Family Tree Breakdown

 Here's a breakdown of the discoveries in my family tree so far. The information presented is based on my tree on WikiTree.com. 

Family tree rundown:

 This is a chart of how many people I've identified on my tree so far.

 

	Ancestors by Generation	Overall Ancestors (Cumulative)
Generation	Identified	Identified
1. (Parents)	2/2	2/2
2. (Grandparents)	4/4	6/6
3. (Great-grandparents)	8/8	14/14
4. (2nd great-grandparents)	16/16	30/30
5. (3rd great-grandparents)	32/32	62/62
6. (4th great-grandparents)	64/64	126/126
7. (5th great-grandparents)	118/128	244/254
8. (6th great-grandparents)	156/256	400/510
9. (7th great-grandparents)	223/512	623/1022
10. (8th great-grandparents)	414/1024	1037/2046

            

   Using WikiTree, I managed to find several notable connections. Here is a sample of them categorized by era.

Notable settlers:

    Settlers from Europe changed the continent of North America forever. From the Great Puritan Migration to the settlers of Quebec, here are some notable colonists.

 

	Name	Relation
1.	Benjamin Albee	10th great-grandfather
2.	Jacques Archambault	11th great-grandfather
3.	Tristram Coffin	11th great-grandfather
4.	Edmund Greenleaf	11th great-grandfather
5.	Charles Hamel	9th great-grandfather
6.	Francis Matthews	10th great-grandfather
7.	Jean Picard	9th great-grandfather
8.	William Pillsbury	11th great-grandfather
9.	Estienne Racine	10th great-grandfather
10.	René Rimbault	10th great-grandfather

            

    In total, I have connections to eighty-four members of the Great Puritan Migration which occurred from 1620 to 1640. They all settled in what eventually became New England. Around the same time, several hundred colonists from France settled in Québec and Nova Scotia.   

Filles du Roi:

    I have over seventy filles du roi or "Daughters of the King" in my tree. These were women and young girls who were sent to Québec to help the French with their colonization efforts in the New World. The women were given dowries by the king and sent to Canada to marry an eligible bachelor. Here are ten of them:

	Name	Relation
1.	Elizabeth Aubert	8th great-grandmother
2.	Marie Madeleine Auvray	9th great-grandmother
3.	Catherine Beaudin	9th great-grandmother
4.	Francoise Boivin	10th great-grandmother
5.	Marie Chausy	8th great-grandmother
6.	Jeanne Fresset	9th great-grandmother
7.	Antoinette Meunier	9th great-grandmother
8.	Marie Madeleine Olivier	9th great-grandmother
9.	Anne Rivet	9th great-grandmother
10.	Isabelle Salé	8th great-grandmother

            

Régiment Carignan-Salières:

   

 

	Name	Relation
1.	Mathurin Bésnard	9th great-grandfather
2.	Jacques Bidet	10th great-grandfather
3.	Jean-Amable Lalonde	9th great-grandfather
4.	Rene Maillot	9th great-grandfather
5.	Vivien Magdeliene	9th great-grandfather
6.	Olivier Morel	10th great-grandfather
7.	Guillaume Richard	9th great-grandfather

            

The Salem Witch Trials:

    These are accusers and participants of the Salem Witch Trials, which occurred in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Rampant paranoia ensued in the 1690s when young girls accused others of performing witchcraft. Many of the accused were hanged in one of the darkest periods of human history.

 

	Name	Relation
1.	Ann Carr	9th great-grandmother
2.	John Floyd	10th great-grandfather
3.	Henry Kinne Jr.	10th great-grandfather
4.	John Peabody	10th great-grandfather
5.	Thomas Putnam	9th great-grandfather
6.	Peter Tufts	10th great-grandfather
7.	Ann Foster	11th great-grandmother
8.	Dr. William Griggs	11th great-grandfather

Soldiers of the American Revolution:

    These men fought to liberate the thirteen original colonies from England. At least one man was a French-Canadian citizen who rendered aid. The war lasted from 1775-1783. Three men don't have pages on the DAR website at this time. Their names are Isaac Fellows, Richard Tandy and William Taylor.

	Name	Relation
1.	Daniel Bailey	6th great-grandfather
2.	Zebulon Drew	7th great-grandfather
3.	Joseph Felker	5th great-grandfather
4.	Isaac Fellows	7th great-grandfather
5.	Joseph Fisher	6th great-grandfather
6.	Charles Mathieu	6th great-grandfather
7.	Amos Sargent	6th great-grandfather
8.	Benjamin Smart	6th great-grandfather
9.	Richard Tandy	6th great-grandfather
10.	William Taylor	7th great-grandfather

            

Union Soldiers:

    These men fought to preserve the Union during the American Civil War from 1861-1865.

 

	Name	Relation
1.	Jeremiah Smart Felker	3rd great-grandfather
2.	John Sargent Fisher	4th great-grandfather
3.	David Webster Stevens	4th great-grandfather

            

World War I:

    Originally called "The war to end all wars", World War I was one of bloodiest wars the world had ever seen and lasted from 1914-1918. Taking part were a number of Italian and Canadian immigrants who were drafted into the conflict.

 

	Name	Relation
1.	Giuseppe Carrabs	paternal great-grandfather
2.	Austin Wilfred Felker	maternal great-grandfather
3.	Vincenzo Ferraiolo	paternal great-grandfather
4.	Alfred Francis Hamel	maternal great-grandfather
5.	Joseph Laplante	maternal 2nd great-grandfather

           World War II:

    Though their roles were small, my grandfathers fought in World War II against the Axis Powers. Marco Ferraiolo was a private in the army and Robert Hamel served in the Air Corps, the organization which gave rise to the United States Air Force. The conflict lasted from 1939-1945.

	Name	Relation
1.	Marco Ferraiolo	paternal grandfather
2.	Robert Eugene Hamel	maternal grandfather