I used a word cloud to capture the family names of just some of my many ancestors, who include crofters, farmers, fishers, soldiers, servants, clergy, community leaders, nobles, royalty and the earliest settlers of New England and Nova Scotia. Each has a story to be told. Aside from DNA, my roots go back to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, France, Spain, Belgium and more.
About the Family of Robert Young and Isabella Knox
I wrote about my great grandfather, Robert Alexander Young , here . Now it's time to write about the family he and my great grandmother...
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What's in a name? Or how you spell a name? An ongoing brick wall in my family history research was the many spelling variations of my fa... -
Newcomb is an old English family, possibly with Saxon origin, and with many early spelling variations. The earliest recorded mention in No...
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I'm descended many times from different branches of the wealthy Nevill family, who were at one time the most powerful family in norther...