This post has turned out to be the surname post that has taken the longest to write so far. It's not that it was entirely difficult, but when I sat down on Monday evening to start working on it, I found that there were a number of connections in Ancestral File that I didn't have in my database yet. These connections linked a couple of different Burton family members that I knew about, extended my ancestry back a couple generations and brought several descendant lines down to listings for living cousins. The big caveat here is that the data was in Ancestral File; I've found a few incorrect records there in the past (like records showing a child's birth a year or two after the mother's death, or a mother who only lived ten years), so I generally treat anything in Ancestral File as unconfirmed, but it does give me many more leads for research. So, let's take a look at the ancestry starting with my 5th-great grandmother, Sarah Burton.
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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.
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