Odom Family History 
W
elcome to the Odom Family History section of our website, sponsored by the Odom Family Association, a national family club for all descendants of the Odom family. The Association was founded in 1978 and sponsored the first Odom Family National Reunion in 1980. If you are a descendant of the Odom (Odam, Odem, Odum, Odham and some Oldham etc.) who pioneered the American Colonies of the South, this is YOUR family history. In the coming weeks, we hope to bring you a great deal about our family's heritage. We are a NEW site, so be patient and bear with us as we work for you.The hobby of our Historian has been family history since the age of 12, for more than 50 years now. His collection of Odom family records and information is now the largest in the world on our family and several years ago, it became our Odom Family National Library.
We are trying to gather and preserve every type of record and information on ALL descendants of our family. If you are a descendant of the family, you are urged to contribute information on your immediate family and ancestors to be preserved in the Library. The Odom Family National Library is a collection of every kind of public document and family record. It was begun many years ago by our historian, Robert Earl Woodham and is now the largest collection of records on the Odom family in the world.
It includes such documents as copies of marriage licenses and bonds, census records, birth and death certificates, family Bible records, military records, cemetery tombstone inscriptions, old letters, deeds, land grants, federal homesteads, obituaries, wills, probate records, newspaper and magazine articles, published info from books and much more.
You are urged to make xerox copies of any of these type records you can find on Odom kinfolk and send these to us to preserve in the Odom Family National Library. Future generations will be able to find one central source of information and records on all our family--without having to visit courthouses and libraries all over the nation. Give your future great great grandchildren the gift of their family heritage.
If your really care about your family history, then please take the time to write down what you already know, starting with yourself, your immediate family (your wife and children), your parents and brothers and sisters and their families; your Odom grandparents and your aunts and uncles and their families. Include full names, date and place of birth, who, when and where married; when and where died; where buried (name of cemetery and county and state where located); then send this to us to preserve in the Odom Family National Library. You are urged to make xerox copies of any of the type records (mentioned above) you can find on Odom kinfolk and send these to us to preserve in the Odom Family National Library. Future generations will be able to find one central source of information and records on all our family--without having to visit courthouses and libraries all over the nation. Give your future great great grandchildren the gift of their family heritage.
write or email us:
INDEX
This section will eventually have a brief history of our Odom families, from their origins in England, up to the beginning of the 1900's in America
Our Editor and family historian is R. E. Woodham, a member of the Seminole County, Georgia branch of our family who are descendants of John Redden Odom of Sampson Co., NC
to Odom Family Association Home page17 June 1998