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GENERAL REFERENCE

Computers
Web Publishing for Genealogy. Second Edition, by Peter Christian
This book offers guidance in how to get started in publishing your genealogy on the Web. Author Peter Christian explains what the World Wide Web is, why the Web is especially useful for genealogists, how Web pages work, what you need for Web publishing, and the process of Web publishing itself.
Was $10.95 Now $5.50

Families
Portrait of My Family, by F. Michael Carroll
This all-purpose family album contains pages pertaining to virtually every relationship, artifact, and activity of family life.
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The Washingtons and Their Homes, by John W. Wayland
John Wayland recounts the Washington family history by taking us on a tour of their legendary homesteads. There are chapters on "Wakefield," the birthplace of George Washington, "The Rose of Epping Forest," the historic homestead of George's mother, Mary Ball, and eighteen more Washington homes. Of historical and genealogical value is the compendium of 400 biographical sketches of the Washingtons, a chronology of 244 incidents in Washington history, and a complete index.
Was $38.95 Now $19.50

Folk Music
Slave Songs of the United States. With a new Introduction by W.K. McNeil, by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
This extraordinary anthology of antebellum slave songs provides musical settings for 136 musical texts and variants, in the process devoting much commentary to the regional variations in black folk music, the performance social settings, and the distinctiveness of the Negro singing style.
Was $29.95 Now $14.95

Hispanic
Census Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States, by Lyman D. Platt
This is the largest and most complete survey of census records available for Latin America and the Hispanic U.S. The result of exhaustive research in Hispanic archives, it contains a roster of approximately 4,000 separate censuses, each listed by country and thereunder alphabetically by locality, province, year, and reference locator. 1
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Humor
Further Undertakings of a Dead Relative Collector, by Laverne Galeener-Moore
Here she comes again, in her second book of genealogy humor, mercilessly stripping away the veneer covering the world of genealogy. The author penetrates the inner sanctum of American genealogy, smoking out baloney and quackery in the lecture halls, libraries, and reading rooms of genealogy sanctuaries across America. With a humorous swipe at computer freaks, reluctant letter-writers, and certain best-forgotten ancestors--not to mention the hell-on-earth when the microfilm reader is on the fritz--our good lady is out to unmask the dragons of genealogy pretensions.
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Immigration
Nineteen-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern (Hunsrueck), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, to Brazil, England,
Russian Poland, and the United States of America, by Clifford Neal Smith
This booklet is part of a series of reprints based on the immigration research of the late Clifford Neal Smith. The compiler, who was also an authority on 18th- and 19th-century American land policy and settlements on federal land, dedicated much of his working life to unearthing little-known or inaccessible 19th-century immigration records. Mr. Smith extracted the names in the Kreis Simmern/Rheinland-Pfalz booklet from two articles published in Germany in 1935 and 1938. Approximately 56% of these individuals emigrated to the U.S., 37% to Brazil, and 5% to England.
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Land
Owner Unknown: Your Guide to Real Estate Treasure Hunting, by Jay D. Segel
With the aid of public records, particularly tax records and probate files, it's very possible to find a parcel of owner-unknown land, identify a previous owner, determine the last known owner, trace the heirs, and acquire deeds to the tract from these heirs. Your skills, diligence, and commitment to project resolution can pay dividends in pleasure and profit.
Was $19.95 Now $8.95

Lineage and Hereditary Societies
Hereditary Society Blue Book, 1994 Edition, by Robert R. Davenport
This publication furnishes information on no fewer than 147 lineage organizations, their officers, and other members. In this sense it is both an annual Who's Who among lineage society members and a guidebook for learning about the purpose of each organization and how to contact it.
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Military
Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, by Francis B. Heitman. Two Volumes
This list gives the officers' full names and shows their services as cadets and officers in the regular or volunteer army. Part II is an alphabetical listing of the officers that includes some 60,000 entries. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer and gives his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and-in about one fifth of the entries-date of death after leaving the army.
