Center)
Jones, Col. Cadwallader. “A Genealogical History” Ye Bryan Printing Company, Columbia, South Carolina. 1900. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Jones, George Farquahar. “Family Record of the Jones Family of Milford, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, with its connections and descendants, together with ancestry and family of Lorania Carrington Jones, wife of George F. Jones” Philadelphia, 1884. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Jones, George Russell. “Genealogy of the Jones family: first and only book ever written of the descendants of Benjamin Jones who emigrated from South Wales more than 250 years ago” Los Angeles, CA, 1912. (Full view on FamilySearch)
Jones, Hazel Parker. “The Samuel Jones Family, Kershaw County, S.C., 1756 - 1960” Clinton, S.C., Jacobs Brothers Printers, 1961. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Jones, John Henry. “The Jones family of Long Island: descendants of Major Thomas Jones (1665 - 1726) and allied families” New York, Tobais A. Wright, 1907. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Jones, Merton Edward. “Jones ancestors: being an ascending genealogy from Merton Edward Jones to 150 immigrant ancestors” Baltimore, Gateway Press, Inc., 1976. (Full view on Internet Archive - requires login and borrow)
Jones, Nathan Henry. “The Ancestors of My Daughters, comprising three Mayflower pilgrims, one colonial governor, over forty colonial, fourteen revolutionary, and three War of 1812 ancestors” Poultney, Vermont, 1914. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Parker, L.N. “History and genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of Captain Israel Jones who removed from Enfield to Barkhamsted, Conn., in the year 1759” 1902. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Simpson, John Eddins. “The Jones Family Papers, 1760 - 1810” Georgia Historical Society. 1976. (Full view on Internet Archive)
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