Forthcoming titles from Victoria Rumble & Thistle Dew Books:

Expected release date:   winter of 2009

Guardian Angels: A History of the Killen Family Along with allied and related families

By:  Victoria R. Rumble

Guardian Angels was initially published in 1995, and is now out of print, however Victoria is in the process of updating the book and the updated version will be available on CD-ROM through this website once the editing has been completed.

Estimated cost for the CD’s is roughly $15. with $4. for shipping and handling.

All ordering information will be posted to the website when available.

Extra families are being added which were not in the first edition, and a great deal of information is being added on the families in the original book.  For example,

Victoria has traced the McDougal family to the year 150 AD. 

Any Killen descendant, or descendant of an allied or related family, is welcome to

submit information for the new edition.  It can be sent via email to thistledewbooks@comcast.net

or by mail to P. O. Box 2634, Florence, AL  35633.  When the edition is ready for release orders may be sent through this address as well.

In a nut shell, the book traces the Killen family through three brothers who came to the

U.S. in 1750, William, Thomas, and Adam Killen.  Allied and related families include:

McDougal; Richardson; Springer; Gresham; Fulks; Morrison; Gray; Mitchell; Green;

Thornton; Powell; Poteet; Phillips; Cole; Smith; and numerous others.

The Evolution of Salads in America
(tentative title)

By:  Victoria R. Rumble

 This is a companion book to Victoria’s Soup Through the Ages:  A Culinary

History with Period Recipes, released spring of 2009, published by McFarland Publishing Co., Jefferson, NC.  Salads will follow a similar format with a thorough history of salads from pre-Biblical eras through present.  Victoria invites you to follow the book’s progress from this website and from that of McFarland Publishing Co.