Our Roots

• Our Family Tree: Our genealogies at a glance, showing links to Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Brian Boru, St. Vladimir of Kiev, and more ...

Lest you sneer ... chances are likely that you, too, are a descendant of Charlemagne!  See Steve Olson, The Royal We, in the May 2002 issue of The Atlantic Monthly arguing that "The mathematical study of genealogy indicates that everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne." The trick is documenting it!

• Corks in America: Information about the descendants of George Cork and Susan Freshour.
• Crowther: The family of my maternal grandmother, Gladys Crowther Smith.  Includes the Civil War Diary of her grandfather, Joseph Crowther.
• LeBlanc: My mother's paternal grandmother was Domithilde LeBlanc, a native of New Brunswick and a descendant of Daniel LeBlanc, a 17th century immigrant to Acadia (and founder of the largest Acadian family).  See my LeBlanc ahnentafel at Acadie Toujours!
• Winslow: On my father's side, we're descended from John Winslow (brother of Plymouth governor) and Mary Chilton (passenger on the Mayflower).  John appears briefly in history books as Plymouth's agent in Maine, where he was responsible for arranging the first visit of a Jesuit to Boston.  (Ironically, it was another John Winslow who was a leader of the British force which uprooted the Acadians from their homes in 1755.)  
• Cheney/Longard: Part of Joy's genealogy is in our Acadie Toujours! section because Joy's mother is from Nova Scotia. For the Cheney side, see The Descendants of William Cheney of Roxbury, taken largely from C. H. Pope, The Cheney Genealogy (Boston, 1897).