Thank you for sharing. I shall check this list at my local library. Maggie ----- Original Message ----- From: "alicia d frank" <alicia.df2@juno.com> To: <HADLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:51 PM Subject: [HADLEY-L] Re: HANCOCK-D Digest V02 #163 > To add to the time spent indoors in this heat...I have just completed > (sob, sob) 5 of the "GREATEST" books on Scottish settlement..by PhD > Diana Gabaldon > > IF you want to be enchanted and can keep families straight ( large cast > of characters!) you will LOVE her work. and ONE MUST READ THEM IN > ORDER!! > I found her by accident and started with Drums of Autum..4 and wondered. > then ordered the rest from inter-library loan. > I had never read her before OUTSTANDING...I am English & Scots desc. > Here they are: > OUTLANDER (entitled "Cross Stitch" in England) > story of an English WW II nurse in 1946- time- traveller ends up back in > 1745! > DRAGONFLY IN AMBER > VOYAGER > DRUMS OF AUTUMN -to USA 1776 > And then IF you can't keep it all straight, she wrote > The OUTLANDISH COMPANION to explains Gaelic, botany terms, etc, etc. > Fascinating. historical times to 'flesh out ' our ancestors' times and > lives.!!! > Alicia in FL > Scots, MD, 1650 --; Quakers in DE, PA, NC, IN -1689; > > Talk about a wealth of detail...NC Caribbean,,how they were transported, > etc after the '1715 Rising, and Culloden 1745, etc... > the history one needs to get us set straight about our ancestors' times > and history ( as close as one may get in an historical novel).etc...HATE > TO SEE THEM END!! > She says she is dooing another..I hope so! > Alicia in FL > Family lilnes: > > Maternal > From: 1650: Argyll, SCOTLAND, YORK, England, Ireland to Prince George's & > Montgomery Co, Frederick, MD > > STEWART, MACGREGOR, CAMPBELL, > CECIL/CISSELL, BEALL/BELL ADAMSON-PERRY, WILLIAMS-MAGRUDER: WEAVER, > FALCONER. > > Paternal: > LINDLEY-DIX-HIATT-HADLEY-CHAMBERS-MILLER: UK,PA, NC, IN > > STEWART-McCOY- DUKE: PA, KY, OH, IN > HANCOCK-BUTCHER-DAYHUFF: MASS, MD, KY, IN, > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== HADLEY Mailing List ==== > ~*~To subscribe & unsubscribe send to HADLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or HADLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode) with the word SUBSCRIBE -or- UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line & first line of the body. ~*~If your e-mail address changes, please unsubscribe your old address, and subscribe your new address. ~*~To post a message so everyone on "both" -L- & -D- mailing list receives it, just send it "once" to HADLEY-L@rootsweb.com. ~*~Barbara V. Byrd, the list administrator can be reached at: HADLEY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >