My Genealogy Home PageUpdated June 13, 2008
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I am happy to share all of the information gathered over a 20 year period, it is an on going passion to delve into my past. I owe many people thanks for their contributions.The internet has allowed me to progress at warp speed.I have met many cousins through my postings on Genforum and that is a great joy for me. Enormous thanks to my cousin Pete Osgood, a great detective who found me after a 43 year time span.He reunited the Osgoods with the Hatch family and so generously shared a mountain of genealogical material along with many pictures and momentos.He supplied me with family trees showing we are descended from 4Mayflower passengers, John Alden, William Mullins, Miles Standish & Edward Doty. Pete also introduced me to his Uncle John, an unknown cousin of mine & a historian in his own right.At the age of 89 he supplied me with an oral history of life on the farm of my great grandparents Walter & Nettie (Lombard) Hatch (Johns aunt and uncle) and the life of Netties siblings.The time span was 1913 until the early 1930s. John Ward is a natural born story teller and his vivid details took me back in time.No words can express my love and gratitude. There are many names too numerous to list who unselfishly contributed large and small chunks of work and I thank them one and all. Family historians are so generous with their time and money and over and over I have received thick manila envelopeswith complete family histories and they expect nothing in return. I am indebted to my cousin Dorothea Ranks Griebel who was unknown to me before this search began.She has supplied me with so many documents on John Ranks of England & his descendants & co-authored a book of the same name in the early 1970s. Dot is a great historian & great lady & I thank her for her kindness and generosity. Honourable mention to my sister Carolyne Hatch Destro who originally found the Thomas Ridley & descendants family.This has led me down this long and joyous path. Enjoy one and all. gail............................
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Gail Elaine Pendleton 49 Main St. RICHMOND,ME 04357-1354 United States 207-737-7011 [email protected]
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