There Is Something About Edgefield - 2018 Winner: Non-Fiction - Education (awarded by International AAHGS Book Awards)

Excited to share the most recent book review, a book note, that appears in the Journal of Southern History, vol. 84, no. 4, 2018, p. 1065.

There Is Something about Edgefield: Shining a Light on the Black Community through History, Genealogy, and Genetic DNA. By Edna Gai...

By Tim Talbott -Random Thoughts on History

link to book review [http://randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com/2017/12/just-finished-reading-theres-something.html]

[book review below]

It has been quite a while since I've posted a book review on this forum. I've written a num...

Edgefield is a town and the county seat of Edgefield County in South Carolina. Edgefield County is located on the western border of South Carolina, along the Savannah River, across from Augusta, Georgia.

Edgefield District was formed in 1785 from the Old Ninety-Six Dist...

While my father was a great life teacher, I was not always the best student.  He had a reverent but complex persona.  Not complex because he was overly complicated, but my father was a tough nut to crack as he let very few in completely.  I often had to learn by watchi...

I’ve been curious about the life and times of Ann “Annie” Frazier, born about 1838, since she was the most distant relative for one of my DNA matches ( 2nd-3rd).

Starting with the 1870 U.S. Federal Census for Blocker Township, I found Ann Frazier living in the household...

Bush and Kemp are not the first authors to write about Edgefield. There Is Something About Edgefield is the latest book about this unique and distinctive place in South Carolina.

All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterf...