New Genealogy Books & CDs

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Roberts The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History. With a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Addition. One volume in two Once again Gary Boyd Roberts has assembled all recent royal descent research, some yet unpublished, and produced an authoritative, up-to-date compendium. In this 2008 edition, he has added twenty-eight new immigrants, so that with a few disproofs (Curwens/Corwins of Massachusetts and New York, Byes of Pennsylvania, and Edwardses, one Evans and Hugh Jones of Pennsylvania), the total covered is now 688. Price: $75.00

Falley Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research A Guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods, and Sources in Ireland. Two Volumes in Three The first volume of this guide to Irish genealogy describes genealogical collections and indexes in all the major Irish repositories and the published indexes, catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the United States. Volume Two is a bibliography of family histories, pedigrees, and source materials published in books and periodicals, and covers such printed works as parish, town and county histories, church records, and family histories. Price: $95.00

The Handybook for Genealogists The Handybook for Genealogists is the best-selling book in American genealogy. The new 11th edition integrates the winning formula of the previous editions with a number of important new features, including (1) Updated county-by-county data, including information about vital records, repositories, and jurisdictions; Updated descriptions of the major record collections available in each state, and addresses that help you go straight to the source; Updated Internet and mailing addresses for societies, archives, and libraries in all 50 states; and an Updated bibliography of books for each state. Price: $52.00

Mills, ed. Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians Professional Genealogy is a manual by professionals for everyone serious about genealogy. For family historians who want to do their own study, reliably, it describes the standards. For hobbyists, attorneys, and medical scientists who seek professional researchers, it's a consumer guide that defines quality and facilitates choices. For librarians who struggle to help a whole new class of patrons, it provides a bridge to the methods, sources, and minutiae of "history, up-close and personal." For established genealogical professionals, it offers benchmarks by which they can advance their skills and places their businesses on sounder footing. And for all those who dream of turning a fascinating hobby into a successful career, Professional Genealogy details the preparation and the processes. Price: $59.95

Skinner, Jr. Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume XXIII: 1741-1744. Liber 31 (pp. 252-488) With the volume at hand, compiler Vernon Skinner has assembled his twenty-third collection of abstractions based upon this important source for Maryland genealogists, entitled Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. In compiling the series, Mr. Skinner has worked primarily from microfilm copies of the Prerogative Court records; however, when necessary to resolve problems of paleography, he has consulted the original manuscripts, located at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. Price: $29.50

Mitchell The Surnames of North West Ireland Concise Histories of the Major Surnames of Gaelic and Planter Origin Brian Mitchell has compiled concise but informative histories of the principle surnames that are most closely associated, through numerical strength or uniqueness, with North West Ireland. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, the author has produced 324 single-page histories of surnames that either originated in or became established in North West Ireland. Owing to spelling variations, these histories apply to an additional 57 common surnames for the region (e.g., variant spellings of Doherty include Daugherty, Docherty, Dockerty, Dogerty, Dogherty, Dorrety, Dougherty, O'Doagharty, O'Dochartaigh, O'Doghartye, O'Dogherty, and O'Doherty); as a matter of fact, Mr. Mitchell estimates that these histories document the surname origins of over 80% of people with roots in North West Ireland. View Details

Bowen Chickasaw by Blood. Enrollment Cards, 1898-1914. Volume II Chickasaw by Blood is a series of Native American source records compiled by genealogist Jeff Bowen. The purported four-volume undertaking is based on the Chickasaw enrollment cards, sometimes called "census cards," prepared by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (the Dawes Commission) between 1898 and 1914. This transcription of the Chickasaw Enrollment cards provides the following information on each individual whose name appeared in a given application: county of residence, post office (local address), name, relationship to first person named in application, age, sex, Blood Tribal Enrollment (year, town, page), and similar identifying information for the parents of the first person named. In all, Volume II of Chickasaw by Blood names 3,500 persons seeking citizenship status at this crucial time in Native American history. Price: $29.50

Dobson Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725. Part Eight This is the seventh volume (eighth part) in a series compiled by Dr. Dobson to identify as many as possible of the roughly 100,000 Lowland Scots who migrated to Ulster between 1575 and 1725--many of whose progeny may have emigrated to America. Following are a handful of the sources consulted by the author for this volume: Glasgow Burgess Roll; Catalogue of Graduates of the University of Dublin; Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1651; Subsidy Roll of County Waterford, 1662; and Calendar of State Papers. As with previous volumes, each listing provides the inhabitant's name, occupation, place of residence, a date, and the source. In some instances Dr. Dobson gives quite a bit more. Price: $15.95

Masterson County Antrim, Ireland, 1851 Census (Fragments) Transcription and Index Most of the 1851 Irish census was destroyed in the 1922 fire at the Four Courts in Dublin. The largest collection of surviving census fragments pertains to County Antrim, and, in particular, to the following parishes: Aghagallon, Aghalee, Ballinderry, Ballymoney, Craigs, Dunaghy, Grange, Killead, Kilwaughter, Larne, Rasharkin, and Tickmacrevan. Mrs. Josephine Masterson has transcribed data on all 28,000 persons enumerated in the surviving records for County Antrim. The records are arranged by Irish parish and thereunder by townland, and they are grouped by household in the very same sequence as they were tallied in 1851. Each person in a household is listed by first and last name, relationship to the head of household, age, marital status and year of marriage, place of birth (if not from County Antrim), literacy, and occupation. Price: $57.50

