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Some of the simplest families have great roots. The family of Alva Mathews and Sharon Pugh, while raised in Arkansas, USA have puritan roots in colonial times on the Eastern seaboard of the Americas. Before that they can be traced back to Wales, Scotland, England and beyond. Descended from Kings and Queens of Wales and England their heritage extends far past the 30 generations that are represented here. Some of their more famous ancestors are Sir Henry Morgan, Pirate of the Caribbean and Sir Richard Hawkins, Queen's privateer/pirate and cousin of Sir Francis Drake. Enjoy carousing the pedigree of this family as you go back over a 1000 years of history. The entire file is available to the public on Ancestry.com under Pugh-Mathews Family tree.
A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.
In January 2021, Kamala Harris became the first female Vice-President of the United States, and the first woman of color to be elected to that office. Kamala's ancestry is truly unique in that her father came from Jamaica with mixed Negro, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and her mother from India. Both were academics and came to the United States to study. Jamaican heritage is vey difficult to trace as many births were not registered due to color of their skin, illegitimacy, or religion. Jamaica is an island that had been conquered by the Spanish and then the British, with multiple uprisings amongst the slaves who were finally freed by the British in 1832. Even then the legacy of British slave...
From the castles of Wester Wemyss in Fifeshire, Scotland to the hills of eastern Tennessee, the Wemyss family made its imprint on the new nation in many ways. Their ancestors were Earls and Kings of Scotland and in the Americas they became doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, teachers, farmers and soldiers. They fought in every war, the Revolution, War of the Regulators, War of1812, Civil War, Korean, Vietnam, WW1 and WW2. Cover photo - Wemyss Castle on the Firth of Forth in Wemyss, Scotland Rear Cover photo - 2 story cabin built in 1777 in Jonesborough, Tennesse, the oldest town in Tennessee.
The Williams, Tower, Gregory and Martin families lived in Indiana and Kentucky, but their origins were a long way away in England, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy. The Tower family can be traced back from Wales to the daughter, Antonia, of Julius Caesar in Rome, Italy. The Stewart family can be traced back to the Kings and Queens of Scotland and Europe; to the Merovingian Dynasty. Enjoy the journey as you follow the family from colonial America to their beginnings in Europe. Many served in the Civil War and the Revolutionary War of the Americas. They were farmers, preachers, teachers, and politicians. Each made their mark on the new nation of the United States.
The ancestry of Meredith Cain Inglesby is unique in that it not only hooks into the royal families of England, Scotland, Ireland and Europe, but also joins the Carolingian, Merovingian and Roman bloodlines. Take a journey through the centuries as you learn about her Father's English ancestry and the Greek/Turkish islands that her Mother's family came from. Although records in the Greek Islands are largely unavailable, join us as we browse through the 70 generations of her ancestors and dream of spending the day on the beach at Cesme, Turkey, which was once one of the Greek Islands.
The ancestry of Jill Jacobs Biden, the wife of the 46th President, Joseph R. Biden, is complicated and lengthy. Only 25 generations could be represented here, but the family tree, listed on Ancestry.com contains more than 100 generations and goes back to such places as England, Wales, Scotland, France, Norway, and Italy. The lines in Wales lead back to Anna of Arimathea, a relative of Jesus Christ, and extends back to Methuselah. The lines in Italy, carry through the Roman imperators and Emperors, all the way to Troy. Although the first 10 generations can be well documented, once past the availability of vital records, probates and land records must be relied on. When those die out, records ...
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Richere had no clue how far back her Native American ancestry was. As she learned more about her grandparents and heard the stories about her 'gambler Indian great-grandfather" she began to investigate her ancestry. A direct descendant of Chief (Sachem) Heni' Membertou, the first Mi'kmaq/MicMac native of Nova Scotia to be baptized by the Christian missionaries and the Chief of the Mi'kmaq tribe in Nova Scotia, her family intermarried with the first French colonists of Quebec and eventually migrated to the United States into Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. While you might expect a Native American to NOT be related the Royal families of Europe or the Merovingian Dynasty, that's not true. The French families they intermarried into were of Royal blood and can be traced more than 80 generations throughout England, Wales, France, and Palestine, with a few drops of Scottish for good measure. Enjoy the journey as you explore the many generations of Native American / French families as they melt into the fabric of Canada and the United States.