New,,,,,and a Yank

[rogers1228]

Hello,
First time here, writing from Houston,Texas, but I work with quite a few Brits in west Africa, so I may be able to understand your accents,,,,most of the time anyway.
I am on here because I have traced my family tree back 10 generations to a Robert Rogers, born about 1592 in England. His son also named Robert Rogers was born in 1617 in Cheddar Somersetshire England. He emigrated to the USA around 1637 or so, where he and his lineage lived for about 200 years in the far N.E. corner of Massachusets. Then they began moving out to Utah in the 1800's.
If you punch in Ruel Mills Rogers in the search engine then you will see the whole story, (if you are a Rogers and are actually interested, of course)
The trail goes cold at 1592, around the Somersetshire area, (is Somersetshire and Somerset in the same part of the U.K. ?
Thanks for any help,

Samuel R. Rogers

[Geoffers]

Welcome to the British-Genalogy Forums and I hope you can understand the accent I am using the write this reply ?!?!?!?

Somersetshire and Somerset - same place. Modern useage tends towards Somerset; historically you may see it referred to as Somersetshire. There are online maps if you are not familiar with the geography.

As for furthering your research - unless your parishes of interest have surviving registers dating back that far, you'll be looking at sources such as Inquisitions Post Mortem, Licences to Alienate, Probate, Musters, Subsidies, Valuations, etc.

[Bo Peep]

Hello Samuel and welcome to Brit-Gen. We are not picky here as we do take Americans even if they do talk funny!!!

I am delighted you have joined us and hope you will get lots of help with your research.

[Mike_E]

Hi Samuel, |wave|

welcome to the forum. I must say you have a strong accent there, perhaps next time you post, you could write a little slower for us Brits. I'm writing this slow so you can understand me :D

All joking apart, seems like you are already well down the route of researching your Ancestry. Take a little time to have a nose round if you haven't already, and post any questions or queries you have in the relevant forums and I'm sure someone will try and assist you. All in all, a friendly bunch round here, and we don't mind the odd Yank or two, in fact the odder the better.|biggrin|