Family Wisdom Tree

Meet the Originator of the Family Wisdom Tree                                 Contact me below

 

 

William Coleman is a 30-year veteran of ancestry research and family tree development.  Work on his own family tree began during the 1980s while living in Washington D.C.   He spent long hours at the National Archives, Library of Congress and DAR Library studying print, Soundex and microfiche census, military, ship manifest and family history records related to the Coleman-Shafer family. His work expanded to libraries, cemeteries and county court houses from Connecticut and the Ohio River Valley to Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and the Carolinas.  

 

He is a charter member of Ancestry.com now enjoying an extensive personal family tree comprised of 9.500 records & photos supporting 16,000 ancestral connections reaching back to medieval times and earlier.  His collection of family photos from the 1880s includes a prized set of German settlement images made by early photographers in central Arkansas.  Some of the photos were published in the book 'Disfarmer: Man Behind the Camera' by Kim O. Davis (2014).  He has conducted ancestry studies for a number of families since 2010, including surnames Hewitt, Howell, Stockhoff, Abbot, French and Lemon.  His genealogical history of the early Coleman family in Suffolk County, England is titled 'An Ancient and Worthy Family'.

 

His life-long interest in spiritual and mystical themes led to discovery of direct ancestral ties that seemed 'too familiar' to be casually explained.  On his mother’s side he descends from the curious Raleigh-Gilbert-Kelley-Dee (1527) extended family linked to Hermetic (Enochian) explorations during the rein of England's Queen Elizabeth.  On his father’s side he descends from Sir William Sinclair (1408), builder of Scotland's Rosslyn Chapel dedicated to Masonic mysteries.  He also descends from Reverend John Knox (1505), founder of the Scottish Reformation, and from a subsequently long line of Presbyterian ministers through the Witherspoon family line to the year 1778.  His paternal great grandfather was a Presbyterian minister in Fort Worth, Texas until his death in 1956.  Coleman served as guiding Master for the Evolving Rose Pronaos affiliated with the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosae Crusis (AMORC) in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

He also served on the board of directors for the Arkansas Whole Person Center.

His studies have since embraced Tibetan Buddhism where he has given instruction

on the history of the Tibetan lineage masters and on the Kalachakra tantra.