Month: March 2023

GEN. WINCHESTER, PATRIOT & PIONEER! CRAGFONT HISTORY!

By Family Tree Nuts / 03/22/2023 / Comments Off on GEN. WINCHESTER, PATRIOT & PIONEER! CRAGFONT HISTORY!

Serving in the Maryland Line during the American Revolution, he soon moved West to claim new land given for his service in the Continental Army. General James Winchester, military commander, entrepreneur, pioneer, Indian fighter and later, founder of the city of Memphis.  Cragfont Mansion, in Castalian Springs Tennessee, is the frontier home of General James…

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NO! You are NOT Irish! History of a big myth in genealogy!

By Family Tree Nuts / 03/17/2023 / Comments Off on NO! You are NOT Irish! History of a big myth in genealogy!

NO! You are NOT Irish! You aren’t a child of Erin, you don’t have the “Luck of the Irish”, and you can’t blame that temper of yours on Irish roots. When Americans are asked what their ethnicity is, millions of us list Irish first. Why is that? Where did this misconception come from? So, if…

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