Sands Family History and Genealogy

By Douglas Dubrish and Douglas M. Dubrish

From eighteenth-century Scotland to the Appalachian frontier and beyond, Sands Family History and Genealogy tells the story of a family shaped by immigration, perseverance, hardship, and more than three centuries of American history.

Beginning with William Sands, a bookseller, publisher, and civic official in eighteenth-century Edinburgh, this family history follows the Sands family across the Atlantic and into the developing American colonies. William's son, William Mathew Sands, arrived in Pennsylvania on the eve of the American Revolution, beginning a new chapter for the family in America.
As succeeding generations moved south and west into the Appalachian region, the Sands family experienced the challenges of frontier life, including the uncertainties of settlement, Native American conflict, disease, economic hardship, and the gradual transformation of the young nation. Family tradition preserves the poignant story of Levicy Fields, who, as a young child, reportedly survived an Indian attack that claimed the lives of members of her family.
The story continues through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, following the Sands family through West Virginia's settlement and statehood, the Civil War, changing transportation and communication, devastating epidemics, two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the remarkable technological changes of the modern era.

This is more than a collection of names, dates, and family trees. Each generation is placed within the historical world in which its members lived. Births, marriages, deaths, occupations, residences, and family relationships are brought together with historical events and circumstances that help explain what life was like for those who came before us.
Where documentation is strong, the evidence is presented clearly. Where family traditions or uncertain conclusions remain, they are identified as such rather than presented as established fact.

Ultimately, Sands Family History and Genealogy is a record of ordinary people who lived through extraordinary times-people whose choices, struggles, and perseverance carried the Sands family from Scotland to America and through generations of change.

Their lives are our history. This book is an effort to make sure their story is not forgotten.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PMNK48
• ISBN13: 9798634976112
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"