Family tree

Here is what I have found:

Brad's family:
NORMANS: I couldn't get far with the Normans or Majors, but what I did find is that the Normans have been in Charlotte since Brad's great-great-grandfather. That's as far as I could get.

MAJORS: Bumps' dad came to Charlotte from S.C. I traced them back to Greenville, S.C., in the early 1800s.

MCLAUGHLINS: I could only go as far as Mike's information, that Robert Patrick McLaughlin made the voyage across the Atlantic from Ireland. He was born in 1872.

NICHOLSONS: Nany's family was in Pennsylvania in the mid-1800s. They then moved to Ohio in the late 1800s, where they stayed.

My family:
HINES: I've got this tree back to Johann Jacob Hein, who was born in Dillenberg, Germany, in 1713 and moved to a Moravian settlement in Broad Bay, Maine. He ended up in Stokes County, N.C. (from stories as a child I remember that the Hines were a big part of the Wachovia settlement in what is now Old Salem). Around the turn of the 19th century, the Hines left Stokes County for Grayson County, Va., where they remained until my grandfather moved his family to Greensboro in the 1950s.

WRIGHT: The Wrights have been in the mountains of Elk Creek, Va., since at least the early 1700s. I've traced one leg of the tree to the Sages, who moved to Grayson County from England. There is a historical marker in Elk Creek with Caty Sage's story (she was kidnapped by natives as a child, never to be seen again). Another leg of the Wrights, the Delps, moved from Hessen, Germany, to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. Hans Delp then moved to Grayson County, Va., where they remained. It gets a little sketchy in the late 1700s, when it seems first cousins married. Eeek.

ROBERTS: I can't go far on this tree, just to the mid-1800s. They stayed in Wilkesboro the entire time, until my grandfather married my grandmother and moved to Greensboro.

WYRICKS: This one only goes back to the 1880s. The Wyricks were in Greensboro since at least then.