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2362. AMERICAN GENEALOGY.  The Researcher's Guide to.  By Val D. Greenwood.
An enlarged and revised second edition.  623 pp., illus., indexed.  Balto.,
1990.
$24.95
The best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of choice
in colleges and universities or wherever courses in American genealogy are
taught, and it has been adopted by the National Genealogical Society as its
basic text in its famous home study courses.
This classic work teaches the researcher the timeless principles of
genealogical research, it identifies the various classes of records used,
groups them in tables and charts, gives their locations, explains their
uses, and evaluates them for use in the research process.  Since this book
was first published nearly two decades ago, there have been some
significant advances in genealogy--not in the classic approach to research
problems (which remain valid), but in the new methods and materials used in
solving them.  There also have been some fundamental changes in
legislation, record-keeping practices, in custodianship, and so forth--so
that the need for an updated edition of this classic is obvious.
This completely revised and enlarged edition is a carefully constructed
exposition of the principles and facts essential for successful
genealogical research, yet it is also a guidebook and field manual, a
comprehensive reference book and a textbook.  No research is complete
without it.

5735.  AMERICAN PASSENGER ARRIVAL RECORDS.  A Guide to the Records of
Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam.  By Michael
Tepper. 134 pp., illus., Balto., 1988.
$18.95
Millions of people made their way to America in the most determined and
sustained migration the world has ever known.  Initially they left traces
of their immigration in scattered records and documents.  Later their
arrival here was documented so minutely that the records resulting are
among the largest, the most continuous and most uniform in the nation's
archives.
Passenger arrival records have survived and they identify by name, place of
origin, and other particulars the vast majority of persons in the great
Atlantic immigration.  The volume of these records is huge, their contents
unwieldy and difficult to use.  This work examines the records in their
historical and legal framework, and it explains what they contain, where
they can be found, and how they can be used.  In effect, it is a road map
through the mass of records and archival resources documenting immigrants'
arrivals from the time of the earliest settlements to the passage of the
Quota Acts three centuries later.

5647.  COLONIAL HANDWRITING, Understanding. By Harriet Stryker-Rodda.
26 pp., wrappers.  2nd printing, Balto., 1989.
$3.50
In genealogical research it is all very well to locate original records,
but to read them correctly is another matter altogether.  Few people know
this better than Harriet Stryker-Rodda who, after years of experience
searching through colonial records, has developed a simple technique for
reading colonial handwriting.
Here she presents examples of colonial letter forms and script, showing the
letter forms in the process of development and marking the ways in which
they differ from later letter forms.  She also provides a comparison of
English and American handwriting and examples of name forms and signatures,
all to bear out her central thesis, that the reader must find meaning in a
group of symbols without needing to see each letter of which the whole is
composed.  This is indispensable in dealing with the problems of reading
and interpretation.

425.  COUNTY COURTHOUSE BOOK.  By Elizabeth Petty Bentley.
8 1/2" x 11".  400 pp., wrappers. Balto., 1990.
$29.95
Since most genealogical research is organized on county lines, the
researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main
repositories of county records.  The County Courthouse Book is such a book.
Based on a survey of 3,351 county courthouses, it furnishes the names,
addresses, phone numbers, and dates of organization of all county
courthouses, and for those that responded to the survey (55%), a concise
summary of record holdings, personnel and services.
Besides its obvious genealogical uses, the County Courthouse Book can also
be used for land title searches, legal investigations, questions of
property rights and inheritance, and indeed for personal searches and
investigations of all kinds.

395. EUROPEAN ROOTS, In Search of Your.  A Complete Guide to Tracing Your
Ancestors in Every Country in Europe. By Angus Baxter.  289 pp., wrprs.
Balto., 1986.
$12.95
This work is designed to guide the reader through the complexities of
genealogical research in Europe, whether done in person or by
correspondence.  It covers the various types of genealogical records
available in each country, where they are found and how they are used.
With up-to-date information on church, state, and provincial archives
(including current addresses), and a discussion of the characteristics of
each area and the ways in which they affect the research process, it opens
up great possibilities for tracing ancestors in Europe.  Described in
detail are the archival resources of each country from the national to the
local level; the location of church records and census returns; the systems
of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths; and how to find and
use such records as certificates of domicile, orphan lists, emigration
registers, guild records, internal passports, confirmation records, and
even vaccination lists.

426. FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS, DIRECTORY OF. By Elizabeth P. Bentley. 8 1/2" x
11". 324 pp., paperback. Balto., 1991.
$29.95
There are many uses for a directory of family associations but undoubtedly
the best use for it is for genealogical research--for making contact with
family members, sharing information about family history, developing common
ground between people of the same surname, arranging reunions, discovering
who's out there and where you connect on the family tree, and finding out
where you can go with your own research.
Based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family
associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, the Directory of
Family Associations puts you in touch with all these possibilities,
offering access to approximately 5,000 family associations across the
United States. And since by their very nature some of these organizations
exist for only a brief period of time or lack the staff to answer queries,
Mrs. Bentley has supplemented the available information with details
gleaned from notices in the standard family history journals and
newsletters.
The result is an immensely useful A-Z directory of family associations
giving addresses, phone numbers, contact persons, and publications (if
any).

5000.  FINDING OUR FATHERS. By Dan Rottenberg.
xiv, 401 pp., wrappers. (1977), repr. Balto., 1986.
$12.95
Most American Jews believe they can only trace their families back for two
or three generations.  In this work Dan Rottenberg proves that they are
wrong and shows how to do a successful search for probing the memories of
living relatives, by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship
passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates and
other public documents, and by looking for clues in family traditions and
customs.
Supplementing the "how to" instructions is a guide to some 8,000 Jewish
family names, giving the origins of the names, sources of information about
each family, and the names of related families whose histories have been
recorded.  Other features include a country-by-country guide to tracing
Jewish ancestors abroad, a list of Jewish family history books, and a guide
to researching genealogy in Mormon records and in Israel.

427.  GENEALOGIST'S ADDRESS BOOK, The. 1992-1993 Edition. By Elizabeth
Petty Bentley.  8 1/2" x 11".  408 pp., wrappers. Balto., 1992.
$29.95
The Genealogist's Address Book, by Elizabeth Petty Bentley, is a national
classified directory for the genealogist.  Arranged by subject, cross-
referenced and alphabetized, it gives the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of virtually all organizations and institutions likely to be of use
in genealogical research.  In addition, it provides a range of
supplementary information: names of officials, editors and librarians,
secondary addresses and phone numbers, areas of interest, publications, and
business hours.
Featuring hundreds of new entries and changes to approximately 80% of the
existing entries, the new 1992-1993 edition of the Address Book updates
addresses and information, lists numerous organizations new to the scene or
overlooked in the first edition, incorporates a Yellow Pages advertising
supplement, and adds a new index to all main entries for quick and easy
reference.
Based largely on a survey of institutions, The Genealogist's Address Book
is comprised of the following sections: organizations with a national
focus, such as archives and government agencies, vital records offices, and
nationally known libraries, genealogical societies, and historical
societies; a state-by-state breakdown of archives, libraries, and
historical/genealogical societies (the longest section of the book);
separate sections on ethnic and religious organizations/research centers;
special resources, such as independent publications, computer interest
groups, and adoption registries; and periodicals and newsletters.
In short, The Genealogist's Address Book is indispensable for anyone
wanting to know what's out there in the world of genealogy.

2975.  GENEALOGY AS PASTIME AND PROFESSION.  By Donald L. Jacobus.
2nd ed'n.  120 pp., wrappers. (1968), repr. Balto., 1991.
$7.95
Clearly written, this describes the principles of genealogical research,
the evaluation of evidence, and the relationship of genealogy to
chronology, eugenics, and the law.  It covers early nomenclature, Royal
ancestry, the use of source material, and the methods of compiling and
publishing a family history, as well as dealing with characteristic
blunders and misconceptions. It is the very foundation of scientific
American genealogy.

396.  GERMAN ROOTS, In Search of Your.  A Complete Guide to Tracing Your
Ancestors in the Germanic Areas of Europe.  "United Germany Edition." By
Angus Baxter. 122 pp., wrappers. (1991), repr. Balto., 1992.
$10.95
In Search of Your German Roots is designed to help you trace your German
ancestry in all the German-speaking areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the
Crimea, from Czechoslovakia to Belgium.
The unification of Germany in 1990 resulted in the absorption of the area
formerly known as East Germany, or the D.D.R., into the political structure
of West Germany, its states, provinces, districts, towns, even churches,
now conforming to a national system of organization. Of immediate concern
to the genealogist is that changes in local government in "East" Germany
have resulted in various innovations in record-keeping practices, in
changes in the actual location of some records and record offices, and in
the restructuring of old institutions.
For research purposes it is essential that the genealogist be current with
all of these changes, and therefore Angus Baxter has updated his classic
text In Search of Your German Roots, presenting for the first time a manual
for genealogical research in a united Germany! And not only does this
updated edition reflect changes brought about by unification; the entire
work has been revised and updated, and it is now the most current and
comprehensive guide to German roots available!

5757. GERMANIC GENEALOGY, Address Book for. By Ernest Thode. Fourth ed. 8
1/2 x 11. 218 pp., paperback. Balto., 1991.
$24.95
The fourth edition of this work is indispensable for genealogical
researchers with interests in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other
German-speaking areas of central and western Europe. Beginning with an
exhaustive list of addresses in America, followed by an itemization of
German and German-area addresses, this new edition of the Address Book for
Germanic Genealogy is bigger, better, and more useful than ever and is in
tune with the new German postal codes resulting from the recent
reunification of the Germany.
The contents include 196 genealogical and related societies outside Europe;
56 archives, 175 German-American religious organizations, 112 booksellers
or importers, 79 foreign information offices, and 24 German-language
newspapers in North America; 32 national or regional archives in Germany;
250 other European archives; 777 municipal archives and 383 religious
archives in Germany and other European countries; 279 Germanic
genealogical/historical societies; and 253 genealogists specializing in
German research.

5758. GERMAN-ENGLISH GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY.  By Ernest Thode.  8 1/2" x
11". 318 pp., paperback. Balto., 1992.
$29.95
This book is designed for the family researcher who has little or no
knowledge of German but who nevertheless needs to make a translation of
German-language documents.  The dictionary covers thousands of German terms
and defines them in single words or brief phrases.  All words, symbols, and
abbreviations in the dictionary were chosen on the basis of their
association with genealogy, having been noted in church records, civil
registration records, family correspondence, genealogical journals, ships'
passenger lists, and emigration records.  Among the many categories of
entries included in the dictionary are family relationships, days of the
week, map terms, legal terms, cardinal and ordinary numbers, roman
numerals, signs of the zodiac, coins, liquid and dry measures, measures of
length, place names, historical territories, geographical terms,
occupations, titles, military ranks, types of taxes, illnesses, calendar
days, male and female given names, heraldry, abbreviations, books of the
Bible, and common genealogical words from Danish, Dutch, French, Latin, and
Polish.  In conjunction with a standard German-English dictionary, the user
of this work should be able to make a word-by-word translation of any
German document and understand it.

5645.  HOW TO CLIMB YOUR FAMILY TREE.  Genealogy for Beginners.  By Harriet
Stryker-Rodda. 144 pp., wrprs. (1977), repr. Balto., 1987.
Temporarily out of print
This is a carefully thought-out introduction to the methods and principles
of genealogical research written for the beginner and calculated to
entertain while producing results. It shows how to start research and how
to find clues in family keepsakes and memorabilia, and it introduces
important sources of information such as census records, church records,
the vital records of birth, marriage, and death, probate and land records,
and the infinite array of public records. It also explains the origins and
uses of these records in the context of the research process, and it does
so while conveying a sense of fun and excitement.  The author is well
qualified for she is a teacher of genealogy and a professional genealogist.

5075.  JEWISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH in Israel, A Guide to.  By Sallyann
Amdur Sack. 110 pp., illus., sm. 4to.  Balto., 1987.
Temporarily out of print.
Israel is the genealogical center for Jewish family historical research for
no other location has such a wealth of resources.
Although many records were destroyed in the Holocaust of World War II,
Israeli archivists have reassembled a vast quantity of data on the
identities and family relationships of European Jews.  So rich and varied
are these records that a guide to their location and contents is now
essential.  This book is such a guide, and also a key to the reconstruction
of the European Jewish past.
The researcher is introduced to the archival sources of Israel, from the
Hall of Names in Yad Vashem to the Central Archives of the Holocaust, from
the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives to the Central Archives for the
History of the Jewish people.  Carefully described are such key sources as
yiskor books, landsmanschaften records, "pages of testimony," and chevrot
kadisha (burial society) records.  Also covered are libraries, private
collections, and research institutes.

177.  KINSHIP: IT'S ALL RELATIVE.  By Jackie Smith Arnold.
72 pp., wrappers.  1990.
$6.95
We pursue it as a hobby and search for it in the most out-of-the-way places
. . . yet few of us actually know very much about kinship.  For instance,
do you know the degree of blood relationship, or consanguinity, between
yourself and your first cousins?  Between third cousins and second cousins
once removed?  Do you know anything at all about the removes?  Do you
understand the difference between a greataunt and a grandaunt?  Or between
a cousin-german and a cater cousin?  And what about double first cousins?
If you're a little vague about any of this, then this book is for you.  In
clear, practical terms it explains everything there is to know about
kinship; about agnate and cognate kinship, collateral and fictive kinship,
degrees of consanguinity and how to calculate blood relationships; and
about families: families of orientation, families of procreation, and
families of affinity; extended families and nuclear families.  Everything!
And more!  It explains the kinship connection of orphans, foundlings,
foster children, and adopted children.  It even explains the blood
relationship of children conceived through in vitro fertilization or
surrogacy, the latter a very knotty problem indeed.  So if kinship is the
issue, if kinship is in question, you now have an authoritative source to
turn to.

1495.  MANAGING A GENEALOGICAL PROJECT.  By William Dollarhide.
8 1/2" x 11". 96 pp., wrappers. (1988), revised Balto., 1991.
$14.95
This work focuses on a particular method of organizing research materials.
Its unique system of organization takes you from the preliminary stage of
your research to the final presentation of your work as a report or a book.
The system, an outgrowth of the Dollarhide System of Genealogical Records,
enables you to manage a genealogical project with maximum ease and
efficiency.
The first section of the books covers the three basic types of the
projects--pedigrees, lineages, and descendancies. The second section tells
how to organize notes and keep paperwork to a minimum, while the third
section shows the various methods of cross-referencing notes for purposes
of retrieval and evaluation.  Section four describes ahnentafel numbering,
and section five descendancy numbering and the merits of the three main
numbering systems--the Register, Record, and Henry systems--plus
Dollarhide's own combined Ahnentafel/Henry numbering system.  Then there is
a section on the applications of computer software to the project (revised
to reflect recent advances in the field), and a section on diagramming
techniques and methods of presenting a pedigree or descendancy in polished
form.  Finally there is a set of nine master forms to be used in this work,
and they can be easily photocopied and used as often as needed.
This is a completely fresh approach to genealogy and is designed for
beginner and experienced alike.

185.  (NAMES).  WHAT'S IN A NAME?  By Leonard R. N. Ashley.
265 pp., wrappers. (1989), repr. Balto., 1991.
$14.95
Nobody in America knows more about names than Prof. Ashley.  So his book is
designed for everyone, and it will tell you the facts behind the names of
persons, places and things; about how names are chosen for business and for
success; how they are used for everything from tracing settlement patterns
to telling fortunes; how forenames have their fashions; where surnames had
their origins; all about names in the U.S. and around the globe.
Open the book anywhere and you'll find something that catches your
attention: name trends and fashions, name crazes, names in magic and the
occult, middle names and nicknames, trick names and married names, place
names, street names, good names and bad names, the psychology of names,
naming practices around the world, personal factors in naming, tips for
giving a child a good name, what names tell us about ourselves . . . you
name it, it's here!

5290.  OWNER UNKNOWN.  Your Guide to Real Estate Treasure Hunting.  By J.
D. Segel. 122 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1991. Low in stock.
$19.95
This book shows you how to discover and take possession of unclaimed real
estate.  Parcels of untitled, untaxed land, of unknown ownership, exist in
many states and are ripe for the taking.  With the aid of public records,
particularly tax records and probate files, it's very possible to find a
parcel of owner-unknown land, identify a previous owner, determine the last
known owner, trace the heirs, and acquire deeds to the tract from these
heirs.  Your skills, diligence and commitment to project resolution can pay
dividends in pleasure and profit.

8451.  PORTRAIT OF MY FAMILY.  By F. Michael Carroll.
8 1/2" x 11". 140 pp., illus.
$10.95
This work contains some 140 pages, illustrated in color, pertaining to
virtually every relationship, object, and activity of family life.  Each
page is dedicated to a separate topic, such as "The Family of My Father" or
"Special Memories," and leaves ample space thereunder for entering names,
birthplaces, ages, and other appropriate information.

8800.  ROOTS III.  By Commsoft.
Genealogical Publishing Co. is pleased to offer its patrons ROOTS III, the
highly acclaimed genealogy computer program produced by Comsoft, Inc. of
Mountainview, California. It is designed to work with the IBM PC and
compatibles. ROOTS III is the first software program to be endorsed by
Genealogical Publishing Co., and we are delighted to offer it and the other
Comsoft products described below. (All registered owners of ROOTS III, by
the way, are eligible for technical support from the Comsoft factory.)
Disk Formats: DSDD 5.25" 360 K or 3.5" 720 K diskette. Manuals are included
with software. System requirements vary. Contact the publisher for a
complete description of the features and system requirements of each of the
following products.
8800. *ROOTS III. 5.25" $225.00
8801. *ROOTS III. 3.5" $225.00
8802. *Roots Utility 1. Roots Writer/Revent 5.25" $54.00
8803. *Roots Utility 1. Roots Writer/Revent 3.5" $54.00
8804. *Roots Utility 2. Historiograph/Calendar 5.25" $36.00
8805. *Roots Utility 2. Historiograph/Calendar 3.5" $36.00
8806. *Roots Utility 3. GEDCOM 5.25" $36.00
8807. *Roots Utility 3. GEDCOM 3.5" $36.00
8808. *Roots Utility 4. RPLOT^ 5.25" $54.00
8809. *Roots Utility 4. RPLOT^ 3.5" $54.00
8810. *Roots Utility 5. HISTORIOGRAPH 2  5.25" $36.00
8811. *Roots Utility 5. HISTORIOGRAPH 2  3.5" $36.00
^ Requires Microsoft Windows

9435.  SOURCE, THE.  A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ed. by Arlene Eakle
and Johni Cerny. 786 pp., illus., indexed, 4to.  Salt Lake City, 1984.
$39.95
Written by sixteen of the nation's leading genealogists, this is the most
extensive reference book of its kind available.  It is an exhaustive effort
to list as many significant information sources as possible, from colonial
times to today, and the breadth of its coverage is not matched in any other
work.  Its originality of information, its detailed introduction to the
latest in research techniques, and its many creative suggestions on new
ways to use existing data, make it a valuable--a really necessary--treatise
for genealogists.
P. William Filby says of this book, "I cannot conceive of any question not
covered and answered for genealogists of all levels of skill and
experience."
*Postage and handling charge: Each ROOTS III $7.00; each Roots Utility
$2.00.

5445.  SURNAMES, American.  By Elsdon C. Smith.
xx, 370 pp., indexed, wrappers. (1969), repr. Balto., 1986.
$12.95
Elsdon Smith begins this work with a discussion of the development of
hereditary surnames and then he divides his subject into six broad
categories:  Classification of Surnames, Surnames from Father's Name
(patronymics), Surnames from Occupation or Office, Surnames from
Description or Action (nicknames), Surnames from Places, and Surnames Not
Properly Included Elsewhere.
In these areas he expounds on such subjects as abbreviated names, surnames
derived from animals, changes of names by immigrants, ethnic names, names
indicating nationality, surnames from place names, European names, Asian
names, names of Blacks and Indians, surnames without vowels, surnames from
Christian names, landscape names, Jewish names, surnames from history,
garbled names, comic or odd names, and hyphenated names.  The list is
almost endless and Mr. Smith is unstinting in his explanation of the roots
and meaning of these names.  In addition, he provides a list of the 2,000
most common surnames in the United States today, ranked in order of
frequency with an estimate of the number of persons bearing each name.

3148.  VITAL RECORDS HANDBOOK, INTERNATIONAL.  By Thomas J. Kemp.
355 pp., 4to, wrappers.  Balto., 1990. Low in stock.
$24.95
At one time or another we all need copies of birth, marriage, or death
certificates for driver's licenses, passports, jobs, social security,
family history, or for simple proof of identity.  But the application forms
needed to obtain copies of vital records vary from state to state and
country to country.  This work is a considerable enhancement of the
previously published Vital Records Handbook (1988), and it offers a
complete, up to date collection of vital record application forms from
nations throughout the world.
Divided into three parts, the book covers some sixty-seven countries and
territories: (1) North America, including the United States, United States
Trust Territories, Canada, and the English-speaking Caribbean; (2) the
British Isles and related countries including England and Wales, Scotland,
Northern Ireland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; and
(3) Europe, featuring the thirty-one countries from Albania to Yugoslavia
with references to their key archives and libraries.
Application forms issued by the civil registration offices and the
procedures for getting a birth, marriage, or death certificate, are given
for each state, province, territory, or country.  Just photocopy the form
needed, check the corresponding data page for the name and address of the
vital records office, the fees involved in applying for copies of vital
records, and any special notes on the records, then send the fee and the
completed form to the proper record office.  It's as simple as that!

180.  YOUR LIFE AND TIMES.  By Stephen and Julia Arthur.
50 pp., 4to, wrappers.  Balto., 1990.
$8.95
With Your Life And Times, an oral history handbook as a guide, you will be
able to record your life experiences on tape simply by answering questions
that will lead you, step by step, through the precious moments of your
life.  When finished, you will have completed the oral history of your life
and times--a treasure for yourself and a gift of love for your family and
its future generations.

Canada

391.  CANADIAN ROOTS, In Search of Your.  By Angus Baxter.
368 pp., wrappers.  Balto., 1989. Low in stock.
$14.95
This is the first book by Angus Baxter to deal exclusively with the sources
available for genealogical research within Canada.  He discusses the great
migrations of Scots, Irish, English, Germans, Huguenots, Ukrainians, and
Jews to Canada; covers the National Archives in Ottawa, with its holdings
of censuses, parish registers, naturalization records, land and homestead
records, military records, and even summarizes the holdings of the LDS
Church relating to Canada.
But the best is a step-by-step guide to the records and record repositories
in each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and the Northwest
territories.  Comprising the bulk of the book, this core section has a
detailed breakdown--by province and territory--of vital records, wills,
land records, censuses, church records, newspapers and books, and it then
lists the libraries, societies, and archives, and their major holdings and
ongoing projects.  Finally, there is a chapter that tells you how to use
the data to build a family tree or write a family history.


Great Britain

393.  BRITISH & IRISH ROOTS, In Search of Your.  A Complete Guide to
Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Ancestors.  By Angus Baxter.
Revised and Updated Edition. 310 pp., wrappers.  Balto., 1991.
$14.95
Whether your research is done in person or by mail, this fine work will
guide you in finding your ancestors in Britain or Ireland.  Step-by-step
instructions are provided for drawing up a family tree by using local
sources, and then by correspondence with family history societies, county
record offices, parish archives, and many other organizations that are
listed, before a possible--but not essential--trip to Britain or Ireland.
This information supplied has never before been collected in one volume, so
that this is an important, and very useful, guide to ancestor tracing.

4560.  FAMILY HISTORY In Great Britain, Beginning Your.  By George Pelling.
Fourth edition, revised and updated.  64 pp., illus., wrappers.  (1980),
repr. Balto., 1989.
$7.50
The aim of this book is to provide the beginner with the basic information
he needs to carry his research back to the sixteenth century in Great
Britain.  Thus it focuses on the essentials--from the starting point of
research through to the recording of the family tree.  At the same time it
provides accurate and up-to-date information on the traditional sources of
genealogical information in Britain--census records, parish registers,
records of civil registration, wills, and so forth--at every level
supplying the names and addresses of the key record repositories.

975.  HERALDIC DESIGN, A Handbook for Students.  By Heather Child.
180 pp., text illus., 32 plates, indexed.  (1966), repr. Balto., 1982.
$22.50
Explaining the unique rules and language of heraldry, and illustrating each
point with fine drawings, this gives the genealogist enough information
about the structure and detail of heraldic insignia for the production of
well-balanced designs of coats-of-arms.

5155.  TRACING ANCESTORS IN BRITAIN, The A-Z Guide to.  By F. C. Markwell
and Pauline Saul. New Fourth Edition, revised and updated.  256 pp.,
illus., indexed, paperback.  Balto., 1991.
$17.95
This is an A-Z glossary of terms relating to genealogical research in
Britain.  Arranged alphabetically, it has definitions, explanations,
bibliographies, sources, addresses, and signposts pointing to every
conceivable topic of interest to the genealogist.
It is everything you ever wanted to know about those curious British terms
you have encountered.  What is "Poor Law," what are Letters Patent, State
Papers, and Chancery Proceedings?  What are GRO and CRO and what do they
have in common?  And why are market towns so important in your search for
an elusive marriage record?  With this book, answers to these questions and
hundreds of others will be at your fingertips.
In addition, the book has several important appendices, one with a
breakdown of the records in the various divisions of the Public Record
Office, another listing units of the British Army with their formation
dates, and a third showing the counties of England, Wales, Scotland, and
Northern Ireland before and after 1974, with maps showing the changes in
county boundaries.


England

880.  EVERYONE HAS ROOTS. An Introduction to English Genealogy.  By Anthony
J. Camp. 189 pp. Balto., 1978.
$12.50
Designed to instruct the beginner in the use of English genealogical
records, this work describes their origins and present-day applications.
It treats virtually all facets of research, discussing methods and
principles, books and archives, and adventures and misadventures.  The
author of this book is very well qualified, because for over fifteen years
he has been Director of Research of the Society of Genealogists in London.


Ireland

1755.  ANCESTRAL RESEARCH, Irish and Scotch-Irish.  By Margaret D. Falley
2 vols. 813, 354 pp., each vol. indexed.  (1962), repr. Balto., 1988.
$60.00
This encyclopedic treatment of Irish genealogy is without parallel.  The
first volume is a guide to preliminary research.  It describes genealogical
collections and indexes in all major Irish repositories, and the published
indexes, catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the
United States.  The various chapters detail the types of records that exist
and where, the nature and extent of the holdings, dates of coverage, and
the existence of indexes to wills and probates, birth, marriage, and burial
records, land, census, and tax records, and church and parish records.
Volume Two is a bibliography of family histories, pedigrees, and source
materials published in books and periodicals.  It covers such printed works
as parish, town, and county histories, church records, and family
histories.  It also has a list of over 1,400 manuscript family histories
deposited in public record offices, a survey of the microfilm holdings of
various American and Irish institutions, inventories of other manuscript
collections, and an index of family history articles appearing in over
twenty periodicals.

6560.  IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.  By Marilyn Yurdan.
207 pp., indexed, wrappers.  1990.
$19.95
This is the best introduction to Irish family history available--
comprehensive, up to date, and totally reliable.  And it's unlike any other
book ever written on the subject.
Setting the scene, the author outlines the various aspects of Irish history
which the researcher needs to know about in order to understand Irish
genealogical records.  She then goes on to discuss the momentous events of
the Famine and the irrevocable changes wrought on Irish institutions and
family life.  At this point she departs from the usual summary of Irish
records and record repositories and launches into an examination of Irish
genealogical trails in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and South Africa--in short, a worldwide study of the Irishman
outside of Ireland!  Then back to Ireland for a detailed examination of all
categories of Irish records, with emphasis on contents, coverage, and use.
This is followed by sections offering instructions for interpreting the
records, a resume of Irish record repositories and their holdings, lists of
useful addresses, a glossary of terms, and a look at the latest
developments in Irish genealogy.


