Names We Carry
Every family has stories. Some are treasured. Some are forgotten. Some were never meant to be discovered. In Names We Carry, genealogist Donna Miller explores the people behind the names—through family history, DNA discoveries, historical records, and the unexpected twists that connect us to generations past. These are stories about identity, memory, mystery, and the lives that made us who we are.
Episodes
It all started with a handsome college friend named Newton and a warning from Grandma Beverly: “I hope you're not dating him, Donna, because he's your cousin.”
As it turns out, Grandma knew exactly what she was talking about.
In this episode of Names We Carry, Donna follows a tangled trail of family connections from Vir...
Simeon Moore and the Opening of the Western Frontier
What happens when an ancestor seems to turn up everywhere you look?
When Donna Miller began searching for the parents of her third great-grandmother, Catherine Moore Green, she found a collection of online family trees that agreed on almost everything—except the evidence. T...
What do a seven-foot musket, a washtub, and a hole used to store potatoes have to do with nearly four hundred years of family history?
In this episode of Names We Carry, Donna follows the story of her ancestor Sarah Woodson, whose family arrived in Virginia in 1619 and survived two devastating attacks on the English settlements al...
Welcome to Names We Carry.
In this premiere episode, I’m introducing myself—and the kinds of stories I’ve spent more than a decade uncovering.
It begins with a genealogical brick wall and a road trip to a tiny Kentucky town, where I arrived just days after an 1850s boardinghouse had been demolished. What remained ...
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