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The lineages, family histories, immigration records, vital records, and historical sketches included in this Family Archive CD contain information on approximately 190,000 individuals, the information constituting a virtual library of New England books. Originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, the twenty-one titles reproduced here are the bedrock of New England genealogy, comprising many of the most celebrated books ever published on the subject. Typically, information in these books includes some or all of the following elements: names of family members over several generations; dates and places of birth, marriage, and death; names of parents and children; place of residence in England and New England; date of immigration and place of arrival in New England; age, occupation, and religion; and details concerning land, property, and heirs. On this one CD, images of the pages of the following books are accessed instantaneously by means of a single electronic index:

*One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, by John Osborne Austin
*The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Charles E. Banks
*The Planters of the Commonwealth . . . in Massachusetts, 1620-1640, by Charles E. Banks
*The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, by Charles E. Banks
*Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, by Banks
*Soldiers in King Philip's War [1675-1677], by George M. Bodge
*Marriage Notices, 1785-1794, by Charles K. Bolton
*The Real Founders of New England, by Charles K. Bolton
*Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775, by Ethel S. Bolton
*Result of Researches . . . Relative to the Founders of New England, by Samuel G. Drake
*Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England, by John Farmer
*Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, by Ernest Flagg
*Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, by N. Goodwin
*Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700, by Frank R. Holmes
*Peirce's Colonial List, by Ebenezer Peirce
*The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660, by Charles H. Pope
*Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families, by Sebastian V. Talcott
*The History of New England, by James Savage
*The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, by Frederick L. Weis
*Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America, by Henry Whittemore
*Chronicles of the First Planters . . . of Massachusetts Bay, by Alexander Young

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.