Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each [...]
Ancestry: Contemporary: A Gift of Wonder
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 [...]
Ancestry: Contemporary: Poem: First Flowers
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: Contemporary: Podcast: Reflections on Heritage, Place, People, Reconciliation
Podcast: Heritage, Place, People, Reconciliation In this podcast, Glenda Taylor dives deep into the complex and fascinating history of the area [...]
Ancestry: Surnames: Baker in Virginia 1620–1640
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 [...]
Ancestry: Surnames: William Barker, Early Virginia Mariner and Colonist
William Barker, a mariner, had by 1624 been back and forth between England and America several times. He is referred to as "William Barker, Mariner," [...]
Ancestry: Surnames: Burges In England Prior to American Colonization: Part 1
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 [...]
Ancestry: Surnames: Burges in England Prior to American Colonization, Part 2
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 [...]
Ancestry: Virginia Until 1625: Early English Settlement in Virginia Along Rivers
Earliest English Settlement in Virginia Was Along the Rivers Almost all the early settlement in the Virginia colony was located along one of the many [...]
Ancestry: Governmental Documents: First English Charter for American Colonization1606
10 April 1606 King James I of England chartered two Virginia Companies, headquartered in different cities in England, to establish colonies along the coast [...]
