Pre-dating the Salem nonsense

In keeping with yesterday's theme of 17th Century colonial ancestors, I will reveal the title of another book in the current rotation:

Jamestown: The Buried Truth, by William M. Kelso. [ISBN 978-0-8139-2563-9]

Kelso is the archaeologist who heads The Jamestown Rediscovery Project.

I picked his book for my personal reading list in anticipation of a trip up to Virginia and DC this Spring to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.

And, I have really enjoyed it so far, particularly the sections of mtDNA comparisons and the facial reconstructions. (Those images are eerily intriguing.)

Check it out!

Genealogical footnotes: My Jamestown ancestors included (at least) Thomas Bayley (1596-1620), John Brown, Sr. (? - 1632), William Hancock (1580-1622), Thomas Harris (1586-1649), Audrey Hoare (1604 - ?), Peter Jones, Sr. (1599-1662), William Powell (1585 - ?), and Cecily Reynolds (1594-1662).