A family history · est. 1482
How We
Got Here
The Paulson Family
From a hillside farm in Norway and the deck of the Mayflower, through colonial New England and the Midwest, to a foreman’s house in Flint, Michigan — the people whose lives, marriages, and migrations end at one man, and at us.
Where the lines converge
Donald Howard Paulson
This record was assembled looking backward from Donald Howard. Every branch you can follow here — Norwegian emigrants, Mayflower passengers, English tailors and yeomen, Iowa schoolteachers — flows down to him: a Marine in the Third Division, a Michigan State graduate who built a management-consulting firm of national note.
His four grandparents open four distinct ancestral lines. Trace any one of them back as far as the paper goes.
His full record →The four ancestral lines
Choose a thread to follow
The original report is built as four ancestor charts — one for each of Donald’s grandparents. Each runs back through the generations until the records run out.
The Family Tree
Explore the whole lineage as a living chart — recenter on anyone, climb the generations.
Our History
Read the whole story, generation by generation — the migrations, the moves, and the people who carried the line.
The Original Pages
Every fact here is drawn from a 1990s genealogy report. Read the original scans yourself.