Scotland

1155. SCOTTISH ANCESTRY, Tracing Your. By Kathleen B. Cory. 195 pp.,
indexed, wrappers. Edinburgh, 1990.
$16.95
This is the most practical, the most up-to-date, and the most informative
guide to Scottish ancestry ever to come on the market.  Packed with
information and advice on basic research techniques, it focuses on the
holdings of the two principal Scottish record repositories, the General
Register Office at New Register House and the Scottish Record Office, both
in Edinburgh.  With records of births, marriages, and deaths before and
after 1855 and census returns from 1841 to 1891 at the first-named
location, and wills, testaments, deeds, and church records at the other,
the author guides you, record by record, to a successful conclusion of your
search.  With chapters on other records and repositories, five useful
appendices (including one that lists every parish in Scotland by district
number, county and commissariat), and various maps, this publication will
be welcomed by everyone interested in Scottish genealogy.

5650.  SCOTTISH FAMILY HISTORY.  A Guide to Works of Reference on the
History and Genealogy of Scottish Families.  By Margaret Stuart.  To Which
is Prefixed An Essay On How To Write The History Of A Family.  By Sir James
Balfour Paul.
386 pp. (1930), repr. Balto. 1983.
Temporarily out of print.

3861.  SCOTTISH LOCAL HISTORY.  By David Moody.
178 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1989. Low in stock.
$19.95
This, the first full scale study of Scottish local history, is an
exhaustive survey of the vast body of documents available to the researcher
in Scottish archives, libraries, and record offices.
The introductory chapter is on Scottish local history in general and the
basic study techniques.  The next two chapters describe the records
available in public libraries and record offices (local and national), and
how to use them for best results.  Three chapters then show the methodology
of local history by examining the following themes: The Family and the
Community (with emphasis on family and oral history); Dwellings and
Buildings (land records, deeds, property registers, etc.); and Settlement
Studies (the history of individual villages, towns and parishes).
Following is a chapter on writing and publishing the results, and the book
then concludes with an appendix setting out the development of local
government functions from 1825 to 1975, with detailed information on
further reading and sources of information.

4103. WALES, THE COUNTIES AND COUNTY FAMILIES OF. By Thomas Nicholas. Two
vols. 964 pp., illus., indexed. (1875), repr. Balto., 1991.
$75.00
First published in 1872, with a second edition in 1875, Nicholas's County
Families of Wales is still the standard work on Welsh family history and
the chief source of genealogical data on the counties and families of the
principality. Unlike other books on the subject, it combines histories of
the ancient counties of Wales with family lineages, integrating the two to
show the social and genealogical evolution of the country. Again unlike
other works, it is based on the author's personal investigation of county
records and family papers, producing in the end what can only be described
as the most complete and faithful compendium of Welsh family history ever
published.
In this work, then, we are entrusted with a reliable record of ancient and
modern families as well as--to paraphrase the subtitle--a reliable record
of all ranks of the gentry, their lineages, appointments, armorial ensigns,
and residences; ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct
families; notices of the family history and antiquities of each county; and
rolls of high sheriffs and other county officials.
To Americans of Welsh descent the reprint of this famous work will be a
godsend, so little is available on the subject.


GENERAL REFERENCE
AND FINDING AIDS

1001.  AMERICAN MILITIA In The Frontier Wars, 1790-1796. By Murtie June
Clark. 394 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1990.
$30.00
This book is a compilation of the records of the militia organizations
which were authorized and paid by the federal government to fight in the
Indian Wars from 1790 until the year 1796, shortly after Anthony Wayne's
legendary victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.  More specifically, it
is a transcription of the muster rolls and pay rolls of the state militia
troops who were paid to protect the frontier or who fought alongside
federal troops in the various frontier campaigns.  In addition it contains
data on some of the militia troops called out to quell the Whiskey
Rebellion, the infamous western Pennsylvania tax revolt of 1794.
Named in these records, with dates of enlistment, rank, and other items of
information, are militia troops who served in the following states and
territories: Kentucky, Ohio Territory, Southwest Territory (modern
Tennessee), Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume I: North Carolina.  By
William Wade Hinshaw.
See 2731.

AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume II: New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.  By William Wade Hinshaw.
See 2732.

AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume III: New York . . .  By
William Wade Hinshaw.
See 2733.

1484.  AMERICAN VITAL RECORDS From The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868.  By
David Dobson. 310 pp. Balto., 1987.
$25.00
The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London in 1731.  The first
publication of its type, it featured a broad mix of news, essays, poetry,
parliamentary debates, book reviews, and antiquarian notes.
For the genealogist it is an absolute treasurehouse of useful data.  From
the beginning it published notices of births, deaths, and marriages,
enabling people throughout the English-speaking world to keep abreast of
friends and relatives at home and abroad.  About 6,000 of these notices
relate to persons in North America and the West Indies, and these have been
extracted to form a unique source of genealogical material from 1731 to
1868.  Among the fascinating notices are those on the deaths of American
Loyalists in England, and the marriages and deaths in America of "younger
sons" of the English gentry and nobility.

1108.  AMERICAN WILLS And Administrations in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, 1610-1857.  Compiled by Peter W. Coldham.
xii, 416 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1989.
$30.00
Thousands of Englishmen who emigrated to America between 1610 and 1857 died
leaving estates in England.  Proving their wills and granting
administrations in England were matters dealt with by the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury (PCC) which had jurisdiction in such matters.  Obviously any
information from such records concerning kinship links with Americans is
highly important to the genealogist.
In the preparation of this work entries from the Probate Act Books and
Administration Act Books were abstracted only when it was possible to
establish with certainty that the deceased or his relatives had some
connection with mainland America.  This material was then verified and
supplemented by comparing it with the principal printed books listing
American wills and administrations in the PCC, thus permitting the
inclusion of a note of those wills of Englishmen who named relatives living
in America or who had interests there.
The abstracts have been arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the
deceased, and each abstract contains the name of the testator or intestate,
his marital status at the time of his death, the place of death, the former
place of residence, the date of probate or administration, the names of
executors or administrators, and the names and relationships of family
members.  Altogether there are about 6,000 abstracts, and the index of
names contains references to an additional 5,000 persons.  There are also
indexes to places and ships.

XXXX. AMERICAN WILLS PROVED IN LONDON, 1611-1775. By Peter Wilson Coldham.
xxx pp., indexed. Balto., 1992.
$xx.xx
While Peter Coldham's American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury (see above), succeeded in its objective of providing a
complete listing of the hundreds of PCC wills and administrations with
American connections, it does not provide all the information per will or
administration that can be found in the following less comprehensive works:
Henry Waters' Genealogical Gleanings in England, Lothrop Withington's
Virginia Gleanings in England, and George Sherwood's American Colonists in
English Records.  (Information such as the names of close relations,
legatees, and witnesses, and references to ownership of property.)  To
redress this imbalance Mr. Coldham has issued this present work containing
complete summaries of all those wills not included in the works of Waters,
Withington, or Sherwood, providing the researcher with an accessible
compendium of American wills proved in London to complement and stand
comparison with the other three, closing the circle on a priceless body of
data.

720.  AMERICANS OF ROYAL DESCENT.  7th Edition. By Charles H. Browning.
575 pp. in all, charts, indexed.  (1911), repr. Balto., 1986.
$30.00
A collection of genealogies showing the lineal descent from kings of some
American families, it is based on authoritative genealogical works, printed
family histories, and verified manuscript pedigrees.

6100. *AMERICAN GENEALOGY, The Compendium of.  The Standard Genealogical
Encyclopedia of the First Families of America.  By Frederick G. Virkus.
Seven volumes. 6,283 pp. total, illus., indexed. (1925-1942), repr. Balto.,
1987.
The set: $325.00
Per volume: $50.00
This work is the most important collection of American lineage records ever
published.  They are of the first families of America and are extended in
both the male and female lines from the earliest-known immigrant ancestor
(with his place and date of origin) to the then (1925-1942) living subject
of the record, and each lineage record spans at least eight or nine
generations.  While not all families are represented, almost every name
distinguished in the early history of the country will be found in this
work.  Over 54,000 lineages are covered, and the indexes list more than
425,000 names.
*Postage and handling charge: complete set $6.00; individual vols., one
vol. $3.00 and each additional vol. $1.00.

1785. ANGLO-AMERICANS IN SPANISH ARCHIVES. Lists of Anglo-American Settlers
in the Spanish Colonies of America. By Lawrence H. Feldman. 349 pp.,
indexed. Balto., 1991
$30.00
We often forget that a large chunk of colonial America was once under
Spanish control. When early in the 19th century this territory came under
U.S. jurisdiction, the records of the colonial administration were sent to
Cuba, thence to Seville, Spain, where they were housed in various archives.
In Seville, the researcher can still find the papers relating to the
administration of the Spanish-American colonies, in particular, census
lists, lists of landowners and slaveowners, and arrival lists. From the
principal archives in Seville (e.g. Archivo General de Indias), and from
other archives, Lawrence Feldman has extracted the names of about 7,000
Anglo-American settlers, arranging them in tabular format by state. Thus,
from the records mentioned above, Mr. Feldman has compiled name lists and
associated data (places of residence, dates, occupations, etc.) from the
records dealing with Mobile and Tombecbe (Alabama), Pensacola and Saint
Augustine (Florida), Baton Rogue (Louisiana), Natchez and Nogales
(Mississippi), and New Madrid (Missouri), with smaller lists for Belize in
Central America.
Not only is this data unique, but it is otherwise totally inaccessible to
the American researcher.

XXXX. BERMUDA SETTLERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. By Julia E. Mercer. 276 pp.,
indexed, (1942-1947), repr. Balto., 1992.
$??.??

These "Genealogical Notes from Bermuda," were published serially in Tyler's
Quarterly between 1942 and 1947 and have lain largely unnoticed by the
genealogical researcher.  The collected "Notes," consist of abstracts of
the earliest known records of Bermuda settlers, and its value cannot be
exaggerated, for many of the early settlers of Bermuda--or their
descendants--removed to the mainland and were among the pioneer settlers of
the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia.
The records given here are arranged by family and appear thereunder in
chronological sequence.  They consist of a progression of abstracts of
wills, administrations, deeds, court orders, indentures, arrival records,
and so on, pertaining to every member of the family from the original
immigrant up to as near the year 1700 as the records allow.  Of paramount
interest, however, are the compiler's own notes, which in many cases
establish family relationships and carry the family backward to England and
forward to the mainland.  Altogether about 5,000 of the earliest settlers
in the New World are identified--for the first time.

5225.  BRITISH ALIENS in the United States During the War of 1812.  By
Kenneth Scott. 20 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1979.
$20.00
At the time of the War of 1812, there were thousands of British immigrants
here, most of the them having come between 1790 and 1812, and they had not
been naturalized.  As of July 1812 these British aliens were required to
submit a report of "the various persons composing their families, the
places of their residence and their occupation or pursuits."  This work is
a summation of these reports.  The aliens are listed in alphabetical order
under their respective states, with the information they supplied.  In all,
about 12,000 aliens are identified.

802.  BURKE'S PROMINENT FAMILIES of the United States of America. By Arthur
Meredyth Burke. 510 pp., indexed. (1908), repr. Balto., 1991.
$35.00
There can be few names associated with English genealogy as well known as
Burke's.  Not only did Burke's give us the Peerage, the Commoners, the
Landed Gentry, the General Armory and a host of similar and equally famous
books, but they also gave us a genealogical style, a method of laying out
pedigrees in narrative form--easy to read, easy to follow, easy to
understand.
When it came to books on American families--historically prominent families
of British or European descent--they did no less in matters of style and
content, and of the three great Burke's volumes produced on American
families, this present one is generally thought to be the most
authoritative.  Hundreds of pedigrees are included, each beginning with the
living subject and showing his descent from the earliest known forebear.

5884. (CENSUS). THE 1790 CENSUS. Heads of Families at the First Census of
the United States Taken in the Year 1790:  Connecticut, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. 12
Volumes.  8 1/2" x ll". 2,561 pp. in all, fldg maps, indexed, paper. (1907,
1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
The Set: $250

The 1790 census is an authentic chronicle of the American people during the
period immediately following the Revolution and at the time of the adoption
of the Constitution.  It is certain that no other set of records in the
government archives contains as much information about ordinary citizens at
this momentous period in history. While the census encompassed seventeen
states, the records of only twelve states survived to the time of their
original publication in 1907 and 1908.  (The Virginia volume is actually
based on a reconstruction of state taxpayer lists for 1782-85.)

The twelve published volumes contain the names of the heads of about
400,000 families, comprising about 2,400,000 individuals, or approximately
75% of the total population in 1790.  In each of the published census
volumes the schedules are arranged by county and, in some cases, by minor
subdivisions.  Each volume is separately indexed.  Heads of families,
arranged in alphabetical order under each county and district, are listed
with the following information after each name:  Number of free white males
of sixteen years and upward; number of free white males under sixteen
years; number of free white females; number of all other free persons;
number of slaves.
This present edition, uniformly bound in stiff paper covers, is available
as a complete set.  While the volumes may be purchased individually (see
the catalogue entries under the states in question for price and other
order information), researchers are urged to take advantage of the
substantial savings available on the entire set.

5786. (CENSUS).  Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920.  By
William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. 8 1/2" x 11". 445 pp., maps,
indexed, paperback. (1987), repr.  Balto., 1992.
$39.95
The county has always been used as the basic Federal census unit.
Genealogical research in the census, therefore, begins with identifying the
correct county jurisdictions.  This work shows all U.S. county boundaries
from 1790 to 1920.  On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are
superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-
year intervals.
Also included are (1) a history of census growth; (2) the technical facts
about each census; (3) a discussion of census accuracy; (4) an essay on
available sources for each state's old county lines; and (5) a statement
with each map indicating which county census lines exist and which are
lost.  Then there is an index listing all present-day counties, plus nearly
all defunct counties or counties later re-named.
With each map there is data on boundary changes, notes about the census,
and locality finding keys.  There also are inset maps that clarify
territorial lines, a state-by-state bibliography of sources, and an
appendix outlining pitfalls in mapping county boundaries.  The detail in
this work is exhaustive and of such impeccable standards that there is
little wonder why this award-winning publication is the number one tool in
U.S. census research.

XXXX. (CENSUS). STATE CENSUS RECORDS, by Ann S. Lainhart. 116 pp. Balto.,
1992.
$17.95
State censuses rank with federal censuses as a major genealogical resource,
but, because they were taken randomly, remain a much under-utilized
resource in American genealogy.  State censuses not only stand as
substitutes for some of the missing 1790, 1800, and 1810, and 1890 censuses
(as well as many county and statewide enumerations lost or destroyed
between 1790 and 1890) but also as valuable population enumerations in
their own right. Many state censuses, for example, asked different
questions than the federal census, so they record information  that cannot
be found elsewhere in federal schedules.
Ann Lainhart's inventory of state census records is the first comprehensive
list of state census records ever published.  State by state, year by year,
often county by county and district by district, she shows the researcher
what is available in state census records, when it is available, and what
one might expect to find to find in the way of data.  In this way Ms.
Lainhart has removed one of the last uncharted territories in American
genealogy, opening up a range of fresh opportunities for the researcher.

4835. (CHARLEMAGNE). Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's
Descendants.  By Marcellus D. A. R. von Redlich. Vol. I.  320 pp., indexed.
(1941), repr. Balto., 1988.
Temporarily out of Print.
A distinguished work, it provides pedigrees of descent from Charlemagne
that can be proved without a doubt.  The progeny of Royal Houses of Europe
that trace back to Charlemagne are listed in chronological order under
their respective Houses.  Then, individual chapters list American families
that link up with one or more royal lines, and pertinent facts are given
for each member of the family--birth, marriage, children, connecting lines,
station, distinctions, and honors.

3285. (CHARLEMAGNE).  Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's
Descendants.  By Aileen L. Langston, and J. Orton Buck, Jr. With a Foreword
by Timothy F. Beard.  Vol. II.  516 pp., indexed. (1974), repr. Balto.,
1988.
$30.00
This work, originally published in 1974, more than thirty years after the
appearance of Volume I (the previous entry), is composed of more than
seventy accepted lines of descent of living people from the Emperor
Charlemagne.  Each line is carefully documented, generation by generation,
and has been verified and approved by Timothy F. Beard, Genealogist General
of the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne.  Each chapter is headed with the
name of the immigrant ancestor through whom the descent is traced, followed
by each family name in the line of descent in America.
This work also contains a chapter on "Charlemagne and His Children," by
Prof. J. A. Cabannis, and a lengthy survey of contemporary genealogical
scholarship by Timothy Beard.

775. (CHARLEMAGNE).  Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's
Descendants.  By J. Orton Buck, Jr., and Timothy F. Beard.
Vol. III.  389 pp. total, indexed.  (1978), repr. Balto., 1988.
$25.00
This is the third in the distinguished series of lineage books published by
the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in this country.  Originally done in
1978, it has over eighty-five lines of descent of living people from the
Emperor Charlemagne.  For the most part, the lines of descent have been
taken from the lineage papers of members of the Order and they have been
substantiated by the Genealogist General, Timothy Field Beard, the well-
known author of How to Find Your Family Roots.
Each section of the book is headed with the name of the immigrant ancestor
through whom descent from Charlemagne is traced, followed by all family
names in the line of descent in America.  This makes the book an excellent
guide for those seeking a Charlemagne connection in their own ancestry.  In
addition to the pedigrees, which follow closely the format of Volumes I and
II, this volume has a chapter titled "A Glimpse of Emperor Lothair," by
Prof. James Allen Cabaniss, and a list of corrections to Volume II.  (For a
complete list of the contents of Volumes I, II, and III write the
Publisher.)

1114.  CHILD APPRENTICES in America From Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-
1778.  By Peter W. Coldham. 164 pp., indexed. Balto., 1990.
$21.50
Christ's Hospital (not a hospital in the contemporary sense) was
established in 1553 for the benefit of orphaned children or those made
homeless by impecunious parents.  If they were legitimate children of free
men of the City of London, over four years of age and free from obvious
infirmity, they were to be educated and prepared either for entrance to a
university or apprenticeship to a trade.
From the late 17th century, up to 150 children were admitted annually to
"Bluecoat School" on recommendation of their parishes, and a further ninety
or so under the terms of charitable endowments.  But as early as 1617 large
numbers of these scholars took "articles" and left England to serve
apprenticeships in America.  Beginning with those children apprenticed to
the Virginia Company in 1617, about 1,000 Christ's Hospital students left
England to take up such apprenticeships.
The "Children's Registers" are housed in the manuscript department of the
London Guildhall, and it is from these that Mr. Coldham has extracted data
on child emigrants.  The entries are in chronological order and in a
slightly abbreviated form.  Given are the name of the child, his date of
birth or baptism, date of admission, native parish, the name and occupation
of his father, date of discharge, the name of the person to whom he was
apprenticed, and the place in America where he was to serve his
apprenticeship.  This is the first time all of this information has been
made available to the genealogist.

2105.  COLLECTING DEAD RELATIVES.  By Laverne Galeener-Moore.
155 pp., illus., wrappers.  (1987), repr. Balto., 1992.
$8.95
For the first time . . . a book that looks on the comic side of genealogy!
Here you'll meet the people and situations you're already familiar with--
the BORE, the BLUEBLOOD, the OLD MASTER, and the BRIEFCASE MAGNET, and a
clutch of dissembling officials, wet-nosed beginners, and tongue-clucking
harridans--but this time the meeting will drive you wild with laughter.
You'll learn about the latest techniques used by county clerks in repelling
genealogists, about projector fatigue, and about acceptable and
unacceptable behavior in graveyards.  And you'll read about the sins of the
D.A.R., research trip survival tactics, sadism in the county courthouse,
the banality of workshops and seminars, the proper etiquette in prying
information from reluctant relatives, and much, much more.  This work is
guaranteed to keep you sane and keep you laughing.

2106.  FURTHER UNDERTAKINGS OF A DEAD RELATIVE COLLECTOR. By Laverne
Galeener-Moore. 170 pp., wrappers.  (1987), repr. Balto., 1992.
$9.95
Here she comes again, our aging Joan of Arc, mercilessly stripping away the
veneer covering the sordid world of genealogy; teeth bared, mop and blender
at the ready--motherhood and America on the line--she's out to do battle
with the dragons of genealogy.
Disguised as an ordinary person, she penetrates the inner sanctum of
American genealogy, smoking out baloney and quackery in the lecture halls,
exposing hidden meanings and dark purposes in wingdings in such innocent
seeming places as Ohio and California, confronting Armageddon itself in San
Francisco, and raising doubts about the sanity of the universe.
With a swipe at foreigners, computer freaks, reluctant letter-writers, and
certain best-forgotten ancestors--not to mention the hell on earth when the
microfilm reader is on the fritz--our good lady is uncompromising in her
single-minded devotion to flushing out flummery and humbug.  But does she
succeed?  Does good triumph over evil in the garden of genealogy?  Or will
the dark forces of earnest endeavor gain the upper hand?
You'll be laughing so hard you may never find out!

2956.  COLONIAL ANCESTORS, Seventeenth Century, of Members of the National
Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975.  With SUPPLEMENT 1 . . .
1975-1979, Compiled by Mary Louise M. Hutton and SUPPLEMENT 2 . . . 1979-
1988, by Mrs. George L. Bott.  By Mary Louise M. Hutton.
468 pp. total, indexed. (1976, 1981, 1988), consolidated edition Balto.,
1991.
$30.00
Over the years the lineage records submitted by prospective members of the
National Society Colonial Dames to substantiate their claims to membership
have grown into a formidable repository.  This publication, a key to the
lineage records, consists of three parts.  The base work is a complete list
of the 8,000 seventeenth-century ancestors from whom descent has been
positively proved by members of this prestigious hereditary society.  As a
rule, each entry gives the name of the colonial ancestor, his dates of
birth and death, the name of his wife, his colony of residence, and his
occupation or service, all of which is absolutely crucial in any serious
genealogical investigation.
To the original list of 8,000 seventeenth-century ancestors from whom
descent has been positively proved, Supplement 1 adds the names of 2,500
additional ancestors from whom descent was proved by members of the Society
between 1975 and 1979.  Each entry gives the name of the ancestor, his
vital dates, his colony of residence, and his occupation or service.  Also
included are additions and corrections to the first volume.
Supplement 2 contains the names of an additional 2,500 ancestors from whom
descent was proved by members of the Society between 1979 and 1988,
bringing the total number of proven seventeenth-century ancestors of
members of this Society from 1915 to 1988 to 13,000!  Like the first
supplement each entry gives the name of the ancestor, his vital dates,
colony of residence, and occupation or service.

2550.  COLONIAL FAMILIES of the Southern States of America.  A History and
Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled in the Colonies Prior to the
Revolution.  By Stella P. Hardy. 643 pp. (1958), repr. Balto., 1991.
$35.00
The families included are Adams, Alexander, Ambler, Armistead, Ball,
Bassett, Blackwell, Bolling, Bouldin, Braxton, Brent, Burwell, Byrd,
Carter, Cary, Chilton, Clarkson, Collier, Cooke, Corbin, Creel, Downing,
Drake, Duvall, Ferrill, Fishback, Fitzgerald, Fitzhugh, Green, Gwynn,
Hammond, Hardy, Harrison, Huddleston, Jennings, Johnston, Keith, Langhorne,
Lee, Lightfoot, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Metcalfe, Murray, Neale, Orrick,
Parker, Pickett, Raines, Ridgely, Robinson, Scott, Shields, Slaughter,
Smith, Steptoe, Stewart, Stuart, Tayloe, Taylor, Turbeville, Washington,
Watts, Wright, and Wyatt.

1270.  COLONIAL SETTLERS and English Adventurers.  Abstracts of Legal
Proceedings in Seventeenth Century English and Dutch Courts Relating to
Immigrant Families.  By Noel Currer-Briggs. 393 pp., indexed.  Balto.,
1971.
$25.00
Parts I-IV contain abstracts of 17th-century legal documents referring to
the Kirby, Chadwell and Currer families and branches; Part V consists of
chancery proceeding abstracts, 1550-1625, which concern immigrant families
from the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Yorkshire; and Parts VI
and VII contain abstracts from the Notarial records of Rotterdam and
Amsterdam, 1664-1669, which relate to the activities of certain English and
Dutch merchants trading with Virginia and New England.

1003.  COLONIAL SOLDIERS of the South, 1732-1774.  By Murtie J. Clark.
1,246 pp., indexed.  (1983), repr. Balto., 1986.
$50.00
The American colonies were organized into military defense districts, for
no regular army existed to protect settlers from marauders or from
rebellion within.  On alarm, colonists formed militia companies from their
own ranks to go to the scene of action.  When the emergency ended, these
trained bands retired.  Records of these companies exist, but those of the
South are widely scattered.  After a thorough investigation of a wide
variety of source materials, Mrs. Clark has organized them into a logical
and convenient form.
The records are chiefly muster rolls and pay rolls of the militias of
Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, and they
identify about 55,000 soldiers by name, rank, date, militia company, and
district.  Other records provide data on age, height, country of birth,
occupation, and date and place of enlistment.  Also, there are the Scotch
Highlanders in Oglethorpe's Georgia regiment, recruits who served under
Washington's ensign in Virginia, and the ordinary settlers and frontiersmen
who did their duty.  This source book is a milestone in colonial genealogy
and history.

1825.  COUNTY HISTORIES, A Bibliography of American.  By P. William Filby.
449 pp. (1985), repr. Balto., 1987.
$24.95
This comprehensive list provides a state-by-state listing of all county
histories of any significance.  For each is given information concerning
the title, author, place and date of publication, as well as details of
editions, reprints, and indexes.  In all, it covers 5,000 county histories
published to date.  The standard work on the subject.

392.  DO'S AND DON'TS FOR ANCESTOR HUNTERS.  By Angus Baxter.
135 pp., wrappers.  Balto., 1988.
$10.95
Angus Baxter, one of our most celebrated writers on genealogy, boils down
his forty years of experience into this one important volume.  In it he
launches you on your path of discovery, determined to motivate you, to get
you moving in the right direction, and to bring you to a successful
conclusion.
Along the way you will make mistakes, waste time and money, and maybe lapse
into despair--but Baxter will cheer you with timely advice and
encouragement, and show you what to do and what not to do--often by example
or anecdote--and all within a sensible framework.  The book goes from the
beginning of the research process, through the various steps in getting
data from the classic sources, to the final compilation of your family
tree--with excursions into the realms of civil registration, censuses,
church registers, wills, the LDS Church, religion, heraldry, and so on.
In a robust combination of insight and encouragement, Baxter claims, "If I
can do it, so can you.  If I can complete this magic journey back into my
own past, then so, too, can you."  He promises you will enter into a world
of unexpected romance, and with the aid of this book he will help you to
find it.

299.  ENGLISH ANCESTRY, The, and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to
Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne"
and the "Little James" in 1623.  By Charles E. Banks.  Repr. with Additions
and Corrections. 187 pp., indexed. (1920), repr. Balto., 1989.
$15.00
A very thorough work, it has biographical sketches of the ships' 112
passengers, with valuable information on their origin and later history.

