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Tish Richardson is an historian, genealogist, and author specializing in narrative nonfiction focused on the North American colonial experience. Born in Seville, Spain, she has lived in Texas, Alaska, California, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Mexico. She now makes her home in Miami, Florida. Always fascinated with history and genealogy and frustrated that so many books about historical topics seemed dry and uninteresting, Tish wrote her first manuscript with the idea of making history personal. Her first book, Pilgrims, Puritans, and Heretics: 1620-1700 traces family ancestors from their arrival in North America to the close of the 17th century. As a feminist and a mother, she wrote the manuscript through a broad lens to include every ancestral line possible. This enabled her to access “characters” throughout the ancestral landscape and describe historical events through their eyes and experiences. Along the way, she discovered Pilgrims, Puritans, and heretics, persecuted preachers, martyred disciples, colonial founders, women led astray, willful and ambitious men, hapless soldiers, and misunderstood people of all types.
Tish’s research has been validated by both the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, which approved five lines of Mayflower descent and by the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, which published her article uncovering the identity of a 17th century woman whose name had been lost to history. You can read this article under the "Works" tab. (warning: it’s in research format so somewhat scholarly.)