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Native American
Eastern Cherokee Census, Cherokee, North Carolina, 1915-1922, Taken by Agent James E. Henderson, by Jeff Bowen
This is a transcription of the first two years (1915-1916), the third and fourth year (1917-1918), and the fifth and sixth year (1919-1920) of a census of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from Cherokee, North Carolina, living on the reservation known as the Qualla Boundary. Individuals enumerated in the census are descendants of the Cherokees who were not removed to Indian Territory during the period 1838-1839 in the migration known as the Trail of Tears.
Volume III (1919-1920): Was $25.50 Now $12.75
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WORLD LOCALITIES

Canada
Early Ontario Settlers: A Source Book, by Norman K. Crowder
This source book contains official records of the early settlers of Upper Canada, or Ontario. The core of the work consists of two provisioning, or ration, lists for 1784 and 1786, which provide the name of the head of household, place of settlement, and statistical details of the family. Most of the settlers named in the records were from the American colonies, and a very substantial proportion were from New York, especially from the Albany area and the Mohawk Valley.
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Ontario People: 1796-1803. With Introduction and Index by Norman K. Crowder, by E. Keith Fitzgerald
After the American Revolution, several thousand families came to settle in the western part of Quebec, later called Upper Canada, then Canada West, and today Ontario. These settlers were former members of American Loyalist regiments, discharged British and German servicemen, and some civilians and refugees. They were offered grants of 200 acres of land on condition that they take an oath of allegiance and remain loyal to the British regime. Subsequently, thousands of settlers appeared before the magistrates in district courts throughout Upper Canada. The magistrates provided additional information in the records, which have been preserved in the National Archives of Canada and are usually called the District Loyalist Rolls of 1796. These rolls have been carefully transcribed for the first time by Dr. E. Keith Fitzgerald, who has supplemented the 4,000 entries with further data from his own research.
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England, Ireland, and Scotland
Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles, Fifth Edition, by Colin R. Chapman
Mr. Chapman describes hundreds of pre-1841 name lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. He has interwoven simple enumerations of people, even surveys and numbers of houses, with detailed listings that furnish names, ages, addresses, occupations, religious affiliations, and more. The author has appended a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, he has added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831. This fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland, making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841.
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Genealogical Resources in English Repositories, by Joy Wade Moulton
This work pinpoints the location of original records, microfilm, transcripts, and printed resources in the key record repositories and libraries in England. Two distinct lists of resources are given for most repositories. One includes those items that tie an individual to a specific location. The second includes classes of records and printed materials with information that may provide vital data and/or prove family relationships. Included is a Supplement to Genealogical Resources in English Repositories and a 1996 Supplement update.
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The Jacobite Peerage. Baronetage, Knightage & Grants of Honour, by Melville Henry Massue, Marquis de Ravigny & Raineval
Between 1688 and 1784, James II of England (VII of Scotland) and his successors in exile (Bonnie Prince Charlie, etc.) retained the plenary authority to bestow nobiliary and chivalric honors. The first part of this volume contains an alphabetical list of all titles known to have been bestowed between Dec. 11, 1688 and Nov. 4, 1784, the date of the last title conferred by Charles III. A biographical and genealogical account is given for each peer and baronet, together with the names of their children. The second part, dealing with court appointments and chivalric honors, contains lists of the knights created by the Stuarts; persons to whom certificates of noblesse were granted; household, diplomatic, and consular appointments; Catholic archbishops, bishops, and vicars-apostolic nominated by James II (VII) and by James III (VIII); and those who received naval and military commissions.
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Genealogical Research in England's Public Record Office. A Guide for North Americans, Second Edition, by Judith Prowse Reid and Simon Fowler
The purpose of this book is to help North Americans make the most effective use of the records of the Public Record Office in England, one of the richest genealogical repositories in the world.
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Land Owners in Ireland 1876
In 1873 clerks of Ireland's various Poor Law Unions drew up lists of the owners of land of one acre or more from the property valuation and rate books in their custody. These lists, forming the basis of this book, include the names of small land owners as well as large--owners of modest acres as well as great estates--and they stand as a census of a significant proportion of the population of Ireland in 1876.
