My dad has always told me that we were related to Elias Howe, even before the Internet and the answer to who invented the sewing machine was just a Google search away. I would tell my friends that Elias Howe invented the sewing machine, they all laughed and said it was Singer. When we went on our class trip to Washington DC there was the proof I think it was the museum of American History, but they had the sewing machine that Elias had invented. My dad had papers with everything including a coat of arms from England. I am told there were Howes that came over on the mayflower and some owned land very early in American History. I live in MN, but I'm told our lineage traces to Boston and then further back to England. Does any one know 'how' I fit in to the tree? Where is everybody from? Does anybody else have any papers, my dad has lost his.

Thanks,
Josh Howe
St. Paul, Mn