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Ancestry/Genealogy

Fla Dem

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9. Hey. don't knock the Puritans and Pilgrims!

Reply to csziggy (Reply #6)

Mon May 15, 2017, 02:04 PM

May 2017

Kidding, my descendants were witches. Mary Eastey and Rebecca Nourse (Nurse). Hung during the Salem witch trials. Their brother Edmund Towne is my 10th great-grandfather.

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Ancestors your family may not have wanted to recognize... [View all] csziggy Apr 2017 OP

I'd rather have Clara than TexasProgresive Apr 2017 #1

True - my husband gets Clara and I get slave owning Baptist preachers csziggy Apr 2017 #2

K&R because watrwefitinfor Apr 2017 #3

Thanks - I study genealogy because I love the stories that can be found csziggy Apr 2017 #4

Indeed GeoWilliam750 Aug 2017 #11

My college roomate has ancestors that came to North America before the USA existed. Thor_MN May 2017 #5

I have Mayflower passenger ancestors - and others that went to Pennsylvania before William Penn csziggy May 2017 #6

Hey. don't knock the Puritans and Pilgrims! Fla Dem May 2017 #9

OMG - one of my ancestors, Henry Kenney, was on Rebecca Nurse's jury csziggy May 2017 #10

Haha! TuxedoKat May 2017 #7

Clara would be a good name for a girl csziggy May 2017 #8