Fulkerson Family Tree

Our Family History

Fulkerson Genealogy


My FULKERSON Branch – names, dates, places and a story or two

The First American-born Generation of FULKERSONS – more than 350 years ago
Updated September 2009 to list one family’s 26 children


Family Tree Diagram – a fast-loading look at the first six Fulkerson generations and how they migrated, in an INTERACTIVE family tree format.

The FULKERSONS in 18th-Century New Jersey – This is the CORE page for the genealogies listed below. It also follows some of the smaller branches Westward into many states, including those listed below.
Updated June 2010

Volkert VOLKERTSON – to the hostile frontiers in Virginia and North Carolina, then West to Kentucky, Missouri and other states.
Updated June 2010

Descendants of Captain James FULKERSON – in Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and points West
Updated May 2010


Descendants of Abraham FULKERSON – in Virginia, Missouri and on the Oregon Trail. Also includes photographs of his 1783 house.
Updated June 2010


Fulkard FULKERSON went to Kentucky and founded the largest branch of FulkersonsDescendants went on to settle in Indiana, Illinois and the California wine country in the 1800s.
Updated May 2010

Research on the BRUNER wives of his sons John and Philip.
NEW February 2010



Descendants of Captain Philip FULKERSON – in Kentucky. Later generations appeared in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Updated May 2010


Illinois FULKERSONS – from New Jersey and Virginia
Updated May 2010

Upstate New York FULKERSONS – many took a northern detour before heading West
Updated June 2010


Ohio FULKERSON Branches – emigrating from New Jersey and New York. Some went on to Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa and Oregon.
Updated May 2010


Early Pennsylvania FULKERSONS – known branches, plus 20+ unknown FULKERSONS Later descendants are found in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Updated May 2010