Revealing hidden Jewish ancestry

From NPR: Trove Of Recipes Dating Back To Inquisition Reveals A Family's Secret Jewish Roots
December 22, 20197:29 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
GREG ALLEN

In a trove of old family recipes, Genie Milgrom found clues that led her to Inquisition-era Spain and her family's hidden Jewish heritage. Milgrom is a Cuban-American, now 65, who was raised a devout Catholic. Several years ago, when her Mom became ill, Milgrom went through her things and found a collection of recipes that had been recorded and handed down by generations of aunts and grandmothers. Some of the recipes traced all the way back to Inquisition-era Spain and Portugal.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/22/789864201/trove-of-recipes-dating-back-to-inquisition-reveals-a-familys-secret-jewish-root

My Immigrant Ancestors with known Origins from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and France

Here is a list of my immigrant ancestors with a known origin in the British Isles and France. More will be added as prepared.

England:

• 1621, Thomas Farley, wife, Jane, and daughter, Ann, to Jamestown, from Worcester, Worcester, England. Documentation: Records of the Jamestown Company; Will of Roger Farley.
• Abt. 1640, Matthew Moulthrop, from Bridlington, Yorkshire, and wife, Jane Nichol, from Wraby, Lincolnshire, to New Haven Colony. Documentation: Articles by Patricia Law Hatcher in The American Genealogist, vol. 74.
• Abt 1640, Samuel Hotchkiss, from Dodington, Whitchurch Parish, Shropshire, to New Haven Colony, d. 1663. Documentation: Will of father, John Hotchkiss.
• Bef 1690, Joseph Phipps, and wife, Mary or Sarah Benefield, from Abington, Berkshire. Documentation: Reading (Eng.) Monthly Meeting, his will in 1716, her biography published in The Friend.
• 1717, George Boone, and wife, Mary Maugridge. He was from Stoke Canon, Devonshire and she was from Bradnich, Devonshire. They settled in Pennsylvania.
• 1771, James Harvey May, alias Emanuel King. Documentation: Records of The Old Bailey. Transported from Middlesex Gaol on the ship Justitia to Virginia.

Wales:

• 1693, or 1694, Maud Richards, wife of Rowland Powell. She was from Llanllwch, Carmarthen, Wales. He is presumed to be Welsh. Immigrated to Pennsylvania. Documentation: Certificate from St Peters Parish, Carmarthen, Wales. Married at Radnor Monthly Meeting in 1694.

Scotland:

• 1635, John Burnett, and wife, Lucretia Johnston, from Aberdeen to Old Rappahannock, Virginia. Documentation: Called "Merchant of Glascow" in Charter from King Charles II. Ship Abraham of London.

Ireland:

• 1727-1728, George Aston, from Wicklow, and wife, Elizabeth Hunter, from Ballinaclash, Wicklow, Ireland. First to London, then to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Documentation: London, England, Monthly Meeting; Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Member of Delaware and Pennsylvania legislatures.

France:

• Abt 1660, Benois Brasseur (Benjamin Brashear) and his wife, Mary [Richeford?], are called "subjects of the King of France" in their Denization paper from Lord Baltimore. He is first found in Nancemond and Lower Norfolk, Virginia, and then moves to "The Cliffs" in Calvert County, Maryland. He was a Justice of the Peace and died in 1663 without a will. Mary wrote a will before her marriage to Thomas Starling. The home of Benois Brasseur, "Upper Bennett", was in existence in 1957 and was located at "The Cliffs" in Calvert Co., Maryland. it was purchased from Richard Bennett, Esq., colonial Governor of both Virginia and Maryland.

Ancestry World Obituary Collection

This is a post from Ancestry.com:

For more than three decades, AncestryⓇ has been a pioneer in family history research, developing innovative research tools and adding new content to our unparalleled historical record collections that enable people around the world to uncover their unique family story.
Today, we are proud to announce the launch of our new Newspapers.com Obituary Collection, as well as an upgrade to our U.S. Obituary Collection, adding to what is now the world’s largest, searchable digital archive of over 262 million worldwide obituaries and death announcements, containing almost 1 billion searchable family members.

Ancestry World Obituary Collection

My families from 1621-1820

• A Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA, USA
• B Portland, ME, USA
• C New Haven, CT, USA
• D Strawbery Banke Museum, Hancock Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
• E Norfolk, VA, USA
• F Northumberland County, VA, USA
• G St Mary's City, MD, USA
• H Wicomico County, MD, USA
• I Philadelphia, PA, USA
• J Whitley County, KY, USA

Between 1760 and 1820 several of my ancestors were in the New River area of Virginia and North Carolina. Particularly in Washington and Grayson counties in Virginia, and Ashe and Wilkes counties in NC. A number of those families came from New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.

The GU272 Project:

The GU272 Legacy

In 1838, Maryland's Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. Though they faced incredible hardship, most didn't perish. They married and raised children. Today, more than 8,000 of their descendants have been located through genealogical research. Use this site to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the descendants.

Mother's Day DNA test prices

Mother's Day autosomal test prices:

23andme. $99. Also a $30 discount on the Health & Ancestry package.
Ancestry. $59. Offer ends May 13.
Family Tree DNA. $79.
Living DNA, $79.
MyHeritage. $69. Sales ends May 13.

Finding my parents' marriage information

Both of my parents have been gone for many years. I had been told that they were married at the First Baptist Church in Ludlow, Kentucky, in 1947. Although I had a leather-bound genealogy my mother started and her Bible, I did not have a copy of their marriage certificate. Searching the county records online never found them and the Church said they did not have any records for that year.

Recently I subscribed to Newspapers.com and found the announcement of the issue of a marriage license to them. Writing to the Boone County Clerk of Court office I was able to get a copy of the marriage license and the return of marriage. In it my father was listed as being in the Navy and living in Brooklyn, New York, and my mother as living in Cincinnati. Since I already knew my father was working on a Navy tub boat in New York Harbour at that time, I am now looking to see if he was living on-base at the Brooklyn Navy Yard or somewhere off-base and if my mother also lived in Brooklyn for sometime.

I had used other newspaper databases without luck before I finally subscribed to Newspapers.com. So always try every resource.