SITE COMPLETELY REVISED IN SEPT. 2012

After spending two to four hours a day for six weeks everything on this site has been updated. I had done little to update it since I first created the HYDEN trees in 2006. What changes had been made were prompted by many Hydens who had contacted me. Those contacts had been very valuable to my HYTEN and HITEN research particularly when they placed my huge unconnected William Hyten branch in the Hyden family. 
I have name list of 1933 Hydens which is too large to post. there are 277 on the Index to Head of Household list which is posted.
I am hoping that another big push might result in connecting the Indiana Henry Hitens to someone. Also that it would make a clearer connection of the Oklahoma Sylvanus Hitens and Texas Samuel Gwinn Hytens to the Hyden family.

I want to make it clear that my Hyden work does not meet proper genealogy research standards. It includes no personal research. It is a compilation of data from online searches and phone conversations. I know some find it wrong to put speculate in print but my Hyden work is about finding Hytens not verify Hydens. I am reasonably sure of the connection I have made ... but not positively sure. 
I welcome corrections and updates ... I have virtually no 21st century data. 
I have no notes telling me where the information came from but the fact that I found it fairly easily means you can properly track it down and work toward proper verification.

Throughout this document items are printed in italics indicating that sources were unclear, conflicting, or estimated. Anything printed in blue is either new or changed from the previously posted data.
Green print denotes unconnected branches and red unconnected individuals or small family groups. Dark red denotes branches of Hydens that changed their name from Hyden to Hyten or Hiten .... the people in which I am interested.
Each generation of Hydens has been given a color on the trees so you can calculate how for a person is from Francis Heyden/Hyden at the top of the tree. 

Pass along the word of the existence of this site so all Hydens might benefit.