Our Family Tree
A recent hobby has been gathering information for our family tree. Although the entire tree is not attached here, you can find some of the information below. For details, please contact Dan.
To review Dan's ancestors, click here for Cyndi's ancestors, click here
I ask that you don't share this info with anyone outside of the family (there's a lot of personal info and we've just finished with an episode of stolen identity). We should NOT share this information with the "World Family Tree", or post it on one of the many genealogy web sites on the internet. Part of the reasoning behind this request is in consideration of family member's privacy. There is also a concern of unethical persons using this information (i.e. Mother's maiden name), to access additional private records that should be kept private. Theft of identity is becoming more common each year, and we don't want to make this type of illegal activity any easier than it already is.
Therefore, again, please keep this information private, and within the family. But, please, share it with your children, grandchildren, cousins, uncles ...
Our family tree was created from the input of many families. The source names of those individuals are included when they were available. Although there are some larger families listed (Craighead, Cushing, Moore, Nash, Sadler, Smith, Stewart, Titus, Whitman), those in our immediate family tree include: Bethel, Carson, Doty, Griffin, Gwynn, Hoard, Holman, Matano, Pinckney, Piland, Stubbs, and Rudolph.
The goal of this family tree is to document as many relatives as possible, by either blood or marriage (or legal adoption). With a tree this large (over 50,000 names), it is often difficult to find a trace from one name to another. With this in mind, I have listed some of the more interesting names below.
George Washington Piland, Southerner served in Civil War for North.
John Hoard, Captain in the Revolutionary War.
Richard Houghton, Knighted by Queen Elizabeth, Sheriff of Lancashire in 1599
Wade Stubbs, Plantation owner prior to Revolution.
Matthew Cushing, Thomas Nash, and Nathaniel Bowman.
Several of our relatives arrived in America aboard the Mayflower:
Edward Doty (Indentured Servant to Stephen Hopkins),
Captain Myles Standish and his wife Rose,
John Simmons, William Brewster, Peter Brown,
John Howland and wife Elizabeth Tilley (and her parents John Tilley and Joan Hurst),
William Mullins with his wife Alice and children Joseph and Priscilla (wife of John Alden),
Stephen Hopkins and wife Elizabeth and children Giles, Constance, Demaris and Oceanus,
Francis Cooke and son John Cooke,
Edward Tilley with wife Agnes and his Niece Humility Cooper,
John Alden and his wife Priscilla Mullins,
Henry Samson, Richard Warren, William Bradford, George Soule
We also have several famous names on this list:
Benjamin Franklin, Inventor and US Statesman, Walt Disney, Pocahontas
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and George Washington, 1st President of the United States
(Other US Presidents include: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, Richard Nixon, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Bush)
Henry VIII - King of England in 1500, Jane Seymour - Queen of England, Daniel Boone, Queen Elizabeth, Charlamagne, Longshanks, Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Acre, Old King Coel, Earl of Greystoke, and many of the current heirs of Europe: Willem-Alexander - Crown Prince of the Netherlands, Frederick - Crown Prince of Denmark, Haakon Magnus - Crown Prince of Norway, Henri - Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Victoria - Crown Princess of Sweden, Philippe - Crown Prince of Belgium, Felipe Juan - Crown Prince of Spain, Charles - Prince of Wales, Albert - Crown Prince of Monaco, Alois - Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein.
If you enjoy puzzles, or a challenging maze, a tree this large usually has several possible paths from one person to another. Try and link yourself to someone famous. Assuming you don't have a few hours to try this, below you will find a trace of names along the family tree from Cyndi Radke to Benjamin Franklin:
From Cyndi, up the tree to Edward Doty (Clayton to Ernest to Clayton to George to Thomas to David to Elias to Samuel to Isaac to Edward). Edward's daughter Desire married Alexander Standish. From Desire, down the family tree to Benjamin Grimes, Jr. (Thomas to William to Sarah to Deb to Elizabeth to Ahijah to Benjamin to Benjamin Jr.). Benjamin married Frances Craighead. From Frances Craighead, up the tree to William Brewster (Palmyre to Nathaniel to Nathaniel to Marcia to William to David to Margaret to Joe to Mary to Johnathon to William). From William Brewster, back down the family tree to Nick Longworth (Love to William to Joe to Eunice to Ben to Tim to Susan to Nick). Nick's wife Alice is the daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. From Nick Longworth, head back up the tree to Edward Howell (Nick to Joe to Susan to Silas to David to Stephen to John to John to Edward). From Edward, back down the tree to Joe Moore (Margaret to Joe). From Joe's wife Hannah, back up to her Grandfather, Thomas Dimon (James to Thomas). From Thomas Dimon, back down the tree to Frank Waugh (Moses to Abigail to Ephraim to Gideon to Irene to Daniel to Albert to Frank). From Frank's wife, Alice Vail, back up the tree to John Putnam (Sarah to Hannah to Mehitable to Mehitable to Nathaniel to Benjamin to Nathaniel to John). From John Putnam, down the tree to Mehitable Putnam (John to John to Mehitable). From Mehitable's husband, Joe Pope, up the tree to Joe Pope Sr.. Joe Sr. married Bethshua, who has a sister, Abial Folger. Abial Folger (married Josiah) is Ben Franklin's mom.
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