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Author: durhamrw
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Thank you for your response. My great grandmother, Annie Francis Kennedy, took great delight in claiming to be a descendant of Betsy Ross. She was a member of the DAR and like your grandmother was a woman of great integrity and would have nothing to gain by claiming something that wasn't true. I have made a couple of attempts to locate the direct line through the DAR and they were less than helpful and quick to let me know that many people "falsely claimed" ( I believe were the words) to be descendants of Betsy Ross. I have been unable to link directly to Betsy Ross although I did find a connection through a Major William Kennedy that served during the American Revolution. I wish I knew how to help you with your search but I am quite frankly at a stand still with it. As you can see by other posts, several are trying to help but I also am unable to connect the dots. Please let me know if find anything. Rick Durham
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Author: mkrug195
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I hope this note finds all well with you and that you are still actively seeking to learn what you can about any possible family ancestry connection to Elizabeth Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole. My paternal grandmother, Alice Victoria Smith was born in Shirley Indiana in 1907. She married Joseph Raymond Krug in about 1927. She always claimed that our family (on her side) was related to Betsy Ross. There have been several individuals in our family given the middle name of Ross based upon this belief. However, I, like you, have reached a point where I would like to learn what I am able regarding this tale. My grandmother was not known to be one to tell tales for the sake of it. Thus, I have to believe she had been told this from her childhood from others. How do I begin to attempt to connect the dots, assuming there are any dots to be connected? I have read your reader's notes and recognize no names or see no Indiana connections. I do notice one family passed through !
Indiana to Iowa. There had been a story of our family moving west and getting as far west as Iowa, and turning back and settling in Indiana. What do you suggest?
Would you e-mail me directly at mkrug(a)aii.edu as I am not a "blog-watcher" and only found your site by Googling?
Thanks and all the Betsy to you!
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