Our Research Journey
We're so happy you dropped in to visit our site. We've worked for years on this family and its connections to our ancestors. We are working constantly on entering our research into the database (that will probably never end).
My Family Lines are listed above, Perkins & Sweat along with my husband's Family Lines, Marsh/Scoggins & Moore.
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My love for my grandfather got me into researching my family tree.
I had heard most of my life that we were related to someone on the Mayflower. Some of the stories were that our ancestor was the navigator. My grandfather was very proud that we were descended from this piece of history. So I set my sights on trying to prove our ancestry in order to get him a membership to the Mayflower Society.
It turns out we are descendants of a Mayflower passenger, but he was not the navigator. He was a hatter before he made his way over on this famous ship. I never did get my grandfather the membership. But I never stopped researching.
Degory Priest was a passenger on the Mayflower and several US Presidents are descended from him. It may be possible that among all of the family lines we're researching, there might be other passengers we are descended from.
I still want to document our ancestry to any and all passengers of the Mayflower. This is our story.
Here are a few other sections of the site you might find interesting. Enjoy!
Alice Gail Carmichael
Gail is my best friend. We've had many talks about where our families were from and where they lived. So many of the places were the same. I started digging and found out 5 generations back, we have the same ancestors. So we're best friends and cousins. We are actually blood relatives.
Roslyn Janet Moore—or, as I knew her, Janet Marsh and eventually Janet Marsh-Winkler—was the mother of my boyfriend when I met her in 1994. I had known her son for about ten years, but I had never met his family until we started dating and he took me home for dinner.
Janet was all about being proper, especially at the dinner table. She was beautiful and graceful, especially for someone of her age. Family meant everything to her; she remembered everyone’s birthday and celebrated each one. That was something I had never experienced in my own family, where I was lucky to receive a card or even an acknowledgment for my birthday.
Janet taught me so much about how to be a bit more elegant as a woman. I started paying more attention to my clothes and the image I wanted to project, which helped me land some very nice jobs.
She adored her grandchildren—and later, her great-grandchildren—always remembering their birthdays and wishing them a wonderful day. Family get-togethers were especially important to her; each one felt like a reunion she eagerly looked forward to.
When we lost Janet in 2023, it was devastating not just for her biological children, but for me as well. She had become my mother. She helped me through many surgeries and other stressful times. She was the epitome of what a mother should be.
Now that she is gone, it feels as if the family has grown somewhat distant and we don’t get together as often as we used to. I just keep hanging on to the memories of a wonderful mother hoping that the family will find a new foundation to bring us together again.
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