Wild Iris and Other Blooming Memories
Here are pictures of some of the flowers I mentioned in today's podcast "Seventy Four Years Ago." Louisiana Iris, photo by Glenda Taylor, Earthsprings [...]
Here are pictures of some of the flowers I mentioned in today's podcast "Seventy Four Years Ago." Louisiana Iris, photo by Glenda Taylor, Earthsprings [...]
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, [...]
Ancestry, Baker Surname in Virginia 1620-1640 Note that this information refers to Baker, not Barker; see Barker in another post on this website. 1609 [...]
Stockstill/ Stockdell/Stocksdale/Stockden/Stockton in Virginia 1623-1640 Research by Glenda Taylor The pronunciation of this name undoubtedly was the cause of so many variations in spelling in [...]
Today is my grandson Jacob’s birthday, and I am pondering some of the ways he has taught me about the mysterious miracles of life. I [...]
At the end of the previous segment of this manuscript, as is usual when making genealogical connections, we leaped ahead of ourselves to bring in [...]
Burges in England prior to colonization in the Americas. Burges in England prior to North American colonization include knights, barons, land holders, ordinary husbandmen, distinguished [...]
Burge, Burges, Burgess, Burgh, Burgeis, Burgis, Burgeys Burges (by any of these names) were among the earliest arrivals in the American colonies. (Spelling in the colonial [...]
On the Fourth of July, I often think of Thomas Jefferson, who is an example of the complexity of human nature if ever there was [...]
Warrosquyoake Shire (later Isle of Wight) one of Original Virginia Eight Shires The first permanent English colony in Virginia was established at Jamestown in [...]