Gosnold at Cuttyhunk, 1602
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M.S. "Doug" Bedinger
1932-2023 11/22/2017
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Marion Singleton “Doug” Bedinger, 91, of Sequim, WA, passed away at home on March 21, 2023. Doug was born on February 11, 1932 in Navasota, TX and grew up in eastern Texas. In college he studied geology, graduating in 1955 from Texas Tech University. As a new graduate, Doug joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and moved his young family to Washington DC for the first year of his 32-year tenure with the USGS, before moving to Little Rock, AR.
Doug’s time in Little Rock was filled with many grand adventures, professional and personal. Float trips on the Buffalo River in Arkansas and the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with his colleagues were adventures talked about for years afterwards. A natural history guide of the geothermal waters of Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, commissioned by the National Park Service (NPS), was a publication he enjoyed authoring, particularly as it was outside the scope of his normal research. Doug spent an additional 10 years in Lakewood, CO working on hydrogeologic issues in nuclear waste disposal. After turning 55 and one second, Doug became eligible for retirement from the USGS and moved to Las Vegas, NV to continue hydrogeologic research at UNLV. During his time in Las Vegas, he met his wife, Mary. Together they discovered the beauty of the Olympic Peninsula (OP) of Washington. Finally unencumbered by employment, they relocated to the OP in 1992, building a home on an 18-acre plot complete with a micro-rainforest habitat, grazing pastures, and trout pond. A greenhouse was later added that contained orchids, assorted tropical plants. As state law eventually allowed, a small number of cannabis plants were added. They enjoyed visits from friends, family, being active in community issues, and became caretakers of a revolving cast of llamas, dogs, cats, geese, chickens, and a rooster named “Charles R”. In 2020, Doug and Mary moved to a home on the 8th fairway of the Sunland golf course where they watched, and occasionally dodged, passing golf balls. They particularly enjoyed seeing the bald eagles nesting in a Douglas Fir tree overlooking the ninth green, immediately adjacent to a pond filled with rainbow trout; trips there by foot were numerous enough that Doug was on hand during one occasion when an eagle foraged a meal from the pond. Doug loved genealogical research and pursued it his entire adult life, providing significant content to the Bedinger.org website. Doug is survived by his wife, Mary Bedinger, his three children: George, Mark, and Susan; Mary’s children: Leslie, and Rachel, and eight grandchildren: Samantha, Morgan, Emily, Katie, Tommy, AJ, Jordan, and Emily A. In lieu of flowers, his family suggest donations to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County. Obituary written by George M. Bedinger; the website will currently be maintained until appropriate custodianship is transferred. |
Additions to the Website
March 6, 2019: Posted drawings of marine creatures to illustrate the scientific art of Serena Katherine Dandridge" Miss Violet", during her employment with the U.S. National Museum. Serena Katherine (Miss Violet)Dandridge (356)
January 10-17, 2019: Visited archival collections in libraries in Virginia, Library of Virginia and Virginia Historical Library; North Carolina, Duke University; and West Virginia; Historical Shepherdstown Museum and Shepherd University, and Charles Town, Charles Town Library, collecting material of interest on Bedinger and related families for future posting here on the Bedinger Family website.
January 10-17, 2019: Visited archival collections in libraries in Virginia, Library of Virginia and Virginia Historical Library; North Carolina, Duke University; and West Virginia; Historical Shepherdstown Museum and Shepherd University, and Charles Town, Charles Town Library, collecting material of interest on Bedinger and related families for future posting here on the Bedinger Family website.
December 6, 2017: Major revisions completed to the page, "The Ancient City of Büdingen."
November 22, 2017: Publication of additional illustrations in the Büdingen page, featuring 1934 paintings in the plein air style by noted artist Heinrich Giebel. Christoph Giebel, grandson of the painter, generously provided images of the paintings. Additional information on the Heinrich Giebel paintings is given in Notices and News. Christoph Giebel visited Büdingen in 2016 and made photographic recreations of his grandfathers paintings. His photographic reproductions are shown on the page in Notices and News. I wish to express my deep appreciation to Christoph Giebel for the use of the images, for informative background on the scenes portrayed, and his help to me in navigating Büdingen by Google Earth.
