Family Lines

Six interconnected lines from 1627 to the present. Tap any ancestor.

Eleven locations from Devon to Nantucket. Filter by family.

The house and the Coffins of Alwington, Devon, from the 1100s. A history; the archive does not claim descent from them.

Nine generations from William Swift I to Le Roy Warren Swift. Cape Cod roots since 1627.

Five PID-verified generations. The bridge between the Jenkins, Green, and Swift families.

Rebecca Green married John Jenkins (1709), linking the Green, Jenkins, and Swift lines.

The 1659 purchasers and the families that followed.

Tristram Coffin’s American story. c. 1605 to the 19th century.

The connection to Franklin through Peter Folger of Nantucket.

Indentured servant freed by Peter Folger. Grandmother of Benjamin Franklin.

From Nantucket whaling to founding America’s department store.

Maternal grandfather’s line, from Ireland through Cape Cod.

Two families united by marriage. Five generations told through annotated photographs.

Rachel Warren and Elizabeth Arden, identified from photo labels, April 2026.

Herbert Miller Wall, the barquentine White Wing, Michael Thornton from Galway.

Irish roots, Rep. John J. Long, the Kennedy letters, Fall River.

Four confirmed direct ancestors aboard: Degory Priest, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins.

From the ancient kingdom of Uí Maine in Connacht to the political families of Fall River. Motto: Non metuo.

Patrick John Manion, Honora Carrabine, and 7 children.

Traced through Annie Sullivan into the Long family.

Into French Canada, over 100 ancestors, founding families of New France.

One brother became a Patriot. The other became a Loyalist general.

A Coffin cousin held the barricade at Près-de-Ville.

Abolitionist, women’s rights pioneer, Seneca Falls.

Three marriages, two divorces, and the 1665 petition of Horod Long to the Rhode Island General Assembly.

One of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence; banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1638.