This story begins with Sir John Cooper of Pawlett, a small village in Somerset, England. Sir John was born in 1552 in Pawlett, Somerset,...

My wife's eighth great-grandfather was Gijsbert Op Ten Dijck (Gilbert Updyke), who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1635. So before we uncover...

Wow! Admitting my Danish ancestry has been easier to write about than the article on my Swedish ancestry, even though my Swedish...