Author: Ina Lanore Gordon PryorPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Gordon Family Tree and Related Family Branches
Author: Ina Lanore Gordon PryorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alexander Gordon and His Descendants
Author: Publisher: Picton Press
ISBN: 9780897253888
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Alexander Gordon (ca. 1630-1697), a native of Scotland, was captured at the defeat of the Scottish army at the Battle of Worchester, 1651, and deported to New England in 1652 for a period of servitude at Watertown, Massachusetts. He was released from his contract in 1663 and migrated to Exeter, New Hampshire. He married Mary Lysson/Listen there in 1663. They had eight children, 1664-1682. He died at Exeter. Descendants of his sons listed lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, New York and elsewhere.
The Family Tree
Author: Karen BrananPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476717206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn’t just history, this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States, and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan was forced to confront her own deep-rooted beliefs surrounding race and family, a process that came to a head when Branan learned a shocking truth: she is related not only to the sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. Both identities—perpetrator and victim—are her inheritance to bear. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan takes us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause movement set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the twentieth century, delving into the prevalence of mob rule, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the role of miscegenation in an unceasing cycle of bigotry. Through all of this, what emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.
Gordons in Virginia
Author: Armistead Churchill GordonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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"This is a detailed genealogical account of members of the House of Gordon in Virginia, up to the beginning of the 20th century. According to the author, "most of the Virginia families ... had their origins among the Southern Gordons of Galloway and the territory along the Scottish Border. The two notable exceptions are those of Lancaster and of Middlesex and Richmond Counties, who came through Ireland from Morayshire in the North of Scotland to Virginia, and those of Spottsylvania County, who claim an origin in the Highlands of Scotland." The main branches chronicled here are the lines of Colonel James Gordon, of Lancaster County, and his brother, John Gordon, of Middlesex County, descendants of James Gordon, the first, of Sheepbridge, in County Down, son of the Reverend James Gordon, a Scotsman, who went to Ulster in 1641, as Chaplain in Lord Montgomery's regiment. There is a wealth of family history here, with branches of the family throughout Virginia (and beyond)"--Container.
Family Trees
Author: François WeilPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674076370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.
The House of Gordon: Bibliography of Gordon genealogy (cont'd.) Index to lands owned by Lesmoir Gordons. Historiae compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniae familae, Johanne Ferrerio, auctore ... Ed. by Rev. Stephen Ree. Origo et progressus familiae Gordoniorum de Huntley ... auctore Roberto Gordonio ... Ed. by Rev. Stephen Ree.Tables compyled and collected together by ... Sir Robert Gordon, knight ... continued by Maister Robert Gordon his sone, 1659. Ed. by the Rev. J.M. Joass. Lesmoir, By Captain Douglas Wimberley. Cadets of Lesmoir. By Captain Wimberley and the editor. Gordon ballads. Ed. by the Rev. Stephen Ree
Author: John Malcolm BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families
Author: Howard L. LeckeyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806350970
Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Reprint, with additional material, of the 1950 ed. published in 7 v. by the Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pa., and in this format in Knightstown, Ind., by Bookmark in 1977.
The House of Gordon: Bibliography of Gordon genealogy (cont'd.) Index to lands owned by Lesmoir Gordons. Historiae compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniae familiae, Johanne Ferrerio, auctore ... Ed. by Rev. Stephen Ree. Origo et progressus familiae Gordoniorum de Huntley ... auctore Roberto Gordonio ... Ed. by Rev. Stephen Ree. Tables compyled and collected together by ... Sir Robert Gordon, knight ... continued by Maister Robert Gordon his sone, 1659. Ed. by the Rev. J.M. Joass. Lesmoir, By Captain Douglas Wimberley. Cadets of Lesmoir. By Captain Wimberley and the editor. Gordon ballads. Ed. by the Rev. Stephen Ree
Author: John Malcolm BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Out of Left Field
Author: Ellen KlagesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425288609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out to prove that she's not the only girl who plays baseball. With the help of friendly librarians and some tenacious research skills, Katy discovers the forgotten history of female ball players. Why does no one know about them? Where are they now? And how can one ten-year-old change people’s minds about what girls can do? Set in 1957—the world of Sputnik and Leave It to Beaver, saddle shoes and "Heartbreak Hotel"—Out of Left Field is both a detailed picture of a fascinating historic period and a timelessly inspiring story about standing up for equality at any age.
Scotland's Families and the Edinburgh Goldsmiths
Author: Rodney DietertPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615260268
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book provides Scottish genealogical information for families connected to the freemen Edinburgh goldsmiths. Entries span a period of more than 500 yrs from c. 1490 to the present and are organized into a series of 214 family trees. Significant ancestral locales are displayed in maps, diagrams and photos. Indexes of goldsmiths are provided by surname, chronology of freedom dates and family tree.