Nancy Elizabeth Lipscomb Holstad Obit - Knoxville News-Sentinel - 08-06-24

One Year Anniversary Today. RIP Mom.

My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Page Lipscomb Holstad, died one year ago today on August 5, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her funeral took place on August 11, several days later. Despite being nearly a century old, it was a bit of a shock as she lived alone in her own condo, had been slowing down but …

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Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales

I can't say enough good things about this book. It's not only a go-to resource for me, but it's virtually daily reading material. Though I've never really publicly discussed much of anything, my mother's family -- both maternal and paternal -- were prominent families related to a million other prominent families, as was so very …

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Running Behind! Some Short, Quick Posts Coming Up.

Hi y'all! Sorry posts have been sparse lately. Those of you who have been with me for awhile know I've been living with severe health problems for a long time and these have really been worsening in many ways over the past year and a half, made complicated by injuries and emergency surgeries. I've also …

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Injury Far Worse Than Previously Thought: New Surgery Next Month

This is merely a small story that's part of a larger one, part of a still larger one, part of an unknown-sized but seemingly gigantic series of stories at the macro level. That would make one think the various sub-subs far away from the macro would be tiny, and they should be but it seems …

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