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American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800, by David Dobson
Scotland's High Court of the Admiralty, which was established in the mid-15th century, had jurisdiction over civil, criminal, and prize matters on the high seas. The earliest extant records of the Admiralty Court date from 1657 and are housed in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. For this book, the indefatigable David Dobson has culled the records of the High Court of the Admiralty-mostly from the court's Register of Decrees-for any reference to America between the years 1675 and 1800. The several hundred abstracts transcribed here concern cases dealing with pirates, privateers, colonial merchants, emigrants, slavers, and seafarers. These records are important because they identify the Scottish merchants and mariners who were trading with colonial America as well as the Scottish agents and their servants who, as Mr. Dobson has said, "formed the vanguard of subsequent settlement there." In all, nearly 3,000 Scotsmen with a maritime connection to the New World, who would otherwise be lost to our knowledge, have been rescued by Mr. Dobson in these abstracts.
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Scots Heraldry. A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science. 2nd, Revised and Enlarged, Edition, by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney
This is the standard reference work on all aspects of Scottish heraldry with complete details on the history, science, and practice. It contains abundant references to original sources of information and full details on the procedure for obtaining a grant of arms. The plates include reproductions of heraldic bookplates, extracts of matriculations of arms, birthbrieves, genealogical trees, and illustrations of heraldic design in architecture.
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The Scotch-Irish or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, by Charles A. Hanna. Two Volumes
This is the basic sourcebook on the Scotch-Irish in America, a massive compilation of source records pertaining to the Scots who settled in the north of Ireland and their descendants in America.
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An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783, by John P. MacLean
This book presents an interesting account of Highland emigration, giving first an overview of the Highlanders of Scotland and then a description of the events that led to the various emigration and resettlement schemes, subsequently detailing the history of Highland settlements in the American colonies and Highlander participation in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. Throughout are lists of early land grants, petitioners, and officers of Highland regiments, as well as a number of biographical sketches of distinguished Highlanders.
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Germany/Palatine
Palatine Church Visitations, 1609. Deanery of Kusel, by Ricardo W. Staudt
The district of Kusel was situated in the western part of the German Palatinate, from which area came many early emigrants to America. Considering the almost permanent residence of the Palatines in a given area (prior to emigration), the proof that a particular name occurs in an early visitation, as this publication does for Kusel, is almost sufficient evidence of the linkage between the emigrant and his forebears-a full century before the great period of emigration. Later generations of these families can be found among the passenger lists in Strassburger and Hinke's Pennsylvania German Pioneers.
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UNITED STATES

New England
Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, by Charles Edward Banks
This "Dictionary" contains genealogical records of nearly 3,000 emigrants, giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information derived. Col. Banks searched the records of nearly 2,000 parishes in England to connect the New England immigrants with their native parishes. Additional information is provided in a series of indexes: Index to Emigrants to New England; Index of the Wives and Children of the Emigrants; Index of Parishes; Index of Ships; and Index of Towns in New England.
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Connecticut
History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield [Connecticut]. Volume I and Volume II, Parts 1 and 2,
Donald Lines Jacobus, 2 vols. in 3
This work is the ultimate authority on the ancestry and relationships of approximately 50,000 residents of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Each family history begins with the original 17th-century settler and is brought down, in most cases, to the early decades of the 19th century.
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Revolutionary War Records of Fairfield, Connecticut, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus and abstracted by Kate S. Curry
Covering hundreds of Revolutionary War veterans of Fairfield, Connecticut, this book contains abstracts of pension records that were originally on file at the old Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C., including soldiers' and widows' applications, bounty land warrants, and rejected pension applications. The abstracts include some or all of the following data: name of pension applicant, place and date of birth, age, dates of enlistment and discharge, service record (sometimes very detailed but always interesting), place of residence before and after service, distinguishing characteristics, name of spouse, date of marriage, names of children, and names of parents and other family members. In addition to the pension abstracts, this work also contains an exhaustive collection of muster rolls of Fairfield soldiers in the militia and Continental Army.
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Delaware
Index to the 1850 Census of Delaware, by Virginia L. Olmsted
This work is divided into three sections, for the counties of Kent, New Castle, and Sussex, each alphabetically arranged. Data for every person, which includes all household members, gives the age, place of birth, and the census sheet number of the original listing. Over 92,500 persons are named.
