A note on sources: Although I am not sourcing this work rigorously, I am only accepting connections that are non-controversial among two or three (unauthoritative) Internet sources, mostly One World Tree($), Wikipedia, and Jamie Allen‘s pedigree. If any of these sources differ, or indicate more than one possible mother (or…
Now that we have solidly established that the emperor Charlemagne is an ancestor of both the Larson’s and the Myers’, it opens up a rapidly branching path reaching back many more centuries – in some cases beyond the “B.C. Barrier.” As I argued earlier, it is not surprising that nearly…
Cousin Lois has done it again. Her comments always set me thinking. She recommended a book, “1066: The Hidden History In the Bayeux Tapestry,” by Andrew Bridgeford. I haven’t seen the book yet, but I launched into the subject on Wikipedia and other Internet sources about the so-called Norman Conquest…
Tracing back from the “Pilgrim connection,” I uncovered not one, but two common ancestors of my parents, Lovell and Reatha (Myers) Larson. One is the emperor Charlemegne himself (742-814 C.E.), whom Orrin Moen traced as the 34th great-grandfather of Lovell through Lovell’s mother Anna Moen, and Charlemagne’s son Louis I…
Earlier, I mentioned in passing that one line of those New England ancestors of Dan Myers goes back to medieval European royalty. As I expected, those pedigrees are well researched and documented, going back several more centuries. I have now added nearly all of them to my database, and you…
I am deleting update 2, as this post updates and corrects the same information. Below is a list of the eight ancestors of Dan Myers who were born in New England during the first 35 years of European settlement. Ancestors of Helen Colby Myers in early Massachusetts : John Colby…