Gary Helm

Welcome to my geneaology website.

I would love to hear from you. Let me know how we are related, if you found what you are looking for, or if you have addtional information. My contact information is in the tab "Contact".

Over sixty years of research has gone into gathering information for this website.
My parents did research from 1960s into the early 2000s, and I have been doing research since the 1990s.

Content and photos in this website ARE copyrighted.
If you want to use the infomation or pictures, contact me for permission.

Research included:

Traveling to the places our families lived, visiting countless libraries and courthouses, and countless hour reading "orginial documents" written while persons were alive. And yes, in recent years research has included searching state and county archieves over the internet.

Listening to countless family stories about the past, and then doing research to verify if the stories are true.

Visiting countless cemeteries. In some cases cemeteries had been long forgotten, difficult to find and were covered up by time, trees and brush.

There were many humbling moments, visiting where over three hundred years ago our ancestors made their homes in the wild and undeveloped western frontiers of what are today central Virginia, eastern Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere.

Many awe inspiring moments were spent just sitting down to remember those who have gone before us.