INDXR® This is the opening page to the INDXR®. Click on the links below to read about our webmaster's books, then click here to open INDXR, your portal to e-Lynks, an incredibly useful alphabetized portal-directory to hundreds of popular web site categories. The Books The Vaughan Family in Wales and America  is a 2008 update of a family history first published in 1990 by Higginson Book Company of Salem, Massachusetts. Originally conceived as a "search for the Welsh ancestors of William Vaughan (1750-1840)," this book became a global search for Vaughans of all seasons. Revised in 1992, this 2009 edition has been further revised by the author, 83 year-old James E. Vaughan, for publication and distribution by Trafford Publishing of 2657 Wilfert Road, Victoria BC CANADA V9B 5Z3, the publisher of his historical novels The Alchymist and The Silurist, and Diana and Leo. To learn more about this book and its availability, click here, and then return to this site via your browser's back button to continue to this personal family web site. The Alchymist and The Silurist is a new historical novel based on the lives of 17th-century Welsh twins Thomas and Henry Vaughan, distant kinsmen of the author. Members of a family with a tradition of strong Loyalist ties, the twins interrupted their studies at Oxford to join their Cousin Colonel Herbert Price during the Parliamentarian and Puritan uprising. Following military service, Henry took up work as a physician, while Thomas, now a defrocked Anglican minister, took up the study of alchemy and sought the key to the fabled philosopher's stone in the king's laboratory at Whitehall in London. The attention of the author was first drawn to his distant Welsh kinsmen while browsing in Robert Vaughan's antiquarian bookshop in Stratford. Click here. Stories of the controversial alchymist Thomas Vaughan were revived some two hundred years after his death by a roguish French writer named Gabrielle Jogand-Pages, who created elaborate hoaxes, pitting Freemasons against Catholics. Writing under various pseudonyms, he published a series of salacious stories about a young American girl named Diana Vaughan, who had journeyed to Paris hoping to prove her kinship to the 17th-century Welsh scientist. This book, Diana and Leo, the sequel to The Alchymist and The Silurist, is now available from the publisher, Trafford Publishing. Click here for details. Our INDXR webmaster, James Vaughan, grew up in Van Lear, a company-built coal town in eastern Kentucky. In his eyes, Van Lear was a unique, a great place to "grow up in" despite The Great Depression and human tragedy. Van Lear's athletic teams were nicknamed BANKMULES, the title of Vaughan's new book, which KENTUCKY MONTHLY described as "a gem of a memoir." One Kentucky reader described it as a "beautiful book of unusual perfection." The Hardin County Kentucky News-Enterprise refers to it as "an uplifting book." If you wish to learn more about BANKMULES from the publisher (The Jesse Stuart Foundation), click here. and then return to this site. To enter INDXR®--your portal to the e-Lynks data base--click here. © Copyright 1999-2009 Delapress, Inc. All Rights Reserved. GOOGLE is a registered trademark of GOOGLE, Inc. LYCOS. Is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. INDXR.COM is a registered trademark of Delapress, Inc. E-lynks is a trademark of Delapress, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.