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Where did the Pratts and Ingrahams come from?

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It really amazes me to think about all of the events that had to take place in order for you and I to be alive today. I mean, the probability that all of the events needed in order for the people in the tree above me to meet and have babies is so miniscule that is blows my mind.  I cannot mathematically process this. So it got me to wonder how all of our ancestors met and where each branch came from.  I'm still going down many rabbit holes but one thing stuck out to me in particular. The story I remember being passed down to me is that my grandparents, Albert Pratt and Enga Ingraham, met in Nebraska while my grandfather was working as a telephone pole lineman.  Albert was from Ohio, but Enga was born in Colorado and moved to Nebraska at a young age.  Their marriage certificate says they were married in Iowa. So where did the two branches come from in order for them to meet in Nebraska? Well, surprisingly enough their families came from the same place, at least once they got to Amer
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The Path to Charlemagne

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 In the last post I included a picture from a book from the Alabama Department of Archives and History: This is an important document as it shows the link from the Cary branch of the Pratt Family Tree up to some very important figures in European history.  I believe the link up the McCullough branch to John Cary who married Elizabeth Godfrey in Massachusetts is accurate based on all of the documents I've seen on Ancestry, and I went through each name on this document and was able to verify the details through various sites such as Find a Grave and Wikipedia.  So I believe this document to be historically accurate. As you can see at the top of the document, the line goes all the way up past Charlemagne to Pepin I . Now of course, millions of people today can trace their lineage to Charlemagne.  He's not called "The Father of Europe" for nothing! Yes, he did unite Western Europe. He is said to have fathered " eighteen children with seven of his ten known wives or
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Beginning of the Pratt Family story

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 My father had done some extensive research into the Pratt Family Tree many years (decades) ago.  I remember him telling stories of how we were related to Charlemagne, and how excited he was about that.  After he passed away, my sister continued his research on Ancestry.  I hadn't thought about it much until recently when I took a DNA test on Ancestry and bought a membership to read about all the interesting people my father and sister had talked about all those years ago. As I've been going up and down the family tree I have run into some very interesting people and stories, and as I've shared them with my siblings I thought it might be a good idea to write some of this down somewhere other than Ancestry, so that other family members can learn about our rich history. There is a wealth of information on Ancestry, so I'll begin with one branch of the tree that I found to be particularly interesting as it points to Scottish and English royalty. This branch starts on the P
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