Monday, January 17, 2011

Mayflower Ancestor Francis & John Cooke

I received a message on Friday night from someone on Ancestry.com informing me that I had some incorrect dates on the Harlow side of my tree.  The message was from a Helen, and she went into such depth, and effort to explain my error that I then spent many hours this weekend correcting the Harlow Family Tree.

If you have read one of my prior postings, my aunt Evelyn May Harlow has many ancestors that share links with the Howie's!

While doing more research to correct the dates of marriages, deaths and so on, I was able to discover many new ancestors who we share links.  The first name I found was Thomas Taber who was the son of Philip Tabor and Lydia Masters.  Upon more research into the Taber family, I found a book about Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Colonial Ancestors.   This in turn helped me find that the Harlow's and the Howie's are related to Francis & John Cooke of the Mayflower.

Here is my pedigree: