When I was in high school, pre-Ancestry.com, my grandmother assembled a family tree. She wrote letters and made phone calls to relatives, searched through county records, inspected family bibles. The name of the oldest ancestor she located, Nicholas Mills, appeared in a document dated 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia. His grandson, Nathaniel Mills, was Captain of the Orange County Militia in 1777 and my entrée into the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). Growing up in a small Virginia ...
When I was in high school, pre-Ancestry.com, my grandmother assembled a family tree. She wrote letters and made phone calls to relatives, searched through county records, inspected family bibles. The name of the oldest ancestor she located, Nicholas Mills, appeared in a document dated 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia. His grandson, Nathaniel Mills, was Captain of the Orange County Militia in 1777 and my entrée into the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). Growing up in a small Virginia ...
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