Carleton Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Two Volumes Published in Four This is an authoritative two-volume collection of illustrated biographical/genealogical essays of noted Vermonters and their families. In all cases, the lines are traced forward from the oldest known ancestor of the line to the family member (living or memorialized) featured in the sketch, for whom, in turn, a biography--often with photograph--is provided. This information is often followed by additional collateral lines linked to the subject of the essay. Many of the lineages go back to 16th-century England, while others brim with connections to Massachusetts and the other New England states. Finally, while the work as a whole contains upwards of 30,000 references to kith and kin. Price: $180.00 $165.00 - Save: 8%

Leckey The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families A Genealogical History of the Upper Monogahela Valley The term Tenmile Country refers to an area of land in Greene and Washington counties in southwestern Pennsylvania that is traversed by Tenmile Creek. After 1750, the Tenmile Country became a focal point for the migration of Scotch-Irish, German, and to a lesser extent, British, colonists. The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Familiescommences with an historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile Country, and it concludes with the aforementioned index of some 30,000 entries. In between, the genealogist of southwestern Pennsylvania can savor 500 or more family histories, of varying lengths, which delineate the lineages of the many families who migrated into this area. Price: $75.00 $60.00 - Save: 20%

Marine The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815 With an Appendix Containing Eleven Thousand Names This is a succinct yet comprehensive history of Maryland in the War of 1812. However, the bulk of this work is an exhaustive register of 11,000 Marylanders who served in the war. Alphabetically arranged are the names of soldiers, sailors, and citizens, with references to rank, company and regiment, and occasionally additional information. Price: $49.95

Ohio Cemetery Records Extracted from the "Old Northwest'' Genealogical Quarterly This volume comprises all the cemetery records originally published in the fifteen volumes of The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly between 1898 and 1912. It consists principally of tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the following counties in northeastern and central Ohio: Athens, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin (including the city of Columbus), Geauga, Guernsey, Jackson, Knox, Licking, Lorain, Madison, Pickaway, Portage, Ross, Trumbull, and Vinton. Price: $49.95

Ohio Genealogical Society Ohio Source Records from The Ohio Genealogical Quarterly Ohio Source Records is composed of articles from the scarce periodical The Ohio Genealogical Quarterly. This book consolidates and indexes the contents of the periodical, which consisted chiefly of cemetery records, tax lists, newspaper abstracts, and vital records, the combined articles bearing reference to about 45,000 persons. Price: $59.95

Rasmussen San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists Volume I [1850-1864] In the absence of official port records--destroyed by fire in 1940--this ambitious work attempts a reconstruction of passenger arrivals from newspapers and journals. The volume offered here is a reprint of the first volume in a series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco between 1850 and 1875, though this first volume contains a selection of passenger lists extending only though 1864. Interest in the book is inevitably heightened by the fact that the passengers named in the lists came from all parts of the United States, as well as from Europe, though probably the majority were from East Coast points of origin. Here will be found listed approximately 13,500 persons who made the dramatic voyage to the celebrated El Dorado of legend, many of whom were previously the elusive objects of extensive genealogical searches, for some left their homes with hardly a trace, save for the laconic notation in family Bibles and church records: "Gone West." Price: $45.00

Rasmussen San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists Vol. II [1850-1851] Here is the second volume in Louis Rasmussen's distinguished series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco between 1850 and 1875. Volume II is based on completely different sources than the first volume in the series, which covered the years 1850-1864, and it encompasses an additional 16,500 passenger arrivals at San Francisco Bay during the 20-month period from April 1850 to November 1851. Most of these individuals, in the author's words," had come to the West in search of the golden goose who had laid the golden egg." Most would not find it, of course, but would remain in California or migrate to the Oregon territory to take up other commercial or agricultural pursuits. The passengers named in Volume II came from all parts of the United States, as well as from Europe, although the majority were probably from the East Coast of the U.S. Price: $55.00

Rasmussen San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Vol. III: November 7, 1851 to June 17, 1852 Volume III in Louis Rasmussen's distinguished series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco covers a seven-month period during which approximately 25,000 persons arrived at the port of San Francisco--nearly 50% more than the number of arrivals for the preceding 18-month period covered in Volume II. The year 1852 witnessed a surge in migration to California, and this volume reflects the initial thrust of that surge. The passenger lists are arranged in chronological order, and, typically, each passenger list is introduced with the following notations: name of ship, type of ship, port of embarkation, date of arrival, name of captain, description of cargo, and notes concerning the passage (date of departure, ports of call, length of voyage, and names of passengers who died en route, with their places of residence and dates of death). The list of passengers follows and sometimes identifies accompanying family members. Price: $60.00

Headley, Jr. Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800 Richmond County wills are extant only from 1699, but the compiler of this useful work has bridged the gap by substituting information from Order Books, 1692-1699, thereby extending the possibilities for genealogical enquiry. The entries, which consist mainly of abstracts of wills and inventories and refer to about 8,000 persons, are arranged throughout the work in chronological order. Price: $28.50

Ray Austin [Texas] Colony Pioneers Including History of Bastrop, Fayette, Grimes, Montgomery and Washington Counties, Texas Consists mainly of biographical and genealogical sketches of the pioneers and early settlers of the aforementioned counties. Price: $34.95