6.0 Selected Links
The Nail-Ray family tree with records and photos is available online for those who have a paid subscription to ancestry.com at trees.ancestry.com/tree/83684359/recent. This tree contains ancestors, descendants, and relatives of two couples, Henry Nail & his wife Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & his wife Elizabeth Pearce. This is the best resource for those doing research and compiling their own family trees on ancestry.com. Living persons are not in this tree for privacy reasons.
A free version of the Nail-Ray family tree with over 19,000 persons is available for browsing at www.nailrayfamilyassoc.tribalpages.com. Access to this tree is controlled by the administrator, so you must request an invitation. There is no charge for basic viewing and reports, although the more detailed reports require a fee.
The web page for Shelby County, IN, associated with the Indiana Comprehensive Genealogical Database is at http://shelbycountyindiana.org/
Jill Knitl's PowerPoint slide show of the Wray/Ray Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana. (If you don't have PowerPoint, you can download the free PowerPoint Plugin from Microsoft, but you need to be aware that it is not fully accessible.)
Y-DNA tests associated with genealogy are becoming an increasingly useful tool in supporting research into family lines of interest. Our search for ancestors is often guided by hunch and hypothesis when the paper trail is inadequate, and having DNA results from lines to which we have suspected connections can either rule them out or show that a connection is possible or even likely. Background information can be found here:
https://www.familytreedna.com/
Nail and Ray men who wish to participate in the growing databases of men who have been tested can order yDNA tests at the lower group rates by joining one of the ongoing surname projects at:
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/nagle/