Annie Blanchard

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Biography

Annie Blanchard was born in El Paso Texas, where she lived for a whole month before moving on. Her dad was in the Air Force and the family moved a lot for the first years of her life. When he left the Air Force as a Captain when she was eight, he became a helicopter tech rep for Sikorsky - the family still traveled. As a child, Annie lived in many US states, plus Okinawa and Germany. She's traveled often as an adult to Istanbul and England, where one of her sons, a grandson and a Turkish born daughter-in-laws reside.

Annie's led an interesting life. Ever since she was a small child, her passion was reading. She was fortunate enough to work for many years as a bookstore manager, and then as a book accessories sales rep and eventually a vice-president for Antioch Publishing Company, allowing her to travel and call on major customers all over the US and in Canada. Her degree from Antioch was in management, but her retirement years have been spent creating and designing items of interest for booklovers.

Annie was born a Unitarian, but became a Quaker by choice, only to discover through genealogy research that she has returned to her Quaker roots.

She has three wonderful sons, two beautiful daughter-in-laws, and four grandchildren. She's helping them get their DNA tests done, and arranged for her mother to have DNA testing at the age of 88.

After retiring, she opened a small business, A Friendly Spirit, which she ran for 15 years. She recently has retired from her semi-retirement, and has been spending her time learning about genealogy and is active in her local Friends meeting when she's not out protesting social justice concerns.

She's currently researching the 65% Scotland ethnicity Ancestry tells her she has, over half on her father's side (MacQuarrie-Mcquarry, Murray, Cameron - all who emigrated to Nova Scotia in the late 1700's, early 1800's); a bit under half on her mother's side, mostly Laidley-Laidlaw.

She's currently reading "Scotland; A history from the Earliest Times" by Allistair Moffet in preparation for joining the Tartan Project on WikiTree and for her first and last trip to Scotland to celebrate her upcoming 75th year on earth.

Moberly/Street/Gladding roots in Belmont Ohio and trying to contribute to the considerable work her sister has done to the family tree their mother gave them, and in tracing their father's line back to the Mayflower. We have 14 Mayflower Passenger ancestors in our line.

Annie Blanchard is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger William Bradford.

Research

For Mayflower Ancestors, research done through several books of the Mayflower Families of Five Generations. Our line from Priscilla and John Alden has been proven through the Mayflower Society. This documentation, along with use of several of the Mayflower Familes of Five Generation Books, plus documentation from Duxbury, Massachusetts, has led to the other Mayflower ancestors. As my great aunt said many times, we don't need to pay for proof. Stories of family lineage were passed down for generations and until WWII, the family had remained in Plymouth County since the Mayflower settled in Plymouth

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Annie Blanchard

Annie was a Friend (Quaker)