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Finding Charlotte is a work many years in the making which takes us on a remarkable journey through oral traditions, church records, legal documents and DNA verification. It accesses archives from the Bahamas, the United States and the United Kingdom to piece together and provide a comprehensive proof of Charlotte Cooper’s identity and the families descended from her. These pages bring new life to Charlotte and her descendants. Part I contains the proof argument identifying Charlotte Cooper and Part II is a narrative spanning six generations of her descendants in the Bahamas and the United States. This work is an example of the Genealogical Proof Standard at work with forewords from Dr. ...

Gravestone Secrets "How To Clean and Preserve Your Memorial" includes both background information and details on how to clean and preserve various types of memorials. The book is a tool to educate owners on what they need to care for their stones and markers. It also includes some entertainment through the Stories found in Part 3 of this book. The book hopes to provide readers with education which remains the greatest challenge for the survival of the memorials. The Author researched and found various reasons why memorials are unkept or not cleaned properly. Two main reasons surfaced. Humans and mother nature destroy memorials. Aside from nature, there are usually good reasons why headst ...

A substantive record of the ancestry of the Owens families of the northern neck of Virginia, from A.D. 1960 to 1178 B.C., starting with Eustace Conway Owens, then following his lineage back to Brutus Silvius, the founder and first King of Britain. The first paragraph of each chapter contains the subject’s name, other names they were known by, titles, monikers, ranks, and basic personal data when available, i.e., date of birth, place of birth, christening or baptism, date of death, place of death, date of burial, and place of burial. The story or narrative of each person begins with the second paragraph. This usually starts with information regarding the subject’s place of birth or marria ...

This is a substantive record of the ancestry of the Owens families of the northern neck of Virginia, A.D. 1960 to 1178 B.C. The first few chapters are specific to my family tree, starting with Eustace Conway Owens, and following his lineage back to Brutus Silvius, the founder and first King of Britain. However, if your last name is Owens or you have an Owens, Owain, Owen, Jones, Via, Flory, Diehl, Powell, Lewis, Tanner, Tudor, Ludlow, Morris, Merrick, or Meyrick in your family tree, our bloodlines may cross somewhere in this history. Each chapter is representative of a generation. Some Chapters include copies of documents, pictures, or photographs. Historians and scholars still argue tod ...

The Legend of Guinea Jim will be another proud addition to all Gibson libraries. It is likely the first time a comprehensive study was done to positively identify the elusive Guinea Jim. Family traditions are analyzed and correlated with existing documentary sources to reveal the Gibson patriarch. The sources range from registers of birth to DNA and will shed light on questions like: • How are we related to Guinea Jim • Who is the Scotch Planter of Land of the Pink Pearl • What is our connection to Guinea, West Africa • Was there ever slavery in the Savannah Sound Gibson family