Their fraudulent genealogy about Harman Back is still being peddled today
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The Bach (Back) Family book
The Bach (Back) Family book
The Bach (Back) Family book
If you have an ancestor with the last name of Bach or Back, who lived in southeastern Kentucky, back in the 1700s, the 1800s, or the 1900s, then you descend from Johann Heinrich Bach. His family was from Thuringia, Germany. After he immigrated to America, he settled in southern Virginia, and he simplified the spelling of his name, to be John Henry Back.
This book provides the actual, documented, and proven genealogy of the Bach (Back) family from southeastern Kentucky.
It is full of census reports, tax lists, land deeds, and all sorts of additional proof, of who these people were. The book starts at the year 1520, in Thuringia, Germany, and then it continues down, through the years, to the mid-1900s, in southeastern Kentucky. The family actually descends from the family of Johann Sebastian Bach! When you read this book, you will be able to determine your exact connection to Johann Sebastian Bach!
The book is coil-bound.
It includes a comprehensive Index.
It sells for $50, which includes free shipping.
Dr. Wilgus Bach's book
The Bach (Back) Family book
The Bach (Back) Family book
In the early 1900s, Dr. Wilgus Bach was the highly-respected Historian for the Back (Bach) family, in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He interviewed a large number of elderly people, about their ancestors, and he made extensive notes about what they told him.
The manuscript features lots of genealogical information about 63 families in Breathitt County, Kentucky: Adams, Bach (Back), Banks, Blair, Boggs, Bowman, Breeding, Byrd, Calhoun, Campbell, Carpenter, Caudill, Chambers, Cockrill, Combs, Cooper, Cope, Craft, Crawford, Davis, Deaton, Eversole, Fields, Frazier, Fugate, Gabbard, Gibbs, Haddix, Hagins, Hargis, Hensley, Hogg, Holbrook, Holliday, Hollon, Hounshell, Howard, Hudson, Hurst, Kash, Landrum, Landsaw, Lovely, Maggard, Miller, Murphy, Noble, Reynolds, Roberts, Robertson (Robinson), Rose, Russell, Short, Smith, South, Stacy, Stamper, Strong, Swango, Terry, Turner, Tutt, and Williams.
The manuscript (book) is on a DVD.
It sells for $40, which includes free shipping.
The Bach Family Bible
The Bach (Back) Family book
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
In 1762, the immigrant in the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky, Johann Heinrich Bach (John Henry Back), who had settled in southern Virginia, bought an old Bible (actually a Catechism), from his cousin, Johann Christian Bach, who still lived back in Europe. Johann Christian Bach was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
After the old book arrived at his cabin, John Henry Back wrote down the names and dates of birth of many of his family members. In 1791, his youngest son, Joseph Back, migrated to southeastern Kentucky and established the Back (Bach) family there, and he took that old book with him. Over the years, down to 1911, other family members recorded their names and dates of birth into the old book as well.
The Bach Family Bible provides additional proof that the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky does not descend from Harman Back. It's also fascinating to see the actual handwriting of your ancestors.
The book is on a DVD.
It sells for $30, which includes free shipping.
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
Before Tilden passed away, in 2009, he provided us with the rights to sell his books.
This book is one of several books that presented the actual genealogy of the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky, which were published in the early 2000s.
Around 2003, the Administrator of this "DNA Project" commented online, several times, that she knew that Tilden's genealogy was correct, and how "sad" she was, to learn that Harman Back was not her ancestor. (We have the screenshots of her comments.) But when she wanted to join DAR, and use Harman Back and Henry Back as "proof" that she was qualified to join, she pretended she never heard of Tilden.
Shockingly, this woman brazenly presents a screenshot from page 7b of Tilden's book (in violation of our copyright), on her "family's genealogy website," about Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746). But she deliberately cut off the four lines after, "Henry died about 1808," because it said that Elizabeth moved to Rockingham County, Virginia with her son Aaron, but her fraudulent genealogy claims that Elizabeth moved to Kentucky. That screenshot is a good example of how she "hijacks" proof of the actual genealogy of her own family, and then turns it into so-called "proof" of the fraudulent genealogy of her family.
The fraudulent genealogy book
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
The fraudulent genealogy book
This is a DVD version of the original book published by The Back-Bach Genealogical Society, back in 1994. It is offered here, simply as a courtesy to researchers, even though it contains a fraudulent genealogy of the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky, as well as a fraudulent genealogy of the Harman Back family.
