Gentlemen, The normal reunion will not be held on the 4th Saturday of May as has been the schedule since 1866. Due to the COVID-19 virus, we are planning to see if we could set it up on the Saturday … Continue reading
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When I was a student at JJ Daniell Junior High in Marietta, GA, my band director Ernest Allen, Jr., often had his friend John Carruth, the band director at East Rome High School, guest conduct us. Ernest and John had … Continue reading
A “Little Ice Age” occurred in Europe from about 1550 to 1850 and, as a result, the Thames River in London froze 23 times between 1408 and 1814. A frozen river provided an opportunity for a carnival or a “Frost … Continue reading
When you were in school, did you ever play the game “Telephone” in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group? … Continue reading
On July 7th, 2015 several Mashburn researchers contacted me and asked me about Melinda Mashburn Siebold. They had received a very bizarre email from her with an attachment of a book she has just published entitled: The Race That Went … Continue reading
In doing genealogical research, one should always check the county history books but one should also be aware of particular issues that these sources have. First, many counties will appoint an official county historian and often this person will, as … Continue reading
In June 2014, Rand Paul made news by demanding that the federal government stop issuing general warrants. But he was not the first person to address this concern. JOHN WILKES John Wilkes was a radical British politician who opposed the … Continue reading
DNA is what it is – it is the genes of your ancestors that are passed down to you. The science CANNOT be denied. However, too many people are jumping on the DNA bandwagon without realizing that things are not … Continue reading
Background Although members of the Mashburn-Marshburn family can now be found in almost every state, the family stems from Edward Mashborne who arrived in southern Virginia/North Carolina around 1698. Edward Mashborne is the second-known schoolmaster in the southeast. He operated … Continue reading
The Boyhood Home of Edward Mashborne Although I tried several times to identify the location of the Whitefriars house where Edward Mashborne (b. 1676 in St Giles-in-the-fields) had grown up, I was unable to do so. Even though I knew … Continue reading
The Connection is Not What You Think Did Edward Mashborne the schoolmaster have something to do with naming Northampton County, NC after his ancestral home of Northamptonshire, England? There is no direct evidence that the Mashbornes that appear in Northamptonshire, … Continue reading
I both love and loathe Ancestry.Com. I love it for having so many primary sources and abstracts at my fingertips but I loathe it for the name collectors that pass data on without any attempt whatsoever to cite a source. … Continue reading