"In Wales, every harvest from 1789 to 1802 was bad," writes historian Gwyn A. Williams in The Search for Beulah Land. A grain shortage and famine prices made things worse. Small wonder that Simon James - a young preacher with a wife, baby, and connections in the infant United States - decided to leave home and seek better conditions. American conditions were variable: Simon preached near Philadelphia; undertook a new gathering in rocky western Pennsylvania...

"Worthy Thrall (1809-1851) was the youngest of ten children and a seventh son. He and wife Hannah James (1809-1874) had seven children, four of whom lived to grow up. Settling near Bone Gap, Edwards County, Illinois, he was a farmer, blacksmith, woodworker, and a Methodist class leader. Midwestern Methodists follows Worthy and Hannah's four children, 16 grandchildren, and 38 great-grandchildren through 209 years -- the eight, ninth and tenth generations...

Benedictus Alford was born in about 1616 in Whitestaunton, Somerset, England. He married Jane Newton 26 November 1640 in Windsor, Connecticut. They had four children. He died in 1683. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut and New York.

John Winchell and his family emigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1631. He was joined later by his father, Thomas, and three brothers, Humphrey, John and Robert (d.1669). Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of those who who settled in Windsor, Connecticut ca. 1635, and their descendants. Surnames of the founders include: Abbott, Alford, Allen, Allyn, Barber, Bartlett, Barrett, Bascomb, Bassett, Birge, Bissell, Branker, Brewster, Buckland, Buell, Carter, Chappel, Clarke, Collins, Cooke, Cooper, Denslow, Dewey, Dibble, Dumbleton, Drake, Dyer, Eels, Eggleston, Filley, Ford, Foulkes, Fyler,...

John Bissell (1591-1677) was born in Yardley, Somerset, England. He married Mary (d. 1641) and they had six known children. He died in Windsor, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Milburn (and variant spellings) families who originated in Weardale, Durham, England. Focus is on families related to Jeremiah Milburn (1780-1852) and his wife, Sarah Smith (1785-1866). They were married in Stanhope Parish, at Stanhope, Durham County, England in 1808. Ten children were born to them from 1810-1828, i.e. Arletta, John, Elizabeth, Robert (who died young), Joseph,...

Joseph Ingham (1797-1869), son of James Inham and Emma (Imion) Scholefield, immigrated from England to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, as did most of his brothers and sisters (only one brother, James, remained in Yorkshire, England). Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New England, California and elsewhere. Includes some ancestors in Yorkshire, England.

Richard Gentry (1788-1837) and his wife Anne Hawkins (1791-1870) were some of the founders of Columbia, Missouri. Descendants lived in Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Washington, Oregon, and elsewhere. George Jeffers moved from Tennessee to Buchanan County, Missouri in 1818. Descendants lived in Missouri and Kansas. Carl Friedrich Kuchs (1813-1878) was born at Reichenbach, Saxony, Germany, came to the United States in 1869 and died in Cleveland,...