WHOA!!!! Once again, I must point out, Pel/Bro. David, you are definitely the smartest person I "know," on or off the internet! Super cool!
Your research makes my 1600's Huguenot refugees not quite as spectacular, but I am excited all the same!!!
I benefited from a lot of work being done by others. I just had to keep digging until I was able to connect my dots to those other (and better!) researchers.
What's curious is I have an ancestor who is recorded to have died in a village in Chad in the 1600's. He was born in Wales, immigrated to America where he began to raise a family and then he pops up dead in the Southern Sahara.
From what I've read, the only Europeans to have ever traveled that far inland by that time were French mercenaries. But, the French also used Welsh and Irish soldiers among their forces - sometimes entire brigades, so he may have been a part of that.
Or he may have been take captive and sold into slavery. Many American merchant seamen were of course captured and sold as slaves on the Barbary Coast of North Africa. Also, Islamic pirates regularly raided the Cornish coast of England - so much during the 1500s that the coast was virtually abandoned. In one famous raid they went as far as Iceland and took scores of Danes as slaves.
Ireland was a favorite target. There's a cemetery in Algeria devoted especially to the Irish people who were captured and lived out their lives in captivity there.
There are many incredible stories that await discovery and telling.
I did this a couple of years ago- I was able to trace my mother's family back to the
1600's to France. Her family was easier to trace because they were Catholic and they kept great records. I was able to trace them from France to Acadia, Canada to Louisiana. I have not been able to trace my Dad's family, but I have not had time to devote to it. My husbands family I have traced it to a Scottsman who came over as an indentured servant to John Hancock's brother. He was on the wrong side of a rebellion. One of his relatives was a partner with Daniel Boone. We have found letters from his great great grandparents on line. I used the above stated resouces. The LDS church is another good resource. We have a public library here in BR that has some great resources.
What part of France? I have gotten as far back (so far) as early 1600's, Paris/Île-de-France, France.
What's curious is I have an ancestor who is recorded to have died in a village in Chad in the 1600's. He was born in Wales, immigrated to America where he began to raise a family and then he pops up dead in the Southern Sahara.
From what I've read, the only Europeans to have ever traveled that far inland by that time were French mercenaries. But, the French also used Welsh and Irish soldiers among their forces - sometimes entire brigades, so he may have been a part of that.
Or he may have been take captive and sold into slavery. Many American merchant seamen were of course captured and sold as slaves on the Barbary Coast of North Africa. Also, Islamic pirates regularly raided the Cornish coast of England - so much during the 1500s that the coast was virtually abandoned. In one famous raid they went as far as Iceland and took scores of Danes as slaves.
Ireland was a favorite target. There's a cemetery in Algeria devoted especially to the Irish people who were captured and lived out their lives in captivity there.
There are many incredible stories that await discovery and telling.
Is there anyone here real familiar with ancestrydotcom?
I can sometimes save a resource and sometimes I can't, what determines when you can save to your family file to when you can't?
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This is a brilliant article about the mathmatics of geneology and discribes everyone alive who has any European ancestry connects back to Mideval English Kings and thus Muhammad etc.
very interesting.
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