What is Known Regarding
Ellen White's Genealogy?
Documented evidence supports the
conclusion that Ellen White's ancestry is of Anglo-Saxon origin. In 1920 Ellen
White's lineage on her father's side was set forth in the publication of The
Harmon Genealogy, by Artemas C. Harmon. Many years later, in the early
1980s, the White Estate contracted with a professional genealogist to specifically
trace Ellen White's lineage on her mother's side-Eunice Gould Harmon. The results
were printed in 1983 in the form of an ancestral
chart reaching back five generations to John Gold, son of Jarvis Gold and
Mary Gold, who came to Massachusetts from Kent County, England, in 1635.
More recently, the White Estate contracted
with another professional genealogist to study in even more detail Ellen White's
direct maternal Gould line. The results of this second study were published
in a report,
completed in 2002. It harmonized with the conclusions of the previous professional
genealogist twenty years earlier, namely, that Ellen White's Gould ancestors
came directly from England to New England in 1635.
Thus, the White Estate's position
that Ellen White's ancestry was of Anglo-Saxon origin is based upon two professional
genealogical studies, plus Artemas C. Harmon's genealogical book.
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