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A sample of my co-authored fantasy adventure is available here:
Heart of the Myst
An EPPIE Finalist!
It's a GREAT read!!!

You should see the parts that had to be cut!!!


Yes, copies can be hard to get: Contact us at: tsb@twinwolf.net
We still have a few boxed copies at a reduced cost.

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Age and experience allows us to offer reasonably well informed referrals and opinions.
If you have a security concern, genealogy or computer questions, just contact us.

We have extensive family genealogy records
Computer insights (early to new), Forensics,

plus opinions that come from growing experience as
"Snow Birds, Winter Texans, Rolling Gypsy's"
We now live, at least part time, the ever growing
enjoyable, popular, practical Gypsy RV life

Looking for people, current or past? Our family genealogy records
(heroes, villains, et. al.) now have connected links to over 21,000 people,
the folks who built this country, all the way back to the shadowy world of royalty and mythology.

 

EARLY MIGRATIONS TO AMERICA

Paraphrased by Paul D Porter from the work Ref: 1989 Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer.

From 1629 to 1775 there were four large waves of English speaking emigrants. The first was an exodus of Puritans from Eastern England during a period of 11 years from 1629 to 1640. The second was the migration of a royalist elite plus large numbers of indentured servants from the south of England to Virginia about 1642 to 1675. The third was a movement from the north midlands of England and Wales to the Delaware Valley from 1675 to 1725. The fourth was a flow of English speaking people from the north borders of Britain and northern Ireland to the Appalachian back country mostly from 1718 to 1775.

The Puritans often family related back in England, were primarily skilled families that quickly prospered and multiplied. The vanguard of 17 ships that sailed in 1630 were followed to create a total of over 200. These emigrants multiplied doubling every generation for two centuries. Their numbers increased fromto 100,00 by 1700, to at least one million by 1800, and six million by 1900. In 1988 the total was more than 16 million. Their influence upon the country was profound.

It was from here that virtually all of the Porter and Woodmark ancestors came.

 

These four groups, known as folkways, had much in common. All of them spoke English. Nearly all were British Protectorates under British law that took pride in possessing British liberties. They varied in their religious denominations and social ranks building the foundations of this country. From here sprung the revolutionary war, our constituion, the states and bill of rights.

Today less than 20 percent of the American population has British ancestors at all.

 

 

 

The importance of Genealogy

Obsession with family and genealogy became an enduring part of enduring New England's culture. Two centuries after the great migration Harriet Beecher Stowe observed:

Among the peculiarly English ideas which the Colonists brought to Massachusettes, which all the wear and tear of the democracy have not been able to obliterate, was that of family. Family feeling, family pride, family hope and fear and desire, were, in my early day, strongly marked traits. Genealogy was a thing at the tip of every person's tounge, and in every person's mind. "Of a very respectable family," was a sentence so often repeated at the old fireside that it's influence went in part to make up my character."

The average family in Waltham, Massachusettes produced 9.7 children.

What can we contribute?

Yes, we also have rare original Quaker letters from the late 1700's.

If you are looking for Quakers you should contact us.
We also have old bibles, plus other records and contacts.

You may find relatives you didn't even know existed!
What fun. We did!!!

New information is being added every week.

The joy is in working this gigantic world wide puzzle.
It's also a great way to focus and learn about history.
A grand hobby where you can spend as much time or as little as you wish.
What will your DNA reveal? Great fun!

Porter - Woodmark extended clan lineage

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