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Conversation on America’s Black urban family, its functionality, and continued struggle to find purpose within the daily taunt of institutionalized racist systems. All that seems to provide much of the devastation that plagues Black existence as a community. Whereby the challenge for equality, wealth, and education has created a real conflict for black value and acceptance into mainstream white America. In this lies the “Wooden Nickel” for which we shall explore and diagnose to help bring a new focus towards being a Black American in this nation.

This is the story of Thomas and Susan Warner, and their known descendants through 2023.

Dr. Leland held Senior Leadership positions in many National and International Organizations. This book contains many of his Biographies and Accomplishments as published by several Orders and Organizations. Examples are Dr. Leland as President of the American Friends of the British Game Conservancy, as Governor General of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, as Trustee of the Dorchester Free School Board and as Knight Grand Officer and Grand Prior of the International Order of Saint Hubertus, among many others.

THROUGH THE AGES: MY FAMILY HISTORY begins with the story of my ancestors and the challenges and hardships they experienced over the years as they created a new life in a new land. Their struggles and determination led the way for me and my generation. The story goes on to describe my life as an Iowa farm girl, a wife and mother, a nurse. and finally a retiree. It deals with the unbelievable number of changes that have occurred during my lifetime from journeys across the country in covered wagons to international travel by air. My hope is that this book might provide one block in the foundation for future of the generations in my family.

Volume I of The Ancestors of Hilda Bridget Cotter Kohl covers the paternal line of Hilda. They immigrated in the 1800s, leaving Ireland and England to forge new beginnings. Most were agriculturalists who farmed the land and provided for their families. They left hundreds of descendants, but none as important to us as Hilda Bridget Cotter Kohl.

'WE'RE NOT CRAZY, WE'RE IRISH' is a riveting and true story about three generations of the author's maternal Irish-American extended family, beginning with a young teenage elopement in the year 1902 and continuing throughout the Twentieth Century. Seasoned with a generous amount of Irish wit and vintage photos of the actual characters and eras portrayed, it provides a firsthand look into the complex world of evolving Irish-American family relations and social standings as they begin to further distance themselves from their 'Old World' legacies. With ample doses of triumph and tragedy, laughter and lament and cautionary tales, the reader will be taken on a fast-paced and dizzying ride th ...

Revision 1, 2022. Family history of the author whose parents came from Jefferson County, IL. This volume traces the Whisenhunt and Huckleberry ancestors back in time through Southern Illinois, back to early colonial days and even into the 1700s an earlier in southern Germany and Switzerland. Other surnames as they apply to the family tree include Boster, Smith, Hutchison, Vernon, and more. Interesting figures from the past include William Huckleberry, who killed two men, and Squire Whisenhunt, the earliest Whisenhunt (along with his possible brother Uriah) to come to Jefferson County, IL. Much information is presented about Squire Whisenhunt including his marriages, children out of wedlo ...

Family history of the author whose parents came from Jefferson County, IL. This volume traces the Etheridge and Jamerson ancestors back in time through Southern Illinois and the counties of Edwards, White, and Wayne, back to early colonial days and the Etheridge, Dixon, Shaw, and Hodgson lines back to those born in England. Other surnames as they apply to the family tree include Jameson, Maulding, Bond, Hassell, and more. Interesting figures from the past include Ambrose Maulding, Wilburn Bond, William Jameson (Jr and Sr), and Lt Col John Jameson. The ancestral line from the Jamersons of Jefferson County to three original Mayflower Pilgrims is also documented. Other ancillary information ...

Coalinga, California, began in 1889 as a supply center for a coal mine and became a boom town when oil was discovered nearby in 1896. Seemingly overnight the oil district attracted wildcatters who explored and proved the field making it by 1910 the largest producing oil field in California. As the supply center for this district Coalinga's population soared from a couple of hundred in 1900 to over 6,000 in 1910 making it the second largest city in Fresno County. | One consequence of this explosive growth was the desire of some residents to separate those who worked in the oil fields from their hard-earned money, so Coalinga attracted liquor dealers, gamblers, and fallen women. Those who ...

Family history of author's father Kenneth Patterson (1918-1990) who was born in Springfield, MO. This book traces the Patterson and Smith ancestors back to colonial days and earlier in Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, England and France. The book discusses persons with other surnames who intermarried with the Patterson and Smith, including Graham, Kobel, Brechin, Stalcop, Cook, Mauser, Maxey, Nelson, Allen, Martiau and Armistead. Remarkable ancestors featured include Edward Patterson Cook who joined the California gold rush, narrowly escaped a murder plot and chronicled his return home with port stops in Acapulco and Panama. The frontiersman Jesse Maxey served in the Revolutionary ...