Ancestry: Contemporary: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chippoakes Creek, Lawnes Creek, and the Blackwater River, Virginia Since many of my relatives settled in this area in the early 1600’s, I have [...]
My stepfather might as well have been Amish, if you consider how he lived. Of course, he wouldn’t have known what Amish meant, probably. He [...]
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each [...]
Over many years, Glenda Taylor’s interest in history and her family’s place in it has resulted in a vast accumulation of information that is being [...]