One of my first and thrilling discoveries at a life-changing week at New England Historic Genealogical Society’s “Come Home to New England” in 2009 was the discovery that my husband is descended from a notorious counterfeiter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 1600s and early 1700s. (Makes my family look pretty good.) I wrote about my week here and here.
Ultimately the line spawned by the outlaw became the basis of my Board for Certification of Genealogists portfolio’s Kinship Determination Project and was later published in the New Hampshire Record. The family settled down after that but the project remains a favorite because of the variety of materials consulted, the research travel it demanded, and how much I learned.
Here it is (as published in the New Hampshire Record) in 2018:
The Odells of Stratham, New Hampshire: An American Family Takes Root
Family Epic 