My family First Settlers of Maryland

[DaMulta]

Maryland General Assembly passed resolutions recognizing that the colony William Claiborne established on the Island of Kent in 1631 as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the State of Maryland.

For a long time, researchers have placed this 1631 settlement of Kent Island among the earliest permanent English colonies on the North American continent.


William Claiborne is my great great great LOL don't know how many Grandpa, but I thought this was a neat thing to share.

http://www.kentislandheritagesociety.org/history.html



My Mothers side both parents and up, and along with the same with my Fathers side all came to America in the 1600s.

Kind of a kool thing to be able to tell people about my family.

[Wile E]

My family lineage on my mother's side goes back to Seth Thomas the clock maker. There are a couple heirlooms in the family that are early Seth Thomas clocks.

That's our only claim to fame. lol.

[btarunr]

I'm Aryan. My ancestors are from Europe. (more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration))

[DaMulta]

I'm Aryan. My ancestors are from Europe. (more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration))

Your country has so much history to be learned. I really do love reading about yours a lot at times.

Mine is still a baby in a lot of ways. All tho the Indians were already here, and I do have that in my blood line. Almost all of it was just killed out.

As my son put it when he was 5 LOL Well dad we needed the land..kids just look at things in a simpler way at times:rolleyes:..when I told him how mean we were on the likes of how we took it.

[JC316]

Not much interesting in my family. I know that the founder of Lay's potato chips is a distant relative of mine. Supposedly one in the family helped invent the Gatling gun. On my dad's side though it's untraceable. My great great grandfather came over here and his parents were killed and he was "adopted" by their best friends and they gave him their last name. Since there was no official record, there is no telling what my last name should be.