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Georgia
30,638 Burials in Georgia, Jeannette Holland Austin
This list of 30,638 burials in the state of Georgia was copied over a 35-year period from headstones and markers in 600 cemeteries located in nearly 100 Georgia counties. Arranged alphabetically by surname, entries include some or all of the following information: birth and death dates, names of parents and/or spouse, county, name of cemetery, and miscellaneous remarks such as armed forces affiliation.
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The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia, by Marie De Lamar and Elisabeth Rothstein
The compilers of this work extracted data found in wills, deeds, tax digests, court minutes, voters' lists, newspapers, and other contemporary records-records roughly contemporaneous with the 1790 census-and they have identified about 15,000 Georgians who were living at the time of the 1790 census. Counties covered include all of those formed before 1790, i.e. Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Franklin, Glynn, Greene, Liberty, Richmond, Washington, and Wilkes, as well as Columbia and Elbert counties, which were formed just after the census was taken.
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Kentucky
Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky and Their Descendants, by William C. Kozee
This massive compilation contains genealogies of the early families of eastern and southeastern Kentucky, the section originally encompassing the counties of Floyd, Knox, Greenup, and Clay. The genealogies refer to approximately 12,000 individuals, many of them worked through seven generations.
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"First Census" of Kentucky, 1790, by Charles Brunk Heinemann
The first two federal censuses of Kentucky no longer exist; therefore, this "first census" of 1790 was developed from tax lists rather than population schedules. Following the names of each of the 9,000 taxpayers are the name of the county of residence and the date of the return.
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Kentucky Pension Roll for 1835. Report from the Secretary of War, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States
This is a thoroughly comprehensive list of pensioners residing in Kentucky in 1835. The bulk of the book provides the following information, county by county, on each Kentucky pensioner living in 1835: name, rank, pension allowance, sums received, state of service, when placed on the pension roll, date pension commenced, age, and, on occasion, remarks such as date of death, date dropped from the rolls, and so on.
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Kentucky Colonization in Texas. A History of the Peters Colony, by Seymour V. Connor
Founded by W. S. Peters and a group of Kentucky businessmen, the Peters Colony provided for the settlement of vast tracts of land in northeastern Texas during the years 1842 to 1848, primarily in the present-day counties of Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, and Tarrant. The majority of the 2,000 persons who took up land there were from Kentucky and surrounding states, although the remainder were drawn from all over the country owing to the attraction of free land.
In this publication, which is reprinted from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, the author furnishes a history of the Peters Colony as well as a list of the colonists themselves.
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Maryland
Index to Marriages in the (Baltimore) Sun, 1851-1860 [Maryland], Thomas L. Hollowak
These marriage entries are arranged alphabetically by bridegrooms' surnames. Following is the Family Index, an index to brides and all other persons mentioned in the text. This work is the sequel to Mr. Hollowak's Index to Marriages and Deaths in the (Baltimore) Sun, 1837-1850, which is presently out of print.
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An Index of the Source Records of Maryland, by Eleanor Phillips Passano
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear.
Was $28.50 Now $14.25

Maryland Revolutionary Records, by Harry Wright Newman
This work derives from more than 3,000 Revolutionary War pension claims and bounty land applications. Part I, "Maryland Revolutionary Pensioners," gives the name of each veteran, date of birth, rank, name of the group in which he served, and the name of the pension applicant (the widow, for example). Part II, "Maryland Federal Bounty Land Grants," gives the name of each soldier, rank, acreage received, date the warrant was issued, and the warrant number. Part III is a list of Maryland soldiers who did not receive pensions but whose service has been established through records. Part IV is a list of marriages proved through Maryland pension applications, and Part V is a list of soldiers whose Revolutionary service was in states other than Maryland.
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Massachusetts
Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families. Part II of Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, by W. T. Davis
Originally published as Part II of Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, this is the most comprehensive register of Plymouth families ever assembled. It has the names of thousands of Mayflower and sister ship antecedents. The data is based largely on records of the town of Plymouth and draws on all marriage and birth records to the last quarter of the 19th century. Also, there is material from other town records, family Bibles, probate records, and the Registry of Deeds.
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Mayflower Source Records from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
This work covers the area of Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable (Cape Cod) counties and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, where the majority of the descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims had settled by the end of the 18th century. The data consists of church records, vital records, cemetery inscriptions, and probate records.
