Pioneer Families of Franklin County, Virginia
The early 19th century in Scotland marked the time of the notorious Highland Clearances, when landowners evicted their tenants to establish large sheep farms that were more profitable than collecting rent.
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to about 1820
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Over 420 African Americans who were born free during the colonial period served in the Revolution from Virginia.
Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
This compilation contains the genealogical records of approximately 300 families of early Milford, Connecticut.
Each of the thousands of entries in the dictionary contains two parts. The first of these is onomastic in nature, providing the etymology of the surname and any Americanized variants from which they stem.
"Originally published by Irish Family Names, Dublin, 2005."
Mitchell has also totally overhauled and updated the book's two concluding chapters, which cover Ireland's major genealogical record offices and heritage centers"--Publisher website (December 2008).
An authorized facsimile reproduction of vital records of the towns of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts, originally published serially from 1901 to 1935 in The Mayflower Descendent, with an added index of persons.
This is a richly informative, multi-volume encyclopedia of genealogical reference, the first of its kind produced in America, and it contains the pedigrees of 7,500 persons resident in the United States in the nineteenth century who trace ...
"This book identifies some of the Scots who settled in the Netherlands and the Dutch settlements in America between 1575 and 1825 and is based on research into primary and secondary sources on both sides of the Atlantic"--Introduction.
By 1675 some Scots scholars, merchants, and Covenanters (Calvinists) were gravitating to Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but the majority were soldiers fighting for the United Provinces for independence from the Spanish Hapsburgs and later ...
Such alternative sources as do exist include court records, estate papers, wills and testaments, services of heirs, registers of sasines, registers of deeds, port books, rent rolls, tax records, monumental inscriptions, and published works- ...
This is the first volume of a multi-volume work on Virginia genealogies consisting of material from "Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine," a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of ...
Furthermore, as John T. Hassam noted in the Introduction to the work, "These pages contain wills relating not only to New England families, but to those of Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and the West Indies.
While this work cannot claim to include every resident of Charleston for the period under investigation, it nonetheless identifies over 13,000 persons who lived and/or worked there between 1782 and 1802.
This is the ultimate authority on the ancestry and relationships of approximately 50,000 residents of Fairfield County, Connecticut.
This is the ultimate authority on the ancestry and relationships of approximately 50,000 residents of Fairfield County, Connecticut.