This year instead of doing #52Ancestors in 52 weeks, I’m going the #12Ancestors route. There are some other projects that I really need to get to, but I do want to keep blogging, so here we are! The luxury of doing #12Ancestors this year is being able to choose which of the January prompts I’d like to write about. This month I’m choosing “I’d like to meet”.
Of course, I’d love to meet all my ancestors! But in particular, I’m thinking of my ancestors from American and Canadian colonial times. Although AmericanAncestors has the best collection of colonial era records and the French-Canadian Catholic records are completely awesome, there are still many holes that I’d like to fill.
So if I were to sit down with these people, here are some of the questions I would ask:
- For so many of my female American ancestors: what the heck was your maiden name, and who were your parents? (I have so many Mary’s and Hannah’s!)
- Filles du Roi and Filles a Marier: tell me your personal story! What made you decide to cross the pond? What was the voyage like? What did you think of the New World when you first saw it? Did your experience meet your expectations? What were some of your challenges?
- New Hampshire and what was to become Maine ancestors: please, please give me some vital record information on yourselves and your family members!
- Roger Williams: what was the deal with you founding a church and then leaving it?
- Mehitable (Plaisted) Goodwin: I want to hear the story of your capture and return in your own words.
- American immigrant ancestors: tell me what personally drove you to make the journey to the New World? And if I don’t have the name of the ship that brought you here, please provide that.
I suppose I could think of other questions, but I think these are a very good start!
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