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New Mayflower AncestorsFive Mayflower households among the tree's direct ancestors, how each line comes down, and a sixth, John Alden, whose claimed descent does not hold.
New Les Filles du Roi and the Carignan RegimentLouis XIV sent a regiment to fight the Iroquois and over 700 young women to marry the colony's settlers. Ten of those women and three of those soldiers are in the family tree, and twice one of the king's daughters married one of the king's soldiers.
New Three Sisters of SalemRebecca Nurse, Mary Esty and Sarah Cloyce, three daughters of William Towne accused of witchcraft in 1692, and the line that runs from their brother Jacob down to Nancy Jane Blanchard.- New Curious Names in the TreeFear, Preserved, Loammi, Numidia, Zéolide - where the family's strangest first names came from, and who bore them.
- NatchezJohn Dillahunt and Elizabeth Martin were at Natchez between 1806 and 1810. What the town was, who was there before them, and what the district's records hold.
- The Silence at Bayou RougeWhy no church record names Elizabeth Martin's parents: for most of the years her children were born, Avoyelles had no working church.
- The Merryman CousinsTwo of Nancy Jane Blanchard's ancestors were Merrymans who married each other as first cousins, so one man sits in her tree twice.
- William Bennett PhippsWilliam Bennett Phipps: baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1827, a Confederate private captured in 1865, died in Chicago in 1898.
- The Cottrell WallMarie Virginia Cottrelle had no recorded parents for years. The records that finally named them, and the wrong turns on the way.
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