Yesterday the Summer 2016 issue of the Mayflower Descendant arrived in the mail. It is a terrific, must-have publication for genealogists. I encourage you to subscribe and read every issue.
The first article, “William and Lydia (Swift) Young of Windham, Connecticut: A John Howland and Richard Warren Line” by Jeffery Allen Record and Christopher Chandler Child, immediately got my attention.
A “John Howland line.” I am a John Howland descendant – so these people are my cousins. I wanted to read this article and add the information to my family tree.
I don’t just wholesale add each of these well researched and documented individuals – I also verify each person, retracing the steps the authors took, and look for contemporary accounts in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives of the events in their lives.
I immediately found an article confirming the marriage of Thomas Fitch Young and Lydia Tilden in Lebanon, Connecticut (see pages 128-129 of the Mayflower Descendant article).
I also found this second article about their marriage.
With GenealogyBank’s solid coverage of Colonial American newspapers – back to 1690 – GenealogyBank is my go-to source for verifying all of my Mayflower family lines.
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