Ancestry of
George Eastman

Founder of Eastman Kodak Company

Thomas Root

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of George Eastman — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 132 
  • Father:
  • (probable) John Root 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mary Russell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1605 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jul 1694 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  Joseph Root

  Jacob Root

  Hezekiah Root (Ahnentafel No:66 )

  Thomas Root

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Roote is believed to be the son of John Roote and Ann Russell of Badby, England.

• Sources for Thomas Root

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 289.
  • ² Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 2, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 953.
  • ³ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 545.
  • ⁴ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 101-103, 309-313.