September 20, 2017: Publication of a short sketch about William Eugene (Bill) Bedinger (1929-2002). Bill was my double first cousin and an avid genealogist. He was a friendly and welcome pen pal of many Bedinger cousins and collected much family information that is published in this website.
September 22, 2017: Publication of the biography of Henry Clay Bedinger I(25) the oldest son of George Michael Bedinger (6) and Henrietta Clay. Henry Clay Bedinger I settled in Lewis County Kentucky in 1820 and became a successful farmer, merchant and mill operator. His home, the Bedinger House,a two story brick of Georgian/Greek Revival Period style, has been designated A Kentucky Landmark.
August 3, 2017: Revision of two pages of Brothers of the Revolution, 1) The Southern Campaign and 2) The Siege of Yorktown and Final Battles of the War.
The pages were revised to include more information on the service of Daniel Bedinger from records of his compiled service record and pension statements and rosters of the Southern Campaign of the Revolution.
The pages were revised to include more information on the service of Daniel Bedinger from records of his compiled service record and pension statements and rosters of the Southern Campaign of the Revolution.
July 18, 2017: Publication of Henrietta Bedinger Lee's memories from her final visit in 1880 to the site of her ancestral home "Bedford". This page, now entitled "The Burning of Bedford", will be the final page in a series of pages on burnings of homes in Jefferson County during the Civil War. My thanks to Jim Surkamp who generously directed me to the writing of Henrietta Bedinger(Lee) and the poem of her sister, Virginia Ann Bedinger (Lucas). Additional historical background on lives and times in Jefferson County, West Virginia after the Civil War can be found in Jim Surkamps post, "Thy Will" (27-28) -- War Ends; Tender Sprouts of a New World" at http://civilwarscholars.com/2014/12/thy-will-27-war-ends-george-slow-dudley-pendleton-
May 6, 2017: Publication of the obituary of Alexandra Lee (Levin) (585) granddaughter of Edmund Jennings Lee and great-great granddaughter of Daniel Bedinger (7). Alexandra was a prolific writer of carefully researched and engaging narratives of family history, both of her ancestral family and her husband's family. Her work is referenced frequently in this website . She is the author of the book "For A Brave America" the story of the three Bedinger brothers, Henry, George Michael and Daniel, of the American Revolution and the biography of General Edwin Gray Lee of the Confederate Secret Service. Her journal article published in the Virginia Cavalcade on the career of Henry Bedinger (45), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and first U. S. Minister to Denmark, is a valuable source of information on his life's work.
February 9-18, 2017: Publication of revised pages on the life of Henry Bedinger (45). Henry was born in 1812 at "Bedford", the mansion built near Shepherdstown by his parents Daniel Bedinger (7) and Sarah Rutherford. Henry was frequently referred to by his family as Henry Bedinger III to distinguish him from his grandfather Henry (1), the immigrant who settled in Shepherdstown, and his uncle Major Henry Bedinger (4), of the American Revolution and prominent merchant of Martinsburg and Bedington, West Virginia. Several aspects of Henry Bedinger's life are portrayed in these pages, one, his distinguished career as a statesman, member of the U. S. House of Representatives and U. S. Minister to Denmark and second his experiences related in his journal while reading for the bar exam, and, on a lighter note, his journey with friends on a rousing fishing and hunting expedition to the wilderness of the Canaan region of western Virginia.
February 7, 2017: Publication of pages on sisters Anna Bedinger Cornwall and Sarah Jerusha Cornwall, granddaughters of Daniel Bedinger (7), both adept in poetic expression and acknowledged writers of thought provoking poems of their day.
December 29, 2016: Publication of a page on the Lee Family. The Bedinger and Lee families are related though the marriage of Edmund Jennings Lee II and Henrietta Bedinger, daughter of Daniel Bedinger(7).
December 17, 2016: Publication of a biographical sketch of Jacob Morgan(20),son of Abel Morgan a surgeon in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution and grandson of Henry Bedinger(1). Jacob was a successful mercantile trader in Alexandria, Virginia and builder of the magnificent mansion, "Falling Spring", at Shepherdstown.
December 9, 2016: Publication of biography of Benjamin Franklin Bedinger, M.D.(27) written by Ruth Wade Cox Brunings, great-great-granddaughter of Dr. Bedinger. I am grateful to Mrs. Brunings for graciously contributing this biography to the webiste and also for her previous permission to publish her account of Bedingers in Kentucky during slavery, a paper which she presented to the Boone County (Kentucky) Historical Society in 1999.
