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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
If you don't know the names then you don't know it goes back to the Mayflower. You only know what you can show. Get off yer lazy butts and do some research!  |
Actually, I have. About 25 years ago my mother and I did the research, chronicling the entire family tree back to the early 1600's. At the time, the internet was practically non-existent, so getting records from England at the time was nigh impossible, so we stopped there.
We did end up with a 300 page tome with a direct lineage back to the Mayflower. Included were various scrapbook items, news articles, photo/lithographs of family.
The part of the name I wasn't sure on, as I haven't read the book in 15-20 years, was the exact spelling.
I challenge you to now get off your lazy but and Show me your last 400 years of lineage.
And yes, I know you were joking... but damn that was a lot of work.