A record of Bakir Hashim and Joan Ellis, who married in 1956 in Dallas, Texas; of the American ancestry of Joan Ellis; and of the ancestry of J. O. "Pepper" Garcia, who married Joan Ellis Hashim in 1970.

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

The " ... principal ancestor ..." of Gardner Myrick (1786-1847), " ... an American immigrant to Middlesex Colunty, Ontario ..." in 1812, was William Merrick (ca. 1615-1688/89), who immigrated from Pembrokeshire, Wales to Plymouth and then Eastham, Massachusetts in 1636. Includes Tracy, Hopkins and related families.

Francis Myrack, son of Owen Mirick and Joan, was born in about 1673 in Surry County, Virginia. He married in about 1714 and had two known sons, Francis and John. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia and North Carolina.

The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.

Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.

Comprehensive and easy to use, this invaluable handbook will help you sort through the mountain of genealogy information that's now available online. --back cover.

Explains why citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered close to one hundred of their neighbors during the Reconstruction period following the end of the Civil War; focusing on the Freedman's Bureau, the development of African-American political leadership, and the emergence of white "Regulators."