Pilgrims and Thanksgiving II

I can now report another successful pilgrim connection.  I’ve connected Ames Elijah Alden to John and Priscilla Alden; 1997 to 1599.

The Back Story:

While working on the David Alden Family tree I looked for other Alden’s in the Google News Archives and found in The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 31, 1936 the Obit for Caroline Alden. I then found in the Bangor Daily News – Dec 29, 1997 the Obit for Ames Alden.

I was able to connect Caroline to John and Priscilla as I outlined in my previous blog titled “Pilgrims and Thanksgiving“,  so I thought I would try to connect Ames Alden the same way.

I followed a path from Ames to his father then grandfather and up the tree, confirming each generation with records, until I ended up at John and Priscilla.

I already had a tree created for the 1893 David Alden newspaper item and I had added Caroline to the tree, so it was logical that I add Ames Alden to the same tree.

There are hundreds of records to choose from but I only needed one or two per generation to confirm the data, so I only put those few records on to the tree.

My goal was to connect 1997 to 1599 and not to create a full documented family tree. Had this been a complete family tree I would have of course added every person in each generation documenting each with records and that task would have taken me a life time.

I will contact the five Ames Alden family tree owners who got my first message (the 1997 Obit) just as I contacted the family tree owners of Caroline when I connected her to the pilgrim families.

This new pilgrim connection will give the Ames Alden family a great conversation topic when they sit down to their Thanksgiving dinner.

They of course will have the family tree and the records to prove their connection to the pilgrim families.

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Thank You.

Jose from Clarkston, Michigan

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Tree Created to hold item:
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David Alden 1646-1719 Boston – 02 Sep 1893
Owner: josemunoz2546
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/75194772/family
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