Thoughts and opinions of various things pertaining to my ancestry as a descendant of the original northwestern European pioneers of North America.
As far as my European ancestors are concerned, Stephen Hopkins was the first to touch ground in North America. I am his descendant via my father's paternal grandmother Eva Maude Lott, who was the great granddaughter of William Wood, who was himself the son of the Patriot Captain John Wood and the Loyalist Rebecca Cain. …
Continue reading Our First Steps: From the Sea Venture to the Mayflower
In this blog I am going to explore American history and other related issues, not through the lens of the state and/or one of its accompanying political activist groups or another, but through the lens of my ancestors, their neighbours, and relations. By "American" I by no means refer to either the indigenous peoples of …
The Ethnic American 