Does anyone know anything about the country of origin for the surname Huskey?

Question:

Does anyone know anything about the country of origin for the surname Huskey?

I'm trying to look up some family history stuff, but I can't find anything on my last name. I don't even know what country it originates from. All of my grandparents have passed now and I don't have anyone else to ask.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Big family! I pulled up literally thousands of records by that name going all the way back to the 1700s in this country.

Here's what I can tell you about the name...but obviously all of it can't pertain to your own line.

The name is found in Ireland, England, Netherlands, Poland, Aruba, Scotland and Norway. (My personal favorite names that I found were Bark Huskey and Hans Huskey.) So it's not limited to one part of Europe, but it does seem primarily a name of England, Ireland and Scotland.

There have been immigrants with that name coming over from 1750 through the mid 1900s. In the 1850s they peaked.

In the US, the name is heavily clustered in the deep South (Alabama, Tennessee, NC, SC, Arkansas), Texas, Oklahoma, and is heaviest in Missouri and Tennessee.

43 Huskeys fought for the Confederacy and 30 for the Union in the Civil war.

If you want to find out about your family, then the place to start is with yourself. The following link is for charts and forms that you can download to organize information as you find it. For genealogists there are 3 sets of information that we look for on each person...birth, marriage(s) and death. Once you fill in your information, find your parents' information. We are particularly interested in copies of marriage licenses and death certificates...not everyone has a birth certificate before 1930. Once you find your parents' marriage license you'll have information on your grandparents to work from. And the cycle continues.

In the US, you'll find the period between 1830 and 1870 is harder to track with straight BMD records. That's when we get a little more creative and use census, church, military and local history records. We look for probate court and land records. We go to local libraries for biographies, obituaries and local voter registration records.

This is a very strong addiction...errrr hobby...but I'll bet you'll find all sorts of interesting things about yourself that you can bind in a nice book for your kids so that they'll always have fleshed out pages of their family history to read over and over again to know from whence they came...