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Jesse James Soul Liberty was scheduled to be published on September 5, 2012. Publication now has been delayed. What’s holding up transforming the book’s manuscript into a printed book? It’s the little black box you see here.
The box is an external hard drive. Inside the box resides the manuscript & research files for Jesse James Soul Liberty. Also inside the box are the manuscript & research files for succeeding volumes of the book, plus many of the files of the James Preservation Trust. So why is this box now a villain holding up the publication of the book?
In mid August, author Eric James had just completed an internet broadcast on HuffPostLIVE. While the lighting was being dismantled, a metal object fell upon the hard drive, lying on the floor next to the author’s computer. When Eric sat down to his computer to upload the final revisions and corrections to the printer for the book and its jacket, the hard drive was found to have been damaged & inoperative. Nothing could be done with the files locked inside.
A search was immediately launched to retrieve the files. For several days, data retrieval services were contacted. The bad news is, none of the files might be able to be retrieved. The good news is, all of the files might be retrievable. The further bad news is,the worst cost estimate to do so is $1400. Data retrieval requires a sterile, antiseptic laboratory environment, exceuted by highly trained technicians.
The printing company was contacted next, to retrieve the proof files for the book and its jacket. — Enter Villain #2.
The printer’s electronic files should have taken only a day or two to be delivered, so final corrections could proceed. Following ownership verification, a cd of the files was mailed. However, the private delivery company delivered the cd to a wrong address. A week lapsed, in which the cd was not found or retrieved and another was issued. Finally, the cd arrived at Cashel Cadence House. The corrections were filed, and everything now is back on track.
Pre-orders for Jesse James Soul Liberty will continue. It will be early October before the book is available from vendors & stores. Pre-orders will be the first books shipped, prior to availability in the stores or with vendors.
Meanwhile, the search continues for a more affordable, but reliable, data retrieval laboratory to recapture the manuscripts for Soul Liberty’s succeeding volumes and everything else the offending villainous hard drive possesses.
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Daily updates from the family of Frank & Jesse James with stories, photos, & two searchable genealog
VIDEO of the Clay County Board of Commissioners bestowing honor upon our James colleague & friend Charlies Broomfield. Recognition begins at 2:00 min. mark.
Congratulations Charlie!!
We have hints from the Clay County Archives in charge of James Farm in Kearney, Missouri, that a road leading to the farm will be renamed Charles Broomfield Rd. Charlie was a Clay County Commissioner who took an active role in arranging the sale and transfer of James Farm from the James family to Clay County.
Cant say that I understand the significance of this.
SLAVE TRADERS AMONG OUR JAMES FAMILY . . . For a decade Stray Leaves has been researching this most distressing discovery. Finally, it’s time to bring this story to light. There’s much to report. The entire story will take time to tell. As we begin, we are also compelled to reconcile what this history means for us. More specifically for those who are now known to descend from these slave traders, whom it can be assumed never knew of this element of their ancestry, but also for the James family as a whole. The resolution will not come easy.
Forks of the Road Slave Market – Violence In Silence
ericjames.org
“Just at the Forks, where the Washington and Kingston, or Palatine roads converge, stood a low squatty frame building used during the winter monthsI ran a DNA test on all the James names I could find in these stories and didn't get 1 DNA match. My DNA is closer to Jesse than that James line is. I am looking into it being through Robert Thomason (step grandfather of Jesse Woodson James) and Julia Ann Singleton (Aunt to Jesse Woodson James).
I am a descendant of Betty G Woodson.
Waterproof, La in Tensas Parish to be more exact.
Tensas Parish. J. G. James and M. Kerrigan.
The King family. Descendants of Viking slayers. archive.org/stream/Kingswood/Kingswood%20reduced_djvu.txt
"In the middle of 1864, Captain Jason W. James was on scouting duty in the southern part of Madison Parish. About eight o'clock one morning he and his company arrived at the Plantation home of Hr. Joshua James on Roundaway Bayou, who also owned the Ione Plantation in Tensas Parish." You will have to read the rest. I am not posting it here. 😲 😲 😲 sites.rootsweb.com/~lamadiso/articles/ward/chap05.htm
And I do believe this James line is connected to Lucille Ball.
And speaking of slave traders. Nicholas Trammell is mixed in with the Carrigans somehow. www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/trammell-nicholas
And I am a descendant of Elizabeth Woodson Thomas. Wife of Captain Edmund King.
I am also showing DNA matches to the James grandparents of Jesse Woodson James and all 8 of his great grandparents. This is what I need help figuring out. All of my James DNA matches will be in the replies to this comment. In this screenshot they are all the white ones
The sons of Colonial Edmund King.
I am a descendant of Mary Joicy who was widow Woodson, mother of Elizabeth Woodson Thomas.
By the way I am not a Kerrigan by DNA. I am a Carrigan. Civil War name change. Descendant of William Michael Carrigan and Nancy Holt. Nancy Holt was the daughter of Michael Holt III and Rachel Rainey. youtu.be/IsK2eSTVW8A
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When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it’s been deleted.Where does Lucille Ball fit?
FIND-A-GRAVE BLUNDERS LEAVE JAMES FAMILY HOWLING . . . Can you spot the errata in this Find a Grave post for the grandfather of Frank & Jesse James? The most glaring deception is the photograph!
History tells us the photograph was invented about the time John M. James was dying. Neither history, nor the administrator of this posting, Charlotte Raley McConaha, can tell us is how photographic technology made its way from France to the distant American frontier to take a photo of John M. James, months before his demise.
Another imprecise miscalculation in this post is the attribution of the middle name “Martin” to John M. James. The name never has been proved by evidence. To guess the name is unreliable and wrong.