News
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Sunday, May 1, 2022: A new month and the Isham Farm is coming alive with Mike and Helen planting more Christmas trees and preparing the farm to spring to life in all its color and beauty. Plans are being made for the Farm Market and the variety of activities inside and out at the Barn. It won't be long before Elaine and I are back in Vermont to enjoy the summer. Hope to see as many as we can.
This weekend while I was organizing my files I ran across notes from Ginger Isham that reported Richard Allen, a former Williston teacher and author of many Williston books, had found an ad for the sale of the Hiram Murray Homestead. The ad in the Burlington Free Press ran for several months in the summer of 1871. If you would like to view the ad for yourself follow this link to the Isham Family website.
Thursday, April 7, 2022: Wow! It has been more than a year since I last updated the Isham website. Even though content has not been added to the site, I continue to be busy behind the scenes gathering more information on our family. With generous donations of photos from Shirley Miles, Ginger Isham, Colleen Miles, and many of you in the family I have begun the massive task of organizing the family photos. There are hundreds of photos beginning with Jairus David Isham through the youngest Isham family member I have on record Elsie Louise Jones born November 8, 2021. Sorting and identifying names, dates, and locations has been lots of fun, but very time-consuming. With today's website update, I have included photos from only two people: George Cronk Isham and Marion Charlotte Isham (Streeter). There are two albums for each of them. The individual Youth Albums have photos which are generally from birth to high school age and the Adult Albums are all the other photos of their lives. Please visit the Isham Family Photo Albums page for a more in-depth explanation of the albums. At any time you notice an inaccuracy in identification or if you have additional photos please send them to me at jisham@madriver.com.
The second big accomplishment this year was having our own domain created for the Williston Isham Ancestors site. www.isham.family
Please continue exploring the site and sending additional stories, information, and photos!
Thursday, March 18, 2021: It is has been a while since I have updated the information on this site. It has been quite a year for all of us. There are a few things added this week. Under the Table of Contents heading, you will see a new page titled Summary of the Williston Isham Generations which includes a short summary of each Isham generation. There are links to each of the generations on the page to allow you to navigate to a particular generation. At the bottom of the page, you will find an explanation of the numbers you find next to every person's name. Hopefully, this will help you understand the method of the numbers.
We are living through a significant event of our lifetime with the Covid-19 Pandemic. For history's sake, it would be valuable to add some stories about how we as the Isham Family have been affected by this past year's Pandemic and maybe what we can do in the coming years to celebrate our survival.
The Birthday Page has been modified. You will notice when you navigate to that page the current month's calendar will appear. Names are listed under their birthdays for the month. If you click on a person's name you will find the year they were born and their Index Number. If you look at the top right of the calendar you will see a tab that says Agenda. If you click on that tab you will see the birthdays in a list.
Additionally, I have tried to simplify the navigation on many of the pages to make it less cumbersome. Let me know if that works better.
Please send any information you would like to add to our history for others to enjoy to me at jisham@madriver.com or send by mail if it is easier. I would like to thank Ginger Isham and Shirley Miles for their stories and photos they have sent to me in the past few months. When you see either one please thank them for their information.
Monday, December 7, 2020: This week I have added some new content under the Generation 11 tab. Each of the 50 Generation 11 cousins have a page with information I have compiled about you and her family. Cousins this is our Generation and there is lots of information missing! As I have told others I would rather have the true information from you, BUT I can insert some juicy and exciting nonfiction in your biography if you prefer! Seriously if you don't know what to send me here are a few suggestions to send to me at jisham@madriver.com If you have some photos you would like to share for your page please send them along!
Questions to consider but not limited to only these: What I am looking for about you:
Place of birth
Education - elementary, high school, college, military service
Work experiences
Where you have lived
Anything you want others to know about you
Memories or information about your parents and spouse
Memories of the Isham farm and family
Don't forget to check out the Birthday List for December! Never know who you will find.
You may noticed I have reorganized a few sections and added a couple of new features. When there is an arrow beside someone's name it means there is additional information about that person. Just click on the arrow and you will see the additional page. If you notice any errors, omissions or you have more information, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner of the document that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Thursday November 19, 2020: This week I have added some new content under the Extra features tab. Updated information was added to the Shirley Miles and Evelyn McSweeney pages. Generations 11, 12 and 13 have been added. The newest section has lots of photos thanks to Mike Isham. Under the Extra Features section you will find our beloved Old Sugarhouse where Mike Isham has begun a restoration project.
With Thanksgiving coming up at the end of the month check out Thanksgiving Memories shared by Truman Isham under his web page. You can also click on one of the underlined titles in this section to go directly to the page. Does anyone have photos of the Thanksgiving celebrations at the farm? It would be great to be able to add a few to the web site. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hopefully, next Thanksgiving Truman can have the celebration at his house again!
Don't forget to check out the Birthday List for November! Never know who you will find.
You may noticed I have reorganized a few sections and added a couple of new features. When there is an arrow beside someone's name it means there is additional information about that person. Just click on the arrow and you will see the additional page. If you notice any errors, omissions or you have more information, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner of the document that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Sunday November 1, 2020: This week I have added some new content under the Extra features tab. You will discover some stories and memories shared by Ginger Isham, Todd Isham and Kevin McSweeney. Also included in today's updates is an interview of George Edson Isham by Jean Isham. With Thanksgiving coming up at the end of the month check out Thanksgivng Memories shared by Truman Isham under his web page. You can also click on one of the underlined titles in this section to go directly to the page.
Don't forget to check out the Birthday List for November! Never know who you will find.
You may noticed I have reorganized a few sections and added a couple of new features. When there is an arrow beside someone's name it means there is additional information about that person. Just click on the arrow and you will see the additional page. If you notice any errors, omissions or you have more information, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner of the document that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Tuesday October 27, 2020: This week I have added some new content. Under the Extra features tab there is a History of the Williston Isham Farm. Included with the history is the application of the Murray-Isham Farm to be placed on the US National Register of Historic Places. Lots of details about the house and barn can be found in the application along with some photos taken by Jane Williamson.
You may have noticed I have reorganized a few sections and added a couple of new features. When there is an arrow beside someone's name it means there is additional information about that person. Just click on the arrow and you will see the additional page. If you notice any errors, omissions or you have more information, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner of the document that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Saturday October 10, 2020: Now the fun begins. Generation 10 has been uploaded to the web site. Your work begins now. There is lots of information but it does not cover everything about generation 10 lives. Please send more complete information to me to add. You may have noticed I have reorganized a few sections and added a couple of new features. When there is an arrow beside someone's name it means there is additional information about that person. Just click on the arrow and you will see the additional page. If you notice any errors, omissions or you have more information, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner of the document that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Monday October 5, 2020: Today birthdays of all the Williston Ishams and their Ancestors were added to the site. If you notice any errors or omissions, please send a message to me at jisham@madriver.com If you would like to print off any of the pages on this site click on the icon in the upper right corner that is a square shape with a upward diagonal arrow.
Monday September 28, 2020: I hope everyone found the Williston Isham Website interesting and you will be back again. The plan is to upload Generation 10 Basic information this week. Pictures and other information will be added in the near future.
Sunday September 27, 2020: Williston Ishams Ancestors Web Site went live with basic information on Generations 1 to 9.