History
”History takes time. History makes memory.”
-Gertrude Stein.
Let us keep passing along the moments of yesterday and share encounters with the past.
Heritage
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Dr. Carl Sagan
We would like to share the cultures, traditions and most of all the stories of the past. Lets share in the appreciation of the lives and deeds from our heritage. Have a story to tell?
Genealogy
"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future."
-- Gail Lumet Buckley
For those who are beginning their research and for those who have already started, we have resources to help you in your search.
Selected Historical Book Reviews
The Distant Clansman will periodically select and review a historical book. We provide an informative and concise review of strictly nonfiction books ranging from genealogy, American/World and military history.
Most Popular Articles
Burns' Return to Clay County, Kentucky
Each year in the hot summer months a day is chosen for a gathering of distant Burns clansmen, and clanswomen, too. This year that date was the 30th of June (2012). The temperature soared to an uncommon one-hundred-five degrees by mid-morning. In the shade of the mountains along the unusually dry Meadow Branch of Little Bull Skin Creek ...
The John E. and America Burns Roberts Family
December 12, 2012 | Diane Burns Brads
John Edward Roberts was born May, 1852 to George Washington Roberts and Malinda Jones Roberts in Clay County, Kentucky. John’s brother, Andrew Mack Roberts, wrote what he called a “brief biography” in 1932. He stated, “My father wer the youngest ...
Personal Account: Battle of Okinawa
Easter Sundays were always ominous, they stirred fear and reminded one that the cross we must bear lays hidden from view just on the other side of the next bend in life’s road. Like most spring days in the Pacific, Easter Sunday, 1945 was mild, a warm seventy-three degrees ...
A Marine’s Diary: Carl Turner Newland Sr.
Diaries, more commonly referred to today as journals, allow us inside a person’s most inner thoughts. They can be so revealing that the reader feels at times as if s/he is trespassing – an intruder violating the sanctity of the mind. Some writings...
