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The multi-ancestor compendia compiled and published by Walter Goodwin Davis (see also Items 1400, 1401, and 1402) is one of the major achievements of twentieth-century genealogy. These volumes authoritatively cover 180 families, all of Davis's colonial forebears plus nineteen English families in the immediate ancestry of American immigrants.

The Davis opus is undoubtedly the premier work for northern New England, and an often essential companion volume to the celebrated Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (see Item 4205), which it considerably expands, especially for many Essex County families with ties further north. Almost anyone 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, often a dozen or more, of the families herein. (For a complete list of the contents of this volume, please contact the publisher.)

This volume is also available on our Family Archive CD 7194.