My family all came from Italy in the 1800s, but I have volunteered transcribing many early records. I love reading all the old information. It is much easier researching colonial ancestors for sure.

Between Covid outbreaks, my husband & I took a research trip in our RV. We stopped off in Ohio, PA and got all the way to Greenwich CT where I finally found the reference to the document I was after to link my Ohio GGGGrandfather to his family in Greenwich which goes all the way back to 1635 where my 10th Great Grandfather was a founding father of Greenwich. Because of covid, we were not able to get into all the places we wanted, especially the church where there are stained glass windows honoring the founding fathers of Greenwich, including that of my relative. I thought I had prepared well for the research trip, and I had, but would like to retrace some of my steps after Covid restrictions are lifted. It was an amazing trip to see where my ancestors lived. The curator of the Historical society in Greenwich was so kind and helpful. Can't say the same for the people in the records dept at the county, unfortunately. Still waiting for a copy of the original document I want.

I’m late to the party but I’m so glad I found or KZfaq found this video for me. My Paternal Hyland ancestors came over very early around 1628 so I’m going to use these resources. Thanks so much.

I researched and found that both my paternal and maternal lines migrated during British Colonial America. I found that my 8th paternal Grandfather, Johann Hans Otto Riedi migrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia on the ship Samuel, on Aug 27th, 1739. My maternal line had kind of the same story, my 8th maternal Grandfather Johann Valentine Frey, migrated to America in 1733 to Pennsylvania from the Alsace Lorraine (Germany at the time). But prior to that their family was from Switzerland, too. They just migrated to the Alsace before coming to America. I always thought majority of ancestors prior to the American revolution would have been from the British isles, so I’m surprised both of my lines were Swiss-Germans that settled and intermingled with German settlers in Pennsylvania. I guess that’s mainly what my ancestry would be.

My main area of family research is New England and, once again, you have outdone yourself with this episode. I learn more from an hour spent with you (and your wonderful guests) than I do in months on my own. I tend not to participate but I definitely appreciate. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Wow, what a great interview and so many resources! Thank you so much!!!

I saw an earlier, similar comment. I pulled up my tree and I have 30 lines to Colonial Virginia and zero from New England. Admittedly, my lines are entirely southern. I do have four starting from Colonial Maryland, three from Pennsylvania, one from Connecticut, and one from New Jersey. The rest were from the Carolinas, but many of these I likely don't have far enough back. All of my lines were in Colonial Britain.

I’ve been obsessively researching for the past 6 months, my mom is a first generation American, but my 2nd great grandmother’s family (dad’s side) goes all the way back to colonial Plymouth starting with Experience Mitchell. I think it’s easier to research that period of time because there weren’t that many people.

I'd love to see something similar for 18th-century Virginia.

Just found you, and just in time ...starting to rationalize the work I started in the 90s. With my 30 years of experiene and your treasurers and sources, I am verg encouraged to get back on the treadmill..THANKS !!!

Have a long history with New England ancestors. This was great information. My 3rd great grandfather settled in Vermont in 1883. He was born in Maine in 1831.NEHGS is beautiful inside if you can go visit in person.

I'll grab some tea and put on my hat but I'm interested in researching 17th century Virginia and Maryland research.

Just what I needed to hear. Researching my Whipple's might just get easier. Thank you!

Watching this on 1/19/2021. Let me preface by saying I've been researching my family tree since 1995. I bet 95% of my ancestors came over during the Great Migration. (My father likes to joke that his family came over on the second voyage of the Mayflower.) Maybe 15 years ago, I was with my brother's in-laws going to yard sales where I live here in Concord, New Hampshire. I nearly fell over when I saw an older volume of "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Noyes, Libby, and Davis" selling for .25¢. Certainly didn't break the bank, and I snatched it right up! Love your Podcast, which I listen to on Google Podcasts while I work remotely, but have a difficult time remembering that "Elevenses" begins at Noon my time on Thursdays, so I stream them after the fact.

TY for the plethora of information. I've utilized some already in my research to date. My husband's great-grandmother was born in Maine, which led me to discovering ancestors who arrived in 1621 in Plymouth. I recently found your channel & am going through your catalog of videos.

Did she mention that to access that Mayflower database you have to be a paid member. So, even if you are not sure your ancestor will be in the database, you have to pay first.

I have 17th century Dutch ancestors around Albany area, Van Class family.

Wow, I love the framed pictures on your wall.

This was so helpful! I appreciate a video that has so many references that I can utilize. My husband is a mayflower descendant, and my ex husband who is father of my children is also a mayflower descendent. I live in York, Maine and it was settled in 1624, my family has been here since then. So to say I have much to research in Early America would be an understatement. I find the hardest part is knowing what resources are available to utilize. So thank you! I just found your channel and I have to admit I’m binge watching today! Thanks for great video’s. Much appreciated.

I enjoy your shows!!! Thank you for the great information.

I was thrilled when your speaker mention some of my ancestors. John Dean is a Great grandfather and his brother Walter, then of course Stephen Hopkins. I have several of the books already and will get some of the other books mention. Thank you for today’s presentation.

Request for resource material on: 17th Century Chesapeake plus Virginia Ancient Planters.

Excellent content. Thank you.

Excellent information!

My wife is a descendant of Walter & Eleanor Dean from the example! I will definitely be checking out the American Ancestors site as I have some known colonial New England ancestors, and I’d love to find a Mayflower ancestor!

Yep! She just mentioned the price.

