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I have two budding genealogists in SadieLouWho and ChloeALittleBit. Last year Chloe wrote the following essay as an 8th grader last year and just last week SadieLou handed in a project and will be giving a talk on the family abolitionists. Chloe  Protons 05.21.15 Coming to America: My Tenth-Great Grandfather John Cheney This essay is about the life of my ancestor, John Cheney, who emigrated to America from England in the mid 17th century. John Cheney was my tenth-Great Grandfather. Using several different sources, I researched his journey to America and the life that he built with his family after he arrived.  During the mid-17th century, colonists from England had started setting in the North East of America in large numbers, known as the Great Migration. Between 1630 and 1640 over twenty thousand Puritans made the long and often dangerous journey in search of a new life. Some of them did not like the life in America so they went back to England. The Massachusetts...