There is not even one historical document in the book, that proves any of their ridiculous claims, because the genealogy that it contains is completely fraudulent.
The book also has quite a bit of information about more recent people in the Back (Bach) family, and other related families, although even that information is not entirely correct. The book includes nearly 30,000 names.
We have obtained permission to offer this book. But, due to copyright restrictions, this version does not contain any of the pictures.
The book is on a DVD.
It's over 2,300 pages.
It includes a comprehensive Index.
It sells for $60, which includes free shipping.
The Harman Back book
Tilden Bach's book coming soon!
The fraudulent genealogy book
If you have an ancestor with the last name of Back, who lived in central Kentucky, back in the 1700s or 1800s, then you probably descend from Harman Back, who immigrated from Freudenberg, Germany and settled in Little Fork, Virginia. He had just one son, Harman Back Jr., who migrated to central Kentucky, in 1789, and so you descend from him, through one of his three sons (Joseph, Harman Jr., or Jacob). Please note that there were, in fact, three men named Harman, in this family: the grandfather, his son, and his grandson.
This book provides the actual, documented, and proven genealogy of Harman Back. It includes the names of 600 of his descendants, many of whom lived into the late 1990s and early 2000s. It also includes numerous historical documents, including Tax Lists, which prove the genealogy of his family.
Are you one of his descendants? Find out!
This book is a "must-have" for anyone who thinks they might descend from Harman Back.
The book is on a DVD.
It sells for $40, which includes free shipping.
The 1810 Census Report, and the 1810 & 1812 Tax Lists
Elizabeth Hoffman Back never moved to southeastern Kentucky
These three documents above provide definitive proof that Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746) moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, after her husband Henry Back died, in early 1809. She never moved to southeastern Kentucky.
The reason that Elizabeth Hoffman Back moved, from her home in Madison County, Virginia, to Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1809, was because her husband Henry had just died, and so she was quite upset. She wanted to move to Rockingham County because her widowed sister, Margaret Hoffman Back, had recently moved there, the year before, in 1808. Of course, Elizabeth moving there made perfect sense: she and Margaret were sisters; they were both elderly widows; and they had lived next to each other, all of their lives. Some history about this matter is needed…
Margaret Hoffman Back (1748-1834): She had married John Back (1738-1794), around 1775. He was the brother of Henry Back (1740-1809), who had married her sister Elizabeth (born July 13, 1746), also around 1775. In fact, it was probably a "double wedding."
Margaret and Elizabeth had each inherited 150 acres from their father, John Hoffman, after he had died, in 1772. And so, after Margaret married John, they lived on her inherited land; and after Elizabeth married Henry, they lived on her inherited land. Their land was located in the far southern part of Culpeper County, Virginia, along the Robinson River. That land later became Madison County, in 1792. (It was nowhere near Little Fork, Virginia, which was in the far northern part of Culpeper County, where Harman Back and his family lived.)
Margaret and her husband John Back had five daughters: Elizabeth, Anna, Sarah, Frances, and Susannah. They never had any sons. Historical documents concerning John Back and his wife Margaret Hoffman Back confirm that they never had any sons. In fact, in the Madison County Personal Property Tax Lists, the only male ever indicated in John and Margaret's household was Margaret's husband John. And after he died, in 1794, there still was never was any males indicated in Margaret's household either, including the 1806 Tax List (when Aaron Back would have turned 21, and would have been indicated as living with her, if he really was her son), or any of the Tax Lists after that.
John Back had died suddenly, in early January of 1794, just four years after their fifth daughter Susannah was born. He died without a will, and so the Court appointed several people to administer his estate. No son was mentioned in any of the records involving his estate (see the links below).
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Link to the Estate Administration of John Back, page 1
Link to the Estate Administration of John Back, page 2
Six years later, on January 21, 1800, Margaret's oldest daughter Elizabeth married John Embry (see the link below). John may have moved into Margaret's house. The following year, on August 12, 1801, Margaret sold about two acres of her farm along the Robinson River to her new son-in-law, John Embry; he probably wanted to either grow crops on it, or raise livestock on it.
