The Hanged Man and the Counterfeit Parson
One of my ancestors was hanged in chains at West Point, Virginia, in March 1677, for his part in Bacon’s Rebellion. For a while our
One of my ancestors was hanged in chains at West Point, Virginia, in March 1677, for his part in Bacon’s Rebellion. For a while our
She was a daughter of Goldberry plantation in Essex County, Virginia. She married William Latané of Langlee in 1776, and she is my fifth-great-grandmother. For
The Carpenter line of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Carpenter’s Station, Kentucky, gave two fathers to the Revolutionary War — a Swiss-born elder who died in
My family tree reaches George Soule, who crossed on the Mayflower in 1620. That sentence is the most-searched kind of claim in American genealogy, and
A Hempstead County, Arkansas farmer who went to the Confederate war at twenty-nine, came home, and did not survive the peace. He died in March
She has no birth year, no birthplace, no maiden name, and no gravestone I know of. For most of her life the records of Wilkes
A family tree from Wiltshire, Nérac, Roscommon and Saint-Domingue to Essex County, Virginia — and on to Texarkana, Little Rock, Travis County and the Texas
Ran into this display at Texas Toy Museum. I was unable to explain the appeal of these to my 3rd grader, but when I was
My buddy Joshua Dodds – a songwriter, scholar of prehistory, and now filmmaker – has written and directed a short film about the Cave of
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself” – Carl Sagan “I am the consequence of 3 miracles: the miracle of Life, the
“They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.”
On the fourth of May, 1791, in the church of Notre-Dame de l’Assomption at Les Cayes du Fond, on the southern coast of Saint-Domingue, a