4060.  ENGLISH ORIGINS OF AMERICAN COLONISTS From The New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record. 287 pp., indexed. Balto., 1991.
$28.50
One of the main objectives in American genealogy is to identify an
immigrant's place of origin and parentage.  This pursuit has been so
important that thousands of pages of abstracts and transcriptions have been
published in American periodicals and learned journals over the years.
Among the most important of these periodicals is The New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record, which, between the years 1903 and 1916, published
four lengthy series of abstracted English probate records and depositions,
now collected in this work.
These abstracts constitute some of the most valuable articles on the
English origins of American colonists ever published.  In order of
appearance here, they are: (1) "Clues from English Archives Contributory to
American Genealogy," by J. Henry Lea and J. R. Hutchinson; (2) "New York
Gleanings in England," by Lothrop Withington; (3) "Genealogical Notes from
the High Court of Admiralty Examinations," by J. R. Hutchinson; and (4) "A
Digest of Essex Wills with Particular Reference to Names of Importance in
the American Colonies," by William Gilbert.  For the researcher's
convenience, all four articles appear here in their entirety with an index
of nearly 10,000 names.

2272.  FAMILY DISEASES.  Are You At Risk?  By Myra V. Gormley.
165 pp., illus.  Balto., 1989.
$14.95
There are few families that are not affected in some way by genetic
disorders.  We know that heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other
ailments tend to "run in families."  Yet few of us know much about genetic
disorders--what they are, how they are transmitted, screened, treated, or
how to get information on them.  Indeed, few of us know if we or our
children are at risk from such disorders.
While geneticists and genealogists have long been interested in each
others' fields, only recently have they become linked in a way that
promises advances in our understanding of the relationships between genetic
disorders and ancestry.  This book explores those relationships and alerts
you to what you ought to know about your family tree and genetic research,
and the scientific breakthroughs that have made possible more effective
control and treatment of inherited diseases.
This groundbreaking work, written in a popular style, covers the genetics
revolution, genetic diseases, and whether you and your family may be at
risk, all in the framework of ancestry and family health history.  It also
shows you how comparatively simple it is to trace your family history,
establish your medical pedigree, and construct your own family health tree.

1345.  FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF AMERICA INDEX.
255 pp. (1967), repr. Balto., 1989.
Temporarily out of print
Requirements for membership in the National Society of Daughters of
Founders and Patriots of America are strict, a fact borne out by the
published lineage records of the members.  Each lineage has the name of the
Founder ancestor who arrived in one of the Colonies between May 13, 1607
and May 13, 1687, and a Patriot ancestor who gave military service, civil
service, or other aid in establishing American independence in the period
from 1775 to 1784.
For three-quarters of a century the Society has published volumes of these
lineage records, and they are in a great many libraries in the country.
However, for those who wish to know quickly whether they qualify for
membership in this beloved patriotic society, these volumes are inadequate.
This index to the 9,275 Founders and Patriots listed in the thirty-four
published volumes was prepared to meet their needs and also to preserve in
one volume the hallowed names of the founders and patriots of America.
Of course this is more than an index.  It gives the date of birth and death
of each Founder and Patriot, his date of marriage, his wife's name, the
name of the State in which the Founder settled, and the volume number and
name where the full lineage record showing descent to the "Daughter" is set
out.  (The Founder and Patriot of a given lineage are linked by volume and
page number.)  So, in this volume there is the thread linking the Founder
ancestor to the Patriot ancestor and a reference to the lineage record
showing descent from both.

2985.  GENEALOGICAL PERIODICALS, Index to.  By Donald L. Jacobus.
3 vols. in 1.  365 pp. in all. (1932, 1948, 1953), repr. Balto., 1981.
$20.00
These indexes constitute a basic research tool.  Each volume has a name
index, alphabetically arranged, and a place and subject index, all entries
referring to articles appearing in more than fifty periodicals which were
published over a period of nearly 100 years.

8504.  GENEALOGIES in the Library of Congress, Second Supplement to, 1976-
1986: A Bibliography.  Ed. by Marion J. Kaminkow. 8 1/2" x 11".  861 pp.
Balto., 1987.
$90.00
This Second Supplement lists genealogies in the Library of Congress that
were catalogued between January 1976 and June 1986.  It supplements the
original two-volume work and the five-year supplement, 1972-1976 (both now
out of print).
Listed are 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976.
Arrangement is alphabetical by family name, and then alphabetically by
author.  An index of secondary names lists about 8,500, and a geographic
index lists family locations when mentioned.  Each entry has a complete
bibliographic citation, including the LC catalog number, and the Dewey
Decimal number.

8505.  GENEALOGIES in the Library of Congress, A Complement to: A
Bibliography.  Ed. by Marion J. Kaminkow. 8 1/2" x 11". 1,118 pp. Balto.,
1981.
$95.00
This work lists 20,000 genealogies which were not in the Library of
Congress when the Bibliography and Supplement were published.  It includes
additions and corrections to those volumes, as well as an index of 10,000
secondary names.  Code letters designate the libraries in which all of
these items may be found--altogether 45 libraries.

3077.  GERMAN-AMERICAN NAMES.  By George F. Jones. 267 pp. Balto., 1990.
$25.00
This is an A-Z dictionary of German-American names with the spellings,
meanings, and variants of about 12,700 names. The lengthy introduction
discusses the development of German names, name sources, name variations,
and some of the special characteristics of German American names.
Here is explained the meanings of names borne today by Americans which
derive from the German language or its dialects.  It also deals with the
Americanization of some of these names, explaining the social and
historical matters that contributed to the distinctive character of German-
American names.  And it deals as well with names many of us would never
have thought of as German.  The vast amount of information on German-
American names in this work is unequalled in any other work on this
subject.

915.  GERMAN PARISH REGISTERS, A Guide to, in the Family History Library of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Volume One--Baden,
Bavaria, Wuerttemberg.  Compiled by Johni Cerny. 430 pp. Balto., 1988.
$30.00
The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in Salt Lake City has the largest collection of German parish
registers in the world.  It consists of about 100,000 rolls of microfilm,
copies of which can be ordered and viewed at the LDS libraries throughout
the country.  But this collection of parish registers--many dating from the
mid-sixteenth century--is not easy to use.  The catalogue that describes
the collection, the Family History Library Catalogue (FHLC) is arranged by
locality and lists only the parish that kept the records.  So, villages
without a parish are not listed alphabetically as a main heading. Their
records are listed under the town where the parish was, making research in
the catalogue very difficult.
This volume will facilitate a search in the catalogue for the parish
registers of Baden, Bavaria and Wuerttemberg.  Villages mentioned under
parish listings are cited in alphabetical order following the name of the
parish, the types of records available (birth, baptism, civil registration,
confirmation, communion, marriage, family register, death, and burial), and
the dates covered in the records.  More than 100,000 cities, towns and
villages are represented in the FHLC and one-third of them are included in
this volume.

1125.  GOING TO AMERICA.  By Terry Coleman.
317 pp., illus., paperback. (1972), repr. Balto., 1987.
$14.95
This is the grim story of the British and Irish immigrants who came to
America during the middle of the nineteenth century.  Much the largest
contingent was Irish, and it was above all the departure of the Irish to
America, diseased, half-starved, bewildered, cheated and cheating, which
made the emigrant way across the Atlantic as degrading as the convict route
to the South Seas, and almost as cruel as the Middle Passage of slave
ships.
Confronting the immigrants at every turn were inescapable horrors.  Ship
owners packed their holds like slavers; brokers misrepresented and
overcharged; runners stole when they couldn't cheat; customs officials took
bribes to ignore overcrowding.  And when the immigrants arrived the
swindling didn't stop.  They were fleeced by lodging-house keepers,
separated from their possessions, and sold fraudulent railroad or canal
boat tickets--in short, the whole, cruel apparatus of immigration was
turned against them.

250. HUGUENOT EMIGRATION to America, History of the. By Charles W. Baird. 2
vols. in 1. 354, 448 pp., illus., indexed. (1885), repr. Balto., 1991.
$45.00
This is the standard work on the Huguenot emigration to America. Baird's
work is so thorough that there are few Huguenot names for which some new
fact or illustration is not supplied. The bulk of the work is devoted to
the important emigration of French Protestants (via the Netherlands and
Great Britain) in the last quarter of the 17th century to the time of the
Revolutionary War. Throughout the text, in both narratives and records,
there is a profusion of genealogical detail on the early Huguenot families
of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, and Virginia, later families having dispersed to Pennsylvania and
other states. In addition, extensive genealogical notices are given in
footnotes, with references to sources, thus serving as a guide to further
information.

3300. HUGUENOT REFUGEES To America, Family Names of. By Mrs. James M.
Lawton. 20 pp., wrappers. (1901), repr. Balto., 1991.
$4.00
This is an important list of Huguenot family names represented in the
membership of the Huguenot Society of America and incorporating the names
of members claiming descent through the several ancestral lines. The names
are arranged alphabetically, giving the place where the family name is
first met with and the place of settlement in America. This reprint was
excerpted from the Constitution of the Huguenot Society of America (1901).

4810.  HUGUENOTS, The Trail of the, in Europe, the United States, South
Africa, and Canada.  By George E. Reaman.
318 pp., illus., indexed. (1963), repr. Balto., 1986.
Temporarily out of print
This is the story of the great exodus of the Huguenots from France at the
end of the seventeenth century, and of their dispersal to places in Europe,
the United States, Canada, and South Africa.  It traces their migrations
through Europe and across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States,
providing startling insights into the origins of many of our earliest
colonial settlers.  Over half of the book is devoted to the Huguenots and
their direct descendants in Canada and the United States, dealing with
those who settled in North and South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, and New England.  An Appendix has the names of hundreds of Huguenot
immigrants with dates and places of their arrival, there are short
biographical sketches with genealogical data, a list of English surnames of
French derivation, additions and corrections by Milton Rubincam, and an
index of names and places other than those mentioned in the genealogies and
appendices.

6110.  IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS.  A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before
1750.  Ed. by Frederick A. Virkus. 75 pp., wrprs. (1942), repr. Balto.,
1986.
$6.00
Reprinted from Virkus' Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII, this is
an alphabetically arranged list of about 2,500 immigrants whose names
appear in that work.  The data given includes birth, ancestry, time and
place of arrival, and marriage and death of each immigrant.

1096.  (IMMIGRANTS).  The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign
Plantations, 1654-1686.  By Peter W. Coldham. 491 pp., indexed.  Balto.,
1988.
$30.00
In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a
register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being
to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude.  The
registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of
indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English
emigration to the American colonies.
Of the total of 10,000 servants in these registers, almost all came from
the West Country, the West Midlands, or from Wales.  Most entries give the
name of the servant, his place of origin (until 1661), length of service,
destination (usually Virginia, Maryland, or the West Indies), name of
master, and, after 1670, the name of the ship.  Four indexes have been
included, one each for servants, masters, places of origin, and ships.

2174.  (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants From England to America, 1682-1692, A List
of.  Transcribed by Michael Ghirelli. 120 pp., indexed.  (1968), repr.
Balto., 1989.
$15.00
In 1682 the English government decreed that all persons wanting to go to
America as servants must first be "bound" and registered in the presence of
an appointed official.  The names and data on the servants were entered in
the records of the Lord Mayor's Court and eventually this was recorded in a
series of manuscript volumes, the Lord Mayor's Waiting Books, which are now
in the Record Office of the City of London.
In 1686 the business of registering indentured servants fell into private
hands.  From then until 1692, when the Waiting Books entries stop, the
records relate to persons travelling to America on passes.  All entries
from 1682 to 1692, whether for servants or private individuals, are
included in their entirety in this work.
Despite some inconsistency in the amount of detail recorded for each name,
the entries generally give the place of residence in England, age, date of
indenture, length of service, name of master, destination in the colonies,
and, for an under-age servant, the name of a witness (usually a relative).
Parents are frequently named, often with their trade and place of origin.
There are indexes of places and agents (masters), and an illuminating
Introduction by Marion Kaminkow.

1099. (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants from England To The American Colonies, 1773-
1776.  By Peter W. Coldham. 182 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$22.50
After the end of the French and Indian War, there was alarm in England that
the outflow of men, women, and children to the colonies would depopulate
entire parts of England and Scotland.  So, in 1773, the British Government
took steps to stem the loss.  Short of limiting or banning emigration to
the colonies, it was proposed that data on emigration be compiled which
would ultimately help the Government in curbing the exodus.  In December
1773, every port in England and Scotland was required to submit returns, or
reports, of this information to the Treasury.  These returns were then
carefully collated, copied, and collected into registers (now in the Public
Record Office) which were to contain "a minute account of every individual
person."
The registers relating to emigrants from England were originally
transcribed by Gerald Fothergill and published in the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register between 1908 and 1911.  However, this
transcription has been found to be deficient in certain areas, and so Peter
W. Coldham has re-transcribed the data.  It now includes all relevant
information from the registers, showing port by port, in order of
departure, the names of the ships, the name of each emigrant, his place of
residence, occupation, age, and his destination in the colonies.  So, in
this new transcription, every emigrant officially recorded leaving from an
English port between 1773 and 1776 is listed, in all about six to seven
thousand persons!

1097.  (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants, 1607-1660, The Complete Book of.  By Peter
W. Coldham. 600 pp., indexed.  (1988), repr. Balto., 1992.
$34.95
This is an heroic attempt to bring together from English sources a complete
list of emigrants to the New World from 1607 to 1660.  No doubt records of
passengers leaving for America were kept in this period, but while no
systematic record has survived, the remaining records are substantial.
Some were collected and published by John Camden Hotten over 100 years ago,
and they were the passenger lists he found in the British State Papers.
Since then a great many sources have been found and the time has been long
overdue for these facts to be assembled in one comprehensive book.
Hence the publication of this work by the English scholar Peter Wilson
Coldham, the leading authority on early English emigration records.  His
book is a reworking of the Chancery records, and records of the Exchequer,
the 1624 and 1625 censuses of Virginia, the records of licenses and
examination of persons wishing to "pass beyond the seas."  To Hotten's
basic list, which he has revised and augmented to 1668, Coldham has added
fascinating records of vagrants, waifs, and prostitutes who were
transported to the colonies.  He has also added new transcriptions of
records--not in Hotten--of servants sent to "foreign plantations" from
Bristol, 1654-1660.  And he has added much more from port books, court
records, and from any types of official papers and documents.  As a result
this book is a stupendous achievement.

1102.  (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants, 1661-1699, The Complete Book of.  By Peter
W. Coldham. 900 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1990.
$49.95
From every available source in the public archives of England, Peter Wilson
Coldham, the foremost authority on English emigration records has put
together a comprehensive list of emigrants who sailed to America between
the years 1661 and 1699, thus extending by forty years the period of
coverage begun in The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660 and bringing to
a conclusion his efforts to document emigration from England to America
during the whole of the seventeenth century.
Arranged by year, and thereunder by date of record, the entries give,
usually, name, age, occupation, residence, ship, and destination, and for
each there is a precise source citation.  In total some 30,000 emigrants of
the period 1661-1699 are identified, bringing the total named in the two
volumes to well over 50,000!  As with the first volume, two superb indexes
to persons and ships reduce the chore of searching the records to seconds.

1104. (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants, 1700-1750, The Complete Book of.  By Peter
Wilson Coldham. 748 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1992.
$44.95
Taking as its subject the first fifty years of the eighteenth century and
following the arrangement of the two earlier works in this distinguished
series (Nos. 1097 & 1102 above), the third volume of The Complete Book of
Emigrants provides a comprehensive list of emigrants from surviving records
in English archives.  The records used in this volume, in addition to the
usual spread of sources, derive principally from (1) Plantation
Apprenticeship Bindings; (2) Port Books; and (3) Convict Pardons on
Condition of Transportation.  Again, as with the other volumes, there are
indexes of names and ships.  Altogether some 25,000 emigrants are
identified, bringing the total named in the three volumes to over 75,000.

3128. (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants From England to America, 1718-1759, A List
of.  Transcribed by Jack and Marion Kaminkow. 320 pp., indexed.  (1981),
repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
On file at the Guildhall in London are several thousand rare indenture
forms--records of individuals who bound themselves into servitude in the
American plantations from 1718 to 1759.  Servants were required to register
at the Lord Mayor's Court, and two types of indenture forms survived, one
for persons over 21, the other for persons under 21.  Over 3,000 indenture
forms are on file at the Guildhall.  Here they are transcribed more or less
in their entirety, having been arranged alphabetically, and numbered
consecutively from 1 to 3,163.  In general, the following details are
usually provided for each servant: name, parish and county of origin, age,
occupation, name of agent, length of service, and destination in the
colonies.

1098. (IMMIGRANTS). Emigrants In Bondage, 1614-1775,  The Complete Book of.
By Peter W. Coldham. 920 pp. Balto., 1988.
$60.00
Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were
sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a
variety of crimes.  The data on these involuntary colonists came from a
variety of official records which the author of this work spent over
fifteen years studying.  Among those covered were minutes of eleven Courts
of Assize and Jail Delivery and of twenty-eight Courts of Quarter Session,
as well as Treasury Papers, Money Books, Patent Rolls, State Papers, and
Session Papers.
The names of those deported are printed in alphabetical order and form what
can be considered the largest passenger list of its kind ever published.
The data presented in this volume is highly condensed but most entries
include some or all of the following information: parish of origin,
sentencing court, nature of the offense, date of sentence, date and ship on
which transported, date and place landed in America, and the English county
in which the sentence was passed.

XXXX. (IMMIGRANTS). Supplement to Emigrants in Bondage, The Complete Book
of, 1614-1775. By Peter Wilson Coldham. 60 pp. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
This supplement to #1098 above is derived from material which had either
escaped detection during the first round of researches or had become
available through the use of newly-opened archives.   The roughly 3,000 new
entries herein, which include data similar to that in the original, are
derived from the following principal classes of records: (1) Patent Rolls,
1655-1719; Criminal Correspondence, 1718-1775; State Papers (Criminal);
Quarter Session records; Docket Books, 1722-1753; and a collection of bonds
entered into with transportation contractors.  Anyone owning the original
edition will find it essential to acquire the supplement.

1109. (IMMIGRANTS). Emigrants in Chains. A Social History of Forced
Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and
Religious Non-conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and other Undesirables, 1607-
1776. By Peter Wilson Coldham. 188 pp. Balto., 1992.
$19.95
Few colonizing powers can have relied so heavily and consistently on the
wholesale deportation of their prison population as did England through
two-and-a-half centuries of imperial expansion. By the time America made
her Declaration of Independence in 1776, the prisons of England had
disgorged some 50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them
destined to survive and, with their descendants, to populate the land of
their exile.
In a story largely untold until now--certainly never told as well--
Coldham's groundbreaking study demonstrates once and for all that the
recruitment of labor for the American colonies was achieved in large
measure through the emptying of English jails, workhouses, brothels, and
houses of correction. Supported by a massive array of documentary evidence
and first-hand testimony, the book focuses on the emergence and use of
transportation as a means of dealing with an unwanted population, dwelling
at length on the processes involved, the men charged with the
administration of the system of transportation or engaged in transportation
as a business, then proceeding with a fascinating look at the transportees
themselves, their lives and hapless careers, and their reception in the
colonies. The whole unhappy saga of enforced transportation is here
recounted with such force and eloquence that it is bound to set some
popular notions about the peopling of the American colonies on their head.

2070. (IMMIGRANTS).  Emigrants To America From Liverpool, 1697-1707, List
of.  By Elizabeth French. 55 pp., indexed, wrprs.  (1913), repr. Balto.,
1983.
$5.00
This is a list of indentured servants who sailed from Liverpool to
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New England, and the West Indies.  For
each is given the name, age, period of indenture, and the person to whom
indentured. Occasionally additional data is provided.

6580. (IMMIGRANTS).  German Immigrants, Lists of Passengers Bound from
Bremen to New York, 1847-1854, With Places of Origin.  By Gary J. Zimmerman
& Marion Wolfert. 175 pp. (1985), repr. Balto., 1987.
Available soon!

6581. (IMMIGRANTS).  German Immigrants, Lists of Passengers Bound from
Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, With Places of Origin.  By Gary J. Zimmerman
and Marion Wolfert. xx, 167 pp. Balto., 1986.
Available soon!

6582. (IMMIGRANTS).  German Immigrants, Lists of Passengers Bound from
Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, With Places of Origin.  By Gary J. Zimmerman
& Marion Wolfert. 221 pp. Balto., 1988.
$21.50
This is the third volume of the German Immigrants series, this one listing
passengers from Bremen to New York between 1863 and September 1867.
Because of the destruction of the original Bremen passenger lists, this
volume, like the others, has data on thousands of individuals for whom
immigration origin data was thought to be lost.  It is a partial
reconstruction of the Bremen records, based on official passenger lists and
manifests in the custody of the National Archives.
Not all of the Bremen passengers of the 1863-1867 period are included in
this work--only those for whom a specific place of origin is noted in the
manifests.  There is still place of origin information on about 35,000
immigrants.  The names of the immigrants are arranged alphabetically, and
family members are grouped together, usually under head of household.
Also, details about age, place of origin, date of arrival, and name of ship
are provided, as are specific citations to the original source material.

1470.  (IMMIGRANTS).  German Immigration, The, Into Pennsylvania Through
The Port of Philadelphia, from 1700 to 1775, and the Redemptioners.  By
Frank R. Diffenderffer. 328 pp., illus., indexed. (From the Pa.-Germ. Soc.
Proc. & Addr., 1900), repr. Balto. 1988.
$21.50
This important historical study deals with the background of German
immigration, especially that of the Palatines, the causes, migration
patterns, the leading figures in the movement, and the disposition of the
immigrants.  Much of the book deals with the redemptioners, those who bound
themselves to service as payment for the trip to America.  It covers the
types of bond servants and evaluates their role in the development of the
German settlements, with accounts of their rise, progress, and place in
American Society.

5380. (IMMIGRANTS). Germany to America, True and Authentic Register of
Persons Who in 1709 Journeyed From. By Ulrich Simmendinger. 20 pp.,
wrappers. (1934), repr. Balto., 1991.
$4.00
The Simmendinger Register, as this work is called, consists of an
alphabetical list of approximately 500 Palatine families who were settled
in or near the Mohawk Valley of New York in the year 1717. These families
were the survivors of the great Palatine migration from the Rhineland in
1709--a migration that took them first to England and then, in 1710, under
the patronage of Queen Anne, to America. The author himself participated in
this migration and, upon his return to Germany in 1717, he published this
little pamphlet as a kind of message from the colony overseas to friends
and relatives back home in Germany. An authoritative register of pioneer
Palatine families and early settlers of the Mohawk Valley.

660. (IMMIGRANTS).  (Hotten List Supplement).  Omitted Chapters From
Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality . . . And Others Who Went
From Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700.  Census Returns,
Parish Registers, and Militia Rolls from the Barbados Census of 1679/80.
By James C. Brandow. 245 pp., indexed.  2nd ptg., Balto., 1983.
$20.00
Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality is the classic work on 17th-
century British immigration to the colonies.  Not generally known, however,
is that Hotten included only a portion of the lists available to him.
Nearly two-thirds of the important Barbados Census of 1679/80 was not used
and this left out more than half of  the island's parish registers, all of
the militia rolls, and various lists of landholders.
Thousands of immigrants settled on Barbados before planting new roots on
the mainland and their records have gone undetected--until now, that is,
for this work, based on records in the Public Record Office in London,
supplies all of the material missing in Hotten.  The parish registers give
the names of all of those baptized or buried, with the dates and the names
of the family members; the census returns list landowners' names with the
number of freemen, servants, and slaves in the household, and the militia
rolls list the militiamen by regiment and company, as well as the
landowners responsible for furnishing troops.  About 6,500 persons are
named--their first mention in the records of the New World!

XXXX. (IMMIGRANTS). IMMIGRANTS TO THE MIDDLE COLONIES. A Consolidation of
Ship Passenger Lists from The New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record. Ed. by Michael Tepper. 191 pp., indexed. (1978), repr. Balto.,
1992.
$??.??
The articles in this collection deal mainly with ports in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland and list some 5,000 17th-and 18th-
century arrivals.  While about half of the articles deal with English and
German immigrants, others are concerned with immigrants of Dutch origin,
and some few deal with Huguenots and Jews.  As is customary with ships'
passenger lists, the data provided consists of a mixture of references to
ships, ports and dates of embarkation and arrival, wives, children, age,
religion, occupation, and places of origin and residence, the documentation
spare and copious by turns.

XXXX. (IMMIGRANTS). New England, 1620-1650, Topographical Dictionary of
2,285 English Emigrants to New England. By Charles Edward Banks. 333 pp.,
indexed. (1937), repr. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
This "Dictionary" comprises genealogical records of nearly 3,000 emigrants,
giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in
which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or
manuscript sources from which the information derived.  In collecting data
for this work, Col. Banks made seven visits to England, searching the
records of nearly 2,000 parishes in order to connect the New England
immigrants with their native parishes.  Additional information is provided
in a series of indexes: Index to Emigrants to New England; Index of the
Wives and Children of the Emigrants; Index of Parishes; Index of Ships; and
Index of Towns in New England.

5750.  (IMMIGRANTS).  New World Immigrants.  A Consolidation of Ship
Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature.  Ed. by
Michael Tepper. 2 vols. 568, 602 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$60.00
Ship passenger lists are the delight of the genealogist for they provide
the first record of an ancestor on American soil.  Numerous passenger lists
have appeared in articles in a wide variety of periodicals.  This work is a
collection of ninety-seven articles from some fifty periodicals, mostly
totally unknown to the researcher.  This collection gives access to
material previously difficult to locate for no library in the country can
claim to have every issue of every periodical in this compilation.
Periodicals drawn on range from the obscure Pennsylvania Dutchman to the
scholarly American Genealogist, from bi-weeklies to annuals, and, within
the general time frame 1618-1878, the articles identify upwards of 27,500
emigrants, mainly English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss, French, Dutch,
Norwegian, and Russian-German.
Note: This work does not include articles from The Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography, The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register, or The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.

5474. (IMMIGRANTS). NOVA SCOTIA IMMIGRANTS TO 1867. By Leonard H. Smith Jr.
and Norma H. Smith. 560 pp. Balto., 1992.
$37.50
Thousands of persons enumerated in the U.S. federal censuses--and New
Englanders in particular--trace their ancestry through the Canadian
province of Nova Scotia; however, Nova Scotia immigration records have been
widely scattered--until now! Col. and Mrs. Smith labored over a decade, to
construct this vast index of Nova Scotia immigrants from dozens of
manuscript sources in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and from archives
in Fredericton, Church Point, Ottawa, Boston, London, and Paris (Part 1);
and from 450 articles in Nova Scotia periodicals (Part 2). Each entry gives
all the pertinent information available in the source, usually a mix of
data featuring name, occupation, place of origin, age, family members, name
of ship, date of arrival, and military affiliation--all with source
citations. Easily the most comprehensive sourcebook on Nova Scotia
immigrants ever published, and a great tool for New England ancestral
research, whether the ancestor's origins are Scottish, Irish, English,
German, or Loyalist.

5755. (IMMIGRANTS).  Passengers To America.  A Consolidation of Ship
Passenger Lists.  Ed. by Michael Tepper. 554 pp., indexed. (1847-1961),
repr. Balto., 1988.
$25.00
These ship passenger lists originally appeared in The New England
Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1961.  They have been
excerpted in entirety, consolidated and indexed by passenger and ship.
Most of the immigrants were of British or Irish provenance, and they sailed
from London, Liverpool, or Bristol, and landed in New York or Boston.
About 18,000 persons are named in these lists.

