Georgia Backroads: “A Man of Most Simple and Attractive Manners” [Out Now!]
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I’m very pleased to announce my latest essay, titled “A Man of Most Simple and Attractive Manners.” It’s out now in the Autumn 2017 issue of Georgia Backroads. This piece, my fifth for the magazine, has been a long time in the making. I started the research back when I was writing the Jordan’s Journey […]
Georgia Backroads: “Polishing the Gilt Easel” [Out Now!]
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If you’re a Georgia Backroads reader, you already know that I have another new article in the current issue of the magazine. This is my fourth piece with the magazine in as many years. You can learn about my previous Georgia Backroads articles here: “The Scoggins Family and Subligna Go Way Back” (Winter 2012) “We […]
Photo from Concord Methodist Church, Villanow, GA
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here at Jordan’s Journey. Life happens, things change, and I just have not had the time to put into creating new content for this blog. For now I’m keeping it online as I think the posts are a valuable archive. People do still visit the site […]
INTERSECTION luke kurtis exhibition
Over the last year one of my biggest projects was putting together my INTERSECTION photographic art exhibition. I haven’t posted about this side of my work at Jordan’s Journey as this site focuses on the genealogy side of things. Of course, the overall Jordan’s Journey project is a multimedia art project of which genealogical research […]
McWilliams Cemetery [video]
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Although you wouldn’t know it from updates here at Jordan’s Journey, 2013 has been one of the busiest years of my life! Don’t worry though–it’s all in a good way. And luckily for all you Jordan’s Journey fans, recently I uncovered an almost-finished Jordan’s Journey video that I shot back in May 2012. Due to […]
Georgia Backroads: “We Are One People” [Out Now!]
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I am very pleased to announce the publication of my latest article in the current (Autumn 2013) issue of Georgia Backroads. “We Are One People” is an exploration of my ancestral ties to slavery, focusing specifically on the Armuchee Valley and Dirt Town Valley regions. My original photography, as well as antique images I curated, […]
Research and Imagination (& Some Family Photo Fun)
I’ve never written that much about my Jordan family branch on this blog. I guess that’s because I have focused mostly on posts related to the Armuchee Valley area of Walker and Chattooga counties while my Jordan family roots are over in Whitfield county. But my grandfather Earl Jordan and his brother Bill did live […]
Connections: The Pettyjohn Family and Me
I love studying genelaogy–and not just the genealogy of my direct ancestors. I love looking at all the different branches of my tree, discovering unique and interesting connections all over the place. Sometimes you can map out distant relationships to famous individauls and other times you discover you’re kin to people you’ve known for years… […]
Photos from Jordan’s Journey lectures
My lectures and art exhibition in northwest Georgia were well attended by many locals as well as a few people hailing from farther away, including Panama City Beach, FL; Knoxville, TN; and Nashville, TN. Thanks to everyone that stopped by. It was great to see so many old friends and meet a number of new […]
Finns Point National Cemetery
Though the vast majority of my family–even going generations back–are rooted in Georgia and other parts of the south, there are some interesting burial locations in other parts of the country. I’ve yet to discover any direct family connections to New York, where I call home. But there are a couple of interesting family burials […]
147 Years Ago Today
Today is the 147th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Earlier this year I explored the connection between my Rambo family and the Lincoln family. Today I’m not looking at Lincoln directly but, rather, at a few photos related to him. The first and last shots above are from the collection of my grandmother, Dot Holcomb Scoggins. […]
The book cover unveiled…
Unveiled at last, here is the cover of Jordan’s Journey. The cover photo is a self-portrait taken in September 2011 on the Pope/Jordan family farm where I grew up in East Armuchee, Georgia. I shot the primary footage for the book trailer on the same day. Be sure to follow this site’s feed or subscribe […]
Research and Process
Some of you may be interested in the research methods I used during the writing of Jordan’s Journey. There was no one approach that I used to write the book, bringing together many different ways of accessing information. If you are interested in specific topics, or have specific questions, please let me know so I […]