Welcome to the Carnley Family Heritage Archive
We have brought the surviving genealogy of the former Carnley.org together with CarnleyDNA.org to create one research home for the Carnley name and its related families. Explore thousands of original indexed records, family branches, historical research, and DNA resources. The original work was developed by Boyd H. Carnley and continued by Sam Carnley.
Find a Carnley Family Record
Search the historical index of 5,139 people. Birth and death information is shown where recorded. “Private” is retained as marked in the original research.
The Research We Recovered
The original Carnley.org website is no longer available at its former address. We recovered its surviving genealogical research from archived copies and incorporated it into CarnleyDNA.org. This is one Carnley family-history resource, preserving the work begun by Boyd H. Carnley and continued by Sam Carnley. See the original Carnley.org in the Wayback Machine.
Search the recovered records · History of the Greater Carnley Family of America · Boyd H. Carnley memorial (PDF)
DNA Research
A written family tree is a starting point, whether it comes from courthouse records, family letters, or a treasured family Bible. But a surname does not always tell the whole story. In earlier generations, children sometimes went to live with relatives or other families without formal adoption paperwork, and the name they used could change with the household.
Our family has an example: according to the family history, Lewis Chipley Carnley, my middle namesake, was taken into the Timney household and was associated with the Timney name, while remaining a Carnley by birth. That history helps explain why the Carnley and Timney family records overlap. DNA can offer additional evidence of biological relationships when names and paper records leave questions unanswered. It does not replace family histories or prove every relationship by itself. Explore the Carnley DNA Project.
The DNA project would benefit from a volunteer administrator. CarnleyDNA.org preserves family research but does not administer the testing project.
My Carnley Roots
Explore my family's recorded generations, including Joyce Marie Carnley, her father Louis Pat Carnley (known as Pat), and his father Lewis Chipley Carnley, whose connection with the Timneys is part of our family story. Read my Carnley family roots and genealogy.
In Loving Memory
I dedicate this website to my mother, Joyce Marie Carnley, and to Lewis Chipley Carnley, my middle namesake. Their family, and the generations before them, are part of the story this archive helps preserve.
Photographs from My Carnley Family Heritage
A few treasured family photographs, including multiple generations of the Carnley family.
Timney Cemetery and the Carnley Family
Timney Cemetery in Fairhope, Alabama, was originally a private family cemetery, not a public community burial ground. According to our family history, Lewis Chipley Carnley was raised in the Timney household. That close family connection is why Carnley relatives were permitted to be buried there. Many members of our Carnley family now rest at the cemetery.
The independently maintained Timney Cemetery website offers burial information, some memorial photographs, and cemetery history. It is a helpful resource for anyone researching the Carnley–Timney connection.