I have been reading some of the news accounts on a DNA analysis in the case of Sarah Yarborough, a student at a high school in Federal Way just south of Seattle who was murdered in 1991. I first happened upon the story from a newspaper half a world away, on the Daily Mail‘s website. I don’t watch [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
On December 18, 1620, passengers on the British ship Mayflower came ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts, to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. At least one of my ancestors, indentured servant and all-around troublemaker Edward Doty, was one of them. The famous Mayflower story began in 1606, when a group of reform-minded Puritans in Nottinghamshire, England, [...]
Family Name History
Posted: October 2, 2010 in BELOW, BOAL, CHITTY, CONNER, DARLING, DOTY, GEORGE, GOODELL, HAY, HILL, NEAL, NORTHROP, NORTHRUP, PARKER, RADDE, REYNOLDS, SHANNON, Surnames, TIDD, VAN NOTE, WALKERI came across a Family Name History feature at a site called nameLab, so I decided to lookup a few surnames. VAN NOTE Americanized spelling of Dutch Van (der) Not, a habitational name for someone from a place called Ter Noot, for example one in French Flanders. VAN OORT 1. Dutch: habitational name from any [...]
Abraham Lincoln & Coles County, Illinois
Posted: March 30, 2010 in Abraham Lincoln, Books, DOTY, GOODELL, PARKERToday I visited the law library at Willamette University to check on something I’ve been meaning to do for some time: research Abe Lincoln‘s work as a lawyer. Lincoln’s father, Thomas, lived for many years in Coles County, Illinois, where some of my maternal ancestors, particularly the Parkers, lived also. I first wrote about this [...]
