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The full title of this book is: The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, MassachusettsWith Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton, and of York County, Maine. Now that’s a mouthfull!
Originally published in a dozen or more parts between 1897 and 1919, Hoyt’s Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, like Jacobus’ Families of […]
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This book and Marriages of Wilkes County, North Carolina 1778-1868 are part of a series of volumes dealing with the marriage records of North Carolina counties. Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. […]
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This compilation is based on various sources including publications that are inaccessible to the average Genealogist, or nearly so. The author draws on many established family histories, early church, bible & cemetery records, and also deed & probate records.
Families of Hunterdon, Middlesex and Somerset counties are covered including: Aleger/Alger; Alger/Auger; Alford; Alward/Allwood; Aten/Auten; […]
The folks of Allen County, Indiana will be mightly proud of their new history. So many folks supported the project that it turned out to be a two-volume history - and not just one as planned. I blogged about this project twice and am happy to do it again!
Read the guest column written by Martha […]
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Genealogist V. L. Skinner, Jr., resumes his transcriptions of 17th-century Maryland probate records with the second volume of his series, Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: 1670-1674. The first volume in the series, released in 2004 and covering the period 1658 to 1674, was transcribed from Libers 1A-1F, […]
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Genealogist V. L. Skinner, Jr., resumes his transcriptions of 17th-century Maryland probate records with the fifth volume of his series, Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. The first volume in the series, released in 2004 and covering the period 1658 to 1674, was transcribed from Libers 1A1F, 2, […]
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The full title of the book is: They Called Me Doc -Doc Race recalls his practice in Orting between 1947 and 1953
Im from the small Pierce County, Washington town of Orting. I actually lived in the area for the first 40 years of my life. So when my brother, Steve, showed me a […]
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Abstracts of guardian appointments, guardian accounts, apprenticeships, admin. account of estates and disputes concerning the matters. All names have been cross-referenced within the text so as to preclude the necessity of a separate index. The entire book is in alphabetical order. The information was taken from Orphans Court Proceedings (original record books in […]
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This book, like the others in the series, has been compiled to assist researchers in finding their elusive ancestors. A variety of sources has been used in this compilation and each one has been identified within the text. Much of the information was gleaned from pension and bounty land applications of veterans of […]
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The compilers of this work endeavored to assemble a comprehensive series of genealogical records of the pioneering families of Louisiana. The first part of book consists of a series of newspaper articles on various families by Charles Patton Dimitry, which originally appeared in the New Orleans Times-Democrat in 1892, and which were then […]
Nearly all the adult male settlers of Kentucky had seen service in the Revolutionary War, and this was especially true of the settlers from Virginia, many of whom had been granted bounty lands in Kentucky for their Revolutionary services.
In addition to a roll of the officers of the Virginia Line who received land bounties in […]
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This monumental three-volume reference work is based on official government records on file in the Virginia Land Office and on documents in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library. The records are of several classes–bounty warrants, military certificates, exchange warrants, and land vouchers–and they establish absolute proof of Revolutionary service and of […]
The third edition of Sherwood’s Georgia gazetteer delivers far more than its title might suggest. To be sure, roughly half of the volume is devoted to detailed descriptions of places in Georgia of every conceivable size and shape–counties, towns, villages, post offices, rivers, streams, creeks, mountains, ridges, peninsulas, islands, missionary stations–many of which are no […]
These abstracts of the earliest wills of New Castle County constitute a principal reference for 17th- and 18th-century Delaware genealogy. Each entry in the book supplies the full name of the testator and such additional information as profession, place of residence, dates of filing and probate, names of children, relatives, wives, witnesses, executors, etc.
Abstracted and […]
This book deals in-depth with the families of Kent County, Delaware (except when noted): Allen (Kent and Sussex), Bailey/ Bayley (Kent and Sussex), Barrett, Hall (Kent and Sussex), Collins (Kent and Sussex), Hodgson, McClement, Melvin, and Spruance.
The data in this book is compiled from many sources, the majority primary documents. Families are detailed by generation […]
A day or two ago, I recommended the new Second Edition of Rose and Ingalls’ Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy. It was pointed out to me this evening that the first edition is available online - all 353 pages of it! For those of you that may be considering the Second Edition, Click here and you […]
Welcome to Burnett the story of the community of Burnett, Washington as gleaned from the pages of the Buckley News Banner and other papers
My friend, Cindy Calton, actually wrote this book during the 1980s while I was still living in Pierce County, Washington, and involved in the local history of the area. When […]
As my blog readers already know, I happen to be a big fan of Christine Rose. She’s written several books for which genealogists can be very thankful. One of those books is her second edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition . I should also mention here that her co-author on this […]
The Great Falls, Montana, Genealogy Society has quite a project going.
War heroes, single mothers, barbers and murder victims, Jan Thomson stays up nights with these old friends, all of whom are long dead.
Thomson has been spearheading a project at the Great Falls Genealogy Society called “The Early Settlers of Great Falls.” The project aims to […]
While working the NGS conference in Chicago, I spent a few hours with my friend, Jeff Bockman, of Naperville, Illinois. We even got away and did dinner together on Thursday evening.
A short time ago, Jeff put together a short (21 page) booklet that is ideal for getting your relatives started in recording their family history. […]