December 4, 2016: A page was added recently on the related families of Keene and Gosnold. The Keenes are related through Sarah Nancy Keene, the first wife of George Michael Bedinger(6). Thomas Keene I and his wife Elizabeth Gosnold are the immigrant ancestors of our Keene family. The Gosnold family line from Elizabeth Gosnold is traced to John Gosnold I, the grandfather of Bartholomew Gosnold (1572 - 1607), an English lawyer, explorer and privateer, who was instrumental in colonization of Virginia and in establishing the Jamestown Colony. We have another connection to the Keene and Gosnold families. The families of Singleton, Rust, Keene and Gosnold are ancestors of Bedinger family members through the marriage of Judith Rust Singleton to Henry Clay Bedinger(25).
October 5, 2016: Publication of more on the career of Daniel Bedinger (7) in Norfolk, Virginia, first as a merchant, then in the Custom House under the Confederation followed in 1789 by appointment by President Washington to the office of Surveyor of the Custom House. In 1802 Daniel Bedinger accepted the command of the Norfolk Navy Yard in the administration of President Thomas Jefferson a position he held until 1808. And then there was the game of politics. Daniel did not shy from publicly expressing his political views, but such expressions could be a precarious endeavor when his leanings were opposed to those of the administration. Daniel was rumored to have been the author of the "Veritas" letters, anonymously published in 1793, which were critical of the administration.
September 30, 2016: Now posted on the Bedinger Family Genealogy page is a brief sketch of the children of Hans Adam Büdinger, the founding father of the family of Bedinger, Bittinger, Biddinger, and of other spellings, in America. Unfortunately, our knowledge of Hans Adam's wives and children is incomplete; some is contradictory. For the family sketch published here, much credit is due to the classic research of Lucy Forney Bittinger and to Dorothea Bedinger Clymer, who freely shares her outstanding work with her Bedinger family cousins. This website, to date, has been mostly devoted to the descendants of Hans Adam's son Henry Bedinger. The good news is there is much well-researched and available information on three other children, Nicholas, Peter, and Christian. With this revised page, the website is opened to include availability of the genealogies of the other children of Hans Adam Büdinger.
July 2, 2016: Beginning a few months ago, pages have been added to the website on the life of Lawrence Berry Washington (107), the oldest son of John T. A. Washington and Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger. Nine pages are now published completing the section. Lawrence B. Washington was variously remembered by his friends and relatives as an "ill-starred genius" and "adventurer". He led a life of adventure and enterprise cut short by an untimely death.
March 17, 2016: Made some revisions to the pages of George Rust Bedinger and his correspondence with family members during the Civil War. Added an outline of the George Rust Bedinger pages in the Timeline and included Mary Bedinger Mitchell's article "A Woman's Recollections of Antietam" in the Civil War sequence.
January 28, 2016: Several sections of the website have been revised and expanded. Bedinger Ancestors in Switzerland has been added to the European Origin section with more information on the sixteenth century ancestors beginning with Claus Biettinger and Hans Schonwalder of Switzerland. Both the Bedingers and Showalters were Mennonites, who were persecuted and forced to leave Switzerland. Both families relocated in Alsace, France in the seventeenth century. A new section has been added in Timeline to highlight the early German immigrants to Pennsylvania in the Bedinger ancestry: Christoph von Schlegel, Hans Adam Büdinger, and Jacob Mathias Schowalter. Genealogical work on the family and descendants of Hans Adam Büdinger by Dorothea Bedinger Clymer has revealed much more information and needed revisions of the early work by Lucy Forney Bittinger in her book on the Bittinger and Bedinger families. We are indebted to Dorothea Bedinger Clymer for her years of tireless research and study and her communication and coordinaton with Bedinger researchers and family members. Mrs. Clymer has generously provided the definitive family data given in the Hans Adam Bedinger page. To this point in time, this website has only followed the descendants of Hans Adam's son Henry Bedinger. Through Mrs. Clymer's research, we will expand the scope of the Bedinger genealogy to include descendants of other offspring of Hans Adam Büdinger.