Link to Elizabeth Back and John Embry's Marriage Record
Two years after that, on March 18, 1803, Margaret sold about six acres of her farm to her next-door neighbor, Lewis Crigler, for 40 pounds. The deed indicated that the sale included, "all houses, gardens, fences..." (see the links below). Because that sale included her house, and she apparently had previously verbally promised John Embry, his wife Elizabeth (her daughter), and her other four children, that her land and her house would someday be theirs, all six of them had to sign off on the deed as well. The other four children were clearly named in the deed: Anna Back, Sarah Back, Frances Back, and Susannah Back, and each of them signed the deed. They were all daughters. No other children signed, and no son signed, nor was a son even mentioned. (Aaron Back was born in 1785; John and Margaret's youngest daughter Susannah was born in 1790, and so, if Aaron was John and Margaret's son, he certainly would have signed that deed, as he obviously "wasn't too young" to have signed, since Susannah signed.) That 1803 land deed is definitive proof that Margaret never had a son. Therefore, that 1803 land deed is definitive proof that Aaron Back (1785-1868) was not her son.
Link to the 1803 Madison County Land Deed: Back to Crigler, page 1
Link to the 1803 Madison County Land Deed: Back to Crigler, page 2
Please note that the letters, "L.S.," next to their names on that deed, was an abbreviation for the phrase, "Locus sigilli," which was a Latin term for, "the place for the seal." Back then, documents were not considered valid, unless they had a seal on them. So this 1803 land deed was obviously valid.
After Margaret sold that six acres, along with her house, it appears that she leased out the rest of her land (134 acres) to someone else to farm. It also appears that John Embry leased some land nearby, with a house on it, for himself, his wife, his mother-in-law Margaret, and her two unmarried daughters, to live in. It is believed that Margaret and her unmarried daughters soon moved in with John Embry and his wife, because the last time that Margaret was listed in the Madison County Personal Property Tax Lists was 1804, when she was taxed for having one horse. Meanwhile, John Embry was listed in the Madison County Personal Property Tax Lists up through 1807. (There was no Tax List in 1808, but that was year that they left Madison County.)
On April 28, 1807, Margaret sold the rest of her farm (134 acres) to Adam Miller, for $1,000 (see the link below). The deed described the land as being on the east side of the Robinson River. One side of her land bordered what was described as, "an old line of John Back's," which was her father-in-law, John Henry Back, who had died back in 1789. Because he was an old, German immigrant, with two first names, he followed the longtime German custom of using his first first name ("John"), in public, such as on land deeds; and using his second first name ("Henry"), in private, such as when he signed his old Bach Family Bible as, "Henry."
Link to the 1807 Madison County Land Deed: Back to Miller
About one month after Margaret sold her land, John Embry and his wife Elizabeth sold the two acres that he had bought from Margaret, back in 1801. He sold it, on May 23, 1807, for $65, also to Adam Miller. The deed stated that the two acres bordered Lewis Crigler's land (see the link below).
Link to the 1807 Madison County Land Deed: Embry to Miller
The reason that John Embry sold his two acres, in the spring of 1807, and Margaret Hoffman Back sold the rest of her farm, also in the spring of 1807, was because they were planning on moving, 30 miles away, to nearby Rockingham County. John soon bought 100 acres of land, in Rockingham County, in September of 1807, from Conrad Harnsberger. The land was along two sides of Wolf Run, not far from where it flowed into Elk Run, and just east of the town of Elkton. (Back then, Elkton was called, "Conrad's Store," named after George Conrad, who owned a general store there.) However, that 1807 deed, in which John Embry bought that 100 acres from Conrad Harnsberger, was burned up, in a fire, at the Rockingham County Courthouse, during the Civil War.
But, you can still see the basic information about that deed, in the Rockingham County Land Deed Index (see the link below). After you click the link below, click "Burnt Deed Books 1778-1864." Then click "Secure Remote Access," right under that. Then click "I Accept." Then click the darkened search box to the left of "Historical Index Search." Then click "Grantee Indexes" on the left. Then click "1778-1864 (Burnt Deeds)." Then click the letter "E" (for Embry). Scroll down to near the bottom of page 142. You will see John Embry's name. It shows that he bought the land in Sept. of 1807, from Conrad Harnsberger. Over to the right, under 'Book Number,' it shows "000." Under 'Page Number' it shows "452." And under 'How Much Recorded,' it shows "none." The word "none" means that none of the deed was able to be saved from the fire damage.
