Old Blue Genes

My gram, Lorena Holland Murch had a few royal roots, though not nearly as many as her husband Arthur: LORD RICHARD RICH (1496-1567) R...

FIRST VISION OF JOSEPH SMITH No genealogical researcher is immune from the work of the Mormon Church. Pretty much ALL records that are avai...

My 4th great grandparents were Daniel Friedrich Holland (born about 1790), a Bavarian sailor, and his wife Jane Bell  (1789-1873) from Nova ...

Poor Arthur Fuller. There were so many instances of his ancestors marrying as cousins, I made a valiant attempt at keeping a geek record of ...

A few other notable colonists who are ancestors of Charles Murch: SKETCH OF JAMESTOWN (1608) John Price (1584-1628) John Price, a We...

The surname Fuller, like many other surnames, comes from a profession by the same name. A "fuller" was someone who washed yardage,...

My father's maternal grandfather, Arthur William Fuller , has two Mayflower links. They are John Alden and  Edward Fuller . JOHN ...

THE MAYFLOWER There are two established Mayflower links to Charles Murch , my father's maternal great grandfather. They are passeng...

The Murch name appears after the Norman Conquest of England, 1066. It derives from the name March, which was believed to be a name given to...

RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669) Richard Mather, a direct 10th generation ancestor of Herbert F. Clarke , was a Puritan clergyman and author ...

EAST HADDAM WILLIAM VENTRES (1623-1701) DANIEL BRAINERD (1641-1715) William Ventres and his wife Elizabeth emigrated from England an...

There are several instances of the Tookers, Clarks, and Halls intermarrying in the 1800's in Lyme and East Haddam, Connecticut. To nam...

GRAVE OF JOHN COULT DUCK RIVER CEMETERY OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT John Coult (1725-1784), Revolutionary War soldier, was my sixth great g...

The Morgan surname is Welsh.  Some believe the name to be derived from Celtic for "sea circle", and is derived from the Old Welsh ...