December 28, 2015: Publication of a page on the landmark work of Dr. Emmert F. Bittinger who discovered the ancestral villages in Alsace, France where lived Hans Adam Büdinger and his family before they emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1737. Narratives of Dr. Bittinger describing his search, the church records of the Bedingers, and photographs of the villages were gratefully received by the generousity of Dorothea Clymer. Mrs. Clymer, a descendant of Hans Adam Büdinger's son Christian (Christopher), is a well-known leading Bedinger researcher of great accomplishments. She has has always generously exchanged information and provided assistance to others in their work.
October 7, 2015: Publication of a biography of George Washington (117), the youngest son of eleven children of John T. A. Washington and Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger (35), who survived infancy. It was in no small measure due to George's unfaltering sense of duty and devotion that his younger siblings were provided for through their formative years after the death of their parents. To quote from the tribute written of him, "...He was a gentleman of fine literary taste, and marked genius. ...his life was eminently successful, and his example worthy of remembrance and imitation."
September 2, 2015: A brief sketch of Solomon Bedinger (11), the youngest of the children of Henry Bedinger (1) and Maria Magdalena von Schlegel (S1). We know very little of Solomon. He was a successful merchant in Norfolk when his brother, Daniel Bedinger(7) lived in that city. Solomon died unmarried at the age of thirty-seven in Norfolk.
August 31, 2015: Additions to the page on Daniel Bedinger (7) including his interest in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina and his proposal for an excursion to explore the the interior of the Florida panhandle in 1807.
July 16, 2015: Publication of four generations of Bedingers, descendants of Henry Bedinger (1730-1772) and his wife Mary Magdalena von Schlegel. The old world background of the Bedingers and von Schlegels is given in the page entitled European Origin where follows the European ancestries of Henry Bedinger and Mary Magdalena von Schlegel.
June 23, 2015: Publication of a biography of Thornton Augustine Washington (114), soldier, engineer, genealogist, writer, musician and artist. In memoriam to him it was written, "the grand qualities he possessed... were hid from himself in his great modesty, and known to the few, whom he favored with his friendship and intimacy... His accomplishments in art and music were the delight of his friends, when he could be prevailed upon to show them." He left us a very valuable genealogy of his immediate family and personal insight into his twelve brothers and sisters.
June 9, 2015: Publication of a biography of Henrietta Gray (Netta) Bedinger (199), artist and educator. The biography was written by Davis Griffith-Cox a great nephew of Netta Bedinger and the grandson of Netta Washington Morrill, a niece of Netta Bedinger. Since a young lad, Davis has been close to the art treasures of Netta Bedinger and is steeped in the legend, lore and family history of her life. Significantly, he has a lifetime of study and familiarity with the artistry of Netta Bedinger and he imparts in his sketch of Netta an unequaled depth of understanding of her work, her life, and technical insight into her work.
May 1, 2015: Publication of a biography of Daniel Bedinger (7) of "Bedford", Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), a gifted writer and poet, the youngest of the three Brothers of the Revolution, author of "The Cossack Celebration" and a diary of his journey "Down the Mississippi to the Gulph of Mexico" in 1811-1812. An ardent patriot and Jeffersonian Republican and an active participant in the politics of his day who believed it not only the right, but the duty of every citizen, to express his own opinions giving just cause, without of offence to anyone, no matter how widely we may differ on political subjects.
January 26, 2015: Publication of a sketch of Serena Katherine Dandridge (356), known as "Miss Violet", a talented artist, writer, and poet. She may have been thought to be eccentric, but she was loved by her friends and all the townspeople who knew of her acts of unselfish generosity to the less fortunate, her reverence for nature, and her determination to stand for a just cause. Special thanks are due to the Historic Shepherdstown Commission for access to the family files from which so much of the material in this page is drawn.
December 21, 2014: Publication of "The Cossack Celebration", the Poetic Legacy of Daniel Bedinger. “The Cossack Celebration” and the attendant prose which Daniel Bedinger (7) wrote in a few short weeks in 1814 comprise the major part of his literary writings that have been preserved. "The Cossack Celebration" was widely regarded as a forceful work of political satire on a issue of national importance.
December 12, 2014: Publication of a sketch on Margery Bedinger (355), librarian and author, a lady who loved her work, was a devoted traveler, completed difficult assignments with professionalism and ready to meet new challenges. She found the work of a librarian to be an exciting profession. Her interests and activities were diverse and challenging. As a young lady she was active in advocating for women's suffrage; she was the first woman director of the library at West Point; she was an expert on Indian silver jewelry; and, she was an adventurous world traveler visiting and working in such places as Turkey, Japan, Egypt, England and South Africa.