Link to the 1807 Rockingham County Land Deed Index: Harnsberger to Embry
**Conrad Harnsberger (1756-1814) was well-known in the nearby town of Elkton (Conrad's Store). He owned and operated a woolen mill near there, which was along Elk Run, near Wolf Run. In the 1806 Land Tax List, Conrad owned several parcels of land, including one that was 100 acres, which had to have been the land along Wolf Run (see the link below). He sold that 100 acres to John Embry, in 1807. (There was no Tax List in 1808.) In the 1809 Land Tax List, Conrad no longer owned that 100 acres (see the link below). That's because John Embry then owned it. (A few years later, Conrad enlisted to serve in The War of 1812, but he died of yellow fever, in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1814.)**
Link to the 1806 Rockingham County Land Tax List
Link to the 1809 Rockingham County Land Tax List
In 1808, John Embry, his wife Elizabeth, his mother-in-law Margaret Hoffman Back, and two of Margaret's unmarried daughters, moved to that land along Wolf Run, in Rockingham County. Margaret was then about 60 years old. John Embry was seen in the 1809 Rockingham County Land Tax List, as owning 150 acres of land (see the link below). In addition to his 100 acres along Wolf Run, he also owned another 50 acres, "near South Mountain," which is now known as, "The Blue Ridge Mountains."
Link to the 1809 Rockingham County Land Tax List
Wolf Run: John Embry's 100 acres along Wolf Run included 50 acres on one side of the creek, and 50 acres on the other side. John Embry and his wife Elizabeth lived on one side of the creek, and his mother-in-law, Margaret Hoffman Back, and her two unmarried daughters, lived on the other side.
Elizabeth Hoffman Back: Meanwhile, back in Madison County, Virginia, Elizabeth's husband Henry Back suddenly died, in early 1809. So, she was obviously quite distraught. She wanted to live next to her widowed sister again. Her son Aaron knew that it would be comforting for his widowed mother to live next to her widowed sister Margaret again, just like they had lived next to each other, along the Robinson River, ever since they were born, including more than 30 years, while their husbands were alive. So, Aaron went to see his Aunt Margaret, who had recently moved to Wolf Run, to talk about buying some land near her, for his mother to live on.
Elizabeth's husband, Henry Back (1740-1809), had been listed in the Personal Property Tax Lists, in Madison County, every year, since the Tax Lists began, but he had died before the 1809 Tax List was prepared. By the time that Henry had died, in 1809, three of Elizabeth's six sons were no longer around: her son John (born 1776) had moved to North Carolina, in 1798; her son Benjamin (born 1781) had died, in 1807; and her son Henry Jr. (born 1783) had died, in 1805. And so, losing three of her sons, and then, losing her husband, must have been very difficult for her.
Two of her other sons, Joseph (born 1782) and Lewis (born 1787), were seen in the 1809 Tax List, in Madison County. But, when that 1809 Tax List was being prepared, her son Aaron (born 1785) was over in Rockingham County, visiting with her widowed sister Margaret, trying to buy some land, and so he wasn't listed.
Elizabeth's son Lewis was getting ready to move to Russell County, Virginia, to live with his cousin John Back (1774-1854) and his wife Catherine Robertson. (Lewis would later move to southeastern Kentucky, in 1810, with John and Catherine, and then he married Elizabeth Pennington, in 1812.) That only left her son Joseph, who had recently married a woman named Elizabeth Hoffman (!), on October 7, 1802, who was his first cousin; she was the daughter of William Hoffman (1737-1812), who was Elizabeth Hoffman Back's brother.
After some discussions, on April 10, 1809, it was decided that Aaron would buy the 50 acres along Wolf Run, where John Embry and his wife were then living, and then Aaron, his mother, and his two unmarried sisters, would move onto that land, as soon as his mother sold her farm back in Madison County. Of course, Aaron wanted Margaret to continue to live on the 50 acres, on the other side of the creek, where she and her two unmarried daughters had been living. It is suspected that Margaret's son-in-law John Embry simply gifted that 50 acres to Margaret. And since these two transactions were between family members, an actual deed was not required, prepared, or recorded, which sometimes happened, back then. However, the fact that these two transactions had taken place, on April 10, 1809, was later confirmed, in a 1816 land deed, when Aaron sold his 50 acres (see the details about that, down below).
After Aaron Back bought John Embry's 50 acres, John and his wife Elizabeth left Wolf Run, and they moved to the nearby town of Harrisonburg, which was only about 15 miles away. That summer, Aaron then probably built a small bridge, across Wolf Run, so that his mother and her sister could easily visit with each other, whenever they wanted.
