An American man has taken out a huge ad in The Times claiming to be the rightful King of England

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - Mine just had links to Korea and the Philippines, no huge revelation there. What did you find?

SSG Jessica Bautista - some came from Shropshire England in 1640 to Sudbury, MA which includes fighting in the French and Indian Wars in the 1600s , three marched with the Minutemen on April 19th 1775 to battle the British at old North Bridge in Concord, MA. They marched to the battle from Sudbury. Also some of those family member were the first white settlers in what is now the City of Marlboro, MA That branch of the family, last name Howe (My Grandmother's Maiden name) was well know and there were books written about them. My Dad's Uncle, Norman Howe was a professional Magician and President of the American Magician's Guild. later family members fought in the Spanish America War, WWI, WWII, Korea and Me in Viet Nam. The route were traced back as far as 1560 in England. Others, the McCarter's came from Scotland, went to Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada then down to Boston, MA in the early 1800s from the other side of the family Norris, they came from Limric City, in Limric County Ireland. One relative, Captain Benjamin O'Connell was 1st mate on a ship that was sunk by a German U boat just prior to WWI and was adrift in a life boat 3 days before He was rescued. (I have all the envelopes and original letters He wrote to My Grandfather who was a boy then) He was My great Grandmother's brother. I also found the Captain of the German U boat had sunk 65 ships including His. My great Grandfather Wilber T. Durfee supervised the first ever underwater laying of a Telephone cable from The New York side of Lake Champlaine to the Vermont side. (I have original photos of that event). Another relative, (from the O'Connell side, through a marriage into hte Hugh's family was a two time Governor of New York, the later a Justice on the US Supreme Court from Which He resigned to run as the Republican candidate for President of the United States but lost to Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat. He later became Secretary of State for the United States then later Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. There are a few more things but this entry got kind of long. We had a lot of written family history plus paper and documents and found out some additons things beyond what i said here on ancestry .com

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - Wow. That's a lot of neat things to pass down. Our family only has oral history, as much of our written history gets destroyed by our historically tropical environment. Racism has also created deep rifts, making other mementos lost to spite. We have our family name on a memorial in Bataan that will likely be there a while, and my grandfather worked in construction, building much of the infrastructure on Guam.

SSG Jessica Bautista - The Bataan Death March, one of Histories darkest periods, The Men from both the Philippines and the United States that died there. My Father in Law Who was of Italian Heritage made the beachhead landing on Guam to take it back from the Japanese in WWII. He also made the beachhead landing on Okinawa with the US Army. Anything that is oral in Your family History, write it down do that it will not be lost. Those things are important to families and those that follow You. It is very important esp to talk to relatives that may still remember things before they pass on and that History disappears.

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