Posted on 05/09/2007 5:46:31 PM PDT by blam
How interesting!
I worked one summer as an interpreter on board both the Godspeed and Susan Constant (had to learn every line and every position on board each ship). We sailed them up and down the James and into Hampton Roads. My Bro-in-Law and his two sons did the same thing a few years later. Jamestown is in my family history too. One of the first graves positively identified belongs to an ancestor. We are only an hour or so from there
The Jamestown settlers came to Virginia for two reasons, gold and a route to the west. The Pilgrims came for religious reasons. They were heading for Virginia, but they ended up in Massachusetts. Interestingly enough the spot where they settled was discovered in 1614 by John Smith (from Jamestown).
Oh my. Such sadness in your family. Yes, I love genealogy but haven’t had time for it much with kiddoes in school.
It does seem like that, doesn’t it? You might want to take a peak in the NC and MD archives. Many times, VA families either came from these areas or had relatives there early on and they have better records then we do.
Colonials did not sleep lying all the way down like we do today. They slept with their heads and shoulders up, mostly due to respiratory ailments. They didn’t have our medicines and it made it easier breathing at night.
I used to buy a lot of genealogy books on ebay, but not as much recently. I’ve also found that a lot of the genealogies posted on the internet are wrong. What I do find useful is the digitizing of records like land records, etc.
Thank you.
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