More on why Alexander story is unlikely

[Judy G. Russell]

I had the opportunity to review the "Massachusetts to Connecticut to Pennsylvania to Virginia Alexander-Samuel-William-Thomas" story with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG NEHGS, author of the authoritative The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1643 while on the Master Genealogist cruise last week.

First, he notes that the children of Elinor Winslow (who married Samuel Baker) are very well documented and that there is no William among those children. That tracks with the DNA evidence we received in 2006 where the DNA of a documented descendant of that Samuel turned out to be very very different from the DNA of our Bakers.

Second, he calls the migration path (MA-CT-PA-VA) and time (1635-c1730) an "extraordinary story" requiring "extraordinary documentation" to be believable. Since there is absolutely NO documentation in our case, I think -- with the DNA evidence -- we can forget this whole thing.

Thanks for the update Judy.
Always visit the site here and though I had registered when you first got the site. But, anyway registered again an created a profile.

Must have been interesting you talking to that fellow.

Did not hear much about the Bakersville visit this year. Sent Charles
an email but did not hear anything. He is probably busy.

Dont see how you do everything but somehow you maintain.

Have a good one cousin.

Stan

[Judy G. Russell]

Originally Posted by stan baker

Must have been interesting you talking to that fellow.

Hi, Stan! Yes, Bob was very interesting and had some very good insights into this and other issues.

Originally Posted by stan baker

Did not hear much about the Bakersville visit this year. Sent Charles an email but did not hear anything. He is probably busy.

I didn't make it to Bakersville myself -- my dearly loved Aunt Marianne died literally hours before I would have boarded the flight down. I will see if I can get Jacque or Charles (or both!) to post on this year's visit. It was great, they said!

Originally Posted by stan baker

Dont see how you do everything but somehow you maintain.

Sigh -- I'm way behind on everything right now. There's a t-shirt I have that reads: "God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind, I will never die."