New Genealogy Books & CDs

Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company publish hundreds of genealogy books and genealogy CD-ROMs every year, with new releases coming off press monthly. Featured below are this month's new and featured titles. We urge you to check out this page at the start of every month to learn what's new and/or featured from America's leading publishers of genealogy and family history!

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Pennsylvania German Church Records, 1729-1870 [CD] This CD contains images of the pages of all three volumes of Pennsylvania German Church Records originally published by GPC. The volumes include all the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society. The records, which refer to approximately 91,000 individuals, include births, baptisms, marriages, and burials, identify people and their relationships to one another--not only parents and children, husbands and wives, but witnesses and sponsors as well. Price: $39.99 $29.99 - Save: 25%

Irish Immigrants to North America [CD] This Family Archive CD is composed of ten volumes of Irish passenger lists naming approximately 60,000 immigrants, the earliest list dating from 1735, the latest 1871. The majority of these lists derive from home-grown Irish sources; in fact, the Irish generally did not maintain emigration records, such that prior to the 1890s that information is woefully spare. It is highly unlikely that the researcher would have access to all the nformation found on this CD, which is here presented at a fraction of the cost of the books upon which it is based. Price: $39.99 $29.99 - Save: 25%

Early South Carolina Settlers [CD] This Family Archive CD includes a great many of the earliest surviving South Carolina source records, among them census records, ships' passenger lists, naturalization records, land warrants and grants, and probate records. Originally published in eleven volumes by the Genealogical Publishing Company, images of every page of each of the eleven volumes can be accessed instantaneously on this CD by means of an electronic index of 125,000 names. Price: $39.99 $29.99 - Save: 25%

Skinner, Jr. Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume XXIV: 1744-1746. Libers 31 (pp. 489-679), 32 (1-22) With the volume at hand, compiler Vernon Skinner has assembled his twenty-fourth volume of transcriptions in his series Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, based upon this important source for Maryland genealogists. 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, which are located at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. The series is arranged, volume by volume, chronologically by court session. Volume XXIV consists of abstracts for the period 1744-46, as found in the balance of Liber 31 and the first 22 pages of Liber 32 of the records. In all, the latest book in this distinguished series refers to an additional 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. Price: $29.50

Dobson The People of the Scottish Burghs--The People of Stirling, 1600-1799 The People of Scottish Burghs--The People of Stirling, 1600-1799 is based overwhelmingly on primary sources--including testaments, bonds, sasines, and tacks--found mainly in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh and, to a lesser extent, the Stirling Archives. The sources have yielded the following bits of information on the alphabetically arranged inhabitants: name, occupation, name of a next of kin (spouse, father, etc.), the kind of record, and the source. In all, Dr. Dobson has brought to light valuable information on 1,400 residents of Stirling that would otherwise have eluded genealogists for many more years. Price: $18.50

Jacobson A Genealogist's Refresher Course Second Edition A Genealogist's Refresher Course is less a how-to book than a collection of first-hand experiences, do's and don'ts, and privileged information. One of the most valuable chapters in the book contains a list of nearly 100 different kinds of sources of genealogical information, including anniversary announcements, bank statements, business licenses, memorial cards, health records, medals, newspaper clippings, subpoenas, and many other record categories that genealogists may fail to consult. Still other chapters discuss how to acquire rare or used books and when and how to hire a professional genealogist. In a word, this is a unique genealogy refresher course! Price: $17.95

U.S. War Department Pensioners of the Revolutionary War--Struck Off the Roll This is a reprint of a rare U.S. Government document which lists the pensioners of the Revolutionary War who were disqualified and subsequently restored. Six thousand pensioners are identified. This volume is available on our Family Archive CD 7145. Price: $18.50

Genealogies of Connecticut Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Three Volumes in Five Parts The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the oldest continuously published genealogical journal in the Anglo-American world. For 136 years, since January 1847, the Register has been the official organ of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the granddaddy of American genealogical institutions. From its inception the Register has published a succession of articles which have elevated it to the premier position among genealogical journals. Unrivaled in content, unimpeachable as an authority and as a medium of scholarly research, the Register is now the most sought after periodical in all of New England genealogy. Its scarcity, however, combined with the growing demand for it, has made the reprinting of key articles from the Register not only desirable but imperative. This present work, a collection of Register articles on Connecticut families, has been compiled to meet that demand. Genealogies of Connecticut Families, then, is a collection of family history articles which have been compiled with the object of bringing all such material within reach of the genealogist. Its three volumes, each with its own index, and its references to some 75,000 persons in more than 400 articles, together with a scholarly introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, the Society's Director of Research, combine to make it the most significant repository of Connecticut family histories available. Price: $225.00 Sale: $200.00

