At our family reunion in July this year we distributed a two-page display covering the first two generations of our family. For the benefit of those who could not come to Junaluska, I am attaching a copy of that handout. As introduction, let me explain that our family is a mingling of four different families […]
Over the life of this blog, my article on Jordan Family Roots has been my most visited post. As of August, 2021, it had been accessed more than 600 times, twice the number of visits to any other article. For that reason I thought it would be well to do an update in which I […]
This post contains a more detailed explanation of some of the facts contained in my post on “The Jordan Family.” The material set apart below was extracted from a paper prepared by my son Stuart Jordan. He plans to include it in a soon to be published update of his history of the Jordan family […]
Despite the recent hubbub about politics, the most frequently visited post on the jordans-journey.com blog is the one entitled “Jordan Family Roots.” I must have a lot of cousins out there. The surname Jordan is not uncommon, and the fact you and I may have the same last name is not a strong indication we […]
For many years the members of my Jordan family believed that they were descendants of the Samuel Jordan who sailed in 1609 from Plymouth, England on the ship Sea Venture, shipwrecked off Bermuda, and continued on to Jamestown in 1610. This was the story as it appeared in a History of Halifax County Virginia by […]
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