BrokenClaw | October 28, 2005
Early on in my genealogy research, I had found a set of our great-great-grandparents, John E. Mark and Dolly Snoke. The burials at Steelstown showed that John had been married previously to a woman named Mary, who died in 1865. When I researched the 1860 census, I discovered that John and Mary had a daughter, [...]
BrokenClaw | October 10, 2005
Anyone who has ever played poker knows that the Straight Flush is the highest possible hand because it is the most rare: five cards in rank order (a straight) of all the same suit (a flush). And the highest possible straight flush is called a Royal Flush: a Ten, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of [...]
BrokenClaw | October 7, 2005
My article about the aboriginal Susquehannock tribe was reprinted in the Summer 2005 edition of Cecil Soil magazine, a local magazine for and about Cecil County, Maryland. Our Christmas Carols page consistently gets the most attention on and off the Web. It was included in the November, 2002, issue of Family Fun magazine, in the [...]