Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales

I can't say enough good things about this book. It's not only a go-to resource for me, but it's virtually daily reading material. Though I've never really publicly discussed much of anything, my mother's family -- both maternal and paternal -- were prominent families related to a million other prominent families, as was so very …

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Book Review — The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …

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