Wednesday 13 July 2016

I am the sum of many ancestors

I used a word cloud to capture the family names of just some of my many ancestors, who include crofters, farmers, fishers, soldiers, servants, clergy, community leaders, nobles, royalty and the earliest settlers of New England and Nova Scotia. Each has a story to be told. Aside from DNA, my roots go back to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, France, Spain, Belgium and more.

About the Family of Robert Young and Isabella Knox

I wrote about my great grandfather, Robert Alexander Young , here . Now it's time to write about the family he and my great grandmother...