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2016-07-04 18:32:10 Post No. 1370633
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Anonymous
2016-07-04 18:32:10
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Have you ever done any ancestry research?
I decided to follow my family name and patriline and ended up all the way back to 1630s Salem, MA. after my 10x great grandfather came over from England. He was killed in an Indian raid, and his wife supposedly was a Quaker that protested the Puritan church by stripping naked in public (part of the so called "Naked Quakers") and got whipped for it. Some women with my name (though I haven't been able to connect them to my line) were accused of witchcraft during the trials, but released. My 5x great grandfather fought in the revolutionary war and was a potter. His son possibly fought in the war of 1812 but the only record I've found were orders to report to militia at the time. My 3x great grandfather fought in the civil war, and he worked in a shoe factory. I found a picture of his son, my great-great grandfather, taken in 1872.
This was all pretty cool to me since I just assumed my family came in the 19th century immigration waves.
What have you found out about your family history?
Any tips on how best to research this stuff?