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Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Goodwin Davis (1885-1966). A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants) compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963. 3 vols., by Walter Goodwin Davis, with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts
Reprinted in these three volumes are 17 books that comprise one of the major achievements of 20th-century genealogy-the multi-ancestor compendium (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants, 1930) compiled and published by Walter Goodwin Davis between 1916 and 1963. These 2,100 fully indexed pages cover 180 families, all of Davis's colonial forebears plus nineteen English families in the immediate ancestry of American immigrants. Thus, this work is largely a compendium on "north of Boston" families. Those with considerable New England ancestry-and as many as 100 million living Americans, about 40 percent of the population, have some colonial New England forebears-will descend from one or more of the 180 families herein.
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Suffolk County Wills. Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, from
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Based on a long series of will abstracts that appeared over a period of 45 years in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, this work encompasses what amounts to the first 30 years or so of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, estate records (1640-1670). Altogether, the series refers to some 12,000 persons with regard to family relationships. Since this series of abstracts appeared in more than 60 issues of the Register, it has remained obscure and out of reach of the customary researcher. The virtue of this volume is that it gathers up the various installments and makes them accessible via an added index of names. Genealogists researching the period 1640 to 1670 will find this a useful and informative reference tool, especially since some of the original Suffolk County wills are no longer available.
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New Hampshire
Inhabitants of New Hampshire, 1776, by Emily S.Wilson
In 1776, at the outset of the American Revolution, the New Hampshire Committee of Safety directed that all males over the age of twenty-one sign the Association Test-a kind of loyalty oath to the Patriot cause. The surviving roster is the most comprehensive list of New Hampshire residents available before the Census of 1790. The present publication has placed all the names-well over 9,000-in one alphabetical sequence to enable the researcher to find a person and his town of residence at a glance.
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New York
The Book of Names. Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley [NewYork], by Lou D. MacWethy
When originally published in 1933, this classic work listed for the first time the names of the early Palatines of New York State, the original settlers of the Mohawk Valley, known as the “Gateway to the West.” The estimated 20,000 names are classified, combined, and otherwise arranged to enable the researcher to identify Palatine immigrants in relation to specific categories of records. Among the important lists of names are the following: (1) the Kocherthal records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1708–1719; (2) Palatine heads of families, from Gov. Hunter’s Ration Lists, 1710–1714; (3) lists of Palatines in 1709 (the four London lists of emigrants from Germany, most of whom emigrated to America); (4) Palatines remaining and newly arrived in New York, from the colonial census of 1710; (5) names of Palatine children apprenticed by Gov. Hunter, 1710–1714; and (6) various lists of Palatines in the colonial militia of New York.
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Pennsylvania
Central Pennsylvania Marriage, 1700-1896, by Charles A. Fisher
The bulk of this work is composed of marriage records of Union and Snyder counties in Pennsylvania. Other sections of the book include miscellaneous marriage records from other central Pennsylvania counties, 1700-1896. In all, about 15,000 brides and grooms are identified.
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Index to the 1850 Census of Pennsylvania: Berks County, Bucks County, Lancaster County, Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, Northampton County. Five Volumes in One, by Elizabeth Petty Bentley
This book is a consolidated edition of the five 1850 Pennsylvania census index volumes named above. Each volume is complete in itself, containing its own surname index, with corresponding microfilm locations, to the residents of the Pennsylvania counties of Berks, Bucks, Lancaster, Luzerne/Wyoming, and Northampton in 1850. (Wyoming County was formed from Luzerne in 1842.) Each volume lists all the surnames appearing in the census for the county(ies) in question.
