Depicts the history, geography, and culture of Scandinavia, provides practical advice on travel in the area, and surveys the hotels, restaurants, museums, sights, and recreational activities in its various countries.
344 pages including index. [Document 88-1886.] The present, the Sixteenth Report of the Record Commissioners, contains the proceedings of the Town of Boston from A. D. 1758 through 1769. Of the special topics considered during that period in town meetings, we may note the following; Schools, Inns, Faneuil-Hall Market, the Fire of 1760, Inoculation, Long Wharf, and Beacon Hill. View More...
This 537-page book lists the names of at least 33,344 Union veterans who were members of the Illinois chapter of The Grand Army of the Republic, a national organization. This was an association for Union soldiers started in 1866. In 1890, at the height of its popularity, the organization had 409,489 members nationally. The Illinois chapter was the largest with 32,984 members. To become a member, a man had to served in the Union Army between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865, and be honorably discharged. Beginning in 1880, the organization began publishing a roll of those who had died in the an... View More...
Historical Southern Families is a twenty-three-volume series of authoritative genealogies covering a broad spectrum of Southern families. The series was compiled by the late John Bennett Boddie, whose distinguished contributions to Southern genealogy were attested to by his induction as a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, and completed by his wife. Each volume contains a number of genealogies running from a few pages to as many as several dozen or more. Clearfield Company's reprint edition of Historical Southern Families is now complete in twenty-three volumes. 254 pages, full na... View More...
Dennis Northcott has ably demonstrated the importance of record interdependence in order to retrieve the most biographical information. His series of death rolls of the Grand Army of the Republic has proven its merit as a national resource tool. This volume treats the records of 36,000 ex-veterans who died in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska between 1883 and 1948. Clearly many of these veterans died prior to the existence of death records so these records may be the only record of such events. Grave markers of Union Civil War often lack dates of death so these death rolls provide positive identifica... View More...
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...
For Jews around the world the defining events of World War II and its aftermath were the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. These seminal events led to an increasingly connected and complex world for Jews, even in once-remote places such as New Mexico. The rapid expansion of organized Jewish activity in New Mexico during the postwar years brought about a heightened sense of consciousness, and the state's small Jewish population witnessed a considerable demographic growth.Building on his earlier work, A History of the Jews in New Mexico, Henry Tobias incorporates new material an... View More...
Walter P. Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. What drove this man, who in many ways typifies the adventurers who contributed to the westward expansion in the United States during the early nineteenth century?
Through his mining of personal papers, memoirs, contemporary sources, and archived collections, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. has produced a comprehensive portrait of the man who charged across the field at San Jacinto, aided in the removal of Indians and Tejano settler... View More...
This book contains abstracts of legal records for Baker, Bibb, Early, Jones, Monroe, Marion, Morgan, Randolph and Talbot Counties. It contains the names of more than 25,000 persons listed in these records. Index. 344 p. & View More...
In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude.
This 344 page book, with index, provides information on Washington County, Oklahoma and the people that lived there. It includes many photographs of people and places along with information on early settlers, Indian territory, the oil boom, and more. View More...
This is the story of Wells Fargo and of the people who created it and developed the four-billon-dollar bank that exists today. A detailed and incisive history with over 300 illustrations, this book captures the flavor of the West and the excitement of one of the great institutions of past and present America. 344 pages, indexed.
Names include: Brigham, Flood, Heller, Mason, Strauss, Willis View More...
