Not One Drop of Blood But What Is American
John Adams (1735-1826), President and Patriot, gave the following account of his ancestry: “One of the foreign Ambassadors said to me, You have been often in England. — Never but […]
John Adams (1735-1826), President and Patriot, gave the following account of his ancestry: “One of the foreign Ambassadors said to me, You have been often in England. — Never but […]
Back in 2003 I was one of three founding members of the American Heraldry Society, with David Boven and Cory McHenry. Those were the days. As I recall, the Society […]
The other day on Geni.com someone contacted me about a cassette they found in an old camcorder at a garage sale in Laramie. The tape turned out to be an […]
“Rightful king of England dies”, The Mirror, July 5, 2012. On a slow news day the papers love these little stories. Even when it’s not a slow news day, everyone […]
Interesting new book: The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron This online reviews says, “Cameron’s mission here is to topple once and for all the “myth” of a concerted resistance movement […]
This little BBC piece about Mitt Romney’s Mormon ancestors captures some of the zeitgeist of the lives of many Mormon immigrants from England. Mitt Romney’s English Mormon Roots The Mormons […]
“At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a ‘memory’. That the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, […]