Hello, family --

I've started this blogsite in order to post the results of my research on our Reed-Mayo family history. I want to share this with you as a permanent record for you, your children, and theirs after. 

We Reed-Mayo progeny are in our 11th generation as residents of this "New World," at least one branch of our ancestors arriving in or around the same year as the first Pilgrims on the Mayflower. The Mayo family was closely related through marriage to the Brewster and Bradford families, whose names are prominent in the early New England colony of Massachusetts. William Brewster was a passenger on the Mayflower, and a "Dorothy (May) Bradford" was listed as a passenger--could it be a Mayo?

I'm no genealogist, and my research has not been in great depth, being mostly drawn from records on the site archives.com. If you have your own researched facts to add, feel free to do so.

In fact, I want this site to belong to the entire Reed-Mayo extended family. Please add your own branches to the family tree where marriages have grafted new additions to the Reed-Mayo tree. There's the Herbst branch from Shirley Ann (Reed) Herbst; the Dunnigan branch from Patricia (Dunnigan) Reed; and in my generation, additions of Casebier, Silbey, Enriquez, and others that have joined this family history.

So make it yours! Add your new pages to the PowerPoint I began, and record the branches I have not added. And let's pass the story of Reed, Mayo, Phillippi, Graybill, and Service--and more--on to the next generations and keep the story growing. 

Sharon