Just in case it is of any help to those trying to connect themselves with any Beddow/ows/oe/oes/owes families (mostly originating from Shropshire), there is now a Beddows/oes/ow/oe DNA project that can be joined via:
https://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=E70753&special=true
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Link to Beddow Family Tree
Rob McAuliffe, the operator of the Beddow Family Tree web page, has kindly consented to hook us up! We are descended from Nathaniel Beddow, the brother who remained in Vriginia when the others moved to Ohio....I think. I need to confirm this. Y'all feel free too. Contrary to popular opinion, I do not actually know it all. (just most of it) : )
Here is his email with instructions. Wonder how he found our blog?
Here is his email with instructions. Wonder how he found our blog?
Barb,
On the home page there is a place to login, go ahead and create a new account and I’ll give you the rights for livings and downloading….
I was very moved by your blog. Your use of words had me scurrying to the dictionary (ok, I googled it) LOL Anyway very impressive and I went ahead and plugged in some of the data and connected the dots… but if I were a betting man I’d say it was correct. I am amazed by the use of Marshalls in and out of different families.
In my quest for Beddows years ago, I was in your neighborhood and became a lifetime member of some village in the Shenadoah vally where Thomas and William lived before they took off for Ohio, guess Nathaniel stuck around though.
Anyway, hope it helps.
Rob
Friday, November 19, 2010
small monuments
If anyone in the family happens to travel to Stanardsville, we could use some photos of the Lawson cemetery. I have found none in the national cemetery web pages. Our family has a special inheritance, unusual within the panorama of American history: not the least of which is the hauntingly beautiful antebellum Lawson cemetery with its breathtaking views of the mountains, and the authentic homestead nearby---all of which could be altered or disappear entirely within the next generation.
In her last days, the early days of the new millennium, Grandma Carrie wanted above all to join her bones to those of her mother, her people, her land, Virginia, at the foot of the ancient blue ridge of mountains. Having been there, having listened to her stories, I can see why. A centenarian, she had the length and breadth of vision that few can achieve, the wisdom of over a century, and a very gentle and loving heart.
Grandma wanted very much to preserve and pass on her heritage to whomever would take the time and interest to listen and to take action. Confined by her circumstances in life, and later by economics and the limitations of her body, her mind was still active and seeking, always reaching, to pass on what she learned, what she experienced, and what she dreamed, so that others, her children and her children's children, could benefit. So, she told us, her children who would take the time to listen, what she knew. It is up to us to pass her hopeful torch and keep its light burning however we can. Here is a small beginning.
Thanks to our cousins the Shifletts of Virginia, I have learned what can be done to capture, preserve, and perpetuate the vitality and special character of our family. This is not the only way to accomplish this; but it is a start.
I beg you to take the time to capture a memory or observation about our family. Feel free to take the reins and blaze your own trails: so many branches of our family tree can be explored. And hey kids, Harry Potter was doing this very same thing! Some day, your children will thank you. In small ways we make history.
In her last days, the early days of the new millennium, Grandma Carrie wanted above all to join her bones to those of her mother, her people, her land, Virginia, at the foot of the ancient blue ridge of mountains. Having been there, having listened to her stories, I can see why. A centenarian, she had the length and breadth of vision that few can achieve, the wisdom of over a century, and a very gentle and loving heart.
Grandma wanted very much to preserve and pass on her heritage to whomever would take the time and interest to listen and to take action. Confined by her circumstances in life, and later by economics and the limitations of her body, her mind was still active and seeking, always reaching, to pass on what she learned, what she experienced, and what she dreamed, so that others, her children and her children's children, could benefit. So, she told us, her children who would take the time to listen, what she knew. It is up to us to pass her hopeful torch and keep its light burning however we can. Here is a small beginning.
Thanks to our cousins the Shifletts of Virginia, I have learned what can be done to capture, preserve, and perpetuate the vitality and special character of our family. This is not the only way to accomplish this; but it is a start.
I beg you to take the time to capture a memory or observation about our family. Feel free to take the reins and blaze your own trails: so many branches of our family tree can be explored. And hey kids, Harry Potter was doing this very same thing! Some day, your children will thank you. In small ways we make history.
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