Learning Our Personal Roots/Genealogy

[Will Williams]

A recent article at Counter-Currents.com about the beginnings of White America at the Jamestown, Virginia, English colony prompted me to post what I've learned about my own family's connection to that colony. Below is what I posted to C-C under that article then also posted to "Commenting to the Counter-Currents site" here at WB as I do with all of my C-C comments.

Knowing our genealogies is a good topic for WB, and since this comment about my own will be soon buried at both sites, I'll repost it here as a new topic in Family Matters.

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Morris van de Camp reviews a book that makes the case that America officially began in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, not in 2019 with the so-called 1619 Project: https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/vi ... -was-born/ I got a chance to boast of my own ancestors' early 16th century beginnings. No brag, just fact.


Will Williams: August 1, 2024
The earliest Anglo colony in what is now the United States was in Jamestown, Virginia, which was first settled in 1607. The first colonists of Virginia were young men from prominent families… By 1620, when the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth colony, Virginia had already developed a culture derived from southwestern England… It is from Jamestown that America as we know it today first emerged…

The sub-Saharan-centric view of the 1619 Project is obviously absurd…The 1619 Project is just part of a larger lie….
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Thank you for this, Morris.

The larger lie of which the 1619 Project is part is, like you say, Jew and Negro feel good “history,” no more valid than Juneteenth, Kwanza. or MLK Day.

I am proud of my own family history, for what it is worth. My mother and her sister, my aunt, were always active in the First Families of Virginia, claiming an ancestor among the first English settlers at Jamestown in 1607.

I only learned two years ago, when presented with the family tree of my fraternal line, that ancestor Thomas Savage arrived in Jamestown in January of 1608. “He was adopted as a son by Powhatan, the Indian king, and was the first Englishman to master the Indian language.”

Oddly enough, also listed in the Williams genealogy is Richard Warren, who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and was the 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. I’ve never been to Jamestown but visited Plymouth Rock around 18 years ago and was fascinated by just how small the replica of the Mayflower, docked. there, is. What wild Atlantic crossings those must have been for my courageous English pioneer ancestors to both Jamestown and to Plymouth — those early voyages were 100% White things.

[JohnUbele]

Hello Mr. Williams.

Thank you for creating this thread.

At one time I did try to research some of my own geneaology and I was able to find some interesting things about some of my ancestors, and I was able to get some old US census records from the mid-1800s.

Several years ago I remember coming across a website about the Mayflower ship museum, I think this is the website I had come across:

https://plimoth.org/plan-your-visit/exp ... yflower-ii

I hope people will find the site of interest.

[Will Williams]

From my C-C comment above:

I am proud of my own family history, for what it is worth. My mother and her sister, my aunt, were always active in the First Families of Virginia, claiming an ancestor among the first English settlers at Jamestown in 1607.

I only learned two years ago, when presented with the family tree of my fraternal line, that ancestor Thomas Savage arrived in Jamestown in January of 1608. “He was adopted as a son by Powhatan, the Indian king, and was the first Englishman to master the Indian language.”

Oddly enough, also listed in the Williams genealogy is Richard Warren, who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and was the 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. I’ve never been to Jamestown but visited Plymouth Rock around 18 years ago and was fascinated by just how small the replica of the Mayflower, docked. there, is. What wild Atlantic crossings those must have been for my courageous English pioneer ancestors to both Jamestown and to Plymouth — those early voyages were 100% White things.

The book about the Williams family history that I had lent out has been returned, so I scanned the two images from it of Messrs. Savage and Warren. We all should be so lucky to have our genealogical roots recorded back more than 500 years to our country's founding stock, and in my case to have excellent portraits of a couple of those first settlers.