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NGS Research In The States Series Kentucky

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Arlington, Virginia, NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500KY

ISBN-13: 9781935815044

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Once part of Virginia, Kentucky became a state in 1792. In its earliest days, it offered one of the primary passageways for settlers traveling west. Though Daniel Boone did not discover the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains, he is credited with blazing the Wilderness Road to Boonesborough. Settlers bound for lands farther west took the Wilderness Road to where it joined Warrior's Path, which led to Louisville and the Ohio River. Most of those who settled in Kentucky were English, German, Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, and Swiss. African Americans also number among the state's larges...
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NGS Research In The States Series New Jersey

By: Claire Keenan Agthe

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Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500nj

ISBN-13: 9780915156948

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Prior to Europeans’ arrival in the New World, New Jersey was home to the Lenni-Lenape tribe. In the seventeenth century, a diverse population of Europeans began to settle in New Jersey. By 1800 its population included free African Americans, English, Finns, French, German, Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, and Swedes along with smaller groups of Alsatians, Danes, Flemings, Walloons, and Welsh. Later, in the twentieth century, Italians and Hispanics migrated to the state.Research in New Jersey introduces family historians and genealogists to the wealth of records held by local, county, and state gover...
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NGS Research In The States Series Massachusetts

By: David Allen Lambert

Price: $24.00

Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500MA

ISBN-13: 9781935815396

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European settlers first arrived in Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century in what was primarily the territory of Algonquian Indian tribes. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Massachusetts was a gateway of English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish emigrants. It also was a slave-holding state until 1783. During the nineteenth century, emigrants from Canada, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, Italy, and Portugal, and freed African Americans settled in Massachusetts. Research in Massachusetts provides a solid framework and useful tool for researchers who may be looking for subject mat...
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NGS Research In The States Series Rhode Island

By: Diane Maclean Boumenot And Mauren Alice Taylor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500ri

ISBN-13: 9781935815419

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Almost four hundred years ago, Roger Williams, a minister who believed in universal religious freedom and the separation of church and state, founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Known for its independence, Rhode Island did not establish a state capital for several centuries. With the advent of the American Industrial Revolution, which began in Rhode Island, the nineteenth century witnessed the departure of Rhode Island families from their scraggly farmland to points north, south, and west. It also saw the arrival of a booming immigrant population, who were employed a...
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NGS Research In The States Series: American Indians Of Oklahoma

By: Kathy Huber

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NGS

Seller ID: ngs1700

ISBN-13: 9781935815280

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The American Indians of Oklahoma tells the story of the sixty-seven tribes that were removed or relocated to the area once known as Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Their stories, revealed through tribal records, historical documents, and federal legislation tells of heartache, challenges, and long-suffering. Tribes include American Indians from the Northeast, including the Delaware, Shawnee, the Sac and Fox; the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho from the Great Plains; the Prairie tribes Kaw, Ponca, and Ottawa as well as the five tribes known as “civilized,” the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choct...
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NGS Research In The States Series Pennsylvania

By: Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, FNGS

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500pa

ISBN-13: 9781935815235

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Research in Pennsylvania, 3rd Edition, is an essential guidebook for family historians who can trace their roots back to early Pennsylvanian immigrants, including African Americans, Dutch, Finns, Germans, Scots-Irish, Swedes, and Welsh as well as later immigrants from Asian and Slovak countries. New to this edition is information about the Vital Records Law Senate Bill 361 (Act 110), enacted in 2011, that opened Pennsylvania’s older birth and death records to researchers for the first time. The author reviews the age restrictions that apply to those records, the transfer of the currently open ...
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NGS Research In The States Series New York City, Long Island, And Westchester County

By: Laura Murphy DeGrazia

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Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500ny

ISBN-13: 9781935815082

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For more than 400 years, trade has flourished in and brought immigrants to what is now known as Manhattan, New York City’s iconic borough. First under Dutch rule and then British until 1783, it drew people from throughout Europe and imported slaves from Africa. Over time, millions of immigrants from throughout the world would settle in New York City or travel beyond its borders to put down roots across the United States. Dating from the seventieth century, Long Island and Westchester County were primarily rural communities originally settled by the Dutch and later the English along with slaves...
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NGS Research In The States Series Mississippi

By: Lori Thornton

Price: $24.00

Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500ms

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Since the sixteenth century, Mississippi was ruled at various times by the French, British, and Spanish until it became a territory of the United States in 1798. Research in Mississippi provides major research resources for each of these periods as well as a discussion of boundary changes prior to statehood. Also included are descriptions of collections found in research repositories, including Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections; University of Mississippi’s Special Collections; and McCain Library and Archives, University ...
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