Five months later, on September 28, 1809, Elizabeth Hoffman Back, sold her farm (157 acres) in Madison County, to Ephraim Fray, for $900 (see the links below). And then, she, her son Aaron, and her two unmarried daughters, moved to that 50 acres along Wolf Run that Aaron had bought. (Elizabeth's son Joseph was her only child who remained in Madison County.)
Link to the 1809 Madison County Land Deed Book: Back to Fray, page 1
Link to the 1809 Madison County Land Deed Book: Back to Fray, page 2
The 1810 Census Report: A few months after Elizabeth Hoffman Back, her son Aaron, and her two unmarried daughters, moved to Rockingham County, they were seen living there, in the 1810 Census Report (see above, and also see the link below). Aaron's name was listed as being the "head of the household," because his mother Elizabeth was elderly, and most likely, rather frail and sickly by then. (She died, just a few years later). Aaron's mother Elizabeth was indicated in the column for females age 45 and older; she was then 64 years old. Aaron's two unmarried sisters were also indicated, in the column for females age 26-45. (There was also another young girl indicated, who may have been an orphan that they took in.)
Link to the 1810 Rockingham County Census Report
The next year, on March 9, 1811, Aaron married "the girl next door," Margaret Elizabeth Luger Hammer (see the link below). She usually went by her middle name of Elizabeth, and she was the daughter of Henry Hammer Sr. (1759-1842), whose name can be clearly seen, in that same 1810 Census Report, as living right next door (see above).
Link to Aaron Back and Elizabeth Hammer's Marriage Record
The Tax Lists: In Rockingham County, in one of the Personal Property Tax Lists (1810), and in two of the Land Tax Lists (1811, which is difficult to read, and their last name was spelled as "Beack"; and 1812), Aaron and his mother were listed as, "Aaron & mother" (see above, and also see the links below). That is definitive proof that Aaron Back's mother, Elizabeth Hoffman Back, had moved to Rockingham County with him. But, starting with the 1813 Land Tax List, only Aaron's name was listed, which probably indicated that Elizabeth had died, sometime between 1812 and 1813.
Link to the 1810 Rockingham County Personal Property Tax List
Link to the 1811 Rockingham County Land Tax List
Link to the 1812 Rockingham County Land Tax List
All of the Land Tax Lists, up through 1816, show that Aaron Back had paid the taxes, on the entire 100 acres: for both his 50 acres (where he lived, with his mother, his two sisters, and his wife); and for his Aunt Margaret's 50 acres, on the other side of the creek. In August of 1816, Aaron sold his 50 acres, and then, he, his wife, and their infant son, moved away from Rockingham County. After Aaron left, his Aunt Margaret then started paying the taxes on her 50 acres.
Elizabeth died: Elizabeth Hoffman Back died, sometime before August of 1816, which was when her son Aaron sold the 50 acres that she had been living on. She probably had died, between 1812 and 1813; but some researchers believe that she died in the fall of 1815. She was probably buried on her son Aaron's land along Wolf Run.
Aaron sold his land: On August 19, 1816, Aaron sold the 50 acres that he, his mother, his two sisters, and his wife, had been living on, to his wife's brother, Henry Hammer Jr. (1794-1864), for one dollar. It is obvious that Aaron's mother Elizabeth had died before then, which was why he sold that land, and was planning on moving away. (He would never have abandoned his elderly mother, and moved away, while she was still alive. Back then, children just didn't leave home until after both of their parents had died.) The deed was dated August 19, 1816 (see below). Aaron also sold another 63-acre parcel of land that day, also to his wife's brother Henry Jr.; it was some land that he and his wife had bought, shortly after they got married.
Curiously, the details of how Aaron and his Aunt Margaret had obtained those two 50-acre parcels, back on April 10, 1809, were included in that August 19, 1816 land deed. That is how those details are known.
After Aaron sold his land in Rockingham County, Virginia, he, his wife, and their infant son, migrated to Preble County, Ohio. They were seen living there, in the 1830 Census Report (see the link below). They later migrated onto Indiana, where they later died.
Link to the 1830 Preble County, Ohio Census Report
What happened to Margaret Hoffman Back?: She was first listed, by name, in the 1811 Rockingham County Personal Property Tax List, because she owned one horse, and horses were taxed. In that 1811 Tax List, as well as in the 1816 Tax List, when she was also taxed on one horse, she was listed separately from Aaron Back, on the line below Aaron, which actually proves that she was not his mother (see the links below).
