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December 2005

Mayflower descendants spread word

There’s an article in the Jamestown News (North Carolina), by Norma B. Davis, about the efforts of Martha Ward, Al Sampson and Betty LaBella – members of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina, Piedmont Colony, to spread the word about genealogy and the original Mayflower colonists.

Descendant dedicates tombstone to ancestor’s memory

James M. Beidler writes about Francis W. Ditzler Jr and his efforts to get a tombstone for an ancestor in the Lebanon Daily News (PA). He had located the tombstone years ago, but didn’t write it down at the time, and when he went back, he could no longer find it. He mentions the burial registry that the Zoar Lutheran Church had, and the kind of entries it contains (a treasure trove for genealogists)