XXXX. (IMMIGRANTS). PENNSYLVANIA, EMIGRANTS TO. A Consolidation of Ship
Passenger Lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Ed. by Michael Tepper. 302 pp., indexed. (1975), repr. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
This important collection of ships' passenger lists from The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography ranges from brief name lists to full-
blown articles giving passengers' places of origin, occupations, wives and
children, dates of arrival, etc.  With minor exceptions the lists document
arrivals at the port of Philadelphia between 1682 and 1819 and identify a
total of approximately 6,000 immigrants, mainly British and German, the
majority being named in two extensive lists of indentured servants and
apprentices.  Most of these lists were transcribed from manuscripts in the
possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

304.  (IMMIGRANTS).  Planters of the Commonwealth, The.  A Study of the
Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times; To Which Are Added Lists of
Passengers to Boston and the Bay Colony; the Ships Which Brought Them;
Their English Homes and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts,
1620-1640.  By Charles E. Banks.
xiii, 231 pp., maps, indexed. (1930), repr. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
This important work gives the names of the passengers of ninety-six ships
that came to America, 1620-1640, with the name of the ship, its captain
and, where known, the passengers' English origins and the places of their
settlement.  It is a most authoritative treatise for the period.

1780. (IMMIGRANTS).  Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the
American Colonies, List of.  By Albert Bernhardt Faust and Gaius Marcus
Brumbaugh.  Two Volumes in One.  Reprinted with Additions and Corrections
from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (March 1972).
429 pp. total, indexed. (1920-25), repr. Balto., 1991.
$30.00
This is the authoritative work on Swiss emigration to the Carolinas and
Pennsylvania in the 18th century.  Volume I identifies approximately 2,000
emigrants from the Canton of Zurich during the period 1734-1744, most
references comprising such useful data as age, date of birth or baptism,
trade, name of wife, names of children, and place of origin and
destination.  Volume II extends the scope of investigation to Bern (1706-
1795) and Basel (1734-1794) and surpasses Volume I in the quantity and
variety of assembled data.

306.  (IMMIGRANTS).  Winthrop Fleet of 1630, The.  An Account of the
Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and Their English Homes.  By Charles E.
Banks. ix, 119 pp., maps, indexed. (1930), repr. Balto., 1989.
$13.50
Good background material is provided on the early immigrants and their
origins, with details of the preparations and the voyage.  There also is an
alphabetical list of the forty heads of families on the Mary and John which
sailed at the same time as the Winthrop fleet.

3510. (IRISH) Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743. A Transcription
of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to
America. By Frances McDonnell. 142 pp., indexed. Balto., 1992.
$18.50
Published in the obscure Journal of the Irish House of Commons in 1743 as a
report of a special committee appointed to look into abuses of the system
of enforced emigration, these lists of about 2,000 felons and vagabonds
forcibly transported from Ireland between 1735 and 1743 constitute one of
the few known sources of Irish emigration to the New World in the 18th
century.
Copied verbatim form the pages of the Journal by Frances McDonnell, these
priceless lists have been brought to light for the benefit of the long-
suffering researcher. As published here in this handy, indexed volume,
information in the lists generally includes the name of transportee, county
or city from which returns of transportation orders were obtained, date of
assizes (court), reason for transportation, and occasionally the name of
the ship and place of destination in the colonies. Clearly this is an
historically important work and a unique source of information, and it
belongs in every serious researcher's library.

3854. (IRISH).  Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839.  Lists of Emigrants
Extracted from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Counties Londonderry and
Antrim.  By Brian Mitchell. 128 pp., indexed. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
The purpose of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland was to map the whole country
at a scale of six inches to one mile, and the six-inch maps appeared
between 1835 and 1846.  Each map was to have been accompanied by
topographical descriptions, or memoirs, for every civil parish, but this
was impractical, and the idea was abandoned.  However, the field officers
gathered much useful data, and the notebooks in which the information was
recorded are now in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.  They cover nineteen
of Ireland's thirty-two counties, though the memoirs of Antrim and
Londonderry are the only ones with lists of emigrants.
These lists have been extracted, arranged under parish, and alphabetized,
and they identify the emigrant's destination and his place of origin in
Ireland--key pieces of information for anyone tracing his Irish ancestry.
In addition, the age, town and address, year of emigration, and religious
denomination are given for each emigrant.  Over 3,000 emigrants are
identified in this book.

3851. (IRISH). Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871.  Lists of Passengers
Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and
the McCorkell Line. Compiled under the direction of Brian Mitchell.  350
pp. total, indexed. (1988), repr. Balto., 1992.
$28.50
These passenger lists, which cover the period of the Irish Famine and its
aftermath, identify the emigrants' actual places of residence, as well as
their port of departure and nationality.  Essentially business records, the
lists were developed from the order books of two main passenger lines
operating out of Londonderry--J. & J. Cooke (1847-67) and William McCorkell
& Co. (1863-71).  Both sets of records provide the emigrants' name, age,
and address, and the name of the ship. The Cooke lists provide the ship's
destination and year of sailing, while the McCorkell lists provide the date
engaged and the scheduled sailing date.  Altogether 27,495 passengers are
identified.

2211. (IRISH).  The Famine Immigrants.  Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving
at the Port of New York, 1846-1851.  Vol. I: January 1846-June 1847.  Ed.
by Ira A. Glazier and Michael H. Tepper. 841 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
Temporarily out of print
The blight that struck the Irish potato crop in the winter of 1845-46
brought ruin to tens of thousands of tenant farmers and laborers, reducing
almost all of Ireland to poverty and, as a result, people had the choice of
leaving Ireland or perishing.  So, between 1846 and 1851 more than a
million men, women and children emigrated to the United States and Canada,
mostly through the port of New York.
The information on these people exists in an invaluable series of port
arrival records, the Customs Passenger Lists.  Unpublished and only
partially indexed, these records have been studied and the result is The
Famine Immigrants series of which this is the first volume.  From January
1846 to June 1847, 85,000 Irish men, women and children arrived at the port
of New York.  The passenger lists are arranged by ship and date of arrival
in New York, and each person is identified with respect to age, sex,
occupation, and family relationships where such was indicated in the
original manifests.  The extensive index contains all of the passenger
names in the text.

2212.  SAME.  Vol. II: July 1847-June 1848.  Ed. By Ira A. Glazier and
Michael H. Tepper. 722 pp., indexed. Balto., 1983.
$45.00
In the period covered in this volume, July 1847-June 1848, about 75,000
Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, and all of the data
located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.

2213.  SAME.  Vol. III: July 1848-March 1849.  Ed. By Ira A. Glazier and
Michael H. Tepper. 695 pp., indexed. Balto., 1984.
$45.00
In the period covered in this volume, July 1848-March 1849, about 70,000
Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, and all of the data
located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.

2214.  SAME. Vol. IV: April 1849-September 1849.   Ed. By Ira A. Glazier
and Michael H. Tepper.  814 pp., indexed. Balto., 1984.
$45.00
In the six-month period covered in this volume, April 1849-September 1849,
over 80,000 Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, twice as
many as in the previous six months, and all of the data located on them is
provided, and their names are all indexed.

2215.  SAME.  Vol. V: October 1849-May 1850.  Ed. By Ira A. Glazier and
Michael H. Tepper.  638 pp., indexed. Balto., 1985.
$45.00
In the period covered in this volume, October 1849-May 1850, about 60,000
Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, and all of the data
located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.

2216.  SAME.  Vol. VI: June 1850-March 1851.  Ed. By Ira A. Glazier and
Michael H. Tepper. 898 pp., indexed. Balto., 1985.
$45.00
From June 1850-March 1851, the period covered in this volume, over 90,000
Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, and all of the data
located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.

2217.  SAME.  Vol. VII: April 1851-December 1851.  Ed. By Ira A. Glazier
and Michael H. Tepper. 1,195 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1986.
$45.00
From April 1851-December 1851, the period covered in this volume, over
85,000 Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, and all of the
data located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.

5556. JEWISH FAMILIES, 1654-1988, First American. By Malcolm H. Stern. 3rd
ed. 14" x 11" (oblong). 464 pp., charts, indexed, softcover. Balto., 1991.
$75.00
Here is the revised and updated Third Edition of the standard work on the
pioneer Jewish families of America. First American Jewish Families gives
the family trees of all families of Jewish origin known to have been
established in America prior to 1840, tracing many of them to the present.
As in previous editions, First American Jewish Families is laid out in a
series of genealogical charts from Aarons to Zuntz. Each chart is assigned
the surname of the progenitor of the family or its first American
representative and provides easy access to dates of arrival in America,
birth, marriage and death information, military service, occupations, and
other details relating to his/her descendants. Widely regarded as the dean
of Jewish genealogists, Rabbi Stern has been careful to identify his
sources in the upper left-hand corner of each chart and furnish a complete
bibliography to the work as a whole. The Third Edition of this honored
work, which is half again as big as the original (published under the title
Americans of Jewish Descent), concludes with a complete index to 50,000
persons.

8510. *LOCAL HISTORIES, United States, in the Library of Congress: A
Bibliography.  Ed. by Marion J. Kaminkow.
Five volumes.  8 1/2" x 11". Over 5,000 pp. Balto., 1976.
$300.00
This work is a condensation in book form of the 90,000 entries which form
the shelflist of the Local History section of the Library of Congress.  The
first four volumes are arranged by geographic regions and include details
on all local history books received by the Library of Congress up to 1972.
The fifth volume is a supplement listing U.S. local histories received
between 1972 and 1976.  It also includes the index to all five volumes, and
corrects errors in the first four volumes.  Included in the bibliography
are citations to monographs, periodicals, gazetteers, guidebooks,
collective bibliography, state and regional histories, city directories,
county histories, and histories of towns and cities.  Each region and state
is preceded by the LC classification schedule, and followed by a
supplementary index of places.
*There is an $8.50 postage and handling charge for this set.

6216.  MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES, The, 1215.  The Barons Named in the Magna
Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During
the Early Colonial Years.  By Frederick L. Weis and Arthur Adams.  FOURTH
EDITION.  With Additions and Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. with
David Faris. 200 pp., indexed. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the
barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging
the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the
terms of the Great Charter.  Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen
have identified descendants.  Each of the seventeen is represented in the
celebrated Magna Charta Sureties, which traces their connections--line by
line and generation by generation--to approximately 150 American colonists.
Since the publication of the last edition of this work in 1979, a great
many additions, corrections and revisions have accumulated.  This new
edition reflects the state of current research.

565.  MARRIAGE NOTICES for the Whole United States, 1785-1794.  By Charles
K. Bolton. 139 pp. (1900), repr. Balto., 1985.
$15.00
Arranged in alphabetical order, this work cross-references over 5,000 names
of brides and grooms, the information being from the Massachusetts Centinel
and the Columbian Centinel.  While primarily New England marriages, there
are entries from all of the original colonies and Ohio.  The data includes
age, occupation, notation of a previous marriage, and the name of the
minister.

1020.  MARRIAGE RECORDS, American, Before 1699.  By William M. Clemens.
With A Supplement from Geneal. Mag. (July 1929, July 1930).
259 pp. (1926), repr., Balto., 1984.
$15.00
A unique compilation of marriage records covering the whole of the Colonial
U.S., it contains about 12,000 entries, arranged alphabetically under the
names of both brides and grooms.  To this edition we have added the
"Supplement" which covers an additional 250 marriages.

4995.  MAYFLOWER INCREASINGS.  By Susan E. Roser.
159 pp., sm. 4to, wrappers.  (1989), repr. Balto., 1991.
$18.95
In 1922 John Landis's thirty-seven page booklet was published and it
purported to give the first three generations of the Mayflower passengers,
but five families were omitted.  His data was incomplete and
unsubstantiated, and there are no clues as to his sources.  This present
work is a revision and expansion of the Landis book, and it provides an
accurate and reliable summary of all that is now known about the Mayflower
passengers' first three generations in America--names, dates, places,
spouses, children, etc.
Sources in the text are given in parenthesis and then are listed in
abbreviated form at the end of each of the twenty-seven genealogies.  The
full title of the publication or source is given in the Reference List.
Preceding this list is a spouse index with over 600 names of men and women
who married the children and grandchildren of the Mayflower passengers.
So, this work, which is based on contemporary scholarship, is a first-rate
source book.

4999. MAYFLOWER BIRTHS & DEATHS. From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at
the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. In Two Volumes.  By
Susan E. Roser. 2 vols. 7" x 10". 525 & 548 pp., indexed, paperback. 1992.
$75.00
This work is a compilation of birth and death records from the Bowman
files, the largest manuscript resource on Mayflower genealogy in existence.
With its companion volume below, Mayflower Marriages, it encompasses all
the vital records of the descendants of the Mayflower passengers as found
in the research files of the renowned genealogist and editor of The
Mayflower Descendant, George Ernest Bowman. With references to 50,000
Mayflower relations, this work contains, besides records of births,
baptisms, deaths and burials, references to burial location, cause of death
and address at death gleaned from land and will records, court and church
records, transcripts of personal letters, and more.
In keeping with the format established in Mayflower Marriages, lines of
descent are shown which enable the reader to trace back to the first
generation any name that is accompanied by a generation number.  Most lines
are carried to the seventh and eighth generations, and some to the tenth.
Each volume is separately indexed.

4996.  MAYFLOWER MARRIAGES.  From the Files of George Ernest Bowman, at the
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.  By Susan E. Roser.
7" x 10".  415 pp., indexed, wrappers.  1990.
$29.95
George Ernest Bowman (1860-1941) is a well-known and respected name in the
field of Mayflower research.  In 1896 he founded the Massachusetts Society
of Mayflower Descendants and served as editor of the Society's quarterly,
the Mayflower Descendant, until 1937, and he spent more than fifty years of
his life tracing the families of the Mayflower passengers.  In his fifty-
year quest he amassed more than 20,000 pages of documented records--
everything from probate and land records to church, cemetery, and Bible
records.  Known as the Bowman Files, this vast collection of records, in
the words of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, "remains
the largest documented manuscript resource on Mayflower genealogy."
It is from this magnificent collection that Mrs. Roser has extracted the
Mayflower marriage records--10,000 marriages spanning five centuries, with
names, dates, and sources!  In her transcription of the Bowman Files, Mrs.
Roser was at pains to show the line of descent with each marriage (as found
in the files), thus enabling the reader to trace a genealogy through a
marriage.  In addition, inter-marriage among Mayflower descendants is shown
with the descent of the partner back to the second generation.  (There is
in fact a separate chapter here showing Mayflower inter-marriages through
the eighth generation.)  Also included are the names of partners who had a
child together but were not married.  For convenience in following the
various lines, marriages are listed under the names of the respective
Mayflower passengers, and all names in the book can be found in the index.


2210.  NATURALIZATIONS OF FOREIGN PROTESTANTS in The American and West
Indian Colonies.  By Montague S. Giuseppi.
196 pp., indexed.  (Pub. of Hug. Soc. of London, 1921), repr. Balto., 1979.
$17.50
This useful work contains copies of all of the returns of naturalizations
of foreign Protestants from 1740 to 1772.  About 6,500 persons--mostly
Germans--are listed, the returns being from the colonies of South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania, and from
Jamaica in the West Indies.  The amount of data given varies, but the
entries generally include name, religion, town and county of residence, the
date of naturalization, and sometimes the country of origin and occupation.

6191. (NEW ENGLAND).  Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New
England Between 1623 and 1650: The Lineage of Alfred the Great,
Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their
Descendants.  By Frederick L. Weis. With Additions and Corrections by
Walter L. Sheppard, Jr. assisted by David Faris. 7th edition. ca. 250 pp.
total, indexed. 1992.
Available soon!
This is the seventh edition of the classic work on the royal ancestry of
New England colonists.  Like previous editions, it embodies the very latest
research on the subject, the various lines of descent having been
thoroughly revised and in some cases extended.  In addition, all footnotes
and corrections in earlier editions have been incorporated in the text,
recently discovered errors corrected, and many new lines added.
Readers should note that in addition to the names given in the sub-title of
the work, descent is traced to the following great figures of the Middle
Ages: Clovis I, Clovis the Riparian, Malcolm II, Isabel de Vermandois,
William de Warenne, Edward I, Henry II, Henry III, Edward III, King
Aethelred II, and the early kings of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as
Norman and Magna Charta barons.

299. (NEW ENGLAND).  English Ancestry, The, and Homes of the Pilgrim
Fathers Who Came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621,
and the Anne and Little James in 1623.  By Charles E. Banks.
187 pp., indexed. (1929), repr. Balto., 1989.
$15.00
This critically acclaimed work has biographical sketches of 112 passengers
who sailed on the first four ships to New England.  Along with data on the
passengers' origins, family connections and later histories, it substitutes
proof for guess-work and blows holes in many cherished traditions.  The
author gives first the historical evidence, then follows a list of the
passengers on the Mayflower, Fortune, Anne, and Little James.  These are
dealt with, one by one, and the little known facts about their place of
residence in England and their parentage and ancestry are given.

2850. NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, 1620-1700, Directory of the Ancestral Heads of.
By Frank R. Holmes. 274 pp. (1923), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
A highly esteemed guide to New England ancestry, this work consists of an
alphabetically arranged list of nearly 15,000 heads of families who arrived
in New England in the 17th century.  For each, the known facts are
supplied, and this includes the earliest place of residence in New England,
the place of emigration, where the emigrant moved to in New England,
occupation, dates of birth and death, the derivation of surnames, and the
source citations.

1760.  NEW ENGLAND, FIRST SETTLERS OF, A Genealogical Register of the
[1620-1675].  By John Farmer.  With Additions and Corrections by Samuel G.
Drake. 355 pp. (1829, 1847), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
This work, based almost exclusively on original records, is a directory of
the first settlers of New England.  Arranged alphabetically by surnames,
the data on each individual includes the date of arrival, place of
settlement, dates of birth and death, and some biographical highlights.  It
is an invaluable treatise on the settlers.

5170.  NEW ENGLAND, FIRST SETTLERS OF, A Genealogical Dictionary of the,
Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis
of Farmer's Register.  By James Savage.  With added "Genealogical Notes and
Errata" by Mrs. C. H. Dall, and a "Genealogical Cross Index of the Four
Volumes" by O. P. Dexter.  4 vols. 2,541 pp. (1860-62, 1873, 1884), repr.
Balto., 1990.
$125.00
This is the basic genealogical dictionary of early New England settlers.
Alphabetically arranged for each it gives the dates of his marriage and
death, dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and birthdates
and names of the grandchildren.

5825.  NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES Prior to 1700.  By Clarence A. Torrey. With a
New Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. 1,009 pp., indexed. (1985), repr.
Balto., 1992.
$50.00
This work, compiled over a period of thirty years from about 2,000 books
and manuscripts, is a comprehensive listing of the 37,000 married couples
who lived in New England between 1620 and 1700.  Listed are the names of
virtually every married couple living in New England before 1700, their
marriage date or the birth year of a first child, the maiden names of 70%
of the wives, the birth and death years of both partners, mention of
earlier or later marriages, the residences of every couple and an index of
names.  The provision of the maiden names make it possible to identify the
husbands of sisters, daughters, and many granddaughters of immigrants, and
of immigrant sisters or kinswomen.

5142.  SUPPLEMENT TO TORREY'S New England Marriages Prior to 1700.  By
Melinde Lutz Sanborn. 80 pp., indexed. Balto., 1991.
$12.50
Clarence Almon Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (see 5825
above) is the best index to the early Colonial Period in existence.  This
worthy supplement to Torrey incorporates corrections, new discoveries,
significant new biographical detail, or deletions from the original canon
which have surfaced since Torrey's death in 1962.  Since these new
discoveries and corrections tend to make their way in the periodical
literature more frequently than anywhere else, this supplement is
predominantly an index to the major genealogical journals published since
1960.  Users of the original Torrey work will find this supplement
absolutely indispensable, since their New England research cannot be
considered complete without it.

205.  (NEW ENGLAND).  One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families.  By John O.
Austin. xxi, 288 pp., indexed, 4to. (1893), repr. Balto., 1982.
$30.00
These genealogies begin with the first member of the family to come to New
England and, as a result of the author's extensive research, are carried
down into the 19th century.  Since many of these families migrated to Rhode
Island, these family histories also deal in detail with the Rhode Island
stocks.

304.  (NEW ENGLAND).  Planters of the Commonwealth, The.  A Study of the
Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: to Which are Added Lists of
Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships Which Brought Them;
their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts,
1620-1640. By Charles E. Banks.
xiii, 231 pp., maps, indexed. (1930), repr. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
Scrupulous in every detail, this work contains the names of 3,600
passengers on the ninety-six ships which brought them to New England
between 1620 and 1640.  Working with the same records employed by Savage,
Drake, and Hotten, and with records unknown or inaccessible to them, Col.
Banks here pulls the several classes of records together to form what is
unquestionably the most complete and authoritative collection of passenger
lists for the period ever published.  In addition to the names of
passengers and ships, places of origin, and places of residence in America,
the book includes indexes to surnames, ships, English parishes, and New
England towns.

306. (NEW ENGLAND).  Winthrop Fleet of 1630, The.  By Charles E. Banks.
ix, 119 pp., maps, indexed. (1930), repr. Balto., 1989.
$13.50
This is an authoritative list of the 700 passengers who are believed to
have come to New England with John Winthrop in 1630.  Based on research
undertaken in England and America, it provides as much data as could be
verified on each passenger--name, place of departure, places of residence
in England and America, occupation, church affiliation, dates of birth,
marriage, and death, and relationships to other passengers.  It also has
indexes of names, places, and subjects as well as appendices listing the
passengers on the Mary and John and the Lyon which sailed contemporaneously
with the Winthrop Fleet.

3255.  PALATINE EMIGRATION, Early Eighteenth Century.  By Walter A.
Knittle. xxi, 320 pp., illus., indexed.  (1937), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
This is the definitive work that lists the names of about 12,000 Palatine
settlers, with the names of persons in their families, and the dates of
emigration.  Their major destinations and places of settlement, were
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys of New
York.

3144. PHYSICIANS' OBITUARIES, 1989.  An Obituary Index to the Journal of
the American Medical Association.  By Thomas Jay Kemp.
8 1/2" x 11". 96 pp., wrappers.  Balto., 1990.
$17.50
This book is an alphabetical and geographical index to the obituary notices
that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
during 1989.  It is designed to assist librarians, physicians,
genealogists, and other researchers in finding biographical information
about the nation's medical community.  With references to 2,900 physicians
across the nation who died in 1989, each citation in this book includes the
age and place of death of the deceased.  A geographical index is also
included to help those who are searching for physicians for a specific
location.  In all cases the researcher will need to refer to the obituary
notice in JAMA for complete biographical data.

4610.  PILGRIMS, Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and
Daughters of the.  2 vols. 1,004 pp. total, indexed.  (1929, 1958, 1953),
repr. Balto., 1988.
$75.00
In these two volumes are the lineage records of 6,800 members of the
National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, all going
straight back to the immigrants of the 17th century.  Generation by
generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the
present member of the Society, the sole condition of membership being that
the ancestor must have arrived in the colonies between 1620 and 1700.  Each
of the lineage records contains the names of all ancestors in the direct
line of descent, each with dates of birth, marriage, and death.
The two volumes include the lineages of all members of the Society from
1909, when it was founded, to 1952.  Volume I had an imperfect index, but
in 1958 a new index was published, and with the permission of the Society
we have included this in our reprint.  Since Volume II was published
without an index, we have supplied a completely new name index.  The two
indexes contain tens of thousands of references.

2135.  PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES, The Origin of Certain.  By Henry
Gannett. 334 pp. (1905), repr. Balto., 1977.
$21.50
This is the standard reference work on place names in the United States.
It is an alphabetical list of about 10,000 names, with precise geographical
references.  For each is given the location in a county and state, and the
derivation and meaning of the name.

5880.  POPULATION GROWTH, A CENTURY OF, From the First Census of the United
States to the Twelfth, 1790-1900.
9" x 12". 308 pp., foldout maps and charts.  (1909), repr. Balto., 1989.
$39.95
This famous work on the population growth of the United States, originally
published by the Bureau of the Census, is the statistical and historical
basis of the greatest pool of genealogical information in existence--the
U.S. Census.  Included is a set of maps of the original thirteen states,
plus Kentucky and Tennessee, showing the changes in county boundaries,
1790-1900.  Also there is a table of the 4,000 surnames most frequently
found in the 1790 census which shows spelling variations and the frequency
of occurrence of the names in the various states and territories.
The bulk of the work is an examination of the following subjects: the
population before 1790; the distribution of the population in the states
and territories; the population in the counties and subdivisions; the white
and negro population; sex and age of the population; the family in 1790;
surname distribution in 1790; nationalities of the heads of families;
nationalities of the foreign-born population at different times, 1790-1900;
interstate migration--an analysis of population by place of residence and
birth.
Supporting these studies is a vast amount of information on the social and
economic factors inherent in the returns, with statistical analysis of all
the enumerations, 1790-1900.  Also there are tables and charts based on
state enumerations showing population statistics before 1790, and there are
similar tables derived from 1790-1900 censuses showing characteristics of
the white, negro, and foreign-born population.

4965.  PRINCESS OF WALES, American Ancestors and Cousins of The. By Gary
Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. 194 pp., illus., indexed.
Balto., 1984.
$14.95
Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales has genealogical
links to this country.  Not only is she one-eighth American, but she also
has ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies, near
relatives throughout this country, several hundred distant kinsmen well
known in American history, and probably between twenty and thirty million
living distant American cousins, including most people named Strong,
Hibbard, Newbold, Coggswell, Holton, Clapp, and Waldo, and many named Hart,
Parke, Morgan, Stanton, Avery, Lyman, Hunt, Tuttle, Dennison, and
Huntington.  This work will make it possible for the reader to determine if
he or she has any relationship with the Princess.

483. (QUAKER RECORDS).  Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker
Records.  By Ellen T. Berry and David A. Berry. 136 pp. Balto., 1990.
$17.50
In 1675, when George Fox devised the system of record-keeping which is so
integral to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), he could hardly
have foreseen the uses to which these meticulous and extensive records
would one day be put.  Friends "meeting" records are a mine of undreamed-of
genealogical riches, and anyone conducting a search for his Quaker
ancestors can expect to uncover a wealth of information in these records,
provided he knows how to use them--and they can be difficult to use, for
they have characteristics and a language all their own.  Quaker genealogy,
the researcher soon learns, is a subject in its own right and demands
special research procedures.
Taking this as its premise, Our Quaker Ancestors sets out to acquaint the
researcher with the types of records that are available, the location of
the records, and the proper and effective use of those records, guiding him
through the pyramidal "meeting" structure to the records of birth,
marriage, death, disownment, and removal awaiting him in record
repositories across the country.
The work begins with a short but essential history of the Quaker movement
and a discussion of its organization and structure, particularly as it
affects genealogical research.  Later chapters describe Quaker migrations
to and within America, the special types of records available for research,
and the Berrys' very own methods for locating and using those records.  In
addition, there are chapters on record repositories and libraries with
Quaker source material, non-Quaker repositories, and Quaker sources and
repositories outside the U.S., together with a bibliography, maps of
selected meeting locations, and a glossary of terms peculiar to the Society
of Friends.
This is indispensable for anyone tracing ancestors who were either
birthright members of the Society or who became members through
"convincement" or marriage.

