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Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge

Storms Surrounding General Washington’s Bodyguard, Sergeant William Pace

Profiling William Pace’s service at Valley Forge, and discussing the genealogy controversy surrounding his connection to Richard Pace of Jamestown. We think William Pace was my husband’s 5th great grandfather, and have heard that we are (through him) also descended from Richard Pace, who saved Jamestown. But what does the Pace DNA Project say about this connection?

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Robledo One-Name Study, 1850 US Census Analysis, Ancestry.com

Robledo One-Name Study: Early United States Census Analysis, 1790 to 1850

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was toying with starting a one-name study for my Robledo surname. This is the second post in that series, focusing on an analysis of the 1790 to 1850 U.S. Census to identify the first appearance of the Robledo surname in the United States.

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