While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 89 pages View More...
The Baton Rouge Diocese, established in 1962, covers12 civil parishes with oldest one dating to 1728.All parish records were brought to the new diocese. When the Acadians were exiled from Nova Scotia, they brought their parish records with them. These records, dating from 1707, are also part of the Baton Rouge diocese records.Records include baptismal, marriage and funeral information.List alphabetically by last name.Example:Allain, Adaline Marguerite (Pierre & Marguerite LaBlanc) bn. 8 Dec 1725, sponsors Rene Blanchard & Anne LeBlanc, daughter of Charles LeBlanc (St. Gabriel-Acadian Records 2... View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 81 pages View More...
370 pages, including index. "Merrimack" is an Indian word meaning "sturgeon." The name was given to the Merrimack River by the Penacook Indian tribe because of the abundant supply of this type of fish. View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 91 pages View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 88 pages View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 103 pages View More...
Fascinating book about the men and women who established the first Shaker community in New Lebanon, NY in 1783. This history is written by students for The Lebanon School magazine in 1936. The book also includes newspaper clippings, letters, recipes and a variety of other information about the Shaker community. View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 101 pages View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 89 pages View More...
While this isn't a traditional family history, it may give you clues to family members you knew nothing about. It includes origin of family name, crest, and other information from Europe, then delves into American records in which the family surname is found, including American Revolution, census, etc. In some cases, it also provides information about the record in which the name its found so many suggest places you hadn't thought to look for records. The book also includes information about different hereditary and patriotic societies. 85 pages View More...
109 pages, free shipping media mail. Many materials are available describing the procedures for researching American Indian ancestry by using official sources, such as Indian rolls, Courts of claims, Indian Agency rolls, U.S. War Dept. records, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs records. View More...
120 pages, not including Appendixes: Research and reference sources in the federal government Research and reference sources in the United States Hereditary and patriotic societies in the United States The study of family history, or genealogy, is perhaps one of the most ancient of human interest. In one form or another it has found its way into countless varieties of oral and written records, some dating well before recorded history. View More...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. 271 Pages. @ View More...
1195 pages. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, starting with: O'Brian, G. W., ending in Zylks, Thomas G. View More...
National Genealogical Society's Research in the states series had its genesis in the NGS Quarterly with the publication of "Master Plan for North Carolina Research" in 1987. The Quarterly continued to publish state guides and NGS later issued many of them as special publications. The 2008 releases include both revised editions of earlier guides and some new states. Additional states will be added to the series on an ongoing basis. In keeping with today's electronic age, they will all be electronic publications. View More...
266 pages, 3 pages of index. Texas Land. The two words seem to have the same manning. Before the people came, before some of its rivers became political boundaries or transportation arteries or needed bridging, before its spikes rumbled with sonic booms or glistened with the reflection of sunlight on the aluminum of mechanical birds, before great cities grew from the stimulus of cattle, crops, and oil, before the words of men on deeds and documents made it "private" and precious, before humans gave it their values and morals, Texas was just land. View More...
Genealogy of a family of the middle class and a story of a family, who in its past, as well as present, has played only humble, but important roles, "in the great events that make up the major history of our national life." Motivation for this book is, primarily, the desire to memorialize our courageous immigrant ancestors and also as a "gift" to those of the family, present and future, who might harbor an interest or curiosity in matters pertaining to their ancestry, family history, and/or genealogy. This book has been compiled with the "Tolson family" in mind. 228 Pages. @ View More...
159 pages including index of contents. The rich heritage of Texas and Texans has been captured forever by Mr. Herd with his "Texas Wagon Train" oil on mason painting. Painted especially as the dust cover art of the 1857 Texas Almanac. "Texas Wagon Train" conveys Texas' past as well as commemorates the 1986 Sesquicentennial journey of the Texas Wagon Train which will tour the state for six months traveling over 3,000 miles and visiting over 130 towns and cities along the way. View More...
Zaccheus Gould (1589-1668) immigrated during or before 1639 from England to Weymouth, Massachusetts, and shortly moved to Lynn, Massachusetts. He later moved to Ipswich and then Topsfield, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio and elsewhere. Includes Gould ancestry and genealogical data in England to 1455 A.D.
196 pages, free shipping media mail. When the first Europeans visited Louisiana during the early 1700's they found 15,000 Indians living within the present boundaries of the state, but by the time of the settlement of the Louisiana colony a century and a half later, the total had a declined to an estimated 12,000 to 13,000. View More...
Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites--both slaveholders and non-slaveholders--applied it to their lives. 270 pages, indexed.
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... View More...
284 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. This book is organized alphabetically by city for easy reference. For each city, Harvey lists one or more cemeteries, giving the location and history, when significant. View More...
