What is your favourite tree 'howler'?

[giraffe]

A mother aged 7. - And we think the young of today are precocious!
I contacted the member who had made the error, and they were very grateful for the info - fortunately!
giraffe

[LizzieW]

BumbleB, some of what you know about Pocahantos is true.  She wanted to go back to USA and took ill on the ship, was taken off again and died - probably of smallpox.

I've been to a National Trust house somewhere (can't remember where though) that has paintings of her and John Rolfe.

Lizzie

[BumbleB]

Lizzie:  I'm sure the Pocahantos story is correct, and she was buried, I think, in Gravesend.  But I haven't done any research into checking the validity of a claim that would link her to my tree.  It's far too distant and circuitous.

BumbleB

[youngtug]

Someone as just added my gtgrandmother to their tree, a tree that goes back to ADAM & EVE  . Including along the way Charlemagne, Methuseula and looked like Ra. God knows who else is on there, but its not a family I want to be a part of.
 

[AngelaR]

Someone as just added my gtgrandmother to their tree, a tree that goes back to ADAM & EVE  . Including along the way Charlemagne, Methuseula and looked like Ra. God knows who else is on there, but its not a family I want to be a part of.
 

If it's like the tree I just found, God is indeed on there 

PS You learn something every day in this game - I had NO idea that the garden of Eden was in Vermont USA   

[kdunn]

Re: Pocahontas: My mother's mother's family had a tradition that they descend from Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. I have found reference online to the alleged son of this pair (allegedly named Peregrine) in somebody's family tree, and he even comes up in FamilySearch.

I'm not brave enough to list either Pocahontas or Captain John Smith in my tree, but I have looked for some evidence (anything!) that there might be some truth in the story. It doesn't look promising: John Smith never married, and Pocahontas is recorded as having only the one son (Thomas Rolfe).

[Lemontree]

I had a freidn who was traceing his family and asked for help, he emailed the information and I had a look.

The christain/first name of the woamn he thought was unusual and had her married in birmingham, whereas I looked at her place of birth on the census and foudn she was from Colechester and therfroe why would she marry in birmingham when her hubby was form frankton (near rugby)

He had asked me to help as on her second marriage certificate she gives a complelty differnet fahters name - well of course hse does as the birmingham certificate is wrong and there is the correct marriae in Colechaester

But when looking firther - the real ancestor female was much more interesting as it did seem that the second marriage was bigamous and they travelled some 10 miels to marry in warwcik and then when there chidl was born made out to the local vicar in frankton that they wern't married

far more interesting than the family he had been tracing who wheren't his and very normal

[helvissa]

I'm always amused by the fact that so many of my ancestors were born in Essex, Massachussetts, rather than that other Essex in England. Colchester, Massachussetts, no less!

(now I've said that there probably *is* a Colchester in Massachussetts, but you know what I mean!).

[Brie]

Lizzie,

I seem to remember that Lord Mountbatten's wife is descended from Pocahontas - so it may be her family's home you saw the pictures in.

Brie