New Book Announcement: McWethy
McWethey, Following a Family Migration Trail Massachusetts to Michigan and West
Included are the records of the familys first ancestor in the colonies, who is believed to be James Mackerwithey, who arrived much against his will, the Scot’s army having been captured by Oliver Cromwell’s English army in 1650-51, and the […]
LAWRENCEVILLE [Georgia] - Do the names Allen, Bagley, Cooper, Hinton, Hall, Kennerley, Martin, Pugh, Sawyer, Wade or Whidby ring a bell? These are a handful of the more than 100 local family lines traced in the new book “Gwinnett County, Georgia: Families 1818-2005.”
Gwinnett Historical Society members will unveil the book at a 2 p.m. ceremony […]
The Jones County Genealogical and Historical Organization of Jones County is announcing that the Jones County history and family history book Echoes From Our Past is at the printers.
For more than two years, the book committee has been collecting and compiling written family histories as well as other historical information about Jones County.
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Echoes […]
Everton’s Handybook got a good review by Nancianne Parkes Suber in the September 29, 2006 edition of the Clarion Ledger. Check it out.
If you’re thinking that maybe the old gray cells could use a little workout try Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)
You’re smart. This book can make you smarter. Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace […]
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Colonial Roots has produced a superb body of knowledge on the lineages of settlers of this region, following their descendants through the 18th century and sometimes into the early 1800s. By networking the multi-faceted talents of these authors we have greatly advanced the research of these families. The authors draw on a wide […]
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The full title of this series of three books is: Genealogies of Connecticut Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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 […]
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The second volume of the set (see Volume 1) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia’s Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. Lineages are for the families of Arrington, Bailey, Barham, Barker, Branch, Chappell, Cloud, Cocer, Cofer, Coffer, Coker, Collier, Copher, Darden-Durden, Edmunds, Foliot, Green, Gurgany, Hargrave, Hart, Harvin, Herbert, Hill, Holt, […]
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John Bennett Boddie’s books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. The first volume in this valuable two-volume set contains lineages of families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Surry. The families are: […]
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The full title of this book is: A Biographical History of Lancaster County [Pennsylvania] Being a History of Eminent Men of the County
Harris’s biographical history of Lancaster County, with articles arranged alphabetically by surname, contains nearly 2,000 biographies of early settlers and eminent men and refers in total to an additional 10,000 related […]
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The great 18th-century Scottish emigration to the Carolinas was a response, in large part, to the failure of the Jacobite rebellion in 1715, a phenomenon which set in motion a chain emigration of Scottish Lowlanders, followed by one of Highlanders. Publication of David Dobson’s Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830 in 1986 […]
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The full title of this book is: Scottish Highlanders On the Eve of the Great Migrations 1725-1775The People of Highland Perthshire
This is part of a series by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and […]
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The full title of the book is: irish Emigrants in North America Part Six
Emigration from ireland to the Americas can be said to have started in earnest during the early 18th century. In 1718 the first successful emigration from ireland to New England occurred, which laid the foundation for the large-scale settlement […]
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To qualify for membership in the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (NSDFP), one must possess a Founder ancestor who arrived in one of the colonies between May 13, 1607, and May 13, 1686, and a Patriot ancestor who rendered military service, civil service, or aid in establishing American […]
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The full title of the book is: German Mercenary Expatriates in the United States and Canada Following the American Revolution - The Contingents from Brunswick, Ansbach and Bayreuth, and Hessen-Hanau, Based upon German Sources. (Originally Published as German-American Genealogical Research Monograph Numbers 1, 2 & 5) 3 volumes in 1.
It is commonly […]
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In the wake of the Walt Disney animated feature about the legendary Indian heroine, this little book will satisfy the curiosity of those, young and old, who wish to separate fact from fantasy.
Mr. Brown, the author of three volumes on the descendants of Pocahontas, has here assembled all that is known about the […]
This book is intended to help the researcher find all the Saints that are in his or her ancestry. If your ancestry includes the nobility and royalty of Europe, then you just might be interesting in reading this book. The volume attempts to explain the ancient lineage of the Saints, with charts showing some lines […]
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This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. […]
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This book is written specifically for those interested in learning to find, read and use the court records of New England. Legal terms are explained and illustrations of actual court cases are given. The book is laid out in three major parts. Part One is titled, Understanding the Basics. Here the researcher gets […]
The book contains the known historical material of the Centennial, Brookside, Beech Grove, and Summit Methodist Episcopal Churches of Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. There are some large gaps in the material.
The wedding records include information from 1872 to present. Listed may be the name of the bride and groom, address, minister, place of […]