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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Book Review of Bernard Fall’s Street Without Joy

Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …

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Book Review — The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …

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A Review: History & Genealogy of the Page Family From the Year 1257 to the Present: With Brief History & Genealogy of the Allied Families Nash & Peck

History and Genealogy of the Page Family From the Year 1257 to the Present: With Brief History and Genealogy of the Allied Families Nash and Peck by Charles Nash Page My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was incredibly disappointing and nearly a total waste of my time, though not entirely which I why I …

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Book Review of The Young Lords: A Radical History

The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my second or third time to read this book and it remains as stunning as ever. Between the Young Lords and FALN, as well as many dozens of other groups, most continental Americans would be shocked to know …

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