2680.  (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Historical Register of Officers of the
Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775 to December,
1783.  By Francis B. Heitman. 698 pp. (1914, 1932), repr. Balto., 1982.
$35.00
The standard reference work on the subject, this lists 14,000 Revolutionary
War officers of the Continental Army, and militia and state troops with
service records.

1330. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestor's Index)
in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. [Volumes 1-160]. 4 vols. in 2, 1,734 pp. total. (1916-
1940), repr. Balto., 1988.
$75.00
The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890, and the
National Society published Lineage Books with abstracts of the pedigrees of
members.  These show the descent from one or more ancestors who contributed
to the Revolutionary cause.  By 1940 some 160 volumes had appeared, each
containing about 1,000 lineages and an index to the Revolutionary
ancestors, called the "Roll of Honor," and an index of the "Daughters"
whose pedigrees were in the volume.
Recognizing the need for a convenient key to the lineages, the DAR between
1916 and 1940, condensed the names of 50,000 Revolutionary ancestors in the
"Rolls of Honor" and the volume and page references concerning their
160,000 "Daughters" into a comprehensive four-volume index.  For
convenience and lower cost, we have reprinted the full four-volume text in
two volumes.
This work is the quickest guide to Revolutionary ancestors and their
descendants, because there are over 200,000 references, and for each it
gives direct citation to the Lineage Book that has the full information.

1004. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records, 1801-
1815.  By Murtie June Clark. 152 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1991.
$18.50
This unique source of Revolutionary War pensioners has never before been
published and contains information which does not appear in the Pension
List of 1813 or the Pension List of 1818.  According to the Guide to
Genealogical Research in the National Archives, "many of these pensioners
were Revolutionary War veterans whose papers were presumably destroyed in
the War Department fires of 1800 and 1814."  This index is based on a War
Department account book, or ledger, showing the amount of semi-annual
payments made in March and September to each pensioner for each year of the
reporting period, 1801-1815.  During the period covered, pensions were paid
to well over 2,000 Revolutionary veterans and to several hundred officers
and soldiers who served in the frontier wars after 1783.

1510. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR). King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the
Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780 and the Events Which Led to
It.  By Lyman C. Draper.
612 pp., illus., indexed. (1881), repr. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
A classic work, by an eminent historian, it is based on material gathered
over a forty-year period from survivors of the engagement, their
descendants, contemporary narratives, and original documents.  It contains
extensive sketches, notices, and biographies of the leading figures,
including considerable genealogical data.

6310. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  The King's Mountain Men, The Story of the
Battle, With Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part.  By Katherine
K. White. 271 pp., indexed. (1924), repr. Balto., 1985.
$20.00
The story of the battle is supplemented with brief biographical sketches
and records of the soldiers who were from Southwest Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee.  There is an Appendix containing lists
of Revolutionary War pensioners of Tennessee.

4890.  (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War,
1775-1783, The.  By Henry M. M. Richards.
542 pp., illus., indexed. (1908), repr. Balto., 1991.
$35.00
This work succeeds in consolidating the records of the vast majority of
Pennsylvania-Germans who took part in the Revolutionary War and is probably
as close as we are likely to get to a definitive history and roster.
Quite apart from the invaluable rosters and service records, the book
explores the history of the various units, their organization, personnel,
and campaigns.  Inevitably, the bulk of the work focuses on the
Pennsylvania-Germans in the Continental Army, the Pennsylvania Line, the
German Regiment, and the Flying Camp, though there is considerable data on
the Pennsylvania-Germans in Maryland and Virginia regiments.  Of almost
equal importance are the chapters on the Emergency Men, patriots and non-
combatants, each with biographical sketches of eminent men.

5975. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR). Pension List of 1820, The. 750 pp., indexed.
(1820), repr. Balto., 1991.
$40.00
The Pension LIst of 1820, compiled in pursuance of a Congressional Act of
1818 and containing 17,000 entries, is the most complete list of
Revolutionary War pensioners compiled up to the date of its publication.
Arranged according to the state or territory of residence and thereunder in
rough alphabetical order, pensioners are listed in the original 1820
publication with the rank they held and their line of service. Until now,
however, the twenty-five separate state and territory lists herein have
always proved an obstacle to research. Thanks to a new index to the pension
list prepared by Mrs. Murtie June Clark, this valuable work is both
accessible and usable, taking its rightful place among the great
Revolutionary War source books.

1008. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR). Pension Lists of 1792-1795, The, With Other
Revolutionary War Pension Records. By Murtie June Clark. 216 pp., indexed.
Balto., 1991.
$21.50
Two catastrophic fires in 1800, one in the War Department, the other in the
Treasury Department, destroyed the earliest Revolutionary War pension
application records. These records consisted primarily of claims for relief
based on death or disability suffered during the War. Nevertheless, certain
pension records pre-dating the critical year 1800 survive in the form of
Congressional reports, and these reports would appear to be the earliest
Revolutionary War pension records extant. Four such reports have been
identified and are transcribed in this work. Within each report the claims
are arranged by state, giving, generally, name, rank, regiment, description
and circumstances of wounds incurred, and information regarding pension,
place of residence, and physical fitness. With an index to nearly 4,000
persons.

5960. (REVOLUTIONARY WAR). Pension Roll of 1835, The. Indexed Edition in
Four Volumes. Indexed by Murtie June Clark. 4 vols. 3,183 pp., indexed,
paper. (1835), repr. Balto., 1992. The set:
$185.00
The Pension Roll of 1835 is the most complete roll of Revolutionary War
pensioners ever published. Compiled by the War Department under Senate
resolutions of 1834-35 from lists of pensioners who had been enrolled under
all previous acts of Congress, as well as from replacement records for
those lists of pensioners which had been destroyed in fires at the War
Department in 1801 and 1814, it contains the names and service records of
approximately 60,700 soldiers, both regulars and militia. Information given
for each soldier, in tabular form, generally includes rank, annual
allowance, sums received, description of service, date when placed on the
pension roll, age, and date of death or date of the law under which the
pension was granted. Also included in some instances are statements giving
the names of family members.
When this monumental work was reprinted in 1968, its contents were
rearranged in four convenient volumes, one each for the New England States,
the Mid-Atlantic States, the Southern States, and the Mid-Western States.
In taking the decision to reprint this important work a second time, we
recognized that it could not be published without an index, and we
therefore enlisted the aid of Murtie June Clark, widely known for her books
on colonial and Revolutionary War records. Retaining the arrangement of the
1968 reprint, the entire work was repaginated and then indexed, and the
index itself (some 252 pages) appears now at the end of Volume IV. With
Mrs. Clark's index, we are confident that we have turned a large and
unwieldy body of source material into one of the finest reference books on
the market!

5935.  (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Pierce's Register.  Register of the
Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and
Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and
Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783.
566 pp. (From 17th Report of the Nat'l. Soc. D.A.R., 1915), repr. Balto.,
1987.
$25.00
A source book of the highest caliber, exhaustive and authoritative, it
contains about 93,000 names.  For each is given the certificate number and
the amount owed, and from a table at the front the certificate number will
indicate the state and sometimes the regiment to which it relates.  No
militiamen are included, nor are there names of South Carolinians;
otherwise it is a complete roster of the Continental Army.

5655. ROYALTY FOR COMMONERS. The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt,
Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa. 2nd Edition. By
Roderick Stuart. With a Foreword by Douglas Richardson. 2nd ed. 412 pp.,
indexed. Balto., 1992.
$30.00
This is the first book ever to document the complete known genealogy of
John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III and Queen Philippa. Since this is the
usual lineage through which a commoner can enter the domain of European
royalty, anyone who can connect his lineage to that of John of Gaunt can
now be shown to share the same basic royal heritage as the most noble
knight--the complete heritage, not just the Plantagenet ascent.
Genealogists interested in royal and noble ancestry should search this
exhaustively researched work for many new and interesting names to add to
their pedigree charts.

575.  SCOTCH IRISH PIONEERS in Ulster and America.  By Charles K. Bolton.
398 pp., illus., indexed. (1910), repr. Balto., 1986.
$25.00
This systematic study of settlers who came to New England, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, etc., from the north of Ireland, has lists of the pioneers.
It contains the names of over 250 inhabitants of Northern Ireland who came
to New England.

1480.  SCOTS COLONISTS, The Original, of Early America, 1612-1783.  By
David Dobson. 370 pp., indexed.  Second Printing Balto., 1990.
$28.50
About 150,000 Scots emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War, but
the records on them are notoriously hard to find.  However, it has been
clear for some time that in archives in Scotland and England there is much
information on a number of these emigrants.
David Dobson has extracted data from a wide variety of sources including
family and estate papers, testamentary and probate records, burgh
muniments, sasine and deed registers, Sheriff's Court records, Court of
Session and High Court of Judiciary records, port books, customs registers,
contemporary diaries and journals, contemporary newspapers and magazines,
professional and university records, Privy Council and colonial records,
records of Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches, monumental inscription
lists, and the 1774-75 Register of Emigrants.
For each of the 7,000 persons listed, a maximum of twenty-three points of
information is provided: name, date of birth or baptism, place of birth,
occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable),
residence, parents' names, emigration date and whether voluntarily or
involuntarily transported, port of  embarkation, destination, name of ship,
place and date of arrival, place of settlement, names of spouse and
children, date and place of death, where buried, probate record, and source
citation.

1476. SCOTS on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830. By David Dobson. 169 pp. Balto.,
1992.
$20.00
While tradition and historical sources indicate a continuous link between
the Chesapeake and Scotland from the early seventeenth century, the
specific data that genealogists require in identifying Scottish ancestors
is far from complete. Nevertheless, this new book by David Dobson attempts
to bring together all available references to Scots in Virginia and
Maryland from sources scattered throughout Great Britain and North America.
To develop this information Mr. Dobson conducted research in archives and
libraries in Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States. The result
is an exhaustive list of several thousand Scots known to have been in the
Chesapeake region between 1607 and 1830, including, where known, details of
birth, marriage and death, occupation, age, date of emigration, place of
settlement, and family relationships. Only those who have been positively
identified as Scots or likely to have been born in Scotland are included in
this invaluable work.

1477. SCOTTISH-AMERICAN COURT RECORDS, 1733-1783. By David Dobson. 105 pp.,
indexed. Balto., 1991.
$18.00
The political union of Scotland and England in 1707 led to a rapid
expansion of Scottish economic links with the American colonies, especially
on the Chesapeake, where in the years prior to the Revolution the tobacco
trade was controlled by Glasgow-based merchants and their factors.
Evidence of this economic expansion and the subsequent settlement of Scots
in America exists in a wide range of documentary sources in Scotland,
including the records of the Scottish court system which have been
deposited in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh. This present work is
a digest of such evidence and is based on the minute books of the Court of
Session (the highest civil court) and those of the High Court of the
Admiralty (which had jurisdiction in all seafaring and maritime cases) for
the period 1733-1783. In essence it identifies those people resident in
North America who were engaged in litigation in Scotland and whose cases
came before the aforementioned courts.

1478.  SCOTTISH-AMERICAN WILLS, 1650-1900.  By David Dobson.
134 pp. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
Between the years 1650 and 1900, over 2,000 Scots, resident in North
America, chose to have their wills registered and confirmed in Scotland
rather than in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, which traditionally had
jurisdiction in probate matters affecting British subjects who died
overseas.  This book is essentially an index to those wills, with
supplementary data extracted from a government publication titled Index to
Personal Estates of Defuncts, 1846-1866.  Information given with each entry
includes the name of the testator, his place of residence in North America,
his occupation (where known), sometimes his former place of residence in
Scotland, and the date of his death or the date the will was registered.

1486.  SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825.  Directory of.  By
David Dobson.  Vol. I. 267 pp. (1984), repr. Balto., 1988.
$20.00
Based on documents found in British archives and a handful of published
sources, this work has the names of over 5,000 Scottish emigrants appearing
in ships' passenger lists before 1825.  It also has data on about 1,000
Scots who settled in North America between 1625 and 1825.  The bulk of the
immigrants identified arrived in the U.S. or Canada between 1773 and 1815.
The information given on each immigrant varies according to the type of
record, but there is a fair mix of data giving age, date of birth,
occupation, place of residence, names of family members, date and place of
arrival, and circumstances of emigration.

1488.  SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825, Directory of.  By
David Dobson. Vol. III. 194 pp. Balto., 1984.
$17.50
This volume supplements the first two in the series (the second of which is
out of print), and provides much new information.  Mr. Dobson studied about
a dozen early Scottish newspapers and magazines, for from the late 18th
century on these periodicals began to have birth, marriage, and death
columns.  As a result, this work has about 3,000 "vital record" notices.
In general, they mention the subject's family, place of residence in North
America, place of origin, date of event, and various items concerning
Scottish connections.  This is a unique body of information that could
possibly provide the missing link in the search for an immigrant ancestor
of suspected Scottish origin.

1489.  SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825, Directory of.  By
David Dobson. Vol. IV. 161 pp.  Balto., 1985.
$17.50
In this volume Mr. Dobson introduces the researcher to little-known source
materials--the Services of Heirs and the Register of Testaments of the
Commissariat of Edinburgh.  From the Services of Heirs he extracted all
references to North American residents who inherited land in Scotland, and
also to Americans who left land in Scotland.  From the Register of
Testaments he provided abstracts of the testaments of all North American
residents who chose to have their wills registered in Edinburgh.  All of
this data serves to confirm a relationship between the inheritor and his
ancestor.

1481.  SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825, Directory of.  By
David Dobson.  Vol. V. 312 pp.  Balto., 1985.
$20.00
In this volume Mr. Dobson again has used some little known source
materials--this time from records found chiefly in the Public Archives of
Ontario.  While Scottish settlers in North America from the 17th to the
19th centuries are identified, the emphasis is on Scottish immigrants to
Canada, and only about a third of the work treats settlers in New Jersey,
Virginia, and North Carolina.

1482.  SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825, Directory of.  By
David Dobson.  Vol. VI. 126 pp. Balto., 1986.
$15.00
This is the sixth and final volume of Dobson's unique Scottish Settlers
series and it contains abstracts of data from the Edinburgh Register of
Deeds, which recorded not only deeds but any document thought to be
important, such as marriage contracts, powers of attorney, and commercial
agreements.  The material in this volume relates to Scots living or dying
in North America, or having any commercial or legal intercourse with
America, for the period 1750-1825.  About 600 Scots and their activities
are covered.

1248.  SOUTHERN PEDIGREES, A Key to, Being a Comprehensive Guide to the
Colonial Ancestry of Families in the States of Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Alabama.
(Vol. VIII of Va. County Records series).  Ed. by William A. Crozier.
80 pp., indexed. (1911), repr. Balto., 1985.
$9.50
This is a guide to about 2,000 pedigrees as listed in over 7,000 data
sources.  Arranged alphabetically by family name, each entry provides the
exact reference to the books and periodicals where the pedigree is to be
found.

385.  SUNNY SIDE OF GENEALOGY, The.  By Fonda D. Baselt.
102 pp., wrappers.  Balto., 1988.
See 2105.
$8.95
In 1987 we published Laverne Galeener-Moore's Collecting Dead Relatives,
the first book that looked on the comic side of genealogy.
Now we offer another one, and the two books clearly demonstrate that
genealogy is secure enough in its professionalism to laugh at itself.  This
edition of the Baselt book is the second, and it has an additional sixteen
pages of new material.  The whole book is a humorous collection of
anecdotes, poems, wills, epitaphs, and other miscellany from genealogy.  A
quote of just one item will convince you that you should have this
entertaining work-- "Old genealogists never die/They just lose their
census."

CONNECTICUT

5885. (CENSUS OF 1790).  Heads of Families in the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut. 8 1/2" x ll". 227 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$22.50
The index lists the names of over 40,000 household heads.

2980.  OLD FAIRFIELD, History and Genealogy of the Families of.  With
Additions and Corrections from The American Genealogist.  By Donald Lines
Jacobus. 3 vols. 2,051 pp., indexed.  (1930-32), repr. Balto., 1991.
The set: $150.00
Jacobus's Families of Old Fairfield is the ultimate authority on the
ancestry and relationships of approximately 50,000 residents of Fairfield
County, Connecticut.  It is a vast compendium of family history,
meticulously developed from original sources, and in every way an accurate
reflection of the investigative genius of its celebrated author.
As genealogical collections go, it is a perfect model.  Each family history
commences with the original 17th-century settler and is brought down, in
most cases, to the early decades of the 19th century.  The accumulated data
is further enhanced by abstracts of land and probate records, the effect of
which is to add still more weight to the already overwhelming evidence.
Throughout, families are arranged in alphabetical order.  Children are
carried forward as heads  of families in leap-frog fashion, and everyone
mentioned whose name does not occur in normal sequence under the
appropriate family history is identified in the index.  Wherever possible,
women are indexed under their maiden names.

2260.  FIRST SETTLERS of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Genealogical Notes,
or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the.  By Nathaniel
Goodwin. 362 pp., indexed.  (1856), repr. Balto., 1987.
$20.00
A cornerstone of genealogy for the two states, it has partial genealogies
of the settlers, including residence, name and parentage of wife, death
dates, and lines of descent almost always to the third generation, and
often to the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh generation.


DELAWARE

MARYLAND and Delaware, A Gazetteer of. By Henry Gannet.
See 2110.


DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

XXXX. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILLS, 1801-1920, Index To. By Dorothy S.
Provine. 8 1/2" x 11". 218 pp., paperback. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
This important new genealogical resource is an alphabetical name index to
more than 22,700 wills filed in the District of Columbia Orphans' Court
(probate Court) from 1801 to 1920.  The documents are arranged by year of
filing and thereunder alphabetically by the name of the person making the
will.  In one alphabetical sequence, the entries in this new finding-aid
give the name of the testator, the year the will was filed (which was
usually, but not always, a short time after the death of the individual),
and the number of the archives box that contains the document.  Wills
indexed here include some of the most illustrious personalities in American
history.

GEORGIA

193.  BIBLE RECORDS, Georgia.  By Jeannette H. Austin.
538 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1985.
$35.00
This collection of Georgia Bible records is an itemized list of births,
marriages, and deaths found in about 1,000 family Bibles!  Included are
records of some of Georgia's first settlers and prominent figures, as well
as those of ordinary persons, some of whom migrated to or from other
states.  Many of the records were sent to the compiler by the Bible owners,
while others she copied from Bibles in the Georgia State Archives and the
University of Georgia Library, or from genealogical publications.  The
period covered is from the early 1700s to the 1900s and because of its
range and diversity it should be a goldmine for the researcher of Georgia
families.  It is unique, as it cannot be duplicated by any other body of
records, published or manuscript.  Some 20,000 people are named in these
records which often span several generations of a family.

1410.  (CENSUS).  The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia Substitutes for
Georgia's Lost 1790 Census. By Marie De Lamar and Elisabeth Rothstein.
235 pp., indexed. (1976), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
The compilers of this work extracted data found in wills, deeds, tax
digests, court minutes, voters' lists, newspapers, and other contemporary
records--records roughly contemporaneous with the 1790 census--and they
have identified about 15,000 Georgians who were living at the time of the
1790 census, thus creating a "reconstructed" census from substitute
records.
Counties covered include all of those formed before 1790, i.e. Burke,
Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Franklin, Glynn, Greene, Liberty, Richmond,
Washington, and Wilkes.  Also covered are Columbia and Elbert counties,
which were formed just after the census was taken.  Information in the text
is purposely sparse, the compilers' object being simply to identify
individuals in at least one record of a county at a particular time.  When
the original edition of this work was published in 1976, it had no index.
Our reprint contains a complete name index with thousands of multiple
references.

3076.  EBENEZER RECORD BOOK 1754-1781.  Births, Baptisms, Marriages and
Burials of Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Effingham, Georgia,
More Commonly Known as Ebenezer Church.  Trans. and ed. by George F. Jones
& Sheryl Exley. 187 pp., indexed. Balto., 1991.
$25.00
Taken from a register begun in 1754, these records report the births,
baptisms, marriages, and deaths in the congregation of Jerusalem Church at
Ebenezer, a church founded by religious exiles from Salzburg, Austria, who
settled in Georgia.  The previous edition of the register upon which this
work is based proved to be so deficient in matters relating to the
deciphering of names that Prof. Jones and Ms. Exley determined on a new
translation.  Gone now are the mis-readings of surnames, the Anglicization
of given names, and the spurious families mistakenly created in the earlier
edition.  As a bonus, Jones and Exley have inserted the identity of the
Salzburger's German town of origin, where known, and added a Genealogical
Index in excess of 3,500 names.
Researchers should note that by 1754 many of the original Salzburgers had
died and the survivors had been joined by Swiss, Palatines, and Swabians,
who, through the course of intermarriage, were absorbed by and referred to
as Salzburgers.

195.  GEORGIANS, The.  Genealogies of Pioneer Families.  By Jeannette H.
Austin. 479 pp., indexed. (1984), repr. Balto., 1986.
$30.00
This collection of 283 genealogies was compiled by Mrs. Austin, a
professional genealogist, over a period of twenty years.  While the
earliest Georgia settlers were brought in by General Oglethorpe in 1733,
the majority of the settlers--from Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and the
Carolinas--arrived after the Revolution.  The bulk of the genealogies in
this work deal with Georgians who descended from settlers from the other
states.
(For a complete list of the contents write the Publisher.)

1411.  WASHINGTON COUNTY, Georgia, Records of.  By Marie De Lamar and
Elisabeth Rothstein. 184 pp., indexed. (1975), repr. Balto., 1985.
$18.50
This work is a tremendously useful collection of genealogical data as it is
a blend of records from sources other than the courthouse.  County
residents are listed under one or more of the following categories:
headrights and bounty grants (important because Washington County was one
of only two Georgia counties where bounty grants were made to soldiers of
the Revolution), 1805 lottery registrants, 1832 lottery fortunate drawers,
1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses, surveyors' records, military records,
marriages, poor school records, tax defaulters, and early settlers.
The index, specially compiled for this reprint edition, has references to
about 12,000 persons.

197.  WILLS, Georgia, Index to.  By Jeannette H. Austin.
169 pp., (1976), repr. Balto., 1985.
$17.50
This is an index to the earliest surviving will books of Georgia counties
formed before the 1832 Land Lottery.  It is based on verbatim copies of
wills found in county will books.  This index contains the names, in
alphabetical order, of about 20,000 testators, the name of the county in
which the will was filed, and the designation of the book in which the
complete will can be located.  A smaller number of entries derive from such
estate records as appraisals, inventories, divisions, letters of
administration and guardian bonds, and are identified by the appropriate
reference.


KENTUCKY

1060. (CENSUS). "Second Census" of Kentucky, 1800.  By G. Glenn Clift.
333 pp. (1954), repr. Balto., 1982.
Temporarily out of print

3015.  ENTRIES AND DEEDS, Old Kentucky.  A Complete Index to All of the
Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants, Deeds and Wills of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.  By Willard R. Jillson.
571 pp., illus., maps. (Filson Club Pub., 1926), repr. Balto., 1987.
$30.00
The arrangement is alphabetical under the names of the grantees with the
number of acres, dates, locations, and references to the pages of the
original records in the Land Office at Frankfort.  There are more than
45,000 entries, most being devoted to early Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson
County records.  There are also Military Warrants, 1782-1793; Court of
Appeals Deeds-Grantees, 1783-1846; Grantors, 1783-1846; Wills, 1769-1850;
and Attorneys, 1781-1853.

2340.  HISTORIC FAMILIES of Kentucky With Special Reference to Stocks
Immediately Derived From the Valley of Virginia. . . By Thomas M. Green.
304 pp., indexed.  (1889), repr. Balto., 1982.
$20.00
This is a classic work that relates to the early history of Kentucky and to
the accomplishments of the pioneer families, some account being given of
more than seventy-five of them.

3155.  (JEFFERSON CO.).  Early Kentucky Settlers.  The Records of Jefferson
County, Kentucky from the Filson Club History Quarterly.
505 pp., indexed. Balto., 1988.
$30.00
Excerpted from the important Filson Club History Quarterly, this work has
transcripts of the earliest Jefferson County, Kentucky records known to
exist--wills, deeds, surveys, administrations, inventories, and poll lists.
These records are a unique body of information on early Jefferson County
and its people--ordinary people for the most part, seen here, in court
records, swearing and fighting, trading with Indians, surveying land,
registering the deeds to their property, or assigning property to heirs and
relatives.
In 1780 Kentucky County, Virginia was divided into three Virginia counties-
-Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson.  The importance of Jefferson County to
genealogists lies in the fact that, along with the other two counties, it
was one of the parents of Kentucky's present 120 counties.  So Jefferson
County's records will be of interest to a wide audience of genealogists.
The records reprinted in this book are: Minute Books A and 1 (1781-1785);
Will Books 1 and 2 (1784-1833); Bond and Power of Attorney Book 1 (1783-
1798); and Division Book 1 (1797-1832).

5514.  KENTUCKIANS In Illinois. By Stuart S. Sprague.
306 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1987.
$22.50
Many of the early settlers of Illinois moved there originally from
Kentucky.  The trail these migrants left, however, was so indistinct that
it has not always been possible to identify them.  Now Professor Sprague
has assembled a list of these Kentucky migrants with data on them.  Passing
over conventional record sources, he has used information from published
county histories and county atlases.
Arranged in tabular format under the county of origin, entries include some
or all of the following information: the name of the Kentucky migrant, his
birthdate, the names of his parents and places of birth (if known), and the
date of migration.  The name index has references to more than 10,000
persons.

5515.  KENTUCKIANS In Missouri, Including Many Who Migrated by Way of Ohio,
Indiana, or Illinois.  By Stuart Sprague.
209 pp., indexed. (1983), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
Many Kentuckians migrated to Missouri in the 19th century, but there has
been little known about them.  Now, this work which came from a study of
some sixty Missouri county histories and "mug-books," provides records of
over 4,000 persons born in Kentucky who migrated to Missouri, some by way
of Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois.
Arranged in tabular form under county of origin, the entries include the
name of the Kentucky migrant, his birthdate, the names of his parents and
their dates and places of birth (if known), the name of the Missouri county
in which the migrant settled, and the earliest known date of his residence
in Missouri.  The index has about 10,000 names mentioned in the text.

KENTUCKY COLONIZATION IN TEXAS.  A History of the Peters Colony.  By
Seymour V. Connor.
See 1144.

141.  KENTUCKY [COURT AND OTHER] RECORDS.  Early Wills and Marriages, Old
Bible Records and Tombstone Inscriptions. [Vol. 1]. Comp. by Mrs. William
B. Ardery. 206 pp., indexed. (1926), repr. Balto., 1986.
$17.50
The coverage is about 1724 to 1875 and the records provided are of the
counties of Barre, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison,
Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio,
Scott, and Shelby.  There also is an index to estates and inventories of
Revolutionary War soldiers.

1050.  KENTUCKY MARRIAGES, 1797-1865.  By G. Glenn Clift.  With an added
Intro. and Index. 258 pp. (From Reg. of the Ky. Hist. Soc., 1930-1940),
repr. Balto., 1987.
$17.50
This is a valuable compilation of abstracts of marriage notices.  Listed
chronologically, each entry gives the name of the bride and groom and the
marriage date, and many include the place of residence and parents' names.
The source of the information is provided for each entry.  About 8,000
names of brides and grooms are in the index.