Link to the 1811 Rockingham County Personal Property Tax List
Link to the 1816 Rockingham County Personal Property Tax List
Keep in mind the fact that women were only listed on the Tax Lists, by their name, if they were "the head of their household." And since Margaret was listed on those two Tax Lists above, by her name, that clearly proved that she was "the head of her household." And since Aaron was listed on all of the Tax Lists, by his name, that clearly proved that he was "the head of his household." These were two separate households, on two, separate 50-acre parcels, on opposite sides of Wolf Run; Aaron obviously did not live with Margaret, and he was obviously not her son.
Furthermore, we know that Aaron's mother Elizabeth was still alive in 1811, because she was indicated in the 1812 Land Tax List as still living with Aaron (as "Aaron & mother"). But Margaret was listed, by name, in the 1811 Personal Property Tax List, separate from Aaron, as owning one horse. If Margaret and Aaron were mother and son, Margaret's name would not have even been listed on the 1811 Tax List, because her son Aaron would have been "the head of the household," and so only his name would have been listed; Margaret's horse would have been taxed, as part of Aaron's property, if he really was her son.
After Margaret's sister Elizabeth died, and after her nephew Aaron sold his 50 acres, in 1816, and moved away, Margaret continued to live on her 50 acres along Wolf Run, for many years, until her death, in 1834 (or shortly thereafter). She was seen living there, in the 1820 and 1830 Census Reports (see the links below). Her two unmarried daughters were still living with her. (Please note that the 1830 Census Report below mistakenly shows, along the top, that it was taken in Preston County, but it was actually taken in Rockingham County. If you click on Margaret's name, over at the right, it shows that it was actually taken in Rockingham County.)
Link to the 1820 Rockingham County Census Report
Link to the 1830 Rockingham County Census Report
After Aaron sold his 50 acres, in 1816, and moved away, that was when Margaret started paying the taxes on her 50 acres. She was first listed in the 1817 Land Tax List (see the link below), and she continued to be listed in the Land Tax Lists, every year, up through the 1834 Land Tax List (see the link below).
Link to the 1817 Rockingham County Land Tax List
Link to the 1834 Rockingham County Land Tax List
Margaret was also listed in the 1817 Personal Property Tax List, as owning one horse (see the link below). But she must have soon sold that horse, because she was not listed in any subsequent Personal Property Tax Lists.
Link to the 1817 Rockingham County Personal Property Tax List
On June 18, 1834, Margaret sold her 50 acres, but that deed was destroyed in the courthouse fire as well. However, in-depth research proved that a man named Thomas Lowrey had bought her land (Book 11, Page 397), and he was seen living on 50 acres, along Wolf Run, in subsequent Land Tax Lists. Margaret probably died, shortly after she sold her land to him, and she was probably buried on her land along Wolf Run.
Summary: In addition to all the proof already presented here, it is important to understand that no son, including Aaron Back, would ever have abandoned his elderly mother, and moved 500 miles away, to Ohio, especially taking her grandchild away from her. Back then, children simply did not move away from home, until after both of their parents had died. That's just the way it was, back then. Margaret was 68 years old, in 1816, and if Aaron was her son, he would never have abandoned her like that. But he wasn't her son. He was the son of Elizabeth Hoffman Back, who had died several years before he left Rockingham County.
The 1816 Land Deed
Aaron Back sold his land in Rockingham County
This land deed above provides definitive proof that Aaron Back sold his 50 acres of land, along Wolf Run, in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1816.
This land deed clearly states that it was recorded in Rockingham County, Virginia, on August 19, 1816, between Aaron Back and his wife Elizabeth (Margaret Elizabeth Luger Hammer Back), and Henry Hammer Jr. (the brother of Aaron's wife Elizabeth).
It also clearly states that Aaron and his wife Elizabeth sold that 50 acres of land along Wolf Run to her brother Henry, for one dollar.
It further clearly states that John Embry and his wife Elizabeth (Elizabeth Back Embry) had previously owned 100 acres along Wolf Run, consisting of 50 acres on one side of the creek, and 50 acres on the other side. It also clearly states that, back on April 10, 1809, John Embry and his wife Elizabeth had sold that 50 acres to Aaron Back, and the other 50 acres to Margaret Back (Margaret Hoffman Back).
