User talk:Vondaeggleston

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Shared research pages

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--Kopuru 13:17, 24 April 2007 (MDT)

Barclay parker links.ged Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "Barclay parker links.ged" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 19:13, 24 April 2007 (MDT)

Sisson family of Rhode Island [13 August 2007]

--Darne 09:28, 13 August 2007 (EDT)

Sisson family of Rhode Island [13 August 2007]

Hello Vonda (name correct?),

Sorry about sending that blank message. I'll try to make up for that newby mistake here. <g>

I have been doing Sisson genealogy for 30 years. Beginning about 1992, I typed up a database of about 15,000 descendants of Richard and Mary Sisson who settled in Rhode Island by 1650, and about 5,000 descendants of Robert and Amy Sisson, settlers in Virginia also by 1650. That was the kernel of the Sisson site online which went up about 1998. The site is now maintained by my pretty distant cousin, Carol Sisson Regehr, at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/.

The link to Richard and Mary's first page is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/

I have just joined WeRelate and haven't figured out how to edit a person's name. It is all but certain that Richard's wife Mary did not bear the surname Freeman. Research in England leads us to believe that her name was Atkinson.

Quoting from http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/aqwg01.htm --

"SISSON, Richard (1608-1684) & Mary ? (-1692); b 1644; Portsmouth, RI/Dartmouth." Many researches want to see the actual record [of their marriage], but David said that this record tentatively seems to "settle several things" including these issues --

1) We no longer need to wonder about the marriage of "a Richard Sissons of Elmeshall [who] married Mary Atkinson of Heck in the town of Snaith [Yorkshire] February 14, 1632."

That same page tells a pretty complete story of Richard and Mary and their children. Click on links to go from person to person.

Thanks for including Richard and Mary in your WeRelate contributions.

"Darne" David Arne Sisson--Darne 09:43, 13 August 2007 (EDT)