2020.  KENTUCKY PIONEERS, and Their Descendants.  By Ila E. Fowler.
460 pp., indexed. (ca. 1951), repr. Balto., 1988.
$25.00
This compilation of Kentucky records has a wealth of data on over 15,000
persons (all indexed) taken from Bibles, tombstones, obituaries, birth
certificates, vital statistics, tax books, deeds, wills, and marriage and
census records.  The main counties covered are Bourbon, Bracken, Caldwell,
Calloway, Christian, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Hardin, Hopkins,
Jefferson, Jessamine, Larue, Lincoln, Livingston, Mason, Mercer, and
Woodford.
There also are genealogies or family records of the following families:
Bartlett, Baskett, Bayles, Bourland-Reese, Brownfield-Brumfield, Caldwell,
Carson, Cowgill, Cox, Cromwell, Denton, Denton-Leer, Earle-Dillingham,
Elkin, Fristoe, Haley, Harrod, Laffoon, Land, Lauderman, Leer, Milam,
Mitchell, Neal, Nichols, Randolph, Reed, Rees, Tribble, and Worthington.

5681.  LANDHOLDERS, Early Kentucky, 1787-1811.  By James F. Sutherland.
426 pp., Balto., 1986.
$27.50
This is a list of 17,000 landholders whose names appeared in the annual tax
lists for Lincoln County, 1787-1811.  As indicated before this can be
considered as a statewide tax list, and in this case the landholders are
those who claimed land, but who did not necessarily occupy the land owned.
The taxpayers are listed in alphabetical order along with the date of the
tax list, the number of the tax book and the page of the original entry,
the amount of acreage, the nearest watercourse, and the name of the prior
assignee.  The compiler has put together a complete Surname Directory which
groups the phonetic variations of each name under a common spelling, so the
researcher has only to search for the "common" spelling rather than the
variants.  There also is a Prior Assignee Directory which links the names
of previous landowners with present landowners.

3159.  TAX RECORDS, Early Kentucky, From The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society. 318 pp., indexed.  (1984), repr. Balto., 1987.
$20.00
This work consists of all of the tax lists published in The Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society, and they are among the earliest existing.  A
few of them are from either before or after the 1790 and 1800 enumerations
and show, by comparison with the reconstructed census records of 1790 and
1800, the movement of Kentuckians from county to county.  These tax lists
give the names of about 12,000 taxpayers, their counties of residence, and
the number of persons and chattels attached to their households--and they
are not in the reconstructed census records.


MAINE

5886. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Maine. 8 1/2" x 11". 105 pp., fldg map, indexed,
paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$18.50

4205. GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of Maine and New Hampshire. By Sybil Noyes,
Charles T. Libby and Walter G. Davis. 5 parts in 1. 795 pp. (1928-1939),
repr. Balto., 1991.
$35.00
This indispensable and comprehensive reference work is offered in a
convenient one-volume form. It contains extensive biographical and
genealogical data on every family established in Maine and New Hampshire
before 1699. Listed are the births, marriages, and deaths of the settlers
through the third generation, and sometimes into the fourth, Also included
are data on places of origin, residences, wills and deeds, court cases, and
highlights of lives and careers.

MARYLAND

353.  BALTIMORE COUNTY FAMILIES, 1659-1759.  By Robert W. Barnes.
924 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1989.
$55.00
Baltimore County originally embraced all or parts of present-day Anne
Arundel, Carroll, Harford, and Cecil counties.  Here, for the first time,
is a book with comprehensive genealogical data on the hundreds of families
and thousands of individuals who settled in the parent county in the first
century of its existence.
The original settlers in the county came from Southern Maryland--notably
Anne Arundel and Calvert Counties--and from the Eastern Shore and from
Virginia. From the middle third of the 18th century, a growing number of
settlers came from Pennsylvania.  Others came directly from the British
Isles, sometimes as indentured servants or transported felons.
Because of the vast number of families included in this work, it was not
possible to carry any family much later than 1759.  Parish registers,
administration bonds and accounts, wills, and inventories were abstracted
and used as a nucleus for each family group, while court records and deeds
were combed for additional data.  In addition, family histories have been
built from a series of family groups starting with the earliest known
progenitor, followed by his  children, his grandchildren, and, in some
cases, his great-grandchildren.

3040.  CECIL COUNTY, Maryland, History of, and the Early Settlements Around
the Head of the Chesapeake Bay and on the Delaware River, with Sketches of
Some of the Old Families of Cecil County.  By George Johnston.
574 pp., fldg. map, indexed. (1881), repr. Balto., 1989.
$25.00
This is an exhaustive study of the county from its infancy to the middle of
the 19th century, with chapters on the early settlements and towns,
churches, schools, businesses and industries, and  sketches of the county's
participation in the Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of
1812.  People who played a role in the development of the county are the
mainstays of this book.
Genealogists will be delighted with the coverage given to Augustine Herman
of Bohemia Manor and will also welcome the sketches of such early families
as: Alexander, Carroll, Van Bibber, Leslie, Hall, Churchman, Evans,
Mitchell, Mauldin, Gilpin, Rudulph, Rumsey, Hyland, Defoe, Ramsay, and
Hartshorne.  In addition, this edition contains a new name index complied
by the Genealogical Society of Cecil County.

5887. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland. 8 1/2" x 11". 189 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1907), repr. Balto., 1992.
$25.00

6520.  COLONIAL MARYLAND NATURALIZATIONS.  By Jeffrey A. Wyand and Florence
L. Wyand. 104 pp., indexed. (1975), repr. Balto., 1986.
$12.50
Based on denizations granted by the Council, naturalizations granted by
enactment of private laws, and under English statutes, this work provides
data on over 1,400 aliens for the period 1660-1775.  Included are the
identifying number of the record, the date of the naturalization, date of
communion, volume and page of the material in the Provincial Court
Judgments, name, county or town of residence, nationality, church
membership, location of the church, and the witnesses to communion.  There
is also an appendix of place names, clergymen and parishes, and indexes to
aliens and witnesses to the naturalizations.

5420.  EARLY SETTLERS of Maryland, The.  An Index of Names of Immigrants
Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1689, in the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Maryland.  By Gust Skordas. 525 pp. (1968), repr. Balto., 1986.
$25.00
An important historical and genealogical compilation, it consists of an
alphabetical index of over 25,000 settlers, virtually all of the immigrants
to Maryland for its first fifty years.  In addition to the immigrants' full
names, there are given the approximate date of emigration, the basis of the
claim for land, residence, and sometimes the family relationship or status,
as well as a reference to the source of the information.

4885.  FREDERICK COUNTY, Maryland, New Facts and Old Families From the
Records of.  By Millard M. Rice. 200 pp., maps, indexed.  (1976), repr.
Balto., 1984.
$21.50
This work is a compilation of materials relating to the inhabitants of some
of the early towns of Frederick County, Maryland.  Chapters are devoted to
the founding and establishment of the towns of Jefferson, Middletown, and
Walkersville, as well as the lost towns of Hamburgh, Trammelstown, and
Monocacy, while sub-sections deal with the history of some of the founding
families and provide lists of the original owners of land.
Based on original land records, this work provides the only authoritative
account of the actual layout, plan, and development of many of the towns
and villages of the county.  Finely researched, built up layer by layer
from previously unknown facts, this provides the lost story of Frederick
County lands and landowners.

5835.  (FREDERICK COUNTY).  Pioneers of Old Monocacy.  The Early Settlement
of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743.  By Grace L. Tracey and John P.
Dern. 442 pp., illus., indexed, 4to. (1987), repr. Balto., 1989.
$37.50
This is a definitive account of the land and people of Old Monocacy in
early Frederick County.  It has a detailed account of land holdings in
Western Maryland that eventually became Frederick County.  It also has a
history of the inhabitants of the area, from early traders and explorers to
the farsighted investors and speculators, and from the original Quaker
settlers to the Germans of central Frederick County.
The book has a dual focus.  First it attempts to locate and describe the
land of the early settlers.  This is done by a superb series of plat maps
drawn to scale from original surveys and based on certificates of surveys
and patents.  These show the exact locations of the grants and lots, the
names of owners and occupiers, the dates of surveys and patents, and the
names of contiguous properties and owners.  Second it identifies the early
settlers and inhabitants of the area, carefully following them through
deeds, wills and inventories, judgment records, and rent rolls.
Finally, in carefully compiled appendices are a chronological list of
surveys between 1721 and 1743; an alphabetical list of surveys with dates,
page references--text and maps--and patent references; a list of taxables
for 1733-1734; and a list of early German settlers of the county, showing
their religion, location, dates of arrival, and their earliest records in
the county.

365.  MARRIAGES, Maryland, 1634-1777.  By Robert Barnes.
233 pp., indexed.  (1978), repr. Balto., 1987.
$20.00
This is a compilation of all marriages recorded from 1634 to 1777 in a
variety of church records, other contemporary documents, and printed
sources.  In all, about 24,000 persons are mentioned, and there is an index
of brides' names.

1491.  MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA COLONIALS:  Genealogies of Some Colonial
Families.  Families of Bacon, Beall, Beasley, Cheney, Duckett, Dunbar,
Ellyson, Elmore, Graves, Heydon, Howard, Jacob, Morris, Nuthall, Odell,
Peerce, Reder, Ridgley, Prather, Sprigg, Wesson,  Williams, and Collateral
Kin.  By Sharon J. Doliante.
1,313 pp., illus., indexed.  Balto., 1991.
$87.50
This giant of a work covers in full the twenty-two colonial Maryland and
Virginia families mentioned above and hundreds of collateral families.  One
of the biggest and best compilations of family histories to be published in
recent years, it not only establishes the Maryland and Virginia ancestry of
the main families but also corrects many longstanding inaccuracies and
dispels some cherished myths, many repeated uncritically in one publication
after another, such as the non-existent fourth wife of Henry Ridgley, the
erroneous ancestry of Richard Duckett, Sr., and the putative maternity of
the Sprigg children.  It does a magnificent job in establishing the
Maryland ancestry of Simon Reeder of South Carolina, and of his wife, and
scores a notable success with the Wesson and Williams families, to say
nothing of the family of James Beall, Sr.  With an index of over 23,500
entries!

2110.  MARYLAND and Delaware.  A Gazetteer of.  By Henry Gannett.
2 vols. in 1.  84, 15 pp. (1904), repr. Balto., 1979.
$12.50
These gazetteers are extensive alphabetical lists of place names of post
villages, towns, counties, mountains, rivers, ferry crossings, rail and
coaching stations, and other areas, each identified in relation to a
county.  In all, there are about 4,000 names, and since many of them are
long gone, this is a valuable tool for genealogical research.

4097.  MARYLAND PALATINATE, The Flowering of the.  By Harry Wright Newman.
359 pp., illus., indexed.  (1961), repr. Balto., 1985.
$25.00
The settlement of the Province of Maryland in 1634 was undertaken by
Leonard Calvert, Lord Baltimore's second son and the group of 200
adventurers who accompanied him on the Ark and the Dove.  In addition to a
succinct history of the Calvert family and the area in which they
flourished in England, this work describes the life and times of the 200
passengers, their part in the founding and settlement of the colony, and
development of the feudal manorial system.
But the bulk of the book, and the reason for its interest to genealogists,
consists of biographical and genealogical sketches of the 200 adventurers,
each developed in meticulous detail from surviving documents such as court
records, letters and miscellaneous documents by the late Harry Wright
Newman, the leading Maryland genealogist.

4098. TO MARYLAND FROM OVERSEAS. By Harry Wright Newman. 190 pp. (1982),
repr. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
Harry Wright Newman's last book, To Maryland From Overseas, was published
just before his death in 1983, but the edition was so small that few people
know it. This work has documentation on the British and Continental origins
of 1,400 people who settled in Maryland between 1634 and the beginning of
the Federal Period. Each colonist is dealt with in a separate paragraph,
the contents of which range from abstracts of wills, deeds, patents,
judgment records, pension records, and naturalizations to abstracts of
private papers, visitations, and parish registers.

4401.  PASSENGER ARRIVALS at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834, From Customs
Passenger Lists.  Michael H. Tepper, General Editor. Transcribed by
Elizabeth P. Bentley. 768 pp.  Balto., 1982.
$38.50
In this volume the researcher has access to the records of the 50,000
immigrants who arrived at the port of Baltimore between 1820 and 1834.
Probably three-quarters of the arriving passengers were German, and most of
the remainder British or Irish.  The data comes from the official Customs
Passenger Lists, and the arrangement is alphabetical by surname.  The
information provided on the passengers includes age, sex, occupation, name
of the country to which they belong, name of the country which they intend
to inhabit, name of ship, port of embarkation, and date of arrival.  In the
case of German passengers, even more information is given--places of birth
and residence and specific places of destination, for instance.  Note that
the records of all passengers are given here, not merely heads of families.

4400.  SOURCE RECORDS of Maryland: Genealogical, Biographical, Historical,
An Index of the.  By Eleanor P. Passano. 478 pp.  (1940), repr. Balto.,
1984.
Temporarily out of print
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed
list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and
locations of the records in which they appear.  In addition, there is a
research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it
identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist
up to 1940, when this book was first published.  Included are church and
county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land
records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data
sources.

3660.  WILLS, Maryland Colonial, 1634-1777, Index of in the Hall of
Records, Annapolis, Md.  By James M. Magruder, Jr.  With Additions and a
new Intro. 3 vols. in 1.  543 pp. (1933), repr. Balto., 1986.
$27.50
This index lists the names of about 16,000 decedents, alphabetically
arranged and giving for each the year of the probate of the will, the
county, and the reference to the volume and page where the will is recorded
at the Hall of Records.


MASSACHUSETTS

4340.  BARNSTABLE FAMILIES, Genealogical Notes of.  By Amos Otis.
2 vols. in 1.  827 pp. total.  (1888-90), repr. Balto., 1991.
$40.00
Otis's Barnstable Families first appeared as a series of sketches in the
newspaper The Barnstable Patriot.  The sketches were subsequently collected
and published in two volumes in 1888 and 1890 and to this day constitute
the best genealogical history of the early families of Barnstable,
Massachusetts.  Based on public records, family archives, and a careful
study of original documents, and further enhanced by the inclusion of
revisions and additions by Mr. Charles F. Swift, Barnstable Families is
widely regarded as authoritative.  The present edition, reprinted in a
single volume, contains an index which bears reference to some 10,000
persons.

5022.  BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS Probate Records, 1745-1762, Abstracts
of.  By H. L. Peter Rounds. 365 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$30.00
In this volume there is abstracted every item and entry, page by page, in
all of the Bristol County Probate Volumes 11-17, and 124-126, covering the
years 1745 to 1762.  Included are wills, inventories, administrator's
accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and
other matters relating to the probate of estates.  There are references to
over 7,000 persons, many mentioned several times in the records.
Not only are the probate records of present-day Bristol County abstracted,
but also those of the now Rhode Island towns of Bristol, Warren,
Barrington, Little Compton, and Tiverton from 1745-1747, until which time
they were all situated in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

5888. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts. 8 1/2" x 11". 363 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$38.50

FIRST SETTLERS of Connecticut and Massachusetts.  By Nathaniel Goodwin.
See 2260.

5473. CAPE COD LIBRARY of Local History and Genealogy. A Facsimile Edition
of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century. By Leonard H, Smith,
Jr. 2 vols. 2,066 pp., indexed. Balto., 1992.
The set: $125.00
It is well known that Cape Cod families are difficult to trace. Only the
probate records survived the burning of the Barnstable County Courthouse in
1827, and similar disasters have taken their toll of the Cape's town
records. This was precisely the predicament Col. Leonard Smith found
himself in when he stumbled upon a series of pamphlets published at
Yartmouthport by Charles W. Swift in the early part of this century under
the name Cape Cod Library of History and Genealogy. A series of 108
pamphlets!
Although contributors to the Cape Cod Library included a number of
celebrated genealogists, the series never reached a large audience, and is
today virtually inaccessible. No library in the country holds the complete
collection of 108 pamphlets. With great diligence, Col. Smith put together
a complete collection for himself, arranged the pamphlets in the order in
which they were published, and then, to make the material usable, compiled
an index of names. In just over 2,000 pages he has managed to put together
a reference work that compensates for the chronic shortage of printed Cape
Cod source material, and it is available now in this splendid two-volume
consolidation.
(For a complete list of the contents, please contact the publisher.)

4370.  FREEMEN OF MASSACHUSETTS, List of, 1630-1691.  By Lucius R. Paige.
60 pp., indexed, wrappers.  (1849), repr. Balto., 1988.
$5.00
Under the first charter of the Massachusetts Colony only freemen of the
Colony had the right to vote or hold public office.  Such were admitted
freemen who could fulfill the requirements of the Freeman's Oath in matters
of church membership and state allegiance.  Between 1630 and 1691, some
4,500 men were admitted freemen, the ancestors of nearly three-fourths of
the inhabitants of 18th and 19th century New England.
This is a complete list of those freemen, arranged chronologically by the
date of the meetings of the General or Quarterly Court at which they were
admitted, with a citation to the volume and page number of the Colonial
Records in which the data appears.  Originally published as "List of
Freemen" it appeared in Vol. III of The New England Historical and
Genealogical Register (1849) in four successive numbers.  Here they are
combined in one volume, with an added index, and a new title.

2510.  (IPSWICH).  HAMMATT PAPERS, The.  Early Inhabitants of Ipswich,
Massachusetts, 1633-1700.  By Abraham Hammatt.
448 pp., indexed.  (1880-99), repr. Balto., 1991.
$30.00
The Hammatt Papers focuses on the first two or three generations of several
hundred Ipswich families, and, in the traditional manner, provides
information on the lineal descendants of the earliest recorded member of
the family in Ipswich, treating of a succession of parents and children,
with dates and places of birth, marriage, and death where such could be
ascertained from the records.  The data throughout derives from wills,
inventories, tax lists, subscription lists, lists of freemen, deeds,
conveyances, court orders, and a wide variety of similar sources, and bears
reference to approximately 9,000 persons, all of whom are cited in the new
index.

235.  MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGES Prior to 1800, Early.  With Plymouth County
Marriages, 1692-1746, ed. Lucy Hall Greenlaw.  By Frederick W. Bailey.
661 pp. total, indexed.  (1897-1914), repr. Balto., 1991.
$38.50
This is the most complete collection of early Massachusetts marriages ever
published, containing over 20,000 entries for the period 1643-1800.  The
marriages derive from records kept by the various county, city, and court
clerks in compliance with Massachusetts law, and give the full name of the
bride and groom and date and place of marriage.  The book is divided into
four sections covering: Worcester County; Plymouth County; Middlesex,
Hampshire, Berkshire, and Bristol counties; and Plymouth County again, as
transcribed from the first volume of the records of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas and an unnumbered volume of the records of the Court of
General Sessions.  This last section contains over 1,000 additional
entries.  Each section of the book is separately paginated and indexed,
except for the last, which is arranged in chronological order.

4660.  PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS [1620-1650], The.  A Descriptive List,
Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches.  By Charles Henry
Pope. 550 pp., indexed.  (1900), repr. Balto., 1991.
$35.00
An alphabetically arranged list of approximately 5,000 settlers and their
families, this work contains the names of all persons mentioned in the
records of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts between 1620 and 1650 and in
the various passenger lists for the period.  Information given in the
genealogical and biographical notices includes--where known--dates of
arrival in America, occupations, estates, marriages, names and dates of
birth of children, and abstracts of probated wills--embodying genealogical
riches such as names, dates, heirs, family relationships, and places of
residence and death.

5360.  PLYMOUTH COLONY, Records of.  Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials,
and Other Records, 1633-1689.  By Nathaniel B. Shurtleff.
293 pp., indexed.  (1857), repr. Balto., 1991.
$25.00
Originally published as Volume Eight of Records of the Colony of New
Plymouth in New England:  Miscellaneous Records 1633-1689, this work
consists of births, marriages, deaths, and burials from the several towns
of the Colony of New Plymouth.  The records of births, commencing in 1647,
of Swansea, Yarmouth, Plymouth, Sandwich, Eastham, Scituate, Taunton,
Barnstable, and Rehobeth give names, dates, and names of parents.  The
records of marriages commence in 1633 and give the names of the newlyweds,
dates, and sometimes names of brides' fathers.

1385.  PLYMOUTH FAMILIES, Genealogical Register of.  By William T. Davis.
363 pp.  (Part 2 of Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, 1899), repr. Balto.,
1985.
Temporarily out of print
This is the most comprehensive register of Plymouth families ever
assembled.  It has the names of thousands of Mayflower and sistership
antecedents.  The data is based largely on records of the town of Plymouth,
and draws on all marriage and birth records to the last quarter of the 19th
century.  Also, there is material from other town records, family Bibles,
probate records and the Registry of Deeds.

MICHIGAN

3525.  MICHIGAN GENEALOGY, Sources and Resources.  By Carol McGinnis.
110 pp., indexed.  (1987), repr. Balto., 1989.
$15.00
This is a source-book, a compilation of genealogical data in Michigan.  Its
emphasis is on vital records, land records, and census records, and it
focuses on the holdings of various societies and institutions whose
resources will benefit the genealogist.  County by county it lists the
names, addresses, and hours of business of libraries, societies,
courthouses, and other record repositories, describes their manuscript and
record collections, highlights their special holdings, and gives details
regarding queries, searches, and restrictions on the use of their records.
Most of the data came from written surveys addressed to county courthouses,
historical and genealogical societies, and libraries.  Seventy-four of the
eighty-three county clerks responded, as did 100 societies representing
fifty-five counties and ninety libraries in forty-three counties.  Missing
data was compiled from Michigan Historical Records Survey inventories, and
from county inventories published elsewhere.  This is one of the finest
statewide source-books ever published.

MISSOURI

KENTUCKIANS In Missouri, Including Many Who Migrated by Way of Ohio,
Indiana, or Illinois.  By Stuart Sprague.
See 5515.

4335.  MISSOURI MARRIAGES Before 1840.  By Susan Ormesher.
317 pp., indexed.  (1982), repr. Balto., 1986.
$20.00
This awesome compilation contains the records of 16,000 marriages from
fifty-one Missouri counties formed before 1840.  It is now the chief means
of identifying settlers who were in Missouri prior to the first and second
censuses of 1830 and 1840.  All Missouri counties with marriage records
before 1840 are included except St. Louis County and City, which have been
adequately covered elsewhere.
Most of the marriage records came from the original marriage books on file
in the various county courthouses, and these are identified in the "List of
Sources" at the beginning of the book.  Other records came from previously
published compilations, some from both.  The marriages listed are arranged
alphabetically by grooms' surnames, and each includes the name of the
bride, the marriage date, and the name of the county in which the full
record is located.  The researcher can write to the county recorder's
office to obtain a copy of the record needed.  The book ends with an index
of brides' names that includes all of the 16,000 women mentioned in the
text.


NEW HAMPHIRE


5889. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: New Hampshire. 8 1/2" x ll. 146 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1907), repr. Balto., 1992.
$21.50

GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of Maine and New Hampshire. By Sybil Noyes, Charles
T. Libby and Walter G. Davis.
See 4205.

NEW JERSEY

AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume II: New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.  By William Wade Hinshaw.
See 2732.

NEW YORK

4545.  ALBANY, Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of
the Ancient County of, From 1630 to 1800.  By Jonathan Pearson.  182 pp.,
indexed.  (1872), repr. Balto., 1984.
$17.50
These genealogies, usually traced to the third or fourth generation, are
based on church and state records, and many other sources.  The original
settlers were Dutch, but in the 18th century, many English and Palatine
Germans also resided in Albany.  There are over 7,000 entries in the index.

2733.  AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume III:  New York.
Containing Every Item of Genealogical Value Found in All Records and
Minutes (Known to be in Existence) of All Meetings of All Grades Ever
Organized in New York City and on Long Island (1657 to the Present Time)
Including Both Hicksite and Orthodox Groups of the New York Yearly Meeting
of the Society of Friends.  By William Wade Hinshaw.
8 1/2" x 11".  540 pp., indexed, pbk. (1940), repr. Balto., 1991.
$45.00
The material in this third volume of Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia
consists of data of genealogical interest recorded in the books of four
monthly meetings covering the activities of the members of twenty-two
Meetings for Worship and other meetings in New York City and Long Island.
These records are supplemented by information found in family bibles of
early Long Island Quakers; also by burial registers and tombstone data from
several burial grounds, Quaker and non-Quaker.  Births, marriages, deaths,
and certificates of removal are grouped together by meeting and arranged in
alphabetical order under the family name.  About 370 pages are devoted to
the important New York City Monthly Meeting; smaller sections cover the
Flushing, Westbury, and Jericho Monthly Meetings.  Unusual importance is
attached to this book in that every item in the entire volume was extracted
from original books of records and minutes and alphabetized by John Cox,
Jr., author of Quakerism in the City of New York, 1657-1930 (1930).

5890. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: New York. 8 1/2" x ll". 308 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$35.00

155.  (CENSUS).  Index to the 1800 Census of New York.  By Barbara Kay
Armstrong. 432 pp. Balto., 1984.
$30.00
This index to the 1800 census of New York state is in effect an
alphabetical list of 100,000 heads of households.  All persons enumerated
are listed with references to their county of residence and a citation to
the page of the National Archives microfilm on which the full census
enumeration appears.  For further research, page citations are keyed to the
microfilm roll number, county, and town or township schedules.

641.  CENTRAL NEW YORK, 10,000 Vital Records of, 1813-1850.  By Fred Q.
Bowman. 338 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$22.50
The vital records in this work were drawn from marriage and death columns
of various central New York newspapers published before 1850, specifically
those published in the section of the state between Geneva and Utica.
The bridegrooms and individuals who were subjects of death notices are
listed in alphabetical order.  Marriage officials are identified in the
appendix, and all others mentioned in the text are listed in the index.
Towns of residence are not confined to central New York, and communities in
the rest of the state as well as New England and the Mid-West are
frequently identified.  The records abstracted provide names, ages, dates,
places of residence, frequent references to family members, and a good deal
of other information.

642.  EASTERN NEW YORK, 10,000 Vital Records of, 1777-1834.  By Fred Q.
Bowman. 356pp., indexed. (1987), repr. Balto., 1989.
$22.50
The area covered in this work is the interior county of Otsego, and the
300-mile strip comprising the eastern-most counties of Clinton, Essex,
Saratoga, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and "Old Dutchess," which before
1812 included the territory of present-day Putnam County.
The records were drawn from the marriage and death columns of newspapers
published before 1835 in each of the above-named counties.  Bridegrooms and
individuals who were the subject of death notices are listed
alphabetically.  Marriage officials are identified in the Appendix, while
all others mentioned in the text, such as brides, parents, and siblings,
are listed in the index.  In many instances, complete details have been
abstracted--place and date of marriage or death, names of relatives, towns
of residence, etc.

5235.  GENEALOGICAL DATA From Colonial New York Newspapers.  A
Consolidation of Articles From the N.Y. Geneal. and Biogr. Record.  By
Kenneth Scott. 278 pp., indexed.  (1964-1976), repr. Balto., 1982.
$20.00
The material abstracted came from four of New York's earliest newspapers
which were published between 1726 and 1783.  This work includes information
on birth, marriage, death, age, status, and places of residence and origin.
Although mainly dealing with the New York area, it does have data from New
Jersey, New England, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.  The index contains nearly
10,000 names.

GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, Lists of Passengers Bound From Bremen to New York, 1847-
1854, 1855-1862, and 1863-1867.  By Gary J. Zimmerman and Marion Wolfert.
See 6580, 6581, and 6582.

350.  HERKIMER COUNTY, New York, Early Families of.  Descendants of the
Burnetsfield Patentees.  By William V. H. Barker.
384 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1986.
$25.00
In 1723 a number of Palatine families were allowed to take up lands in the
Mohawk Valley of New York.  Those settling in the bounds of the present
county of Herkimer were known as the Burnetsfield Patentees and are the
subject of this formidable new work.  Between 1723 and 1755 the original
Burnetsfield settlers were joined by other Palatine families, and by the
time of the American Revolution the area was a prosperous community.  This
book deals with the families established in the area before the Revolution,
and detailed genealogies are given for eighty-seven of the families.