This 1816 land deed does not include the name of Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746), because she didn't buy that land, or sell that land; she was not part of the transaction. However, she was closely related to the parties involved. She was mother of the man who had bought that land, back in 1809 (Aaron Back). She also had lived on that land with her son (Aaron Back). She also was the mother of the man who had sold that land, in 1816 (Aaron Back). And she also was the sister of the woman who lived on the other 50 acres, on the other side of the creek.
It has been decisively proven that Aaron Back was not the son of Margaret Hoffman Back, because his name was not on the 1803 land deed, in which Margaret sold her land and house, back in Madison County, Virginia. All five of Margaret's children were named in that deed, and all five signed that deed; all five were daughters; not one of them was a son, and not one of them was Aaron Back.
In the 1810 Census Report, in Rockingham County, Aaron was seen living with an elderly woman who was over the age of 45. Of course, that was his mother, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746); she was then 64 years old. Since it has been decisively proven that his mother was not Margaret Hoffman Back, of course, it had to have been his mother, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746). Also living with Aaron were his two unmarried sisters. All four of them had just moved to Rockingham County, from Madison County, where his mother, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746), had just sold her farm to Ephraim Fray, a few months before, on September 28, 1809. Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746) was never seen in any subsequent Tax Lists or Census Reports, in Madison County, after she sold her land. Of course, she moved to Rockingham County with her son Aaron and her two unmarried daughters.
The reason that all four of them moved to that 50 acres along Wolf Run, was so that Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746), who was a recent widow, could live out the rest of her life near her widowed sister Margaret Hoffman Back. Furthermore, the Tax Lists in Rockingham County, in 1810, 1811, and 1812, for Aaron Back, listed him as "Aaron & mother." Of course, that was Aaron's mother, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746).
So, if someone tries to claim that Aaron Back was not the son of Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746), or that she did not move to Rockingham County, after her husband Henry died, in 1809, they are either incredibly stupid, or they are trying to deceive you, and trying to "prove" the fraudulent genealogy.
Birthdate confusion: Aaron Back was born on June 18, 1785; he had a brother named Henry Back Jr., who was born around 1783 (but died around 1805); these two brothers were the sons of Henry Back (1740-1809) and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746).
There was another man named Henry Back, who was born on February 6, 1785, and he was the son of Joseph Back and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard Back. (That was the Henry Back who migrated to southeastern Kentucky, in 1791.) This Administrator cannot seem to understand all of this. It would be impossible for Aaron Back (born June 18, 1785) to be a brother of Henry Back (born February 6, 1785), because their dates of birth are only four months apart. So, because this Administrator pretends that Joseph Back and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard Back never existed, she claims that Henry Back (born February 6, 1785) was the son of Henry Back (1740-1809) and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman Back (born July 13, 1746), which is wrong; and that Aaron Back (born June 18, 1785) was the son of John Back and Margaret Hoffman, which is also wrong.
Burnt Records Collection: During the Civil War, many records in the Rockingham County Courthouse were burned. Years later, some people transcribed what was left of those records, and those transcriptions are now available, in an online collection called, "The Burnt Deed Books, 1778-1864." This 1816 Land Deed is part of that collection (see the link below). You can also view this 1816 land deed on the Rockingham County website (see the link below).
Link to The Burnt Deed Books, 1778-1864
Link to the Rockingham County Burnt Deed Books: Back to Hammer
In order to view this land deed on the Rockingham County website, after you click the link above, then click "Burnt Deed Books 1778-1864." Then click "Secure Remote Access," right under that. Then click "I Accept." Then click the darkened search box to the left of "Historical Index Search." Then click "Grantor Indexes" on the left. Then click "1778-1864 (Burnt Deeds)." Then click the letter "B" (for Back). Scroll down to near the middle of page 17. You will see Aaron Back's name. It shows that Aaron sold two parcels to Henry Hammer Jr. (although the dates of those deed in this index is August 20, not August 19). One deed (Book 3, Page 249) was for Aaron selling some other land that he owned (63 acres), to Henry Jr. The other deed (Book 3, Page 250) was for Aaron selling his 50 acres on Wolf Run, to Henry Jr.; that's the one you want to view.
