“Family faces are magic mirrors … we see the past, present and future.”
I was visiting a lovely Virginia home last week and espied this sepia portrait collection arranged upon a wall next to their staircase. So I made a poster with my portrait of their “genealogy wall.”
Genealogy, Via, Viar, Vier, ViahAugust 16, 2008 8:32 am
AT&T Natural Voices can be a good resource to determine pronunciation of names by various voices. I tested the family surname VIA - VIAR. I was suprised that every one of the native English speakers pronounced it the same way, just as my family had done long ago. Give it a try: AT&T Natural Voices.
GenealogyAugust 12, 2008 9:31 am
In Temple Square at Salt Lake City, Utah is a monument that reads “The names of the pioneers who arrived in this valley, 24 July 1847.” There were 148 pioneer founders of Utah: 143 men, three women and two children. The first name of the 148 is “Brigham YOUNG.” In the next to the last column of the monument’s names is “Lewis BARNEY,” brother of my husband’s Utah pioneer ancestor who arrived later to the Utah Territories. Included were three “colored servants” - “Green FLAKE, Hark LAY, and Oscar CROSBY.”
Genealogy, Peyton, Prince William County, Spotsylvania County, Stafford County, British Isles, Virginia, books, Westmoreland County, Fredericksburg City, researchAugust 8, 2008 5:14 pm
PEYTON, of England and Virginia
Reverend Horace Edwin HAYDEN, continues to be the leading genealogist of the PEYTON family of Virginia. His celebrated book, “Virginia Genealogies,” published in 1891, included a chapter on the PEYTON family: “PEYTON, ‘of Iselham,’ Cambridgeshire, England, Gloucester, and Westmoreland Counties, Virginia.” The author closely followed the English PEYTON lines in the 1878 book “Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley,” by Robert E. Chester WATERS.
One hundred seventeen years ago, when Reverend HAYDEN published the lineage and history of the PEYTON family of Virginia, his work was the most comprehensive and accurate in data, scope and material ever received. Since then, his extensive “Peyton” chapter in “Virginia Genealogies” has formed the basis of all succeeding published genealogies of the Peyton family. This scanned reprint will be a welcome and necessary resource for those studying the PEYTON family of Virginia. His acclaimed essay “Descent” is included.
Photograph from Flickr.
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