About this history

The Wade & Webb Family History is a cited record of one family's past: the Wades, whose story runs through New York, and the Webbs, whose story runs through Alabama and Georgia. Every person in it has a page, and every fact on a page carries a note naming its source. Where the records are silent or disagree, the page says so, and inference is marked as inference.

Why Webb Wade?

Every family history has to be traced from someone. This one is traced from William Albert Webb Wade (1938–2023), known as Webb Wade, whose father was a Wade of Queens and whose mother was a Webb of Birmingham, Alabama. The people in it are his ancestors, their brothers and sisters, and their husbands and wives, with a few others whose stories belong here. Each page shows how its subject connects to him, so that a reader who arrives from anywhere can see where they stand.

Who compiled it

The history is compiled by Webb Wade's son, Matt Wade. The family tree itself lives on FamilySearch, where corrections are made; the documents, transcriptions and research notes behind these pages are kept with it.

How it is researched

The research follows the Genealogical Proof Standard, the method professional genealogists use: a reasonably exhaustive search, complete citations, careful comparison of the evidence, conflicts resolved rather than ignored, and a written conclusion. Each page ends with the questions that are still open and the searches already made, including those that found nothing, so that the next researcher need not repeat them.

Living people are counted on these pages, not named, except where the family has agreed.