So, to view this actual deed, go back over to the left, and scroll down to "Document Search." Enter "3" for the Book number, and enter "250" for the Page number. Then click "Search." Two deeds will then come up. The deed you want is the first one, called, "Burnt Deeds." If you hover your mouse over the right side of that box, a small black icon will come up. Just click that, and the deed will open.
This woman denies all of this proof: Before this woman with her staged "DNA Project" posted the Rockingham County Tax Lists on Family Search, she first downloaded the 1812 Land Tax List for Aaron Back, and she altered the year to be 1810. (Why?) Then she downloaded the 1815 Land Tax List for some woman named Elizabeth Bohr, who owned land way over in Keezletown (14 miles west of Wolf Run), and she altered her name to be Elizabeth Back. She referred to that 1815 Tax List that she had just altered as being, "more disturbing." (What?)
Then this woman claimed that, since the Tax Lists only said, "Aaron & mother," and they didn't provide the full name of Aaron's mother (Elizabeth Hoffman Back), that meant that it wasn't Elizabeth Hoffman Back! (What?) But, why in the world would his mother's full name have been written on that Tax List? She was his mother, and so that one word, "mother," was all that was needed. (So...if Aaron's mother actually was Margaret Hoffman Back, as this woman falsely claims, since Margaret's full name was not provided, if couldn't be Margaret, either....right?!)
Then this woman plastered the word "FAKE" in red, bold letters, at the top of her altered copies of those Tax Lists, before she uploaded them to Family Search! Of course, she continually screams that, "Aaron was the son of Margaret Hoffman Back," without any proof; and she continually screams that, "Elizabeth moved to Kentucky with several of her children," without any proof. But yet, she staunchly demands that everyone else provide proof, or as she calls, it, "proofs!" It's crazy!
When this woman posted that 1816 Land Deed on Family Search, she wrote that, it "proves that Elizabeth Hoffman Back did not move to Rockingham County." (What? How?) She also wrote that, because Aaron's wife was also named Elizabeth, that somehow "proves that his mother named Elizabeth did not move to Rockingham County." (What? How?) She also wrote that, because the land was deeded to Aaron Back and Margaret Back, that "proves that Margaret was Aaron's mother." (What? How?) And she even wrote that, because, "the phrase 'Aaron Back and Elizabeth his wife' appears five times," that also somehow, "proves that Aaron's mother Elizabeth did not move to Rockingham County." (What? How?)
Anyone can easily see how deranged this woman's thinking is. It's really sad. People can't tell whether this woman is mentally ill, or whether she is fabricating information, to "prove" her fraudulent genealogy, for her own sick and selfish reasons, just like "The Back-Bach Genealogical Society" did. Perhaps it's both.
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Summary: There is still not one historical document that proves any aspect of her fraudulent genealogy. But yet, there are a massive number of historical documents that prove the actual genealogy of the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky. Can't she see how bizarre her behavior is? Everyone else can.
This woman with her staged "DNA Project" thinks that her "DNA Project" is all the "proof" that she needs, even though it is obviously staged, and it is in direct conflict with the massive number of historical documents in existence about the family. It appears that, back in 2009, she started her "DNA Project" with a DNA test from her brother. Then, she got the DNA test results for Greg Back, who is a known descendant of Harman Back; he was her second participant. But when Greg's DNA was not a match to her brother's DNA, she figured out ways to stage her "DNA Project," to "prove" that members of the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky descend from Harman Back, through his alleged son Henry Back.
Yes, her staged "DNA Project" has allowed her to keep her membership in DAR; and yes, she maintained her "officer status" in DAR; and yes, she "saved face" with all of her DAR girlfriends. But at what price? Did she really have to destroy the actual genealogy of her own family, to do it?
She actually thinks that she can fool people with her bizarre behavior. She doesn't understand that people aren't stupid. They aren't going to be fooled by some fraudulent genealogy that has absolutely no proof to support it, and they aren't going to be fooled by some staged "DNA Project."
Many people wonder...why does this woman insist on trying to "prove" that the Back (Bach) family from southeastern Kentucky descends from some guy who simply donated some booze to some soldiers, back in 1780? Who cares! Can't she find an ancestor in her actual family tree, to use, in an honest and ethical manner, to maintain her membership in DAR? If she's such a "genealogy expert," why can't she find someone else to use that won't involve tearing apart her own family?
Why is she so ashamed of her own actual ancestors?
Why does she keep tearing apart her own family with her fraudulent genealogy?
Letter from DAR, proving they made those corrections in 2022
