Martin origins

I received an email from Mr Doug Miller from the FrenchHeritage discussion group on the family tree DNA site with an attachment of containing the genealogy of Augustin Martin my third Great Grandfather. With the file, I traced the Martin lineage to about 1630 in Perigeux, Aquitaine, France. I used marriage, baptism and burial records from the Drouin collection on Ancestry.com to verify the generations. Now at last I can at least semi-rival the Pilgrim descent even though my ancestor was born about 10 years after the Separatists landed in Massachusetts! I traced both Stephen's line and his wife's line back at least five generations.

     Now since I traced at least to the immigrant ancestor, the next big project is to trace the family further using French sources.  I received a suggestion from Mrs. Anne Morddel to look at Church records in the Limousin region of France.

Pritchard

This is a family portrait of my Great Grandfather Francis Marion Pritchard and his second wife Emeline Augista Starling. In the back left to right are Arthur Pritchard, Ruben, and Orville. In front, left to right, Mary, Francis Marion Pritchard seated, Edward (held by Grandpa), Wallace, Emma Augista (Starling) Pritchard seated, Eunice Marie Pritchard (my Grandmother).

The picture was taken, I'm guessing around 1921 or 1922. Grandma Emma looks pregnant (their last child Berman Cecil was born in 1923). Francis Marion and Emma were married on 04 Dec 1904 at Salt Creek, Hocking, Ohio (Hocking, Ohio, Book of Marriages, J:56, Pritchard-Starlin, 1904; Hocking County Probate Court, Logan).