I started this blog to honor my ancestors and to provide an easy-to-access research database for by relatives (close and distant) for their benefit and for the benefit of posterity.  This site deals in all aspects of the personal ancestry of John Edward Robinson, born Aug. 27, 1982, in Charleston, SC, and his forebears, including but not limited to the following pre-Revolution American families:  Booth, Minor/Miner, Treadwell, Davis, Dover, Robinson, Robertson, Johnson, Bizzell, Snipes, Kirkpatrick, Carter, Franklin, Gregory, Calhoun, Colquohoun, Bonneau, DeBordieu, Poitevin, and Brabant families.  The name is taken from the ship Lyon’s Whelp, which brought Thomas Minor to Massachusetts in 1629, and which was presumably named in turn in the passage from Genesis 49:9: “Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?”