The Cresap Society’s first Website was created by our late genealogist, Cheryl Singhal who put together decades of Cresap genealogy work, and with her son and his wife created, designed, and copyrighted The Cresap Society Pages which included the descendancies of the first five generations of our immigrant Thomas Cresap plus his birth family back in Skipton/Leeds, Yorkshire, England. To read our society’s research beyond the first five generations you need our 2003 book The History of the Cresaps edited by Cheryl Singhal (available through our store). NOTE: Anywhere on the original website you see an email or contact address, remember those addresses are out of use. To contact us and buy from our store, use the new website links.
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The original copyrighted Cresap Society Pages were hosted on the internet by RootsWeb from 1996 to 2009. Ancestry.com bought Rootsweb and our pages disappeared. We wrangled the links from them but have no guarantee this is forever. Thus, Bonnie Cresap #5625 (down from both Daniel and Michael) is doing yeoman’s work transferring our original data to our new website. For as long as they work, here are the links to the original site and the descendants pages.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cresap/descendants/d1.htm |
On Cresap Society Pages you’ll find side by side columns (with links) for the original and the present websites. We are grateful for Cheryl’s years of work, and for Bonnie’s present efforts to keep this information available to all Cresaps. See Cheryl’s Washington Post obituary below.
Our extended Cresap family is large and, like all families large and small, we have legal and out-of-wedlock births. We have marriages and divorces. Our family has legal and extra-legal couples, interracial and interreligious marriages. We have embraced children through formal and casual adoptions and guardianships. It has always been so. We welcome the families as they are. Sometimes DNA does not match, and sometimes that’s a surprise. We accept what we learn as we find it. Your present genealogist’s deep belief is that mongrel and pedigree dogs are equally beloved. Please write with your questions.
Our extended Cresap family is large and, like all families large and small, we have legal and out-of-wedlock births. We have marriages and divorces. Our family has legal and extra-legal couples, interracial and interreligious marriages. We have embraced children through formal and casual adoptions and guardianships. It has always been so. We welcome the families as they are. Sometimes DNA does not match, and sometimes that’s a surprise. We accept what we learn as we find it. Your present genealogist’s deep belief is that mongrel and pedigree dogs are equally beloved. Please write with your questions.
Cheryl's Washington Post obituary:
The Washington Post 28 Feb 2015
GYNETH C. SINGHAL
GYNETH CHERYL McVEY HARMISON SINGHAL Genealogist and Regent Bottany Cross Chapter, NSDAR
CHERYL H. SINGHAL, 70, born in Winchester, VA on November 18, 1944; married in Rockville, MD on May 6, 1967; died in Olney, MD on January 3, 2015. She was a resident of Silver Spring, MD since 1980. Funeral arrangements were handled by Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home and services were held January 10. Survivors include her husband Sat Pal Singhal, son Mahesh Daniel (Sarah Rosenberg) Singhal and three grandchildren Desmond, Eloise, and Sullivan.
Born and raised in the Valley of Virginia, all sides of Cheryl's family had roots in pre-Revolutionary America. She began working in genealogy research in January 1971, long before it became a popular topic, and since that time had remained active in the field. She taught Free University classes in Genealogy at LSU Baton Rouge (1976-79) and led workshops for the East Baton Rouge Parish (LA) Library.
Cheryl volunteered at the Family History Center (FHC) in Baton Rouge (1972-77). Beginning in 1991, she was on-staff at the Washington, DC Temple FHC. In 1994, she joined the thin ranks of computer genealogists and was a frequent presenter at FHC workshops, where she also had acted as moderator for numerous brick-wall sessions.
She was a long time associate of and contributor to British researchers and she maintained the Hampshire County, WV GenWeb site. She participated in numerous data-entry projects for the NGS, DAR, UDC, and FHL. In 2008, she received the National Genealogical Society's Award of Merit for her long-term involvement with their Member Ancestor Charts project, now online.
Cheryl was a past President of the Baton Rouge, LA Genealogical and Historical Society, a past President of the Capital PAF Users Group in Kensington, MD and a past Counselor for the Genealogy Merit Badge for Boy Scouts of America. She was a member of both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and since 1979, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a multiple term Regent of Bottany Cross Chapter, NSDAR.
She served as the Genealogist for the Cresap Society, compiling the 3rd edition of "The History of the Cresaps" in 2003, and most recently her work on the "Narrative History of the Cresaps" was in progress. She was a member of the Shanholtzer Reunion and indexed the Shanholtzer family genealogy. She specialized in research in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Louisiana, California, Great Britain, and India.
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