Burke Burke's Family Records Burke's published this collection of Family Records as a supplement to its Peerage and Baronetage and the Landed Gentry. Following the arrangement of the Peerage and Landed Gentry volumes, this work seeks to put to rights this oversight by tracing the descent of some 300 cadet houses of the British nobility from Airey and Gorton to Swanzy and Yarker. In keeping with Burke's scrupulous standards of evaluation, coats of arms are also provided, but only for those families for which clear official authority was forthcoming. Students of royal and noble genealogy will welcome the index to the more than 10,000 names found in this volume. Price: $65.00

Finnell, comp. The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry. Lineage of Members The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry is the only lineage organization based on the right to bear arms as a qualification for membership. The arms to which each Order member's most recent American ancestor was entitled, through either his/her paternal or maternal ancestry, is the basis for this publication. First comes the lineages of the more than 700 members admitted to the order since its inception, arranged in order of membership. The lineages are followed by a section of 300 black-and-white coats of arms (complete with descriptions of colors, etc.). Preceding the arms themselves is a very helpful glossary of heraldic terms. At the back of the volume, the compiler has assembled two indexes: a name index to the nearly 20,000 persons identified in the lineages, and another to the arms, which arranges all the bearers in alphabetical order. Price: $65.00

Cartmell Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants A History of Frederick County, Virginia from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908. Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. Indexed Edition This is an exhaustive regional history of the parent county of nine present-day Virginia or West Virginia counties. It features several hundred detailed genealogical and biographical sketches of early families of old Frederick County. With an improved index Price: $65.00

Worrell Over the Mountain Men Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia The bulk of the work is comprised of marriage records and wills, and to a lesser extent, Revolutionary petitions, and gravestones . The marriage records derive from the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke; and the wills from the counties of Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke. Most records touch on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and identify about 9,000 persons in all. Price: $16.50

Whitley Red River Settlers Records of the Settlers of Northern Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner Counties, Tennessee This book deals with the northern half of Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner counties, Tennessee, which was incorporated from the Mero District of North Carolina in 1796. It consists of a collection of county, state, church, and family records, and also contains genealogies of Red River families developed from a wide variety of sources, including cemetery records, Bible records, military records and private papers, as well as from records of deeds, wills and marriages. A substantial portion of the book derives from private family records, many of which were subsequently lost or destroyed, and as a result Red River Settlers comprises a collection of genealogical materials that is largely unique. The full-name index contains references to some 6,500 persons. Price: $26.50

Parris Family History of Western North Carolina Family History of Western North Carolina contains seven chapters, some of which speak for themselves. There is, of course, a chapter on "the basics," which explains how to get started, using computers, writing inquiries, etc. The next three chapters cover the core resources of western Carolina genealogy, namely, record centers and archives, libraries and their holdings, and genealogical societies of one sort or another. Chapter Five features a brief history of western North Carolina, while the subsequent chapter clues the reader to important reference books and family histories covering the region. The final chapter is a special one devoted exclusively to western North Carolina military records spanning the period from the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War. Appended to the text itself is a rich collection of genealogical queries which the author has amassed over the years. Upwards of 500 queries touching on 2,500 persons (a full 20 percent of the entire volume) promise to yield valuable connections to any number of family trees for the persons who consult this unique reference work, one which must now be reckoned as the starting point for western North Carolina genealogy. Price: $36.50

Williams History of Frederick County, Maryland Two Volumes The history of Braddock's campaign, the local events of the Revolution, John Brown's raid nearby, the old National Road, the earliest American railroad and its opening to Frederick, and the great events of the Civil War are all covered in the first volume of this monumental work. The second volume, the "Biographical Record of Representative Families," is really worth pausing over, for it contains no fewer than 1,100 biographical and genealogical sketches, in most cases supplied by the subjects of the sketches themselves. Each sketch attempts to establish the origins of the subjects' forebears, giving the dates and places of their birth, marriage, and residence, and facts concerning their immigration to and settlement in this country (most were of German or Scotch-Irish extraction). And now this monumental work is far easier to consult than ever thanks to Clearfield Company's recent publication of the Every-Name Index for the Two Volumes of History of Frederick County, Maryland . . . prepared by Patricia Fogle. Price: $140.00

Rowland Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812 This is the major historical and genealogical source for information on the part played by the Mississippi Territory in the campaign against the British and the Creeks during the War of 1812. Mrs. Rowland's detailed historical narrative discusses all the major conflicts in the Mississippi theater, commencing with the Battle of Burnt Corn in July 1813 and the massacre at Fort Mims--which resulted in Andrew Jackson's assumption of command--through the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to the legendary Battle of New Orleans. Of greater genealogical interest, however, is the book's "Rolls of Mississippi Commands in the War of 1812," a 76-page section giving the names and ranks of upwards of 7,500 soldiers and officers. The roster is arranged by regiment and battalion and detachment and company, and thereunder alphabetically. This volume is also available on our Family Archive CD 7527. Price: $29.50