Now that the John Cutter West brickwall has come down, I have new
branches of the family to explore. Recently I took advantage of the week
of free access to all the databases at the AmericanAncestors.org
website to fill in some gaps. Many of my early West ancestors came from
Barnstable County, Massachusetts and so far I hadn't found many
documents online for them, but there were databases on AmericanAncestors
that I was able to see during that free access week.
So
I started in on investigating the family of my 5x great grandmother
Sarah (Hamilton) West, tracing it back with vital records, probate files
and town and family histories. Much to my surprise and delight, I found
another connection to Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. I had
previously discovered one with his daughter Constance (Hopkins) Snow;
this new one was was with his son Gyles/Giles Hopkins. Here's a
relationship from Gyles/Giles to my Dad:
As I said, there are vital records and probate files for many of the people in this line, and I'll be discussing them here as I go along. But I found other family lines that I will list in the next posts.
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