This is a continuation of the Burdick story which I told last month. The Westerly, Rhode Island, ancestors are so intertwined with each...

The last two biographies discussed the Updike family. This biography continues with the biography of Richard Smith, husband of Catherine...

In writing this story, it was hard to not deviate from the story of the Straight family and wander into the stories of those around them....

There have been several times lately when I think I have run out of family stories to tell, and this month was one of those times. Then...

This story begins in France probably with Walter de Caen, who was the half-brother and companion of William the Conqueror. William had...

This family story begins In Shropshire County, England, the least populated county in England, located on the border of Wales. It was...

Thomas Minor was born on April 23, 1608, in Chew Magna, County Somerset, England. He was the son of Clement Minor and Sarah Pope. Chew...

Just mention the surname Huntington, and one would immediately question whether the Cook family is related to the powerful Huntington...

We discovered a strange coincidence in our family tree research Dawn’s maid of honor was a distant cousin through the Baldwin family. I...

While there is much speculation about the Lowell surname, the earliest Lowells probably came to England from Normandy in France at the...

James Badcock/Babcock was born in 1612, perhaps in or near Wivenhoe, but most likely, in the County of Essex, England. Nothing has been...

John Frink was born in about 1633 and was baptized on February 9, 1633, in Malborough, County Devon, England. This tiny village is...

Thomas Brigham was born in England in about 1603. He joined a group of Puritans who were part of Pastor Thomas Shepherd’s congregation in...

Robert Treat was born on February 23, 1624, in Pitminster, a tiny town near Taunton, Somerset, in southwestern England. Pitminster means...