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I started out searching for my Thompson tree and then broadened it to the Russell, Vaughans, Haskells, Lee's and back to the Mayflower with the Steven Hopkins family.
I have discovered Teddy Roosevelt was married to a cousin Alice Lee and that my gg grandfather was a whaler out of Boston Mass.
who sailed around the Horn to hunt whales in the Pacific ocean.
I have found innocnet "witches" in Salem Mass. who were in my tree on the Nurse, Towne, and witchcraft Haskell. Wm Russell was Rebecca Towne Nurses son-in-law. I have followed my family from 1500 in England to NY, MA, Mass,WI,OR,ID,CA,. Picing up more cousins along the way. Upstanding men and women lawyers, midwives, sailors. soldiers, preachers, teachers, nurses.
Also Catholic, protestant, heuganot, mormon with some element of the profit Joseph Smith, Presidents, cattle and horse theives/barons. some elusive and others who jump out just weary of my search for them. Most of all I have learned and through my imagination lived history as I find my family living a hellish romance and vigorous life.
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