Journey Through The Past

The following is a map of places related to my Charlton, Green, Nixon, White and Nesbitt ancestors of Durham County, England. Click on a marker to view the reference.
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Dear Renae:
When you ask me if I remember things about the Good family you must remember that I am old enough to be losing my memory, but I do remember most of them quite well.
When I attended high school in Fillmore I lived with Grandpa and Grandma the first year and was a real experience. [...]

Hi! this is Renae’s mother, Donnett Elder.
So nice to meet you and to hear from you on all this history.
I do remember my mother in law, Gretta Ruth (Good) Elder talking about her younger sister, Helen. She always spoke so fondly of her, her marriage and with sadness of her early death in [...]

Thanks Renae for sending me these.
On the left Leonard Good’s Family Bible and on the right James E. Good’s Family Bible. These bibles were passed onto Ira Good, then to Barry Good of Fillmore who has passed these bibles onto me, Renae (Elder) Grubb.

Here’s 2 pages from Leonard Good’s Bible. As you can [...]

Photo and text submitted by Renae (Elder) Grubb
In July 2005 Sandra Hall and I organized a “Good” family reunion in Fillmore. Here’s the photo of those who were able to attend. Click on photo to view it larger.
Back row: Renae (Elder) Grubb, Steve Scott, Bruce, James and Heather Horsman, Landon and Jeff Grubb, Jalisha [...]

Yesterday, for the second time, this blog accomplished something quite remarkable. It reconnected family across generations. In this case, the Good family. I have often wondered what happened to Lois Scott’s research papers on the Good family. Her letters to me outlining the New Brunswick connection were lost along with a number of other important [...]