Lisa - this was a fantastic topic and gives me some ideas as I want to write more about my colonial ancestors. I am a member of the Sacajawea Chapter of the NSDAR as well as the Tumwater Falls Chapter of the NSDAC. (note: DAR = Daughters of the American Revolution & DAC = Daughters of the American Colonists). Most of my Colonial Ancestors are Virginia. Can't wait for you to cover that region.

What is so tough is the children , there were so many by different wives and it is a lot of work getting the right child with the right parent. Sometimes a child or many children maybe mentioned on one site then you find out there are only a few listed somewhere else. Then it is finding all the children (after they grow up) their husband and wives and their children so it takes alot of time. Fortunately as time progresses on from 1300 to 1900 hundreds women began to have less children and there was only one marriage so it does gets easier but you always get that stray who has like five kids.

I'll be re-watching this for sure! Thank you both!

There was so much information in this episode! It was fun to hear from an expert at NEHGS who could point out resources. This is the area and time I am researching right now with the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower arriving. This was very helpful! Thanks again, Lisa, for all you do to bring us such good information.

We have a copy of a page from our Tubbs' Family Bible and it stated that our ancestors were married in Onondaga County, New York. They subsequently lived in Erie County, New York. At Family Search I looked through the land record indexes and found documents relating to the land of Jonathan House who served in the Revolutionary War from Vermont. And the land records and other information talked about his daughter and son-in-law -- our Tubbs' in Erie County, NY. I don't find much more about him or his wife, Mary Smith (the first reference to Smith ancestors that I have found -- talk about needle in a haystack! lol) and there seems to be some confusion between him and a different Jonathan House in Vermont who also served in the Rev War. I have not done much more on it. I don't know how to get back to the definite family/families in the 1600s in New England. She said she prefers 1600s New England research. I actually prefer Italian records research for any era! lol The authorities seemed to be waaaay more complete than Americans in putting every single little detail about the persons including details about any witnesses. I'm happier doing Italian research so these days I pretty much stay there.

Most of my ancestors are from colonial New England they are of English ancestry and are mainly from the Puritan migration from which I have some pilgrim ancestors(Bradford, Winslow, Alden, Hopkins, Cooke, warren, Standish, soule, howland, and maybe some others Ik big) aswell as many ancestors who came here in between 1620-1640 and the last that came to New England came no later then 1650 so my new rangeland ancestors range from 1620-1650. Even tho my New England ancestors make up the most of my American ancestors(and I have a Boston brahmin last name) I have ancestors from New York, Virginia, and the Carolinas, even tho they intermarried and the southern ancestors were gone by the early 1800s prior to the civil war I still had them, they were from prosperous families from England/France/Scotland who came here in various times in the 1600s ranging from 1630s-1680s the English ones Deere the first to come here with Scottish/Scots Irish and French coming in later towards the end of the 1600s they were prosperous planters and politicians and I’m a decendant of people like Robert carter 1st, and the randolph, and Berkeley’s from Virginia and the Ladson family from South Carolina, I have no confederates as my ancestors all union boys because they intermarried with northerners a while before the civil war, and finally my New York ancestors, they also include my pensylvanya and nj ancestors aswell, they came here at similar times as the southerners and they were mainly of Dutch, Scottish, English, French and some German ancestry from families such as Livingston, van reneselar, van cortlandt, bayard, schuyler, etc Sorry for the long comment

I have an ancestor who was in Warwick County, Virginia by 1629.

Omg ,I found lots of information.

Can you advise me on joining Colonial Dames? Wonderful episode. Thank you so much!

I would like to see something about 17th-Century Maryland. I know there had to have been other ships arriving beside the Ark and the Dove. My ancestor turned up in Maryland somewhere in the 1600's but I can't locate which ship he arrived on or exactly when. He bought land in 1696.

But Colonial research isn't just limited to New England. It also included the coastal states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida. I had ancestors in Jamestown - before Plymouth Rock. What about those areas?

I'd like to see something on Virginia and North Carolina 18th century.

Great Grandmother Mary Whitney Kennedy

I can't believe most of a Massachusetts family of mine ended up in Illinois. Turns out not a good decision.

If you think genealogy is a dry subject go to 59:45. 😆

I wish you added all the resources she listed in the video description

I cannot believe how little I know.

I would love to see something for Upstate New York in the 1600 and 1700 hundreds. Who came and where they went.

I have American ancestry that goes back to the 16TH (late 1500's) century, and like to call my "race" as Colonial American. Most of this American ancestry is a mess. Great grandmother dropped off on a doorstep, grandparents with the same last name, that are not related (Young), Lost records from the civil war, no records at all from Kentucky, and blue grass areas. Great great grandmother that collected royalties from Lord Baltimore's estate (remaining descendant)?, Related to a guy named Meyer, that brought the first plow into the colonies, Etc. People in my family trying to locate gravesites to find names. I don't even know what to believe. Did the first DNA test in my family, and it came out mostly European, and Japanese, Chinese, India, Peruvian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Bangladeshi, Whatever, whatever. I'm surprised that being Colonial American is not a "thing".

does anyone do 17th and 18th century New York? Dutch and German?

I am not supposed to have any early American ancestors but my DNA matches beg to differ. I'm still trying to figure that one out. Seems like a link(s) from back around 1800 that somehow hooked into my family tree in disguise (most likely NPE).

Oh my gosh you and I are distant cousins.

Does this include Virginia?

Illinois Sabula

What do you do when there are 100+ people in Connecticut with same name? Were there lists of people who moved to Ohio? We know who the Baldwin brothers 17th century immigrants are…

Has anyone ever told you that you look much like the actress Melody Thomas Scott from the soap opera The Young and Restless?

I was hoping for something new but couldn't listen to the way she explains.