Today for Surname Saturday, we'll look at another line that connects through Massachusetts Colony. We alternate back to my wife's side of the family and start from her eighth great grandmother, Hannah Aldis. As with many of the families from this era, I don't have a whole lot of information on this line yet, but I do know about three generations.
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Surname Saturday: Beach
Okay, time to alternate back to one of the lines on my side of the family. This week, we will look at one of the most heavily researched lines in my family. It connects back to some of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts Colony and continues all the way to close family members who are still living today. There are quite a few researchers looking into this line from the early-1800s back to the 1600s, possibly due to the line's connection to Sir Winston Churchill (yes, that Winston Churchill), so this will be a fairly long post with nine generations listed, but there seems to be one universal stumbling block when we go back far enough.
Wait, what country is that?
I've recently been looking at records for ancestors on my trees that lived during the American Colonial period in the 17th and early to mid-18th century. In doing this research, I've noticed what could be a problem if it is extended to territories beyond those in North America; it has to do with where the country borders were and what the territories were named.
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