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OTHER BOOKS BY O’BRIEN and SMITH

OTHER BOOKS BY O’BRIEN and SMITH

WHIT’S END: THE SEQUEL THE BOOK OF LEB SECRETS IN A FOREST THE PLAZA PRINCE   OUT OF PRINT: WHIT’S END: THE ANTHOLOGY This 600 page edition has been revised...

Book Talk Interview

Book Talk Interview

Book Talk catches up with Dr. Stephen Smith in his home office. Watch the short videoclip as Smith introduces his latest Whit’s End, the Novel.  Follow this link to Youtube...

The Anthology is Out of Print

The Anthology is Out of Print

This first edition of Whit’s End is out of print and gaining value on the book shelves of numerous family members, patrons of the arts, so to speak. Demand for...

WHIT’S END: THE NOVEL

In Whit’s End, The Novel, Stephen O’Brien takes the research of Dr. Stephen Smith and, with proper permissions, turns it into a complete farce. O’Brien writes, “I was inspired by the...

IT’S ABOUT SMITH

IT’S ABOUT SMITH

PEDIGREE CHARTS

PEDIGREE CHARTS

  Family Pedigree Charts 1650-2000 Chart A-  JD Smith thru Peter Smith of Round Hill Chart B-  George Smith thru Peter of Yeocomico, Simpsons, Taylors Chart C-  Allied Families of...

REFERENCE MATERIALS

REFERENCE MATERIALS

This is some of the stuff I read to look so smart, and so confused. My favorite is simply the title alone of Hotten’s masterpiece. It fills three lines and...

APPENDIX

Last Will and Testament of Peter Smith of Westmoreland In the name of God, Amen. The tenth day of January 1738, I Peter Smith of the County of Westmoreland in...

Chapter 16: Suspect List: Peter Smith’s Ancestors?

Without Further Proof The possibility that our Peter Smith descends from Swallowfield Manor is something that genealogists have tossed around for close to 50 years.  Contained within the tome Swallowfield...

EDWARD ‘JACK’ BYRNE and MARGARET MULVANEY

EDWARD ‘JACK’ BYRNE and MARGARET MULVANEY

Gen 6: Edward ‘Jack’ Byrne (1801-1854) & Margaret Mulvaney (1801-1876) County Kildare Ireland to McHenry County IL The appearance of Edward ‘Jack’ Byrne in the family tree, as the father...