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 […]
Author Archives: Justin Swanström
American Heraldry Society
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 […]
Interview with Grandma Hazel
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
“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 […]
Last Pagans
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 […]
Gathering the Tribes: Mormons from England
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 […]
The New Science of Epigenetics
“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, […]
