The Big Picture
Interactive tools and overviews
Cape Cod & The Islands
Falmouth, Nantucket, and the founding families
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.
The eleven families who purchased the island in 1659.
Tristram Coffin’s American story — 1609 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.
Fall River & New Bedford
The Winter, Wall, and Long families
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.
The Mayflower
Plymouth, 1620
Dad's Irish Lines
From Connacht to Fall River
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.
Dad's French-Canadian Lines
Founding families of New France
Active Research
Cincinnati leads and ongoing investigations
Notable Stories
Deeper dives into remarkable ancestors
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.
Knights, lords, and advisors to monarchs.
The disputed Wampanoag connection.