Jesus help me, my baby moved out today?

My yougest child left for college this morning, and I can't take it. I want her here at home with me. How am I supposed to deal with this? Her sister...

West Virginia has BDM certificates on-line for free for some counties for some years.

Ancestry.com (subscription) and familysearch.org (free) both have search options that let you enter the parents and keep the person blank. So, a lady who was born to John Smith and Mary Jones, married Ralph Kablonski at age 18 and died as Matilda Kablonski in 1898 would pop right up, maybe.

Neither site is comprehensive, both have billions of records.

If you specify a county and time frame we can give you a better answer.

There are some military lists and some land ownership records, but there are not official census type records prior to 1790.

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Anthropologist, Genealogical researcher 40+ years, retired Instructor

most of the colonies were established in the early 1600s - and some had people there before they were official colonies-
kids could have been born within the year of arriving or upon arrival-

Mass- 1628
conn-1636
NH-1620s
VT-1666- French settlement-
NJ-1610s with the dutch
Del-1609 dutch settlement
NC-Roanoke colony in NC was 1585- but didn't last- Virginia Dare is credited with the first colonial English birth in the "New World" Aug 18th, 1587
VA-Jamestown VA-1607- (permanent settlement- other earlier settlements failed but could have had births- SC-the Spanish had settlements in the early 1500s- I would imagine just soldiers and no women - and the French also tried but neither were successful - the English colonized it in 1629

Baity Name Meaning
Variant of Scottish and northern Irish Beatty.
and
Beatty Name Meaning
1) from the personal name Beatie, a pet form of Bartholomew.
2) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh 'son of the victualer', from biadhtach 'victualer'.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

> I'm African American if that helps
It helps. This surname probably has nothing to do with your family, although it might. 20% or so of AAs have some European blood, almost always from slave owners having sex with their slaves; either out and out rape, or an offer of an easier job than hoeing cotton if Missy would, in turn, be nice to the master.

Slaves didn't have surnames, any more than horses did. That was yet another sad fact of life for slaves. When they were freed, many - not all - took the name of their former owners. The ones who didn't took occupational names, (Carpenter, Baker, Cook . . .) or a generic "Brown" or "Black" or the name of a president they admired, except Lincoln, which would have made them unpopular in the south. Baity isn't an occupation and isn't a president, so chances are it was a former owner.

So, if you have European blood, Mr. Baity, who used to own your ancestors, is a prime suspect. But, you have 30 - 32 GGG grandparents, depending on how many married a cousin, and half of them - the ladies - may have had children by a white owner, but only one, probably - maybe two, husband and wife - were owned by Mr. Baity. So, if you get a DNA test and find European blood, it isn't automatic it comes from Mr. Baity.

With a LOT of effort you could trace your family back to people alive in 1870, which was the first year they listed AAs by name on the census, which is yet another indignity heaped upon you folks. Surname origin isn't the way to do it, though.