George Edgington I (1707-1791) - The Immigrant - Part One: The Stowaway

George Edgington's life reads like an adventure novel.  It is said that he arrived as a stowaway, lived as a frontiersman, was kidnapped and taken to Canada, his wife married another man, and he fought in a war.  But what, if any, of this true?  Join me as we take a deep dive into his life.

Louis J. Houlette (1764-1841) - The Immigrant - Post 1 Arrival?

I’ve been struggling with what I should write about in this first blog. As luck would have it, a new discovery simply cries out to be shared. Thus it is that I start with Louis J. Houlette, my 4x great-grandfather.

Introduction

John Robert and Helen Pauline (Creger) Nielsen, my parents, were the first genealogists in our family. While it began simply enough for them, it ultimately became the center of their retirement years. Never did they imagine that genealogy would take them back to the very beginning of our country, that they would work on it for over 30 years or that they would write a book that to this day is cited by today's genealogists.