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St. Gabriels Church, Douglasville PA

In Search of Colonial Ancestors in Delaware and Pennsylvania

May 10th 2021
This is the second blog of a two blog series about searching for our colonial ancestors during a visit to New England and the Mid-Atlantic States. I recommend that you start by reading the first blog at . Before recounting our visits to ancestral sites a little background is necessary. I thought that I would try to follow the various branches of our family tree from the beginnings ... read more
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American Flag Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more
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29th May 2021

Travelling and exploring
Making travels and at the same time having some kind of goal or theme that takes you off the beaten track can be very rewarding. You get to see things and visit places that you normally wouldn't and we find that those places often are just as interesting as the ones you visit by following the recommendations in the guidebooks. Also it was interesting to hear about Old Sweden. One of very few colonies Sweden has ever had. One day we have to go there ourselves to have a look. /Ake
30th May 2021

Swedish colonies...
I hope you do have time to visit New Sweden! I'm so very lucky to have some interesting ancestors who have so many historical connections.

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