4275.  INHABITANTS OF COLONIAL NEW YORK, Lists of.  By Edmund B.
O'Callaghan. 351 pp., indexed.  (1849-51), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New-York, a four-volume
work published 1849-1851, was strong in genealogical records of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  But this fine work was hard to use
for it had no name index.
This present work has all of the genealogical records in the O'Callaghan
work, but it adds a complete index of names.  Prepared by Roseanne Conway,
the index lists about 12,000 inhabitants of colonial New York--Dutch,
English, and German.
The following is a representative selection of lists of inhabitants in the
work: Male Inhabitants of Ulster County, 1689; Army List, 1700; Census of
the Counties of Orange, Dutchess, & Albany, 1702, 1714, 1720; Census of the
City of New York, 1703; Inhabitants of Hempstead, 1673; Inhabitants of
Flushing, Southampton, and Southold, 1698; Long Island Rate Lists, 1675,
1676, 1683; Census of King's County, 1698; King's County Militia, 1715; the
Palatines, 1710-1714; Inhabitants of New Rochelle (1710) and East Chester;
Freeholders in Ulster County, 1728; Lists of Quakers and Moravians, 1755-
1756; Miscellaneous Lists, 1738; and Inhabitants of Gloucester County,
1771.

640.  LANDHOLDERS of Northeastern New York, 1739-1802.  By Fred Q. Bowman.
228 pp.  (1983), repr. Balto., 1987.
$20.00
This work forms a directory of all participants in all land sales and
mortgage agreements in northeastern New York between 1739 and 1802.  The
area covered includes all land within the present-day counties of Clinton,
Essex, Franklin, Warren, and Washington.
The first part identifies original grantees, persons awarded land in the
area between 1739 and 1775, and provided is the date of  award, name of
grant, present town of grant's location, acreage, and grantees' names.  The
second part, and by far the largest, identifies about 9,000 landholders--
grantees, grantors, mortgagees and mortgagors--whose land records were
filed between 1772 and 1802 in the deed and mortgage books of Washington,
Clinton, or Essex counties.  In the various entries will be found the names
of all persons engaged in land transactions, the date of the transaction,
the place of residence of each of the principals, and the volume and page
of the original source book.
An appendix furnishes the dates of organization of all of the towns formed
in northeastern New York prior to 1803 and the population of these towns as
of 1790 and 1800, and lists by counties the numbers of deeds and mortgages
filed in this region between 1772 and 1802.

3433.  LONG ISLAND FAMILIES, Genealogies of, From The New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record.  Selected and Introduced by Henry B. Hoff.
2 Volumes.  787, 872 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1987.
The set: $90.00
Lying east of New York City, Long Island stretches 120 miles out into the
Atlantic.  The eastern two-thirds of the island, present-day Suffolk
County, was settled in the mid-17th century by colonists from New England,
while Kings County to the west was settled by the Dutch.  In between,
Queens County has both Dutch and New England settlements.  By 1725 Long
Island contained roughly 38% of the total population of New York.  This
suggests that if a line can be traced that far back in New York, there is
an excellent chance of discovering Long Island ancestry.
Since it began in 1870, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
has been the leader in publishing articles on Long Island families, many of
them spread out over several issues.  The work of such well-known
genealogists as Donald Lines Jacobus, Arthur Adams, Herbert F. Seversmith,
and George McCracken, as well as the contributions of many other writers on
Long Island genealogy, is well represented, and frequently the English or
Dutch origins of families are established.  So, reprinting these articles
in their entirety makes available a mass of information on Long Island
families that has previously been difficult to locate.  With additions and
corrections from the Record properly appended, this compilation becomes the
single greatest repository of Long Island genealogies in existence!  It is
published with an introduction by Henry B. Hoff, the new editor of The
Record.
(For a complete list of the contents write the Publisher.)

3434.  LONG ISLAND SOURCE RECORDS From The New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record.  Selected and Introduced by Henry B. Hoff.
737 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1987.
$45.00
This is a collection of articles originally published in The New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record containing primary source materials
for Long Island.  The records range from censuses and lists of early
inhabitants to newspaper notices, wills, deeds, town records, and Bible and
family records.  Few other works on Long Island offer such a range of
materials; hence the value of these source record articles from the Record,
which has been at the forefront of Long Island genealogy since 1870.
The census records include the Southold census of 1686, the Hempstead
census of 1698; and the 1800 federal census of Kings, Queens, and Suffolk
counties.  Early Kings County wills and deeds are abstracted, as are wills
in Queens County deed books.  There also are town records or vital
statistics of Newtown, Huntington, Gravesend, Hempstead, and, especially,
Southold, which has vital statistics from town records and the "Salmon
Records," a private register of marriages and deaths from 1696 to 1811.
This work, completely indexed, has 25,000 entries!  It forms the perfect
companion to Genealogies of Long Island Families, 2 vols.--#3433, the
preceding entry.  Together these three volumes are the richest store of
Long Island genealogical materials in print.

4075.  MARRIAGES, New York, Previous to 1784. 618 pp.  (1860, 1898, 1915-
16, 1967), repr. Balto., 1984.
$30.00
This work has as complete a collection of early New York marriage licenses
as we could put together from official sources.  The main part of the text
is a reprint of the original work of 1860 and, in addition, there are four
other sets of supplements, additions, and corrections.  There are records
of about one-fourth of all New York marriages prior to 1784, when issuing
of marriage licenses fell into disuse.  In all there are about 25,000
entries arranged alphabetically under the names of both brides and grooms,
each with the license date, and a reference to the location of the original
record.

4558.  MOHAWK VALLEY FAMILIES, Compendium of Early.  By Maryly B. Penrose.
With a Foreword by Henry (Hank) Z. Jones, Jr. 2 vols.  1,173 pp., cross-
index.  Balto., 1990.
The set: $75.00
Twenty-five years in the making, the Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley
Families is nothing less than a complete and concise record of every family
known to have lived in New York's Mohawk Valley in the 18th and early 19th
centuries.
Under each of the families listed, the Compendium presents abstracts of all
genealogical records pertaining to every individual of the surname, with
the data deriving from primary record sources--marriage, birth/baptism,
death, probate, land, military, pension, and census records.
Systematically, under the heading of each of these record classes, it
identifies every person of the surname of whom there is any mention in the
records, then gives all relevant genealogical details (date, place, nature
of event, etc.), and concludes with a precise citation to the source of the
information.
To give the reader a visual representation of the various places mentioned
in the text, each volume contains a map showing details of the five
historic districts of the Mohawk Valley: Canajoharie, German Flats,
Kingsland, Mohawk, and Palatine.  Originally all this area was in Tryon
County, then, from 1784, in Montgomery County.

4270.  NEW AMSTERDAM, The Minutes of the Orphanmasters of, 1663-1668.
Trans. by Edmund B. O'Callaghan. 29 pp., indexed, wrprs. Balto., 1976.
Temporarily out of print
This work was translated by Berthold Fernow and published in 1912.
Apparently he was unaware that not only had O'Callaghan already translated
it, but that the work went to 1668, five years more than Fernow had
covered.  This additional coverage will be of interest to the genealogist.

3620.  (PALATINES).  The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early
Palatines and the First Settlers of the Mohawk Valley.  By Lou D. MacWethy.
209 pp., illus.  (1933), repr. Balto., 1985.
$15.00
The estimated 20,000 names in this work are classified, combined, and
otherwise arranged to enable the researcher to identify Palatine immigrants
in relation to specific categories of records.  Among the important lists
of names are the Kocherthal records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths,
1708-1719; Palatine family heads from Gov. Hunter's Ration Lists, 1710-
1714; Lists of Palatines in 1709 (the London Lists); Palatines remaining
and newly arrived in New York from the 1710 colonial census; names of
Palatine children apprenticed by Gov. Hunter, 1710-1714; and various lists
of Palatines in the New York colonial militia.

4540.  SCHENECTADY, Contributions For the Genealogies of the Descendants of
the First Settlers of the Patent and City of, From 1662 to 1800.  By
Jonathan Pearson. 324 pp., indexed.  (1873), repr. Balto., 1982.
$21.50
This is an extensive collection of genealogies of the settlers of
Schenectady, tracing families in the direct male line for at least three
generations.  It is a sound work, based on church and state records, family
papers, and tombstone inscriptions.  The inhabitants of the area were
mainly Dutch, Scotch-Irish, and New Englanders.  The index has over 6,000
entries.

643.  WESTERN NEW YORK, 10,000 Vital Records of, 1809-1850.  By Fred Q.
Bowman. 318 pp., indexed.  (1985), repr. Balto., 1988.
$22.50
The 10,000 vital records in this work come from marriage and death columns
in five western New York newspapers published before 1850:  the Republican
Advocate of Batavia, the Steuben Farmers Advocate of Bath, the Geneva
Gazette, the Jamestown Journal, and Palmyra's Wayne Sentinel.  Birth
announcements were not published in these early newspapers, but many of the
marriage and death notices mentioned birth years, birthplaces, and parents'
names, and such facts have been recorded in this book.
All persons who were subjects of death notices are listed in alphabetical
order, marriage officials are identified in the appendix, and all others
mentioned in the text are listed in the index.  The abstracted records
furnish names, ages, dates, places of residence, frequent references to
family members, and a good deal of other information--in all a remarkable
collection of data.

3422.  WESTERN NEW YORK Land Transactions, 1804-1824.  Extracted from the
Archives of the Holland Land Company.  By Karen E. Livsey.
472 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1991.
$35.00
The Holland Land Company was a stock corporation formed by six Dutch
banking houses for the purpose of buying land in New York.  By the year
1797 the Company had purchased some 3.3 million acres of land in western
New York, west of the Genesee River.  Known as the Holland Land Purchase,
all this land was sold off by 1839.  This present work is an index to the
records, the Land Titles, of the Holland Land Company from their inception
in 1804 until the year 1824.  Also covered are the land transactions in
Morris' Reserve and a tract of land known as the 40,000-Acre Tract, both
east of the Purchase.
Touching on some 40,000 individual land transactions, the extracts given
here provide the purchaser's name, the location of the purchase, the date
of the transaction, the type of transaction, and a citation to the original
source and microfilm.  The area covered in this work extends from Genesee
County west to the counties of Erie, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus, covering
such towns as Buffalo and Batavia.


NORTH CAROLINA

2731.  AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume I:  North
Carolina.  By William Wade Hinshaw, With Supplement to Volume I by Thomas
Worth Marshall (1948). 8 1/2" x 11".  1,197 pp., indexed, paperback.
(1936, 1948), repr. Balto., 1991.
Temporarily out of print.
Painstakingly developed from monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker
genealogy.  In its production thousands of records were located and
abstracted into a uniform and intelligible system of notation.  The data
gathered in the several volumes of the Encyclopedia is arranged by meeting,
then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically thereunder.  And
each of the prodigious volumes is indexed.  All six volumes of the
Encyclopedia have been out of print for a number of years, so it is with
pleasure that we announce the re-publication of Volume I, covering the
oldest meetings in North Carolina.
The North Carolina volume is complete in itself for the thirty-three
monthly meetings of the Carolinas and Tennessee which were part of the
North Carolina Yearly Meeting.  The records consist of every item of
genealogical value, including births, marriages, deaths and minutes of
proceedings, grouped together for each meeting by families, in alphabetical
order, and covering the period from 1680 through the early 1930s.  The
minutes relating to certificates of removal are numerous and of great
genealogical interest, as they give evidence either of membership in a
previous monthly meeting or membership in a new meeting, thus enabling
genealogists to trace Quaker ancestors from one place to another.

2765.  ANSON COUNTY, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of
Wills & Estates, 1749-1795.  By Brent H. Holcomb. 170 pp., indexed.  (1974-
1975), repr. Balto., 1991.
$20.00
Anson County was formed in 1748 or 1749 and, while it was later reduced in
size, the records in this volume include the period when the county was at
its largest.  As the title indicates, this work contains abstracts of deeds
(1749-1766) and of wills and estates (1749-1795).  The deed books, with one
exception, are abstracted in their entirety, as are the probate records.
Since no Anson County court minutes exist except for 1771 to 1777, the
returns provided here contain information on some wills and estates no
longer extant.  Also included is the 1763 tax list which, although
incomplete, is the earliest surviving tax list for the county.  Originally
published in three separate volumes, the work is now consolidated, repaged,
and provided with a new index and table of contents.

5390.  CARTERET COUNTY, North Carolina, 1850 Federal Census of.  By Thelma
P. Simpson and David R. Taylor. 227 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1972.
$17.50
The arrangement is the order in which the enumerator visited the 792
households.  More than 7,000 individuals are listed with full names, and
for each is given, as far as possible, age, sex, occupation, and place of
birth.  The surname index makes the use of the book easy.

4850.  (CENSUS).  State Census of North Carolina, 1784-1787.  2nd. ed'n.,
rev. Trans. and Indexed by Mrs. Alvaretta K. Register.
233 pp.  (1971), repr. Balto., 1987.
Temporarily out of print
This, a forerunner of the federal census of 1790, is of more than usual
importance because during and after the Revolution there was a considerable
population shift, and some individuals identified here are to be found in
the 1790 census of other states.  Based on original records in the N.C.
Dept. of Archives and History, it lists about 14,000 household heads with
an enumeration of those in each household by age, sex, and race.  In
addition, for the individuals named, there are references to the sources of
the information.

5891. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: North Carolina. 8 1/2" x ll". 292 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$32.50

435.  (CENSUS).  Index to the 1800 Census of North Carolina.  By Elizabeth
P. Bentley. 270 pp. (1977), repr. Balto., 1982.
$25.00
This index to the second U.S. Census of North Carolina covers the
inhabitants of the sixty counties in existence in 1800.  Alphabetically
arranged by family name, each entry also has the given name, county of
residence, and the location of the information in the original schedule.
There are about 61,000 entries.

2781.  CHATHAM COUNTY, North Carolina, Marriages of, 1772-1868.  By Brent
H. Holcomb. 126 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1987.
$15.00
This has abstracts of all extant marriage bonds issued in Chatham County,
1772-1868, when marriage bonds--as required for marriages--were
discontinued.  The abstracts are arranged in alphabetical order by the name
of the groom, each entry providing the name of the bride, the bond date,
and the names of the bondsmen.  Also included are abstracts of the numerous
marriages listed in the marriage register, 1851-1868.

6430.  HERTFORD COUNTY, North Carolina, The Colonial and State History of.
By Benjamin B. Winborne.  With an added Foreword, Index, Table of Contents
and a List of Illustrations. 356 pp.  (1906), repr. Balto., 1976.
$22.50
This work covers fifteen decades and surveys settlers, soldiers, churchmen
and politicians, and the early courts and the government.  It also includes
military history, and a great number of Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil
War officers and soldiers are identified.  The new index in this work adds
greatly to its value.

2783.  LAND GRANTS, North Carolina, in South Carolina. By Brent H. Holcomb.
184 pp., maps, indexed.  (1980), repr. Balto., 1986.
$18.50
The border between North and South Carolina had long been in dispute and it
wasn't until 1772 that the matter was settled.  Prior to this North
Carolina had issued more than 1,000 grants for land in an area that is now
South Carolina--in what are its present counties of Marlboro, Chesterfield,
Lancaster, York, Chester, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville,
Laurens, and Newberry, an area which was then thought to be the North
Carolina counties of Bladen, Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tryon.
The records of these grants--plats and warrants for the most part--form the
basis of this work.  The data provided includes the name of the grantee,
the file or entry number, or the grant number, the relevant book and page
of the original record books, the location of the grant, the names of
owners of adjoining property, and the dates of the various instruments.

1025.  MARRIAGE RECORDS, North and South Carolina, From the Earliest
Colonial Days to the Civil War.  Comp. by William M. Clemens.
295 pp.  (1927), repr. Balto., 1987.
$17.50
Almost 7,500 marriages are listed, the arrangement being alphabetical by
surname, and this includes the maiden names of the brides.  For each is
given the full date and the place where the wedding took place.

2600.  *NORTH CAROLINA Historical and Genealogical Register, The.  Ed. by
James R. B. Hathaway.  Vol. I, no. 1-Vol. III, no. 3 (11 nos., all publ.).
1,760 pp., wrprs.  (1900-1903), repr. Balto., 1979.
The set: $95.00
Per number: $9.50
Included are land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths,
marriages, wills, petitions, licenses, and oaths for the present counties
of Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde,
Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington, and
the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.

*The postage and handling charge for this work is $3.00 for the complete
set; $1.50 for a number plus 50 cents for each additional number.

2766.  ORANGE COUNTY, North Carolina, Marriages of, 1779-1868.  By Brent H.
Holcomb. 412 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
$27.50
This work has abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Orange County from
1779 to 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisites for marriage--were
discontinued.  These records, studied at the State Archives in Raleigh,
refer to about 20,000 persons, including bondsmen.  Arranged in
alphabetical order by grooms' names, each entry includes the name of the
bride, the date of the bond, the name of the bondsman, and, from 1851, the
date of the actual marriage.  All names, other than those of the grooms,
are listed in the index.

6455.  PERQUIMANS COUNTY (North Carolina), History of.  By Mrs. Watson
Winslow. 488 pp., illus., indexed.  (1931), repr. Balto., 1990.
$35.00
We have never before seen a county history so rich in primary source
materials, for it is comprised mainly of abstracts of deeds from 1681
through the Revolutionary War period, and, moreover, includes petitions,
divisions of estates, wills, and marriages found in the records of
Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties.  Numbering in the tens of
thousands, the records provide the names of all principal parties and
related family members--altogether about 35,000 persons!  Researchers
should note that Perquimans was one of the original North Carolina
Precincts, with very close ties to the southeastern Virginia counties of
Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight.

4150.  REVOLUTION, American, Roster of Soldiers From North Carolina in the.
With an Appendix Containing a Collection of Miscellaneous Records.  Comp.
by the N.C.D.A.R. 709 pp., indexed.  (1932), repr. Balto., 1988.
$35.00
The roster includes the names of 36,000 soldiers, with their service
records.  It is the standard reference work on Revolutionary War officers
and soldiers of the state, for it was compiled from authentic records in
scattered sources, both published and unpublished.

5035.  ROWAN COUNTY, North Carolina, A History of.  By Rev. Jethro Rumple.
434 pp., illus., indexed. (1881), repr. Balto., 1990.
$30.00
Based on official courthouse records, private documents, and the personal
recollections of many who have since been gathered to their fathers,
Rumple's work has all the characteristics of a well-formulated county
history.  Chapters are devoted to the following subjects: Original
settlers; county organization; the courthouse; early settlers in Salisbury;
Indian wars; early churches; the Revolution; old families on the Yadkin
River; old families of Rowan; the War of 1812; and the roll of Rowan County
soldiers in the Confederate Army--the Roll itself occupying no fewer than
70 pages!  Twenty-four counties in North Carolina and all of Tennessee have
been formed from the area that once constituted Rowan County; so Rumple's
History is a contribution to the common heritage of the people of western
North Carolina and Tennessee.

2772.  ROWAN COUNTY, North Carolina, Marriages of, 1753-1868.  Comp. by
Brent H. Holcomb. 506 pp., indexed.  (1981), repr. Balto., 1986.
$30.00
Rowan County at its formation in 1753 covered a large area, for it extended
north to Virginia, and it had an indeterminate western boundary.  It lay
across the main migration route to the South and West, and it was peopled
by pioneers of German, Scotch-Irish and English extraction.  It is their
marriage records that form the basis of this work, which covers 1753-1868.
The arrangement is alphabetical by grooms' names, and each entry has the
name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond and, where recorded, the
names of the minister, witnesses, and bondsmen (often related to the bride
or groom).  About 9,000 marriage bonds are abstracted, and with the others
mentioned, the text bears reference to nearly 25,000 persons.  The name
index is extremely thorough.

2778.  RUTHERFORD COUNTY, North Carolina, Marriages of, 1779-1868.  By
Brent H. Holcomb. 205 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1986.
$20.00
This work has abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Rutherford County
from 1779 to 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisite for marriage--were
discontinued.  These records were abstracted, in the main, from a microfilm
copy of the original marriage bonds on file at the State Archives in
Raleigh--a few directly from bonds and licenses in the county courthouse in
Rutherfordton--and they refer to some 12,500 persons, including bondsmen.
The arrangement is alphabetical by the name of the groom, and each entry
includes the name of the bride, the date of the bond, the name of the
bondsman and, from 1851, the date of the actual marriage.

3380. SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, WILLS, 1771-1827. Annotated
Genealogical Abstracts. By Jo White Linn. 215 pp., indexed. Balto., 1992.
$25.00
At its formation in 1771 from Rowan County, until 1778, Surry County
included the present-day North Carolina counties of Ashe, Alleghany,
Wilkes, Yadkin, Stokes, and Forsyth; while for the period 1770-1787 it
included present-day Yakdin, Stokes, and Forsyth.  Based on recorded wills
and original wills at the North Carolina State Archives, as well as on
"Loose Estate Papers" of intestates, these abstracts cover not only wills
but powers of attorney, bonds, inventories, bills of sale, etc., many not
recorded in any other place. Compiled and transcribed by one of America's
most esteemed genealogists, the will abstracts also feature annotations
from a variety of supplementary sources and take on even greater importance
in view of the absence of any extant marriage bonds for Surry County for
the period 1771-80.

4760.  TAXPAYERS, North Carolina, 1701-1786.  By Clarence E. Ratcliff.
228 pp. (1984), repr. Balto., 1989.
Temporarily out of print
This work lists the names of the taxpayers resident in about half of the
North Carolina counties formed before 1786.  Most of the data came from tax
lists microfilmed at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, and they
are supplemented with names from the periodical North Carolina Genealogy,
which include persons owning headrights and landrights.  The names of the
taxpayers are listed alphabetically with the county of residence and date,
and in some cases additional data is supplied.  In all there are about
28,000 names.
The following are the counties covered: Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen,
Brunswick, Bute, Caswell, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dobbs,
Edgecombe, Franklin-Warren-Vance, Gates, Granville, New Hanover,
Northampton, Onslow, Orange, Pasquatank, Perquimans, Pitt, Randolph, Rowan,
Tryon, and Tyrrell.

4762.  TAXPAYERS, North Carolina, 1679-1790.  By Clarence E. Ratcliff.
230 pp. Balto., 1990.
$20.00
This book continues the work begun in North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786
(the preceding entry).  With the exception of a few lists which were
identified as redundant, it includes all the remaining North Carolina tax
lists prior to the first federal census of 1790.  The two volumes can
therefore be used in place of an earlier census to identify individuals in
relation to a specific time and place.
The taxpayers' names are listed in a single alphabetical sequence.  In all
cases they are listed by county of residence and date, and in some cases
additional data is supplied.  Counting repeat entries for those whose names
appear in more than one list, this volume has the names of about 29,000
taxpayers.
The following are the counties covered: Albemarle, Beaufort, Bertie,
Bladen, Brunswick, Bute, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Chowan, Craven,
Currituck, Dobbs, Duplin, Gates, Granville, Halifax, Hertford, Johnston,
Jones, Martin, Montgomery, Nash, New Bern District, Northampton, Onslow,
Orange, Pasquatank, Perquimans, Pitt, Richmond, Rowan, Rutherford, Sampson,
Surry, Tyrrell, Warren, Wayne, and Wilkes.

4140.  WAR OF 1812, Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the, Detached From the
Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814. With an added Index.
193 pp.  (1851), repr. Balto., 1980.
$17.50
This is a complete muster roll of the State's 12,000 officers and soldiers
who served in the War of 1812.  The index is quite extensive, and this is
the first time that this book has had one.

XXXX. WILLS, NORTH CAROLINA: A TESTATOR INDEX, 1665-1900. By Thornton W.
Mitchell.  Corrected and Revised Edition in One Volume. xxx pp. Balto.,
1992.
$49.50
This is an index to more than 75,000 persons who died and left wills in
North Carolina between 1665 and 1900.  With the possible exception of
census records, it is the single-most important finding-aid in North
Carolina genealogy. In one alphabetical sequence it lists the names of the
testators, the county in which their wills were proved, the date of
probate, the precise location of the recorded copy of the will in each of
the counties (by book and page number), and the location of the original
will.  Dr. Mitchell has also provided a concise history of the probate
records of all 107 North Carolina counties, giving the date of the county's
formation, the territory it was formed from, the dates wills were first
filed and recorded, the various record book designations, the status of the
records, and the location of the original, recorded, and copied wills.
This new edition, superior to the original in all respects, is also $16
cheaper!

OHIO

4305.  CEMETERY RECORDS, Ohio, Extracted from The "Old Northwest"
Genealogical Quarterly. 495 pp., indexed.  (1984), repr. Balto., 1989.
$30.00
This work consists of all of the cemetery record articles published in The
"Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly between 1898 and 1912.  It consists
primarily of tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the following
counties: Trumbull, Geauga, Portage, Lorain, Guernsey, Knox, Licking,
Delaware, Franklin (including the city of Columbus), Madison, Fairfield,
Pickaway, Athens, Vinton, Ross, and Jackson.  There also are some burial
records and inscriptions from cemeteries in East Haddam, Conn., and
Rutland, Mass., which were important departure points for migrations into
the "Old Northwest."
Many of the recorded inscriptions identify not only the age and death date
of the deceased, but the names of his parents, spouse, or children.
Provided for this work is a full-name index of nearly 20,000 persons
identified in the records.

620.  GATEWAY TO THE WEST.  Compiled by Ruth Bowers and Anita Short.
2 vols., 2,000 pp. in all, indexed.  (1967-1978), repr. Balto., 1989.
$150.00
Gateway to the West, a periodical published from 1967 to 1978, covered some
of the least accessible but most important genealogical records of 76 of
Ohio's 88 counties.  From common pleas court records, guardianships,
naturalizations and deed abstracts to the more conventional records of
births, marriages, deaths and wills, Gateway offered a range of
genealogical source materials unmatched by any other Ohio publication.
Users of this periodical always had a problem finding things in it, for
there was no index to its contents.  But for this reprint, we have provided
an index for each of the two volumes.  The principal articles are arranged
under their respective counties, and some 350 articles name more than
95,000 persons, in records ranging from Adams County to Wood County, from
court records to church records, and from township records to cemetery
records. In all a priceless body of material!

397.  OHIO GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL SOURCES.  By Carol W. Bell.
372 pp.  Balto., 1988.
Temporarily out of print
This is a very comprehensive guide to the genealogical records and sources
in Ohio, written by one of Ohio's foremost genealogists, Carol Willsey
Bell.
For each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, Mrs. Bell supplies the following
data:  the county creation date and the name(s) of the parent county; the
county seat; the name and address of the county courthouse, library,
historical society, genealogical society, archival district, and health
department; a list of relevant land surveys (for land and deed research);
the surrounding counties; and the names of all townships in the county.
Next is a detailed breakdown of the court records on microfilm (LDS and
Ohio Historical Society), listed first by originating office and then by
record group.  This includes the records of the State Auditor, Clerks of
Court, Court of Common Pleas, Children's Homes, Coroner, County Homes,
County Commissioners, Probate Court, Recorder, Sheriff, Soldier's Relief
Commission, and Treasurer.
Then there follows an itemization of the census records available for each
county, including special schedules, a listing of the county's records on
microfilm in the State Library, plus manuscript collections, newspapers,
tax records, articles from periodicals, and an extensive list of published
sources for that county.  And all of this magnificently detailed data on
the counties is preceded by an elaborate listing of statewide and regional
records and publications.

