The First Business: Massachusett Bay Colony

Lately, I’ve joked with family members, and my mother, that “hey, Mom’s a Viking”. We researched her family in Suffolk, England (the Holdens or Houldens) and learned that, like many of the English in that region, she likely had Danish or Scandanavian blood. But with the English, like Americans, who the hell knows what you are getting? Celts, Romans, Saxons, Scandanavians and the French have all had a part in forming the language and bloodlines alike. But my mother is part of something, and something very American which she kept from us for years–likely because, ironically, she has too much class to ever talk about class, and because like many Americans, she thinks that geneology and a qurter will buy you a Coke. (I don’t–I think very little is cultural and that tribal DNA stuff–good and bad–stays with families for centuries(< The ancestors of many American families which made the trip from East Anglia