Researching for writing can be amazingly eye-opening and rewarding!

Researching for writing a historical novel can be amazingly eye-opening and rewarding!
It can also be a little scary as we see the devastation that happens in a society that forgets its history!
There are also far more ancient records preserved than we generally believe. Yes, many records have been lost through enemy invasions, fires, humid conditions, and neglect; and yet, the Church has seen the need to preserve these documents as God told His people from the beginning to record all His wonders, and everything that happens to His people is at least a reflection of His wonders!

The first book, Lord willing, will be the beginning of a series telling what led up to the founding of our nation through the lives of several generations of one true life family, from the rise of the Puritans through to, at least, the founding of our government.  There is true to life intrigue, spies, conspiracy, kings, international hostilities, murder...and that before anything fictional added to tell the unknowns of the stories!
This is a story that will touch most of it's readers because most people in America have some blood of our nation's 1600's Forefathers running through their veins, at least by marriage, somewhere in their family history; and most everyone in the United States can trace their family through census, historical societies, city records, biographical albums of the 1800's, real estate records, and many more resources that have been preserved.

Dull names, dates, and places? No way! These are stories of those who made us who we are today! There are stories of God's intervention into people's lives; stories of courageous men and women who built full societies, very often, from nothing but bare ground and a few supplies they gathered or brought with them to virgin ground! True stories of hardships overcome by prayer, ingenuity, and hard work! True stories that have come down through our families and wondered how much truth there are in these stories!
The research, from ORIGINAL records, is as surprising and rewarding as the story itself, and I wanted to share that with you! This research comes out of hundreds of hours of looking through records and archaeology, being very sure of legitimate documentation!