It’s a wonderful feeling to think that my relatives were there.” — Sharlee Kuhns Like many Americans spread across the country, I share something in common with folks from Livonia, Michigan and at least 250 Oklahomans. We are descendants of the original Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in early autumn of 1621. Members of the Mayflower Society, [...]
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The Mayflower, Ashley Judd & Me
Posted: April 11, 2011 in Books, DOTY, England, Massachusetts, Mayflower, United StatesI’ve become a fan of the second season of Who Do You Think You Are? on NBC. Usually I watch it online. It’s available at NBC.com and Hulu. For some reason, the first season didn’t entice me. What few episodes I did watch were rather boring. Ashley Judd was the latest person to be featured [...]
Good ol’ rebel rousin’ Edward Dotey1 has a good deal of descendants, including me and a woman in Iron River, Michigan. Sandra Louise Stafford Vignali has linked her heritage to Edward Doty, passenger on the Mayflower. He and the others on that famous voyage arrived in the harbor near Plymouth, Massachusetts in November of 1620. Edward was 21 years [...]
