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A living family archive
Four centuries,
one continuous story.
From a first-generation Plymouth colonist to photographers, inventors, and the present day—explore Ian Pratt’s family line with the evidence kept in view.
1623
PLYMOUTH COLONY
“The defensible beginning of the American Pratt story.”
13 direct generations403 years in America2 Mayflower lines
The family tree
Follow the line backward
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Present dayPlymouth, 1623
probable bridge
Maternal lines entering the direct Pratt descent
MyHeritage import · research review
607 people examined.
Claims separated from evidence.
The September 2023 tree contains 149 families and 178 people shown as Ian’s direct ancestors. It is a valuable map of leads, but most imported citations are other collaborative or personal family trees—not independent records.
The imported route continues from Mary Burdick through Paul Stanton Burdick, the Hubbards, and a proposed Tyndale pedigree. The GEDCOM cites FamilySearch and other personal trees, while its later generations contain impossible dates.
These people are research leads, not accepted ancestors.The file proposes Ian → Mary Burdick → Hubbard → Tyndale → Scandinavian rulers → Bjorn Ironside → Ragnar. The chain contains parents younger than their children and births after parents’ deaths; Ragnar himself belongs principally to late legendary traditions.
Preserved as a hypothesis · deliberately excluded from the validated treeCurrent audit result0 medieval links promoted 40 chronological conflicts flagged 52 imported source groups assessed
The American journey
A family moving with the frontier
Across four centuries, the family’s geography traces a distinctly American arc—from Plymouth’s first generation through Connecticut and central New York to the emerging city of Aurora.
- 1623Plymouth, MassachusettsJoshua Pratt enters the colony’s civic life
- 1700sPomfret, ConnecticutThe family moves inland
- 1790sTruxton & Homer, New YorkJoshua and David settle central New York
- 1840sAurora, IllinoisDeWitt begins a half-century in photography
- 1900sNorwalk, ConnecticutVerneur builds and invents