The many roles played by our ancestors through history Ghosts in my DNA? Many have asked me this question and the answer is convoluted. I will attempt to clarify and perhaps this will spark more curiosity to actually read my book in full! It has been brewing for many years until it became a compulsion to begin. It forced me to leave my beautiful island home for stretches of five months at a time over three years. I rented from friends in Boston situated near MBTA subway

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Long Wharf Boston Waterfront It was a beautiful day and I am visualizing beyond these yachts on the historic Long Wharf. The buildings to...

Beginning with the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, this family had interactions with the Indigenous, public punishment, Salem Witch Trials,...

UVI Great Hall January 18, 2025 Today marks the 39th Annual Meeting of SVIH. It was founded in 1986 by professional historians and...

Image--W.L. Taylor, from Ladies Home Journa l, November 1897 However many of us there are that share identical snippets of DNA from the early American colonists, we know it's a lot. Angela Davis recently learned that she shares the Brewster clan in her ancestry. I grew up being told that we were Mayflower but it was not something that entered my consciousness, or instilled any kind of extra pride, or exclusiveness in me. Perhaps the opposite. For example, growing up on C