July 28-30, 2014: In 1779, George Michael Bedinger (6) was on the expedition to Kentucky with other men from Shepherdstown, Virginia. While there, he engaged in defending Boonesborough from the Indians whom the British engaged to harass and murder the American colonial settlers. George Michael volunteered, as a Major, to join Maj. John Bowman's raid on the Indian settlement at Chillicothe north of the Ohio River in what is now Ohio. In view of the prominent participation of George Michael in the revolutionary battles on the frontier, the page formerly called "Expedition to Kentucky" has been revised and is now entitled "War on the Frontier".
July 17, 2014: Addition of a biography of Henry Bedinger (4), the oldest son of Henry Bedinger(1) and Mary Magdalena von Schlegel(S1). The early years of Henry Bedinger, his brothers, sisters and parents in Shepherdstown are sketched in the Americanization of the Bedingers. The account of Henry Bedinger and his brothers George Michael(6) and Daniel(7) during the Revolutionary War is told in several pages in this website beginning with Brothers of the Revolution.
May 22, 2014: Addition of a biography on the life of Robert Rutherford. The biography is the most definitive exposition of the life of this pioneer of the lower Shenandoah Valley and Colonial Patriot. The paper, which has not been published elsewhere, is extensively researched and engagingly written by Rudolf Loeser who has generously permitted the publication of his paper in this website.
April 22, 2014: Publication of pages on Westmoreland Resolutions, Virginia Conventions and Declaration of Independence, and biography of Richard Henry Lee. Richard Henry Lee was the author of the Westmoreland Resolutions, presented the motion for Independence of the colonies to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
April 20, 2014: Publication of revised European Origin of the Bedinger Family. The page now includes a history of the city of Büdingen, the ancestral home of the Bedinger family in Germany, lineage of the Lords Von Büdingen, Büdingen and Isenburg-Büdingen coats of arms, Büdingen Castle and historical events during the late Medieval and Protestant Reformation in Europe that shaped and influenced the movements and immigration of the Bedinger family to America in 1737.
March 10, 2014: Publication of the outline of, Artists, Poets, Authors, a page to which will be added information on the art, poetry and writings of individual Bedinger descendants.
February 23, 2014: Publication of the biography of Colonel Samuel Washington. The biography was written by the highly respected and eminent Washington family historian John A. Washington who very generously welcomed the publication of the biography in this website. As a descendant of Samuel, I am very pleased that John has rescued the name of Col. Samuel Washington from obscurity known only as the "oldest full brother of George" and placed him in his rightful historical place, "... as a busy and active citizen and leader of his locality, with a life and career of his own, worth remembering for his own sake, ... ".
February 17, 2014: Publication of Bedingers in Kentucky During Slavery. I am very grateful to Ruth Wade Cox Brunings who did the excellent research and wrote the article from which I have excerpted this post. Ruth Brunings' full article was presented to the Boone County, Kentucky Historical Society in January 18, 1999 and is available on the web.
February 6, 2014: Publication of a sketch of the life of the attorney and judge Daniel Bedinger Lucas and his poetry and prose.
February 1, 2014: Publication of a brief sketch of the life and writing of Danske Dandridge. Danske was and accomplished writer of poetry, historical books and garden articles. Her three historical books and her collected papers including unpublished manuscripts and genealogical data in the Bedinger and Dandridge collection housed in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University have been of immense value in compiling the Bedinger genealogy and in preparing the articles in the website.
December 13, 2013: Publication of revised Mary Bedinger Mitchell web page.
December 6, 2013: Publication of the Griffith family web page.
November 18, 2013: Publication of the Washington family web page.
December 12, 2014: Publication of a sketch on Margery Bedinger (355), librarian and author, a lady who loved her work, was a devoted traveler, completed difficult assignments with professionalism and ready to meet new challenges. She found the work of a librarian to be an exciting profession. Her interests and activities were diverse and challenging. As a young lady she was active in advocating for women's suffrage; she was the first woman director of the library at West Point; she was an expert on Indian silver jewelry; and, she was an adventurous world traveler visiting and working in such places as Turkey, Japan, Egypt, England and South Africa.
