So who is John B. Taylor? I AM and I welcome you to my web site. I've created this web site as a tool and/or an extension of my genealogical research and to facilitate sharing my family history data with others.

A little about me..... I was born in Corsicana, Navarro Co., Texas and grew up in Marshall, Harrison Co., Texas. Returning to North Central Texas to attend college, I joined the Arlington Police Department and, as of the end of April 2002, I've retired from the APD having enjoyed a successful, 30-year career with them. At present I have returned to the big piney woods of East Texas where I am pursuing Internet-related business interests. In addition to genealogy, my hobbies include woodworking, collecting British police memorabilia, and playing on the Internet. The latter seems to be becoming a full-time business as I'm now designing/developing/maintaining web sites for others. You are welcome to visit my personal web site at www.Constabulary.com, or my business web sites at www.TechnoDev.com and www.ICPSS.com.

Always the history buff, I began researching my 'roots' back in 1978. After ten years and thousands of hours reading, staring at microfilm, and tromping around old cemeteries I hung up my magnifying glass. I had made considerable progress with many of my lines but my primary 'bloodline,' the TAYLOR family, had proved to be a blank wall after only two generations. Frustration got the best of me so I boxed everything up and stored it in the attic with the idea of picking it back up someday.

In late September 2000 I received an email message from a lady responding to an old genealogy query I had posted many years earlier. The information in that email was the TAYLOR missing link I'd searched for during the 70-80's ... it identified my gggrandfather and gggrandmother and told me when and where they were married! Immediately the boxes came down from the attic and I now find myself back into the search again!

Please use the buttons on the right side of this introduction page to navigate the site.

By the way, the handsome couple in the photo at the top of the page are my maternal grandparents, Harvey Conway Smithen and Myrtle Walker of Navarro County Texas ... they're posing for their wedding photo on 27 February 1920.

PLEASE NOTE - Due to other demands on my time I am no longer able to respond to all the mail sent to this web site .. as a matter of fact, regretfully I have shelved my genealogical reseach (at least for the time being) as of early 2005. I have decided to leave the site up and running in an effort to provide information for others. - JT