TEMPLE Lines in America

TEMPLE & RELATED LINES IN AMERICA

This site includes about 97,800 people from more than 35,100 familes, covering more than 10,000 surnames. Over 4,100 sources and 279,000 citations provide details on the lines of TEMPLEs. The largest of the North American familes is the line of the original immigrant, Abraham Temple of Salem, MA, and covers over 31,200 related individuals in this web site.

Many thanks to all the TEMPLE cousins and researchers who have contributed - this is hardly my own work, and would not be possible without the help of all.

One favor - if you take data away - please contribute something of your own if you can. Also - don't leave without checking the citations. In addition to supplemental information, throughout the citations, there are many researchers' names and e-mail addresses. I am sure they would appreciate hearing from you if you share similar family lines.

Dr. L. Parker Temple III
 (A descendant of Abraham of Salem - see "Name Origin" below)

Also, thanks to Ralph L. Temple for sharing his data files for his book, Temples in the Census, now a major section on this webpage - see below. Thanks Ralph!

Interested in sharing TEMPLE Ancestor Photos?

I am often asked if I care to post pictures of ancestors - but until recently, I have been unable due to server space. However, we have a kind offer from Kit Ritter, a TEMPLE researcher, who will allow anyone interested to post TEMPLE ancestor images to a TEMPLE photo album. All you need to have is your picture, include name and dates and some information. All the contact information can be found at: Kit Ritter's TEMPLE Family Ancestor Photo Album



Table of Contents

SurnamesSurname List
Want to know if your surname is in the database? Enter here. This is an alphabetical listing of all the Surnames. Find the first letter of the last name (Surname), and that will take you to a full listing of all surnames in the database under that letter. That listing, then, will take you to the given names for each surname. First time or infrequent visitors will find this is probably the best place to start.
GivenIndex of Given Names by Surname for the Main Lines
This skips past the surname listing Surname List (above). If you already know a surname is in the database, this indexed listing goes right to both the given and surnames of all those in the database. This section is recommended only for those who have visited before.
CitationsCitations for the Main Lines
Want to know what the sources of the information were? Citations keyed to TEMPLE & RELATED LINES IN AMERICA (above). For ease of loading, each section of 10,000 is divided into 250 citation increments.
CensusTemples in the Census - 1790-1930
Here by kind permission of Ralph L. Temple is his comprehensive research on Temples in the censuses from colonial times to 1930. Forget Ancestry.com mistakes, misreadings and inflexibility - here is complete census information, presented in a variety of ways to help focus your research. Ralph viewed every record and produced this landmark achievement, previously only available in his books of the same title. This is the essential one-stop location for finding your Temples in the census.
SourcesBibliography
The section is not linked to any citations, but provides over 2,700 sources used. Listed by title in alphabetic order, this listing should be useful for researchers of allied and related lines.
ReferencesThe Essential TEMPLE References
Some of the more important TEMPLE-related sources listed (above) in the Bibliography are discussed and assessed. If you are new to TEMPLE genealogy research, you need to be familiar with these sources. The data from these, updated and corrected by the other sources, formed the core of the TEMPLE & RELATED LINES IN AMERICA database.
MilitaryMilitary Service Records of TEMPLE and TEMPLES
This section leads to a variety of information on TEMPLE and TEMPLES who have served in the military. At present, this section contains indices to resources of the National Archives and Records Administration. The plan is to gradually include abstracted information from the available records.
PlacesPlaces and Events
There are an awful lot of Richards, Williams, Marys, Elizabeths and other common names - but which is yours? If you have a sense of the dates, and something about the location, look here to see if you can find the person you are looking for, then go to the Given Names by Surname listing. If your interest is to find out what went on where, as an aid to searching various courthouses, etc., here is a good place to look. All of the places in TEMPLE & RELATED LINES IN AMERICA are presented here in a listing broken out alphabetically by state, locality or country.
Name OriginName Origin and the Provenance of Abraham of Salem
The TEMPLE name is primarily associated with England, and to a lesser extent Scotland and Ireland (and Anglicized Germans). This section includes several views on the origin of the TEMPLE name.
PlacesPlaces Named For TEMPLEs
A growing section to show that TEMPLE place names are rarely named for the TEMPLE family. But, what the heck, it makes interesting reading.
ProblemsNobody's Data is Perfect...
I will be the first to admit, after criticizing my forebears (three of them anyway), that the database has a number of problems. As a rule, never take any genealogical data at face value -- check and recheck! Errors creep in. This is a listing of some known anomalies in the data that may affect your lines. It's worth checking out.

We also share with other Web Pages - and here are some TEMPLE-related ones. If you have a TEMPLE site - please contact me at the E-mail address below, and I'll check things out for the next TEMPLE and Related Lines Home Page update.

William and Lily Silverthorn also have a line of TEMPLEs from Robert of Ireland on their website:
William Silverthorn's Rootsweb Page

Another good site with a line of Southern TEMPLEs is Thomas Griffin's:
James Allen Temple and Sarah Smith

You should also visit Don Glenn's page, containing considerable TEMPLE, GLENN, CARROLL, CALDWELL and related lines, displayed in the GED2HTML format:
Don Glenn's Genealogy Page

Richard B. TEMPLE's The Temple-Hudgins-Diggs-Jordan-Burgess Home Page:
The Temple-Hudgins-Diggs-Jordan-Burgess Home Page

Another worthwhile set of pages for the Temples in Texas can be found in the scans of a Temple Family Bible, at:
Angela Faye Guilford Temple Russell's Temple Family Bible.

For Comments, Questions, Corrections and (hopefully) Contributions of Data:

EmailE-mail Park Temple

Send snail mail to:

Dr. L. Parker Temple III
5826 Oak Leather Drive
Burke, VA 22015-2433

Data as of October 2007

Webpage Updated December 2007