July 28-30, 2014: In 1779, George Michael Bedinger (6) was on the expedition to Kentucky with other men from Shepherdstown, Virginia. While there, he engaged in defending Boonesborough from the Indians whom the British engaged to harass and murder the American colonial settlers. George Michael volunteered, as a Major, to join Maj. John Bowman's raid on the Indian settlement at Chillicothe north of the Ohio River in what is now Ohio. In view of the prominent participation of George Michael in the revolutionary battles on the frontier, the page formerly called "Expedition to Kentucky" has been revised and is now entitled "War on the Frontier".
July 17, 2014: Addition of a biography of Henry Bedinger (4), the oldest son of Henry Bedinger(1) and Mary Magdalena von Schlegel(S1). The early years of Henry Bedinger, his brothers, sisters and parents in Shepherdstown are sketched in the Americanization of the Bedingers. The account of Henry Bedinger and his brothers George Michael(6) and Daniel(7) during the Revolutionary War is told in several pages in this website beginning with Brothers of the Revolution.
May 22, 2014: Addition of a biography on the life of Robert Rutherford. The biography is the most definitive exposition of the life of this pioneer of the lower Shenandoah Valley and Colonial Patriot. The paper, which has not been published elsewhere, is extensively researched and engagingly written by Rudolf Loeser who has generously permitted the publication of his paper in this website.
April 22, 2014: Publication of pages on Westmoreland Resolutions, Virginia Conventions and Declaration of Independence, and biography of Richard Henry Lee. Richard Henry Lee was the author of the Westmoreland Resolutions, presented the motion for Independence of the colonies to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
April 20, 2014: Publication of revised European Origin of the Bedinger Family. The page now includes a history of the city of Büdingen, the ancestral home of the Bedinger family in Germany, lineage of the Lords Von Büdingen, Büdingen and Isenburg-Büdingen coats of arms, Büdingen Castle and historical events during the late Medieval and Protestant Reformation in Europe that shaped and influenced the movements and immigration of the Bedinger family to America in 1737.
March 10, 2014: Publication of the outline of, Artists, Poets, Authors, a page to which will be added information on the art, poetry and writings of individual Bedinger descendants.
February 23, 2014: Publication of the biography of Colonel Samuel Washington. The biography was written by the highly respected and eminent Washington family historian John A. Washington who very generously welcomed the publication of the biography in this website. As a descendant of Samuel, I am very pleased that John has rescued the name of Col. Samuel Washington from obscurity known only as the "oldest full brother of George" and placed him in his rightful historical place, "... as a busy and active citizen and leader of his locality, with a life and career of his own, worth remembering for his own sake, ... ".
February 17, 2014: Publication of Bedingers in Kentucky During Slavery. I am very grateful to Ruth Wade Cox Brunings who did the excellent research and wrote the article from which I have excerpted this post. Ruth Brunings' full article was presented to the Boone County, Kentucky Historical Society in January 18, 1999 and is available on the web.
February 6, 2014: Publication of a sketch of the life of the attorney and judge Daniel Bedinger Lucas and his poetry and prose.
February 1, 2014: Publication of a brief sketch of the life and writing of Danske Dandridge. Danske was and accomplished writer of poetry, historical books and garden articles. Her three historical books and her collected papers including unpublished manuscripts and genealogical data in the Bedinger and Dandridge collection housed in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University have been of immense value in compiling the Bedinger genealogy and in preparing the articles in the website.
December 13, 2013: Publication of revised Mary Bedinger Mitchell web page.
December 6, 2013: Publication of the Griffith family web page.
November 18, 2013: Publication of the Washington family web page.
October 1, 2013: Initial publication of website. The painting in the masthead is by Albert Bierstadt depicting Bartholomew Gosnold at Cuttyhunk in 1602. The initial publication included pages on the European ancestry of the Bedinger and Von Schlegel families, the early Bedinger family in Shepherdstown, conditions on the Virginia frontier during the French and Indian War, the Bedinger brothers of the American Revolution, George Michael Bedinger's expedition to Boonesborough, Kentucky, the ancestry of related families, and biographical sketches of several Bedingers and Bedinger ancestors. The genealogical work on the Bedinger Family is an ongoing effort. Notices of new posts to the website will be given as additional topics are prepared.