Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: First Thanksgiving

Question

Next week, the featured example profiles in the Connection Finder will be US Thanksgiving themed. Massasoit, who attended the notable first gathering, will be our featured profile.

We're looking for profiles of people who attended the event. Here are a few ideas of what we're looking for and some we're getting started on:

• Edward Winslow
• William Bradford
• Elinor Billington (needs a likeness of some kind)

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eight per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2020 Example Profile Plans post here.

Comments

Thank you, Abby, for the head's up. Currently, the profile is a series of copy/pastes from other sources. It could really benefit from a rewrite into an originally-written narrative, appropriately cited.

Another piece of work that needs to be done is to confirm the descendants.

This may lead to disqualifying him for featured profile in the connection finder because it may not be possible for "ancient" Native Americans such as this one to be connected to the one tree.

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Thank you, Jillaine. We'd definitely prefer accurate over anything else. If it disconnects, let me know asap. There are plenty of Mayflower passengers who would qualify, though we'd like a different angle this year.

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Interesting... doing some digging (I see Kathie Forbes is helping clean up the profile; thanks, Kathie...)

A more interesting profile to highlight might be that of Massasoit's descendant Zerviah Mitchell who was one of the first Native Americans (and a woman to boot) to attend college; she petitioned (unsuccessfully) Massachusetts to compensate her family/tribe for wood they had chopped down from Native lands... Take a look:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gould-3634

(I looked her up because she was the author of the source used on Massasoit's page...)

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All this to say-- it does appear likely this family line will connect to the Tree.

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Well, that's  relief. That said, I will put her on a future list, though. She does have a great story and profile. Thanks, Jillaine!

Answer 1

Tisquantum, if he has a profile, would be a very interesting candidate.
If you include John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, you may find quite a few more people who can connect to the theme, as they have many, many descendants.
Have you considered artist or poets (Longfellow) who have depicted the first "Thanksgiving"? To be honest, though, many of the depictions, especially the visual ones, tend to have racist overtones.