A Family History Illustrated family histories of the ancestors of Michael David McGinnis, from Ireland, Germany, Bohemia, England, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, including Edmund McGinnis, Polly Houghland, Christopher O'Bryan, Thomas Berwick, Robert Perry, Rebecca Nurse, Hiram Langdon Nourse, Christoph Ashorn, Carl Findeisen, and James Harvey Kidd. Pleasant Places in paperback, fourth edition, with photos.
Nothing is new under the sun.
The problems we face have been faced before, the excuses we make have been made before, the boasts we make have been boasted before - and by people like us , whose blood flows in our veins, who share our names, and often, our personality quirks. We may even discover that some of our forebears, though living in a simpler time, were more than our equals. New stories in this third biennial edition include the amazing tales of faith of Polly Houghland and the ancient legends of the days when our clan ruled northern Ireland, as recorded in John F. Meginniss' 1891 McGinnis family history, published while Polly McGinnis's sons were still living. Much golden material about Louisiana branches came from the late Virginia O'Bryan, who bequeathed her life's work of family research to the Wallisville Heritage Park. Descended from both the Nourses and the O'Bryans, Virginia shared all of Ruth O'Bryan McGinnis's ancestral lines.