Note.. Monique posted 5 years ago.

I had almost forgotten this thread.... but I have made a couple of breakthroughs due to checking alternate spellings of names and the fact that people are adding new research to various families every day.

I am relatively (so's to speak) lucky because my father's family was in Western Pennsylvania and moved there from Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut in the 1700s. The early settlers in the 1600s & 1700s in those states kept many records, and are researched extensively, so that I now have records of ancestors who arrived in the very early colonial days- with the added interest that their roots to England, Scotland & Wales are known as well as a couple links to France.

Of course, a few supposed links need more research because many old records were ambiguous... taken from probated wills and other English documents ....and way too many folks were named 'John' and 'Mary' back then. Still, I find that I have tenuous (read- VERY tenuous) links to Winston Churchill and Prince Charles. Why, I may be 137,972nd in line to the throne!

   I'll post a few links later to 'interesting' families in England that seem to be fairly clear & certain.

(My mother's family from the Virginia area seems not to have been nearly so well documented. Only 5-6 generations there, while 15-20 generations on my father's side.)