Wikitree Lewis Men of Early New England
Michael Lewis
I've just discovered a new project on Wikitree called Lewis Men of Early New England.
Here's the description from the website:
We presume that some of the earliest settlers of New England who carried the surname Lewis or Lewes were related to each other (on their paternal Lewis line), and some were not. While we can never fully prove that one 16th or 17th century Lewis man was the father of another, Big Y-700 testing can get us closer.
In this research area, we will try to identify the earliest individual male Lewis immigrants to New England, defined initially as Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. We may expand later to New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey. We will then attempt to assign male Lewis descendants to those ancestors.
Over time, we hope to convince male Lewis descendants of these men to take a Big Y-700 test to see which paper trails or correct - and to perhaps link a few of these men to their earlier England and Wales ancestors.
If you haven't already done so, this would be a good time to join Wikitree and enter your genealogy and DNA data to be added to this enormous database. I've been on Wikitree for many years and I find it incredibly useful to trace rare lineages and find new connections. This looks promising to me to sort out our Northern/Southern division and maybe even an ancestor or two for Edmond!
Let me know if you follow up on this.
Happy 4th!
Michael Lewis
Daniel Cushman Lewis
On Jul 3, 2023, at 10:58 PM, Michael Lewis <mal...@calcentral.com> wrote:
Hello all:
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