About me

Joanne Carol Boling Dickinson

My husband and I moved to Calvert County in 1982 from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Our modest home includes a 16-year-old cockapoo, a 3-year-old pitbull-shepherd mix, and a 2-year-old Russian Blue cat. In addition to deer and squirrels, we see moles, mice, stink bugs, camel crickets, and snakes.

In my previous career in marketing research and communications, I pioneered innovative methods, procedures, and technologies for integrating social media and the Internet into our products.

Known for my love of challenges and abilities as an autodidact, traveler, explorer, and historian, I plan family events, document family stories, identify cultural traits, and lead change for our families. In Deuteronomy 32-7, the following verse struck me as fitting for who I am and what I do: “Remember the days of old; think about the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, and ask your elders, and they will tell you.” As the people were about to enter Israel, Moses reminded them that God had already blessed them countless times for having faith.

As a family historian, I collect, authenticate, clarify, record, and publish all relevant genealogical information related to my family. The stories I share from my family units help me connect spiritually with them and honor those who have gone before.

The readers of my blog know that my articles have become far more than just a record of my family’s history. It is an honor to share our “unbounded” heritage with the world. My articles provide a vivid, enlightening, and informative comparison between who, where, and what we were 48 generations ago and who, where, and what we are today.

Thank you to all the researchers, digitizers, historians, and contributors from all walks of life who have documented and preserved our historical records over the centuries.  I am incredibly grateful to Ancestry.com with its public family trees, the Latter Day Saints Genealogical Databases, the Library of Congress, census records at the National Archives, and other public libraries like the Virginia Historical Library which maintain historical data and image collections; and, all sites and materials dedicated to promoting Americans’ heritage and their religious, moral, literary, and social cultures.