Connecticut, Free shipping media mail. 336 pages. A Catalogue Of The Names Of The First Puritan Settlers Of The Colony Of Connecticut; With The Time of Their Arrival In The Colony, And Their Standing In Society, Together With Their Place Of Residence, As Far As Can Be Discovered By The Records. View More...
Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies helps intermediate researchers move up to the next level and advanced researchers apply the new DNA standards and write about DNA. This new book offers an in-home course in advanced genetic genealogy. Case studies demonstrate analyzing the DNA test results, correlating with documentary evidence, and writing about the findings, all incorporating the updated standards for using DNA. Full-color illustrations help the genealogist incorporate these techniques into personal or client research projects. Each of the fourteen chapters was written ... View More...
336 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. In quest of their homeland over 1500 miles distant, a band of Northern Cheyennes fled the Oklahoma reservation in September, 1878, on what would be one of the most harrowing and courageous treks in the history of the American West. View More...
A young soldier, mortally wounded, pens a last letter to his beloved father from the battlefield. That letter, along with 19 others from the Civil War, are reproduced here in facsimile for readers to open, remove, and read, just as the original recipients did. Conveying the personal drama behind the battles of the Civil War with unrivaled verisimilitude, this unusual volume reveals the triumphs, loneliness, fears, and struggles of ordinary men and women facing their role in history, such as a letter from a former slave to his wife, ringing with hope for a future of freedom together. Renowned C... View More...
This is the saga of the historical 1871 Nevada State Prison Break as six of the twenty-nine escapees fled south. After killing a Mail Rider near Sweetwater, Nevada, they travelled on into California's Eastern Sierra Nevada where their atrocities continued.
Hearing of their deeds, a posse from Benton Hot Springs followed the six desperadoes to beautiful Monte Diablo Lake above Long Valley. A murderous gun battle took place September 23, 1871.
Not long after the shootout, local Mono and Inyo County residents renamed the site where Robert Morrison and Mono Jim were killed - Convict Lake. 73 pa... View More...
This 336 page book includes marriages from 1833-1900 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Provides bride and grooms name and the date in which they married. View More...
The history of Johnson County, Texas, is a unique book. The author interviewed elderly residents at the time, including Salema Laramore who was 102 years old at the time and had lived in the county since she was 8 years old. These interviews enabled the author to write first hand accounts of what life was like in that part of Texas in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book includes interesting accounts of events as well as family history about many of the early pioneers. The book includes 48 pages of photographs of people, places and things. 336 pages with index. Only 750 copies of this book... View More...
The Houston North Shore Railway was one of the last interruban lines built. The story is based on documentation created by the Company regarding the construction and operation of the line.
New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind."A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database."That's enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. won... View More...
Color illustrated softcovers. Illustrated with photographs and with color drawings on the inside covers. Volume describes the uniforms worn by the German airmen who took part in the great aerial attack on England in the late summer of 1940.
This volume is a continuation of the abstracts prepared under Clara Langley of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Until the establishment of county courts in South Carolina in 1785, all deeds were recorded in Charleston. While the deeds in these deed books (Y-4 through H-5) were recorded between 1776 and 1783, within these deed books are instruments dating from a much earlier time, some as early as 1722. Maps of the counties, parishes, and districts; and, a full-name index add to the value of this work.
Alphabetical listing of over 9000 South Carolinians who surrendered with rank and company/regiment/brigade information. Date paroled and location of parole. Orders of battle. 9x11 in. 212 pages . # View More...
127pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. The American Family Albums tell the multicolored and often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. View More...
It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana. 336 p. & View More...
Master the world's #1 genealogy website and discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of all the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its 14 billion records, 60 million family tree and 32,000 databases.What you'll learn:Step-by-step strategies for structuring your searches to find what you're looking for fasterHow to drill down to specific records, time periods and topics using the card catalogDetails on each... View More...
The author is the first person to attempt to compile some of the nearly two centuries of missing information from this region. Ms. Fisher recreated the information from church records, newspapers, family Bibles, private notes, deeds, records from other counties.
