{"id":2034,"date":"2020-12-17T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:30:23","slug":"mayflower-lineage-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Lineage Preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/All year I worked to document my Mayflower lineage. I applied to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.\n<\/p>\n

As the year wound down, it became time to follow my usual custom and share my findings with my family members.\n<\/p>\n

I wrote a little about what I had learned of the lives of our Mayflower ancestors Stephen, Constance, and Gyles\/Giles Hopkins. Then I constructed a descendant report to give to everyone for Christmas.\n<\/p>\n

I listed my paternal grandmother Grace Riddle Reed’s (1896-1976) direct line from the Hopkins passengers. She was the tenth generation of descent.\n<\/p>\n

I doubt that my grandmother even knew she was a Mayflower descendant. Her cousins’ families seemed to be just as ignorant of their heritage. They never mentioned it during the years I collaborated on the Riddle family genealogy with them.\n<\/p>\n

All of us were stymied in our hunt for the parentage of Grandma’s second great-grandmother, Lucy Snow. It was not until a little over a year ago when I saw Lucy’s Mayflower heritage posted on WikiTree that the door to her heritage blew open for me.\n<\/p>\n

With Grandma’s lineage found and charted at last, my Christmas report continues with a list of all my grandmother’s descendants, at least the ones I know about. It ends with the 15th<\/sup> generation from the Mayflower passengers.\n<\/p>\n

It was time to update this list of Grandma’s descendants. The previous list, The Reeds of Ashmore <\/em>by Michael Hayden, was published over thirty years ago. People not even born when that book was compiled are now grown and have children of their own.\n<\/p>\n

Now we know that those Reed family members who also descend from my grandmother are Mayflower descendants. I wish we had possessed that information 35 years ago when we were all contributing information for The Reeds of Ashmore<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

I hope the documentation I am creating this year will preserve this identity for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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