Norman Rockwell’s “Family Tree”
Many colorful characters are perched on Family Tree, the famous Norman Rockwell painting depicting an American family’s descent from a pirate and a Spanish princess. […]
Month: December 2020
Monkeyfield? Reading Old Handwriting is Essential
The late genealogist Julia Case told of errors she encountered reading a key reference in Virginia genealogy, Nell Marion Nugent’s Cavaliers and Pioneers. In Volume […]
She Did Him Wrong—Or Not
“Scarcity breeds demand and women were scare in early America,” wrote Myra Vanderpool Gormley in Colonial Love and Marriage. “In a rich new world, marriageable […]