PART 1 – PILGRIMAGE TO PLYMOUTH 2025 – WIND GAP PA
The Boating Genealogists stepped back in history again to the colonies of Rhode Island and Massachusetts and to Wind Gap in early colonial Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. First Stop – Site of Dietz Blockhouse – Wind Gap Pennsylvania 9/12 Friday– The first place on our itinerary was Wind Gap Pennsylvania, once called Dietz Gap. The town of Wind Gap is situated on the Appalachian Trail at a gap in … Continue reading PART 1 – PILGRIMAGE TO PLYMOUTH 2025 – WIND GAP PA
Y-DNA Solves a 350 Year Old Line of Descent Conundrum
The Question Genealogists and family historians sometimes rely on family and town histories written many years ago. Those histories can contain errors that may or may not be unraveled as time goes by. Y-DNA can sometimes assist in detecting discrepancies in those written histories such as errors and nonpaternal events. Can Y-DNA assist in determining a 350 year old line of descent in an English … Continue reading Y-DNA Solves a 350 Year Old Line of Descent Conundrum
A Triumphant AI Genealogy Discovery
This is a story about genealogy research breakthroughs using FamilySearch.com’s recently released Artificial Intelligence (AI) program. A recent search with AI located two deeds with high value information. Background – A Missing Birth Record I first applied to the lineage society SAR (Society of the Sons of the American Revolution) through descent from my third-great-grandfather Thompson J. Wright, a son of Solomon Wright, a Revolutionary … Continue reading A Triumphant AI Genealogy Discovery
Mayflower Passengers Thomas and Joseph Rogers, and some Descendants
This is a story of several genealogical threads of my family entwined with the enlarging tapestry of American history over a period of time from the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock to present day. The Mayflower arrived on Cape Cod North America about 404 years ago, 128 years after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. From a European point of view, looking … Continue reading Mayflower Passengers Thomas and Joseph Rogers, and some Descendants
EARLY RHODE ISLAND SETTLERS
Exploring American history through the lens of personal ancestry is eye opening. When I began my ancestry search I did not expect that the family branches would be intertwined with the earliest settlements of eastern North America. Any family links to the founding of Rhode Island were long lost and obscured by the passage of time. No stories about early Rhode Island were passed down … Continue reading EARLY RHODE ISLAND SETTLERS
Revolutionary War Christmas
Disconnect – to sever the connection of or between; to decouple. A ten year old kid: Aw dad, I don’t like history. History is just about a bunch of old dead guys…Yes son, but they are your old dead guys… People are disconnected from their family histories. The person that knows the names of all of their great-grandparents is a rarity. Whatever the reason for … Continue reading Revolutionary War Christmas
The Fighting Seeleys
Knowledge of an ancestor’s participation in historical events can be fascinating. It is not a good thing when participation in those historical events is forgotten, lost or obscured. Stories like the sacrifices that the Seeley’s made to meet the challenges that they encountered in the early settlement of America are in jeopardy of being lost and forgotten. Robert Seeley was born in England on 4 … Continue reading The Fighting Seeleys
Cleveland & the Taylors: Early Settlement to Industrial Powerhouse
For sometime now I ignored researching my Taylor ancestors because many of the Taylors already seemed well documented with nice biographical summaries in multiple publications. However, this past summer we sailed from the Lake Erie Islands (Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island) and due to heavy weather docked at the 55th East Street Marina along Cleveland’s downtown shoreline for five days. Stuck in Cleveland with only … Continue reading Cleveland & the Taylors: Early Settlement to Industrial Powerhouse
Excursion from Port Erie to Put-in-Bay, July – August, 2024
Monday July 29, 2024. We departed Port Erie at 10:30 arriving in Ashtabula at 5:00. Winding our way up river and through one drawbridge that opens on the half-hour, we docked at the wall at Ashtabula Yacht Club. The club has recently renovated part of their facility and the wall is renovated. Their new electric hookups had a glitch that was quickly repaired by their … Continue reading Excursion from Port Erie to Put-in-Bay, July – August, 2024
The Time Machine
Time and tide wait for no man. What can take you back in time? A machine like the one in the H.G. Wells story? An old familiar song? An old ticket stub? A program from a theatre performance? A photograph of a long lost loved one? Or could it be an actual time machine mechanism? Several Years ago, we picked up our boat at the … Continue reading The Time Machine
The Boating Genealogists 