Kin Diggers, Dallas, TX (2025)

10/12/2024

Only for 3 more days! Awesome deal!

10/11/2024

Site wide sale!! 50% off ends Oct 21!! Makes great xmas presents!

09/02/2024

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01/21/2022

Stole this from . But it's true I do love unearthing what they tried hide. It's add to their story so much!

11/24/2021

This is Sweetheart Abbey. My family long ago, donated most of the funds for it to be built. Unfortunately, a few 100 years laters, my family backed the Protestant for kingship, became the scapegoats for kidnapping a young boy king, and were kicked out of the country.

09/03/2021

Today is the first night in Johnson City for their Celtic Festival/games. Beginning with a Call of Clans. If you have never been to one they are a really neat experience. The picture above is my families tartan. Scots take great pride in their colors and patterns. And family always comes before anything else! Do you have a family tartan, you wear with pride?

07/08/2021

Love old courthouse, not just the architecture, but the history and old documents in it! Deed and land records can tell you so much about your family!

06/21/2021

This is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains which is a section of the Appalachian Mountains in Eastern United States.

The Blue Ridge Mountains divide TN and NC, run through VA and MD with its most northern point in southern PA.

Having been all over Scotland, its easy to see why so my Scots settled here. Granted there are alot more trees, but they really do remind you of Scotland and the beauty that makes her magical.

Scottish culture is still influencing the people here. From moonshine to a fighting spirit to protect one own family and property to the music being produced in the region, and lets not forget an accent like you've never heard before!

06/12/2021

Camp Douglas was the worst POW in the Union, during the Civil War.

The way humans were treated was awful. The camp was only in operation as a POW camp for 2 years but had at least a 17% death rate, mainly from starvation and disease.

I was not taught about civil war POW camps in school, if we continue to wash away history we are doomed to repeat it.

04/23/2021

Ever read old deed records and see the term proclamation money or rock(er) money as a form of payment?

I first discovered this was a thing about 2 years ago when helping a friend with her family tree. Having no clue what it was, I decided to find out!

Turns out during colonial times, England deemed it unnecessary to supply America with coinage. So the colonists were left to take things into their own hands. Many used the Spanish silver dollar and their 8 pence coinage. But they were easy to chip off a sliver here and there. Hence the term, peices of 8. With these slivers they were able to make their own coinage using a rocker press, and each colony had their own design, usually with the symbol of a tree native to the area. There the term, branches of the bank was introduced.

This went on for a while, untill England found out what they were doing. So Queen Anne, imposed a proclamation act in 1704 basically to state the vaule of foreign money compared to the English pound, and more importantly all American coinage produce after 1652 was no longer legal tender. So what did the Americans do? What they always do when you tell them they cant, continued making their own coins all stamped with 1652 as the date, calling it proclamation money.

So if your reading deed records and find the terms proclamation or rock(er) money, just know they were rebels and more than likely fought for the patriots when the war broke out!

04/23/2021

Ever read old deed records and see the term proclamation money or rock(er) money as a form of payment?

I first discovered this was a thing about 2 years ago when helping a friend with her family tree. Having no clue what it was, I decided to find out!

Turns out during colonial times, England deemed it unnecessary to supply America with coinage. So the colonists were left to take things into their own hands. Many used the Spanish silver dollar and their 8 pence coinage. But they were easy to chip off a sliver here and there. Hence the term, peices of 8. With these slivers they were able to make their own coinage using a rocker press, and each colony had their own design, usually with the symbol of a tree native to the area. There the term, branches of the bank was introduced.

This went on for a while, untill England found out what they were doing. So Queen Anne, imposed a proclamation act in 1704 basically to state the vaule of foreign money compared to the English pound, and more importantly all American coinage produce after 1652 was no longer legal tender. So what did the Americans do? What they always do when you tell them they cant, continued making their own coins all stamped with 1652 as the date, calling it proclamation money.

So if your reading deed records and find the terms proclamation or rock(er) money, just know they were rebels and more than likely fought for the patriots when the war broke out.

04/07/2021

Did you know surnames can tell you alot about where a family came from, looked liked, or even their trade?

For instance, my surname is Scottish, means son of Dougall. Dougall meaning dark haired Dane. Which also was tag with the saying "unwanted visitor". More than likely because we were the Vikings you didn't want to see.

What does your surname tell about your family?

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