My genealogy pages are sections of a very large family album that I and my family have assembled over several years. My personal interests, my family's research and the resulting material covers the following families although these surnames are by no means all-encompassing.

Barham......ancestors and descendents of Captain Charles Barham who came to Virginia in 1653 and settled in Surry County, across the river from Jamestown Island. I find it amazing that most Barhams in America today are descended from Charles Barham. Woodard......ancestors and descendents of William Woodard who came to the colonies in 1724. It is reasonably well-documented that William ran away from his home in Dublin, Ireland, at the age of fourteen, found his way to Virginia and served as an indentured servent on a large plantation for seven years. He then moved to the Piedmont area of the Shenandoah Valley, near present day Sperryville, where he began the Woodard line of Rappahannock County, Virginia. Reichenbach......ancestors and descendents of Frederick Christian Reichenbach, Jr. who immigrated to America from Tilsit, East Prussia. Reichenbachs, before and since, have been involved in music and musical instruments. Frederick and his wife, Catherine, owned a piano store in Washington, DC, until their deaths. Kamm.....ancestors and descendents of Herman Kamm who immigrated to America from Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, about 1883. Suter.....ancestors and descendents of Johan Nicholas Suter who immigrated to America from Pferdfeld, Germany.

Our family database contains well over 23,000 individuals and and nearly 4,000 surnames. Thanks to my wife Shirley, my brother Billy and my sisters Barbara and Gail for all of the information they've given me and the contributions they've made to this material. Billy's Family Tree Maker database is huge and was, in fact, the force that got me interested in genealogy. Barbara's photographs, documentation, notes and anecdotes, accumulated over several decades, are all excellent and have been invaluable. Shirley has spent hundreds of hours helping me, advising me and travelling with me. I've been digitizing all of our family records and photographs and saving them to backup hard disks and DVDs. I recently obtained a domain name of my own (www.barham-history.net) and signed up with a web hosting service where I have plenty of space. I've since added much of my database and plan to add additional information and photographs soon. Thanks for stopping and return often. I hope the information is helpful to you

My Photographs The photographs on the following pages have been taken over the last fifty years. I'm very proud of many of them and not so proud of others, but still, I hope you enjoy looking anyway. The archives are a mix of older film-based photos and newer digital photos, many of which I copied from slides and negatives. For many years I used Nikon SLRs, along with many accessory lenses, but during the past ten or fifteen years my involvement in digital photography has increased, taking me from a Minolta D7 to a Panasonic FX-20 and finally to a Pentax DSLR, along with accessory lens and a good flash unit. A bit sadly and like most everyone these days, I no longer use film-based cameras. My wife, who had to be dragged, screaming and kicking, into the digital camera world recently got a Canon Powershot digital camera for Christmas. Thankfully, she is now a true believer. I doubt that she'll ever use her old Olympus film cameras again, she's so taken with the size, the quality and the number of images she gets on a secure digital memory card. She now realizes that she won't have to waste so many shots, shooting duplicates and triplicates of each image and, hopefully, she'll no longer accumulate thousands of negatives, stored in boxes all over the house. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy your visit. If you're a photographer I'd appreciate hearing your comments regarding my photographs. If you're a Barham and/or a genealogist I'd also like to hear your comments. Please enjoy your visit. Daniel Barham, Jr.

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