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Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/em><\/p>\n Article<\/strong>\u00a0 There were actually two articles in the July 2009 edition of Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>.\u00a0 The first is, \u201cThis Land is Your Land.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s an article about our National Parks (U.S.) from the perspective of filmmaker Ken Burns, who produced a documentary, The National Parks: America\u2019s Best Idea<\/em>.\u00a0 The second article is, \u201cYou Named Your Kid What?!,\u201d written by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz.\u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting read about the names given to children today, with a bit of history about naming conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[317,349],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-family-hopkins","tag-friday-finds","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-eu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFound, Unfound, Found Again?\u00a0 <\/strong>If you are on Facebook, you may have seen my status earlier in the week saying that I learned I was a Mayflower descendant.\u00a0 However, a source led me astray, having me think that my tenth great-grandfather, Stephen HOPKINS, came to America on the Mayflower!\u00a0 In truth, this is NOT the case.\u00a0 Heck, he wasn\u2019t even born when the Mayflower set sail!!\u00a0 Further investigation has me wondering if the Stephen HOPKINS, who did arrive in America via the Mayflower, is instead my twelfth great-grandfather.\u00a0 I trace this line back to my eleventh great-grandfather, John HOPKINS.\u00a0 A variety of sources reviewed so far are contradictory:\u00a0 some say John is Stephen\u2019s son, others say no.\u00a0 There doesn\u2019t seem to be any proof either way at this point.\u00a0 So for now, it\u2019s unclear whether I am in fact a Mayflower descendant or not.\u00a0 Hoping to unravel the mystery, perhaps on my research trip to SLC in September.<\/p>\n