| As I have been racing toward the release of
the world's most interconnected digital
collection of ancestral history, I've been having
too much fun to stop for log entries. Yesterday,
in the last half hour of the workday, I made a
connection that deserves a log entry. With the
addition of just two new people and one
attachment 3,960 fully-sourced boxes were filled
in on my own ancestry chart.
The Mayflower Society estimates that there are
35,000,000 living descendants today from the
small group of Mayflower Pilgrims in the early
1600's. If that estimate is even close to the
ballpark, then easily 200 million living people
will also share that same 1300's ancestral
connection with me. It would be truly amazing if
even one person who reads this Captain's Log does
not have at least once ancestral pathway that
passes through that intersection.
One of my own ancestors, Sir Roger de
Northwode, 2nd Baron Northwode, was a dead end
yesterday. Then I found a source that shows him
to be the son of Sir John de Northwode by Agnes
de Grandison. The same source shows Agnes to be
the daughter of William de Grandison by Sibilla
de Tregoz.
Since Agnes' sister Catherine, another one of
my own ancestors according to recorded history,
had already been attached to 3,958 fully-sourced
boxes on her own ancestry chart in the A&E
Family Forest, all I had to do was to attach
Agnes to that same ancestry. This quick
connection gives me, plus all of those hundreds
of millions of other living people, at least ten
more ancestral pathways to Charlemagne and his
ancestry in the A&E Family Forest.
I wonder what excitement lies waiting in my
path today?
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