Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Last October, I went down to the Mesa, Arizona area, to see my newest great grandchild, and beautiful baby girl, 3 months old, and also her first cousin, a year old now.   I was fascinated with the ancestry these two sweet baby girls have, combined with mine.  Their grandfather on my grandson's line was Italian, and the grandmother's line came partly from Lithuania.  I wondered just who my posterity would have on a pedigree, shared with my and my husband's name.  My husband, Wayne D Eckman, an identical twin, had ancestry on his father's side from Sweden, and New England and in the 1600s from England. I took some pedigree charts down with me, and my son-in-law's father, of Italian ancestry just 2 generations back -- filled them back as far as he could remember.  I did find sources which verified them after they had immigrated to the United States, but I couldn't trace the ancestry back into Italy.  I left a pedigree chart with the mother of my grandson's wi...

My early interest in Family History !  I first posted this on March 13, 2014.    These days I am busy packing and discarding, to get ready to move to Bountiful, Utah and live with my son Wayne and his wife Julie.  I will move on April 15, 2017, and leave my hometown!   I have come across many  memories in going through our "stuff".  The main things I am taking are histories of my parents and ancestors!  Those are timeless!  At some time each of you will be the "oldest person alive" for your posterity.  It is up to you to keep the legacy of your ancestors alive!   114. Saviors on Mt. Zion, Missionary Work, Redeeming the Dead, and Perfecting the Saints! (Indexing helps!) I became interested in Family History when it was called "Genealogy".  I first became very fascinated with it when I was about 16 years old, (1950).    I had Aunt Sarah on my father's line, and my Aunt Vina on my ...

Two days ago on Facebook, I posted the entry I had done 2 years ago, about my ancestor who was a Pirate King.  This is about his son.  It isn't exactly what is a Sunday article, but I hope to interest you in finding stories about your own ancestors.  You can put their name and birth year in Google, and find many stories!  It is so important to learn about our ancestors, and love them!  My dear husband Wayne is up with them right now, and probably has met them!  It also makes us grateful to have been born at this time on earth! This was originally posted as # 155, on May 27, 2014, right after the entry about Jan Jansoon Van Haarlam, my ancestor who was a pirate!                           ANTHONY JANSEN VAN SALLEE , 1607-1676                             by Hazel Van Dyke Roberts, PH.D.   I'm using the hi...

This is truly a momentous opportunity for you Family History lovers to find out more about your ancestors!  I have many, many New England ancestors, and I plan to really use this site!  I hope you can use this information! FAMILY HISTORY Vintage Generations FamilySearch Provides LDS Members Free Accounts to AmericanAncestors.org SALT LAKE CITY and BOSTON (February 17, 2015)— FamilySearch, the family history brand of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, today announced that Church members can now receive free personal subscriptions to AmericanAncestors.org, the premier research website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society . Personal access to this service is provided at no cost for Latter-day Saints as part of an agreement between FamilySearch and AmericanAncestors.org, and includes all the tools, features, and resources of the site. To sign up for a free subscription, Latter-day Saint patrons need to visit familysearch.org/partneracce...

One of our ancestors who helped settle New Haven and Stratford, Connecticut.  Moses Wheeler was the first white person to live to be 100 in New England! MOSES WHEELER,  on the Allen/Wilson/Fairchild  Line   Coat of Arms        Moses Wheeler, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, very likely in the county of Kent, in 1598. The Wheeler family had lived there for over four hundred years. He saile d from London in 1638, when he was 40 years old, and settled in the New Haven colony. He was among the first to receive an allotment in that colony. There he married Miriam Hawley , sister of Joseph Hawley, one of the first settlers in the colony, and a very prominent man. He was expelled from the colony in 1648 because of a slight infringement of one of the Blue Laws, for which the colony was noted. According to tradition he had been away for several months, and returned on a Sunday. Forgetting the "Blue Laws" in his joy at his return, he k...

I really enjoy history of early New England, and most of Pal's ancestors, and many of Wayne's also lived in New England from the 1630's on.  I will be writing about some of those early ancestors in the days to come.  The stories of their lives are rather sparse and sketchy, but they helped settle this new land, and had all the problems associated with it.  I am so grateful for those ancestors who wanted religious freedom, and gave up what they had in England, and also some from Germany, France, Holland, and other countries, to come and face the unknown. Many of us have heard about the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria in early New England.  On Pal's lines, we had 2 distant great grandmothers who were executed in Connecticut.  Mary Barnes, and Lydia Gilbert, both of whom were treated most unfairly it seems.  The stories below are as much information as we could find.   MARY BARNES EXECUTED AS A WITCH -- Miles Line      Not every family ...

I became interested in Family History when it was called "Genealogy".  I first became very fascinated with it when I was about 16 years old, (1950).  I had Aunt Sarah on my father's line, and my Aunt Vina on my  mothers' line who had both done quite a lot of genealogy.  I copied the large long family group sheets, and pedigree charts, and then went to our small library in St. George, and looked up names of my ancestors in New England in the few books they had.   I was thrilled to find names of direct ancestors in the early records in various states, especially Connecticut and Massachusetts. I had a few in New York, Vermont, and some other states also. but their Temple work was already done.  I have many who came in the early 1630's and 1640's.  One ancestor was the first white girl born in America, the daughter of French immigrants, I believe.  Another was the first person in New England to live to be 100 years old.  I have a 1640 map of N...