Connie Converse has been in the news recently. Here’s some brief biographical information… Elizabeth Eaton (“Connie”) Converse (1924 – ca. 1974) is a direct descendant of Deacon Edward Convers(e), through his son James Convers’ line. She was a talented musician,…
The Malden talk
Link to the YouTube video of the talk: “The Convers(e) Surname from Y-DNA and Medieval Records” by Carolyn A. Converse, presented (remotely) at the Converse Family Reunion, June 24-26, 2022, Malden, Massachusetts. Further details on this can be seen on…
Questions about Deacon Edward Convers
We know a lot about Edward, the head of the first Converse family in America, but there are still some questions about his life in England as well as in New England. To clarify what we think we now know…
Convers or Converse?
As we have discovered, the Converse surname derives from “le convers”, the name for Jews who converted to Christianity in 13th century England. At that time, French was the main language, as it was the language of William I (William…
Other websites are available…
Other Converse family websites and social media: https://conversefamily.com/ – from Peter Converse https://www.facebook.com/groups/Conversefamilymembers/
Converse DNA update
The Y-DNA story so far (2019) has now been published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society … Converse, Carolyn A., Y-DNA Studies of an Early New England Family Indicate Possible Jewish Ancestry, American Ancestry 20 (2): 60-62, 2019 Click…
Hal Whitmore article
The current draft of Hal Whitmore’s article now added… Hal B. Whitmore (2015) The English Ancestry of Deacon Edward Convers and His Nephew, Allen Convers, Great Migration Emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony (March 2015 draft).
Converse site now active
This is the first test post to the new Converse Ancestry page