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Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786, by Don Yoder
The lists making up this remarkable work try to identify German emigrants in their homeland and in Pennsylvania. Thus they are cited with reference to manumission records, parish registers, passports, and other papers of German and Swiss provenance, and noted again, where possible, with reference to an equivalent range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, and tax lists. The materials antedating immigration often indicate causes, dates of emigration, the emigrant's occupation, his dates of birth and marriage, place of birth and residence, and names of family members, sometimes with lines of descent for several generations. The materials cited after arrival in America generally identify the emigrant in connection with his place of settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, Who Held Office between 1733 and 1776, and Those Earlier Councillors Who Were Some Time Chief Magistrates of the Province, and Their Descendants, by Charles P. Keith
This work covers many of the leading families of the mid-Atlantic region and includes the entire progeny of the councillors-including daughters of daughters of daughters, sons of sons of sons, cadet branches who moved west, plus English, French, German, and other foreign descendants. Treated especially well are the full progenies then known of several royally descended founders of the province: the Welsh Deputy Governor Thomas and Mary (Jones) Lloyd, John Cadwalader, and the Scottish James Logan (plus the mostly Pennsylvania progeny of James Tilghman, son of the immigrant Richard of Maryland).
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island Passenger Lists: Port of Providence, 1798-1808, 1820-1872; Ports of Bristol and Warren 1820-1871, by Maureen A. Taylor
Altogether about 4,000 persons are listed in the various sections of this work. The Providence lists in this volume, from 1798 to 1808, are actually extremely rare Alien Registration Lists, kept in compliance with the Alien Act of 1798. They contain the name of the alien, his age, place of birth, the country he came from, the nation he belonged to and owed allegiance to, his occupation, and a physical description. The 1820-1872 passenger lists for Providence and Bristol/Warren are Customs Passenger Lists, and they give the passenger name, age, sex, occupation, the name of the country to which he belonged, and the country that he intended to inhabit.
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Virginia
Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801, by Junie Estelle Stewart King
The will abstracts generally consist of the name of the testator, dates of instrument and probate, and the names of spouse, children and other family members, executors and witnesses. Inventory abstracts usually only have a reference to the administrator and the inventory date. Also included are the Rent Rolls of 1761 and 1774.
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Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Volume I, by Nell Marion Nugent
This volume records, under the name of the patentee or grantee, the earliest Virginia land grants and patents from 1623 to 1666, giving the number of acres, locations and dates of settlement, and names of family members. It also has the names of some thousands who were transported or brought over by the early settlers as "headrights."
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Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. In Four Volumes
This work consists of all of the family history articles, about 350, that appeared in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise in 1952. This is a significant body of genealogical material, and many of the contributors were leading Virginia researchers. The articles are arranged throughout the four volumes in a single alphabetical sequence.
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Land Causes, Accomack County, Virginia, 1727-1826, by Stratton Nottingham
These land causes, or chancery suits, for dower, division of lands, and ejectment proceedings for the period 1727 to 1826 give the declaration of the plaintiff, the answer of the defendants, the verdict of the jury, and depositions, which, in many cases, give the dates of birth, marriage, and death of the parties concerned in the suit. The records include those of the district court as well as the county court, and they name about 4,000 individuals.
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Loudoun County, Virginia Marriage Bonds, 1762-1850, by Aurelia M. Jewell
Each entry in this volume gives the name of the bride and groom, the date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman, who was often a relative of the bride. A brides' index follows at the back of the volume. All told, this work identifies the 3,500 oldest Loudoun County marriage bonds known to exist.
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A Place Apart: A Brief History of the Early Williamson Road and North Roanoke Valley Residents and Places, by Helen R. Prillaman
This book begins with sketches of Roanoke Valley pioneers Mark Evans, Mathusalem Griffith, and Tobias Bright, who settled before 1744, and the following early land owners: Thomas Barnes, Robert Breckinridge, William Carvin, Sr., Israel Christian, Benjamin Denton, Francis Graham, William McClanahan, Daniel McCormick, Neal and John McNeil, John Mills, and Joseph and John Robinson. The second part of the book continues with sketches of families that arrived during the late 18th or early 19th century, including Barren, Bushong, Campbell, Cannaday, Fellers, Garst, Harshbarger, Huntingdon, Nelms, Nininger, Oliver, Petty, Read, Rudd, Stokes, Watts, and Williamson. Community leaders associated with the Roanoke Valley's more recent history are treated elsewhere in the book. Mrs. Prillaman devoted much of her energy to capturing the look and feel of the Roanoke valley. Thus her work features numerous essays, photographs, and illustrations of houses and homesteads, churches, cemeteries, schools, colleges, farms, other places of business, and the Williamson Road itself.
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