Well, to leave aside DNA for a moment and get back to real, paper genealogy, an e-mail last night told me that the first half of my article on the beginnings of our Taylor family is now out in the new issue of The American Genealogist — even though my copy hasn’t yet shown up in the mail. The article gathers the known data on the first three generations of the family in Virginia, and lays out a new theory for the origins and parentage of the founder of the family, Richard1 Taylor of Old Rappahannock County (subsequently Richmond County). Here’s Richard’s will:
Interested readers should buy the issues and support The American Genealogist. The new origins theory is not currently found in my e-book on the family.
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