Welcome to the Combs-Huff Genealogy webpage. My name is Melodie Combs and I have been researching my family for many years. I grew up in Mousie, Ky., my mother's side of my family primarily resided there. Some of the surnames are Huff (mother's maiden name), Conley, Collins, Wicker, Campbell, Nickels, Casebolt, Terry, Hicks, Moore, Smith, Gibson, Combs, Salyer, Castle, Triplet, Hamilton, Dodson/Dotson, Stratton, Layne, Shannon, Boggs, Pigman, Maggard, McKinney, Hughes, Musick, Johnson, Keesee, Carter, Grigsby, Ramey, Owens, Cornett, Amburgey, Clements, Couch, Boone, Gayheart, Marshall, Flannery, Joseph, Pennington, Robertson, and more I will add later.

My father's side primarily resided in Quicksand Ky. My grandmother Mary Smith Combs taught at the old Decoy School which burnt down in the 1990s. Some of my paternal surnames are Combs, Smith, Handshoe, Prater, Wadkins/Watkins, Allen, Beverly, Ramey, Campbell, Patrick, Wisehart, Mullins, Sizemore, Flemming, Clement, Grigsby, Shepherd, Patton, Stephens, Stone, Leak, Graham, Duncan, Goodman (matches Gibson Y DNA) Gilbert Gibson line, Terrell, Vanderpool, Sisson, Hale, Richmond, Powell, Wilson, Fugate, Liles, Seitz,  and others I will be adding and discussing later. A

One of the topics I will be focusing on is Endogamy in isolated groups of people. You will notice in my tree I have several lines of the same people, the same great-great-grandparents in numerous lines. Smith, Combs, and Gibson are the ones I will be focusing on primarily.