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Under the first charter of the Massachusetts Colony, only freemen of the Colony had the right to vote or hold public office. Such were admitted freemen who could fulfill the requirements of the Freeman’s Oath in matters of church membership and state allegiance. Between 1630 and 1691, some 4,500 men were admitted freemen, […]
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Although the oldest regiment in the British Army is the 1st Royal regiment of Foot, usually known as the Royal Scots, it was not until the French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years War) that Scottish regiments played a significant role in the Army. In fact, between 1756 and […]
The following excerpt is from Damon Veach’s column this week:
The Amite County Historical and Genealogical Society is now taking orders for the purchase of a reprint of the WPA material compiled for Amite County, Miss., as a Works Progress Administration project in 1936-1939. The Amite County material was considered Volume III of the statewide compilation […]
The following excerpt is from a column written about the Wayne County [Indiana] Genealogical Society by Rachel E. Sheeley.
The Wayne County Genealogical Society is busy compiling a booklet for the Richmond Celebrates Bicentennial. The booklet will have short sketches about prominent people and businesses in Richmond.
The group also is planning a fund-raising rummage sale […]
Current residents, former residents and those with ancestors in the county are all encouraged to submit stories about their families and life in Okaloosa County to be included in a second volume of Heritage of Okaloosa County, Florida: A Grassroots Family Histories Collection.
Also wanted are stories on churches, schools, cemeteries, businesses, memories, clubs, […]
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The full title of this book is: Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory from Advertisements in German Newspapers Published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800
This unusual compilation laid in typescript in the library of the Germantown Historical Society since 1935, until it was published by the Genealogical […]
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Mass immigration to the U.S. was nowhere more apparent than in the immigration of the irish between 1815 and the failure of the potato crop in 1845/1846, during which time a million irish men and women crossed the seas to take up permanent residence in America. This work is concerned with the roots […]
Decades after it was written, the “History of Barbour County, Alabama” has been published. Unfortunately, the author, Lewy Dorman is not alive to see his dream become a reality.
Dorman, a scholar and historian, died in 1965. But before his death, he took the book’s manuscript along with other papers and placed them in the care […]
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During the 18th century as many as 100,000 Scottish Lowlanders relocated to the Plantation of Ulster (Northern ireland). Within a few generations the descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial numbers across the Atlantic, where, as the Scotch-irish (Scots-irish), they made a major contribution to the settlement and development of colonial America.
This […]
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In this much longer sequel to his earlier collection of Scots-irish Links, Parts One & Two, David Dobson sheds more light on a segment of the 100,000 Scotsmen who were re-settled by the British government in the irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. Drawing upon primary source material in the British […]
James Savage was known as an antiquary, an expert of antiquities. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1784; he died there in 1873. He was descended from Major Thomas Savage, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1635. After graduation From Harvard in 1803, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and served […]
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According to some estimates as many as 100,000 Scotsmen were re-settled by the British government in the irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. After the turn of the next century, the descendants of many of these Ulster Scots, better known as the Scotch-irish, would play a major role in diversifying the […]
Blacks Law Dictionary is a must for any serious Genealogist. On a day to day basis, we deal with terminology, which for numerous reasons, be they time, distance or other factors, are foreign to us. A number of good genealogical dictionaries are available. However, Blacks Law Dictionary fills a need for the definition of terminology […]
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The grandson of an Osage Indian, author Louis Burns wrote this primer to help persons of Osage descent trace their paternal lineage and to introduce researchers to Osage culture and the nuances of its language. The book opens with a discussion of the Osage dispersion from Missouri to Oklahoma and Kansas from about […]
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The volume is published in the same style as the earlier book done for the years 1698-1700. The data in this book includes the name of the deceased, the type of document, dates of signing and probate, heirs, executors, administrators and witnesses. Items in the inventory are generally described, but not in detail. […]
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The data in this book includes the name of the deceased, the type of document, dates of signing and probate, heirs, executors, administrators and witnesses. Items in the inventory are generally described, but not in detail. The names of all slaves are included. The book has an every-name index.
By Mary Marshall Brewer; 2005; […]
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All of the early Davidson County marriage bonds and licenses were destroyed by fire, but the first two volumes of marriage registers compiled from the original bonds and licenses are intact. They cover January 1789-December 1837, and January 1838-December 1847. The abstracted records cover about 7,000 marriages, and they are in the order […]
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The full title of this book is: Genealogical Abstracts of Princess Anne County, VA Court Records from Deed Books 6&7 and Minute Books 6&7 1740-1762
These abstracts contain all the pertinent genealogical information contained within 2,600 pages of court records. The deed abstracts identify the principals to the deeds, dates, location of the […]
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The full title of this book is as follows: Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC: 1785 to 1827 Listed in the Deeds of Gift, Deeds of Sale, Mortgages, Born Free and Freed Abstracted from Laurens County, SC Deed Books A-L and Newberry County, SC Deed Books […]
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This is the fifth and final volume in a series. The burial records always include the decedent’s name and date of death; usually their age; sometimes their birth date and parents names; and occasionally added notes by the pastor (”Oh, he was a wild lad!”), details of the cause of death (”Johan Jurg, […]