Reflections

                                                                 Menorca Cove Menorcan Journey – Ancestor Jose Joaneda Floyd (Floid) Jo...

         It's 1961 and we had been visiting my grandparents, Florence and Scott Hilligoss in Boneventure Florida located just outside of...

In 1755 there were 12 slaves in the town of Middleboro, MA. Rev. Peter Thatcher owned a slave by the name of Sambo who was imported from Af...

Kathy meets her grandfather for the first time   If she looks angry, she is.  Just as she was asking her grandfather silently in thoug...

It all started in Grant County, Wisconsin, when James read a newspaper story of a 14-year-old boy in a double slaying murdered a man and his...

A brief history: In early times this name was spelt "Locard" or Lokart." Like so many Scottish families, the Locards came f...

In 1934 a child of age seven listens to adults talking, "He's nothing but a horse thief". What does that mean?  Fast forward t...

     Antonia  Chicanowicz, a Polish woman, was born in Vilna, Russia in 1894.   From 1795 to 1918 the area was under the Imperial Russian...

DNA has become the hot topic of conversation these days. You see it advertised on television just about every day where people express being...

  “Necessity is the mother of invention”, meaning, when the need for something becomes imperative.   That quote, author unknown, has guid...