A family scandal -- or was it?
After all the wonderful connections I found on Sharon's side of the family with famous incidents in English history, I decided it was time to jump to my side of the tree and see if I could come up with some illustrious person or persons I could talk about. As I've mentioned before, the most fruitful source of stories on my side has been through the lineage of my third great-grandmother, Orpha Morse, my grandmother's great-grandmother. I have links to English peerage through her and have occasionally found the odd good story. For this post I started tracing back through a previously unexplored ancestral line, failing to find any interesting stories until I hit upon my 10th great-grandfather William Mead. I seem to be temporarily stuck on 10th great-grandfathers. Not much information exists about William. The notes attached to his record state that several genealogists have invested some effort into discovering the details of William's life, only to come up short. One