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She's (Sarah) related to Princess Di through her Strong ancestry and on back. Work it back to Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde if you can, when the show pedigree in text format runs off the page by => indicating there's more, click on that symbol and do another pedigree>show in text format, some will deadend but many won't. For Sarah's, start with her, then click on the => for Jedediah Strong, then look for Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde. If I do a descendancy chart from that, I can't see it yet from the Dowling site, but I do have Sarah's line that way entered into my gen program. Thomas and Elizabeth had a daughter Abigail Ford from whom she is descended and down through Jedediah Strong (think he goes back to Mayflower ancestry, can't claim any Strongs for myself), also the daughter Joanna Ford (BrownDeer has her, too, but not linked as Abigail's sister, should have linked to person already in database, I've missed some that way, too) from whom I'm descended. Sarah's lineage the way I mentioned back further is verified by Gary Boyd Roberts, a New England genealogist, in one of his books, can't remember the exact title, American cousins of Princess Diana, can be found in a lot of libraries and was on amazon. So I can vouch for that much of it. I don't know if Roberts picked up Joanna Ford or not, need to track down that book myself, it wasn't on ancestry last time I looked but a couple other royal lineage books by him are there.

I see I'm probably related to Sarah through that also and some others I want to check out as well. And BrownDeer's recent sources are excellent as he pointed out to me last night, don't have time to log into ancestry and retrace his steps on that today.

So anyone who can trace their direct lineage back from her that way or any other names in that direct lineage will be related to her as well.

He's got enough on there to keep anyone occupied indefinitely. Much of it on there I do think he has taken from published genealogies. I think there are hundreds more of us out there who haven't worked their family history back far enough to make some of these connections.

BrownDeer, you've been a member since 1999, I since 2000, kind of a neat, would never have guessed you were a fellow FReeper!

Sarah's connection (cousin of some degree) to Princess Di is in this lineage, hope I got it all correctly:

Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde
Abigail Ford and Elder John Strong
Thomas Strong and Rachel Holton
Joseph Strong and Sarah Allen
Joseph Strong, Jr. and Elizabeth Strong
Benjamin Strong and Lucy Bishop
Dr. Joseph Strong and Rebecca Young
Eleanor Strong and John Wood
Ellen Wood and Frank Work
Frances Eleanor Work and John Burke Roche
Edmund Burke Roche and Ruth Sylvia Gill
Frances Burke Roche and Edward John Spencer
Diana Spencer (Princess Di)

Back to work on some of the other there.