{"id":7788,"date":"2016-02-09T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:47:04","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-washingtons-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-washingtons-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives & Special Collections: Washington\u2019s Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"archive-1\"<\/a>Every now and then, you stumble across an interesting title, which leads to an interesting book, which leads to even more interesting discoveries. While I was looking for some other books for research, I saw the title \u201cMaternal Ancestry\u201d and the word \u201cWashington\u201d attached to it. The first thing I thought of was not our first president, however, but the state. Curious as to how a state might have a maternal ancestry, I pulled out the book to realize my mistake (it was early). Titled \u201cThe Maternal Ancestry and nearest kin of Washington. A monograph<\/a>,\u201d this book was published in 1885 by George Washington Ball.<\/p>\n

Many old family trees focused on paternal ancestry, but with someone as popular as Washington, it wouldn\u2019t have been unusual for a maternal ancestry as well. However, this book comes with a bunch of notes! Not only did the owner underline many names, and add a bunch of footnotes in the margins, doubtless to do more research or to indicate that they knew of this person, they actually added on to the fold-out family tree and corrected some of the names.<\/p>\n

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The Archives & Special Collections<\/a> is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.<\/p>\n

By Morgan Ford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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