5475.  OHIO MARRIAGES Extracted From The "Old Northwest" Genealogical
Quarterly.  Ed. by Marjorie Smith. 350 pp.  (1977), repr. Balto., 1986.
$21.50
About 7,000 marriages, 1790-1897, are listed.  The arrangement is
alphabetical by surname--including brides' maiden names--with references to
the date and county of residence.

480.  OHIO SETTLERS, Early.  Purchasers of Land in Southeastern Ohio, 1800-
1840.  By Ellen T. and David A. Berry. xv, 129 pp., maps.  3rd printing
Balto., 1988.
$15.00
Under an Ordinance passed in 1785 the virgin lands of the Northwest
Territory were offered for sale to the public, the first public land in the
U.S. to be subdivided.  Four land offices were established in Ohio for the
auction and private sale of these lands.  Sales from the Marietta Land
Office, covering twelve present-day Ohio counties--the entire southeastern
portion of the state--are the subject of this book.
In an easy to use tabular format, there is a complete list of the 7,500
persons who bought land in southeastern Ohio from 1800 to 1840.  Data given
includes the purchasers' name (in alphabetical order), date of purchase,
place of residence at the time of the purchase, and the range, township,
and section of the purchased land.

482.  OHIO SETTLERS, Early. Purchasers of Land in East and East Central
Ohio, 1800-1840.  By Ellen T. and David A. Berry. xiv, 330 pp., maps.
Balto., 1989.
$25.00
As indicated in the previous entry, in 1785 lands of the Northwest
Territory were offered for sale to the public.  By 1800 four land offices
were established and sales from the Zanesville office, which included
tracts originally reserved for the Marietta and Steubenville offices and,
more importantly, parts of the United States Military District, reserved
for veterans of the Revolutionary War, form the basis of this volume.  In
addition, also included are records from the Steubenville office for the
period 1820-1840, the first twenty years of sales records having already
been published.
In tabular format this volume has a complete list of 22,770 persons who
bought land in central and east central Ohio between 1800 and 1840.  Data
includes the name of the purchaser (in alphabetical order), date of
purchase, place of residence at the time of purchase, and the range,
township, and section of the purchased land, thus enabling the researcher
to ascertain the exact location of the ancestor's land.  This is the third
volume in this series, but the second volume covering sales from the
Cincinnati land office is currently out of print.

2517.  OHIO VALLEY GENEALOGIES Relating Chiefly to Families in Harrison,
Belmont, and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and Washington, Westmoreland, and
Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania.  By Charles A. Hanna. 172 pp.  (1900),
repr. Balto., 1989.
$17.50
This work has genealogies of the first families that settled in
Pennsylvania between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Alleghenies, and
genealogies of those families that migrated across the Ohio River and made
the first settlements in the Northwest Territory, now part of Ohio.  About
350 families are listed in alphabetical order, with records of the first
immigrant settler, including his place and date of birth and death, place
of residence, name of wife and marriage date, childrens' names and their
dates and places of birth, and names of grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.
For the most part these early Ohio settlers came from Pennsylvania, and the
majority were of Scotch-Irish descent.  Other settlers were Quakers from
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, Germans from the Palatinate, and
Virginians who had extended their settlements along the Monongahela.

2295.  WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio, Marriages, 1789-1840.  Compiled by Bernice
Graham and Elizabeth S. Cottle. 117 pp., maps, indexed.  (1976), repr.
Balto., 1989.
$18.50
When it was created in 1788, Washington County covered nearly half of the
present state of Ohio.  The records in this book are for marriages in this
vast area.  They consist of a complete list of brides and grooms, with
places of residence, marriage dates, names of officiating ministers, and
page references to the original record books for the period 1789 to 1840.
The earliest record book--the Northwest Territory Book--bearing the dates
1789 to 1803, has records made when Washington County covered a large
section of the Northwest Territory--a vast area north and west of the Ohio
River which was later carved into five states.  The marriage record book,
Book I, begins with statehood in 1803 and continues to 1840, with a few
entries for 1841.  The compilers have recorded all marriages in the
Northwest Territory Book and Book I, and have gone into Book II to pick up
additional 1840 marriages.
The result is a work containing slightly more than 3,600 marriage records
for 1789 to 1840.  Along with a separate index of brides is a special
section covering the chronological formation of townships in Washington
County and maps depicting the evolution of early Ohio counties, so this is
a significant contribution to Ohio genealogy.


PENNSYLVANIA

2732. AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Encyclopedia of.  Volume II: New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.  By William Wade Hinshaw.
8 1/2" x 11". 1,126 pp., indexed, paperback.  (1938), repr. Balto., 1991.
$75.00
The second volume of the great Encyclopedia is complete in itself for the
New Jersey and Pennsylvania monthly meetings which were part of the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.  It includes all records of genealogical
value, both Orthodox and Hicksite, known to be in existence for the
meetings from the last quarter of the seventeenth century down to the time
the work was originally published in 1938.  The records are of two
principal classes: (1) births and deaths and (2) minutes and marriages, and
they are arranged in alphabetical order, by family name, under their
corresponding monthly meeting.  The marriages are arranged by the names of
both brides and grooms.  Also provided are abstracts of Quaker certificates
of removal, which enable genealogists to trace Quaker ancestors from one
monthly meeting to another.  Fully indexed.

5892. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Pennsylvania. 8 1/2" x ll". 426 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$44.50

1797.  (CENSUS).  Index to the 1800 Census of Pennsylvania.  By Jeanne R.
Felldin and Gloria K. V. Inman. 453 pp.  Balto., 1984.
$30.00
This index to the Federal Census has about 100,000 entries of heads of
households.

EMIGRANTS TO PENNSYLVANIA. A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from The
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Briography. Ed. by Michael Tepper.
See XXXX.

2755.  GERMAN SETTLERS of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, Genealogical
Data Relating to the.  By Edward W. Hocker. 242 pp., indexed.  Balto.,
1989.
$17.50
This helpful work is a compilation of abstracts of articles,
advertisements, and paid notices that appeared in the five principal German
newspapers published in Philadelphia and Germantown from 1743 to 1800.
Selected for their genealogical value, and given in English, they relate to
several thousand German settlers.  There are death notices, advertisements
for runaway servants, offers of property for sale or lease, offers of goods
and services, notices of arrival and removal in the Pennsylvania area,
advertisements of letters received and awaiting delivery, and notices
placed by persons seeking news of relatives and friends, which sometimes
designate place of residence in America and birthplace in Germany.

2090.  LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania, An Index to the Will Books and
Intestate Records of, 1729-1850.  By Eleanore J. Fulton and Barbara K.
Mylin. 136 pp., illus.  (1936), repr. Balto., 1987.
$12.50
This important work has the names of nearly 15,000 Lancaster County
residents who left wills or died intestate, 1729-1850.  Arranged in two
alphabets, the full name of the deceased is given, as well as the year, the
book volume and page wherein the records are to be found.  There is also a
brief history of the early inhabitants of the area, and a classified
bibliography.

5615.  LUTHERAN Baptisms and Marriages, Early, In Southeastern
Pennsylvania.  By John C. Stoever. 107 pp., indexed.  (1896), repr. Balto.,
1988.
$12.50
John Casper Stoever, one of the first clergymen to serve early
Pennsylvania-German settlers, had a ministry in southeastern Pennsylvania
for fifty years.  He kept a record of the baptisms and marriages he
performed in his missionary travels and these were done from 1730 to 1779.
These records were translated into English and published in book form in
1896, but that issue, unlike this, had no index.
This book has two sections, one of baptismal records and the other of
marriage records, both arranged chronologically.  Typically the baptisms
give the location, the child's name, the parents' names (usually the
father), the dates of birth and baptism, and the names of the sponsors.
The marriage records give the names of the newly-weds, the marriage date,
and the town or county of residence.  There are at least 6,000 persons
mentioned in this work.

4481.  PASSENGER ARRIVALS at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819.  The
Philadelphia "Baggage Lists."  Michael H. Tepper, General Editor. Trans. by
Elizabeth P. Bentley. xvii, 913 pp.  Balto., 1986.
$45.00
The Philadelphia "baggage lists" are the oldest federal passenger lists
existing.  Compiled in accordance with a law made to exempt in-coming
passengers from paying duty on their personal belongings, they provide
proof of immigration in the first two decades of the 19th century.
In the lists are the names of the passengers, and in many cases there is
data on such items as passengers' ages, nationalities, former places of
residence, occupations, destinations, and the names and relationships of
accompanying family members.  In all there were about 4,767 ship lists with
about 40,000 passengers identified--most from Great Britain (especially
Northern Ireland) and Germany.  For convenience all of the passengers'
names have been arranged in a single alphabetical list.

1835. PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS, 1675-1875, Early. By Charles A. Fisher. 107 pp.,
wrappers. (1947), repr. Balto., 1991.
$8.00
Although the actual coverage of this magnificent collection of birth
records is confined principally to the counties of Berks, Northumberland,
Snyder, and Union, it does, in instancing several thousand births from
eastern and southeastern Pennsylvania and the middle and southern sections
of the Susquehanna Valley, encompass a significant portion of the state of
Pennsylvania.
The text is arranged alphabetically in each of the several sections by the
surname of the principal subject. As a general rule data given included the
name of the child, date of the birth or baptism, names of the parents, and
names of sponsors (often relatives). By any conservative estimate at least
10,000 persons are mentioned in the text.

1545. Pennsylvania's COLONIAL RECORDS Series, Index to. By Mary Dunn. 228
pp. Balto., 1992.
$20.00
The first sixteen volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives, forming a distinct
series known as Colonial Records, are a treasure trove in themselves and
form one of the cornerstones of early American record sources. Never
properly indexed, the sixteen volumes lock away priceless information on
the early inhabitants of Pennsylvania, the first ten volumes covering
Minutes of the Provincial Council, 1683-1775, the last six covering Minutes
of the Supreme Executive Council, 1777-1790.
Aware of the unfulfilled potential of the Colonial Records, Dr. Mary Dunn
of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, a dedicated educator and award-winning teacher,
compiled her own manuscript indexes to the series. We are pleased to offer
Dr. Dunn's index to the sixteen volumes of Pennsylvania's Colonial Records-
-an index naming some 50,000 men and women who played a role in the early
history of Pennsylvania. To explain the significance of the Colonial
Records series and in particular its publishing history and unique
contents, the work also includes an illuminating foreword by Jonathan
Stayer of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

4570.  PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES, Genealogies of.  Family Articles from The
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.  With an Intro. by Milton
Rubincam. xviii, 949 pp., indexed.  (1981), repr. Balto., 1983.
$45.00
This valuable book on Pennsylvania genealogy is composed of articles
excerpted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.  It
contains all but one of the family history articles (this appeared as a
book in 1913) that were in the Magazine up to 1935 when genealogical
contributions were discontinued.  It also has every Bible record and
genealogical fragment known to have been published in the Magazine since it
started in 1877.  So, in this one volume, the researcher has access to
materials that appeared in nearly 200 issues of the Magazine, materials
provided by some of the foremost names in American genealogy--Gilbert Cope,
Thomas Glenn, Howard Jenkins, Charles H. Browning, Arthur Adams, and G.
Andrews Moriarty.
The family history articles have been excerpted in their entirety, uniting
those with separate installments so that each article is complete in
itself.  Articles of a miscellaneous nature--Bible records and genealogical
notes--have been put in an Appendix.  Because of the size of this work,
which has over sixty family histories and more than fifty items in the
Appendix, the index has about 20,000 entries.  (For a complete list of the
contents write the Publisher.)

4574.  PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES, Genealogies of, From the Pennsylvania
Genealogical Magazine.  With an Intro. by Dr. Don Yoder.
3 vols. 2,894 pp. in all, each vol. illus. and indexed.  Balto., 1982.
The set: $135.00
In this three-volume work will be found all of the family history articles
published in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine from its founding in
1895 (as Publications of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society) through
1980.  Here, too, will be found every Bible record and genealogical
fragment known to have been published in this authoritative periodical.
Known for the quality and range of its contributions, The Pennsylvania
Genealogical Magazine encompasses an important body of literature not only
on Pennsylvania families, but on families of the Delaware Valley as well.
The nearly 200 articles reprinted here--virtually all contributed by
genealogists of professional standing--touch on families of English, Welsh,
Scotch-Irish, German, Dutch, and French origins; while the Bible records,
comprising over 400 pages, dwell on hundreds of additional families, many
of them interrelated.  To enhance the value of this exceptional work we
have added an introduction by a noted authority on Pennsylvania genealogy,
Dr. Don Yoder.

4571.  Vol. I.  Arnold-Hertzel.
945 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

4572.  Vol. II.  Hinman-Sotcher.
921 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

4573.  Vol. III.  Stauffer-Zerbe.  Bible Records.
1,028 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00
(For a complete list of the contents write the publisher.)

4564.  PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN Church Records, Births, Baptisms, Marriages,
Burials, Etc.  With an Intro. by Don Yoder.
3 vols. 2,371 pp., illus., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
The set: $135.00
Per vol.: $45.00
Here in three volumes the genealogist has access to all of the church
records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania
German Society.  These records are indispensable to anyone interested in
Pennsylvania-German origins, but until now they have been almost impossible
to locate as few libraries have a complete file of this scarce serial
publication.
From the beginning the Society showed an interest in publishing the
earliest-known records of the German Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Pennsylvania.  With Vol. III (1893) it began the task of putting
such records into print.  Church records were deemed then to be the
backbone of Pennsylvania-German genealogy, and nothing has happened to
change that idea.  Before the Society wound up its project it had succeeded
in publishing the records of a great many key churches in southeastern
Pennsylvania, Lancaster, York, Lehigh, Montgomery, and Northampton--the
heartland of Pennsylvania-German country.
In these three volumes are births, baptisms, marriages, and burials, the
records that identify people and their relationships to one another--not
only parents and children, husbands and wives, but witnesses and sponsors
as well.  A staggering 125,000 persons are mentioned in these records, and
every one of them is cited in the new indexes, which have been
painstakingly compiled especially for this publication.  The records
themselves answer the usual who, where and when questions, but because of
their magnitude, because of the vast number of people who figure in these
records, they must now be accounted, in the aggregate, as the very basis of
Pennsylvania-German genealogy.
(For a complete list of the contents write the publisher.)

6530.  PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, 1709-1786. Lists Consolidated from
Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.  Ed. by Don Yoder.
394 pp., illus., indexed.  (1984), repr. Balto., 1989.
$25.00
The lists making up this remarkable work try to identify German emigrants
in their homeland and in Pennsylvania.  Thus they are cited with reference
to manumission records, parish registers, passports, and other papers of
German and Swiss provenance, and noted again, where possible, with
reference to an equivalent range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably
church records, wills, and tax lists.  The emigrants are frequently listed
in Strassburger and Hinke's Pennsylvania German Pioneers, from which are
drawn dates of arrival, names of ships, and other immigration evidence.
The materials antedating immigration often indicate causes, dates of
emigration, the emigrant's occupation, his dates of birth and marriage,
place of birth and residence, and names of family members, sometimes with
lines of descent for several generations.  The materials cited after
arrival in America generally identify the emigrant in connection with his
place of settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania.

5620. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS. A Publication of the Original Lists of
Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. By Ralph Beaver
Strassburger and William John Hinke. 2 vols. 1,564 pp., indexed. (1934),
repr. Balto., 1992.
$75.00
The most complete collection of colonial passenger lists ever published,
this work comprises all the original lists of persons who arrived in the
port of Philadelphia between 1727 and 1808. The lists were assembled from
state archives and give the names of 38,000 immigrants, names of ships,
dates of arrival, and places of origin. As no other port maintained such
extensive and continuous records, this work is foremost among compilations
of its kind.
Volume I covers the period 1727-1775 and contains 324 ship's passenger
lists, including captains' lists, signers of the oath of allegiance, and
signers of the oath of abjuration. Volume II covers the period 1785-1808
and includes 182 additional lists, in many cases giving ages, occupations,
and birth-places. All names and variant spellings are listed in the Index,
which comprises some 450 pages and 50,000 references. Our publication is a
reprint of the work originally compiled for the Pennsylvania German
Society.

3400.  PENNSYLVANIA MARRIAGES Prior to 1810, Record of.  By John B. Linn
and William H. Egle. 2 vols. 790, 601 pp.  (Pa. Arch., Ser. 2, 1880), repr.
Balto., 1987.
$75.00
The marriage records in this work were compiled from church registers
rather than licenses.  They cover 1685-1810 and comprise about 65,000
entries, arranged for the most part under both bride and groom.  Over half
of Vol. I is the marriage records of Christ Church (1709-1810) and Swedes'
Church (1750-1810) of Philadelphia.  The rest are records from churches at
Carlisle, Chester, Falkner Swamp, New Hanover, Paxtang, and Derry.
Vol. II has marriage records of the First, Second, and Third Presbyterian
Churches of Philadelphia; Moravian church records of Bethlehem, Emmaus,
Litiz, Nazareth, and Philadelphia; records of various churches in the
counties of Bucks and Montgomery; and Quaker records of the Monthly
Meetings of Buckingham, Falls, Middletown, Philadelphia, Quakertown,
Richland, and Wrightstown. Also included are the records of St. Michael's
and Zion Lutheran Church (1745-1800) and St. Paul's P.E. Church (1759-
1806), both in Philadelphia.

6540.  RHINELAND EMIGRANTS. Lists of German Settlers in Colonial America.
Ed. by Don Yoder. xii, 170 pp., illus., indexed.  (1981), repr. Balto.,
1985.
$20.00
This unusual work is a collection of twenty-four articles on the European
origins of Pennsylvania German immigrants.  They were nearly all translated
from the German and edited by Don Yoder, and originally they appeared in
Pennsylvania Folklife magazine.
Virtually all of the emigrants mentioned in this work are cited with
references to church, parish, and provincial records in the archives of the
Old Palatinate and adjoining provinces in southwest Germany.  Where
possible, references are given to a corresponding range of Pennsylvania
source materials such as church records, wills, and tax lists.  In
addition, emigrants' names are collated with Strassburger and Hinke's
Pennsylvania German Pioneers, from which are drawn arrival dates, ship
names, and other immigration evidence.  The materials antedating emigration
often indicate causes, circumstances, and emigration dates, and they
generally give the emigrant's occupation, dates of birth and marriage, and
places of birth and residence, and names of family members.  Materials
cited after the emigrant's arrival generally identify him in connection
with his place of settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania and provide his
various connections and descendants.  There are two indexes, one of names
and one of ships.

XXXX. RUNAWAY SERVANTS, CONVICTS, AND APPRENTICES Advertised in the
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1796. By Farley Grubb. xxx pp. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
Perhaps more than half of all immigrants arriving in the mid-Atlantic
region in the 18th century were persons engaged to work for a fixed term of
years--runaway servants, convicts, or apprentices--and, owing to various
tribulations, thousands of these laborers absconded from their contracts,
leaving their masters little choice but to advertise in the newspapers for
their capture and return.  Over the years many thousands of ads for
runaways were placed in the centrally-situated Pennsylvania Gazette during
its years of existence, 1728-1796, and they give many pieces of information
on these individuals that are of interest to genealogists.   In this work,
Prof. Farley Grubb has extracted all relevant details on 6,000 runaways who
had been advertised for during this period.  Data presented, for example,
includes colony or county of residence, national origin, age, occupation,
circumstances of employment, date of escape, height and physical features,
place and time of arrival in America, and a variety of specialized
information.

XXXX. SCOTCH-IRISH OF COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA, The. By Wayland F. Dunaway.
273 pp., indexed. (1944), repr. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
The best history of the Scotch-Irish of colonial Pennsylvania ever written,
Dunaway's classic is indispensable to the genealogist because it outlines
the circumstances behind the settlement of Lowland Scots in Ulster, their
life in that Province for two or three generations, and the reasons for
their emigration to America, further tracing the important migratory
movements of the Scotch-Irish from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania, and
from Pennsylvania down the foothills of the Appalachians through the Great
Valley of Virginia to the Carolinas and Georgia.

1700.  SWISS AND GERMAN PIONEER SETTLERS OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA,
Historic Background and Annals of the.  By H. Frank Eshleman.
386 pp., indexed.  (1917), repr. Balto., 1991.
$25.00
Eshleman's study explores the background of the great sectarian movements
in Germany, Switzerland, and Holland and focuses attention on the Mennonite
families who later emigrated to Pennsylvania.  The major emphasis of the
book is on Lancaster County genealogy and the emigration from the
Palatinate in the eighteenth century, while substantial sections are
devoted to lists of early settlers and biographical sketches of those who
subsequently became known as Pennsylvania Germans.


RHODE ISLAND

929.  (CENSUS).  The Rhode Island 1777 Military Census.  Transcribed by
Mildred W. Chamberlain.
181 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1985.
$20.00
This military census of Rhode Island is an enumeration of all males over
sixteen both able and unable to bear arms.  In addition, the census was to
provide the names of men already in the state militia or in Continental
battalions, and to identify transients, Indians, Negroes, and Quakers.  The
result is a town-by-town list of about 8,500 Rhode Island men--complete
except for the enumerations of six towns which are missing from the records
in the State Archives.  The records given here in full are for the
remaining twenty-three towns.

5893. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Rhode Island. 8 1/2" x ll". 71 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$15.00

4883.  RHODE ISLAND FAMILIES, Genealogies of, From the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register.  Selected and Introduced by Gary B.
Roberts.
2 vols.  xli, 804, and 804 pp., each indexed.  Balto., 1989.
Per volume: $50.00
The set: $95.00
This work contains all of the articles on Rhode Island families that had
been published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
since 1846.  Except for articles relating to the immigrant origins of Rhode
Island families, which have appeared elsewhere, this has many of the best
genealogical articles of the last 140 years, many by leading genealogists
of the 19th and 20th centuries.  A lengthy Introduction by Gary B. Roberts,
Director of Publications at the New England Historic Genealogical Society,
gives a picture of the current state of Rhode Island genealogy and has an
updating of his Bibliography of 100 Colonial Rhode Island Families.
Included in Volume II is a group of source records for about fifteen towns.
The indexes to the two volumes have a total of about 40,000 entries.

3550.  RHODE ISLAND FREEMEN, 1747-1755.  A Census of Registered Voters.  By
Bruce C. MacGunnigle. 49 pp., wrprs.  (1977), repr. Balto., 1982.
$5.00
This alphabetically arranged list is of 4,199 Rhode Islanders who took the
oath against bribery and corruption, and it is not to be found elsewhere in
the literature.  For each it gives the town of residence and the date he
became a freeman.


SOUTH CAROLINA

5894. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: South Carolina. 8 1/2" x ll". 150 pp., fldg. map,
indexed, paper. (1908), repr. Balto., 1992.
$21.50

4870.  IMMIGRANTS, Protestant, to South Carolina, 1763-1773, A Compilation
of the Original Lists of.  By Janie Revill. 163 pp., indexed.  (1939),
repr. Balto., 1981.
$15.00
A very careful transcription of the original records, this work lists over
4,000 names.

LAND GRANTS, North Carolina, in South Carolina.  By Brent H. Holcomb.
See 2783.

MARRIAGE RECORDS, North and South Carolina, From the Earliest Colonial Days
to the Civil War.  Comp. by William M. Clemens.
See 1025.

2776.  MARRIAGES, South Carolina, 1688-1820, Supplement to.  By Brent H.
Holcomb. 57 pp., indexed, wrprs. Balto., 1984.
$6.00
This is a supplement to South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799 and South
Carolina Marriages 1800-1820.  It is based on a variety of sources from
around the state, some of which were overlooked in preparing the previous
two volumes and others which have come to light since then.  In all, over
1,000 new entries are included, with brides and other persons mentioned in
the records listed separately in the index.

2777.  NATURALIZATIONS, South Carolina, 1783-1850.  By Brent H. Holcomb.
255 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1985.
$20.00
This work consists of abstracts of records of about 7,500 persons who were
naturalized in the state of South Carolina between 1783 and 1850.  It came
from an examination of the court records of three levels of government--
federal, state, and county.  On the federal level the records came from the
Court of Admiralty for the District of South Carolina, and from minute
books and court journals.  On the state level there are abstracts of
certificates recorded in a "Citizenship book" and abstracts of petitions
and from two series of Miscellaneous Records at the South Carolina
Archives.  On the county level--the largest grouping in the book--the
records came from surviving indexes and court files.
Since this work is based on a variety of types of records, the information
given varies to a rather marked degree.  In general, however, some or all
of the following data is provided: name, country of origin, place of
residence in the U.S., occupation, date of arrival in the U.S., and date of
application or admission.

5110.  ORANGEBURG COUNTY, South Carolina, The History of, From Its First
Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War.  By Alexander S. Salley,
Jr. 572 pp., illus., indexed.  (1898). repr., Balto., 1978.
$30.00
This, the standard history of the county, has 125 pages of marriages,
births, and deaths, 1737-1761; and chapters on Colonial and Revolutionary
War periods, including over 300 pages devoted to the latter.  Since
Barnwell, Lexington, Aiken, and Calhoun counties were derived in whole or
in part from Orangeburg, this work relates to central South Carolina.

TENNESSEE

6341.  ANDERSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1838-1858.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 85 pp., indexed. Balto., 1983.
$15.00
Anderson County was created in 1801 from parts of Knox and Grainger
counties.  Its marriage records begin in 1838, for those of the period 1801
to 1838 are apparently missing.  Still, for the period 1838 to 1858, about
1,000 marriages were recorded.  Listed in chronological order they give the
names of the bride and groom, the date of issue of the marriage bond or
license, and the date the marriage was performed.

6331.  BLOUNT COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1795-1859.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 102 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$15.00
Blount County was erected from Knox County in 1795, just one year before
Tennessee won statehood.  Its marriage records date from 1795 and are
recorded in a register in the county clerk's office in Maryville.  The
marriages listed in this work have been copied from that register.  The
majority of the records derive from marriage licenses and thus prove that a
marriage was performed.  In some cases the records derive solely from
marriage bonds, which in themselves are not proof of marriage, only that a
marriage was intended.  Arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of
the groom, the records abstracted here give the names of the bride and
groom, the date of issue of the marriage bond or license, and the names of
the bondsmen.  Altogether 4,000 marriages are listed in this work, which
also features a separate index of brides.

2085.  (CENSUS).  1770-1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements:
Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee Counties.  By Richard C. Fulcher.
253 pp.  Balto., 1990.
$22.50
The purpose of this work is to identify the early inhabitants of the
Tennessee Country, something the federal census records fail to do, for the
first forty years of settlement in the area are a blank, at least in the
official enumerations.  This work is a reconstruction of the census of the
three Cumberland River counties now in Tennessee.
These counties, originally a part of North Carolina, today are all or part
of forty Tennessee counties.  As new counties were formed and subdivided,
the early settlers were caught in changing jurisdictions.  So the
researcher has had to search in several jurisdictions for ancestral
records, even though the ancestor may never have moved.  To rectify this
problem, the author has divided this work into three sections, one for each
of the three counties so as to place the early inhabitants in the actual
area settled.  Abstracted from the public records are all references to
those living in the jurisdictions between 1770 and 1790.  From wills,
deeds, court minutes, marriage records, military records, and many related
items, the author has put together a carefully documented list of
inhabitants--virtually the "first" census of Tennessee.

6342.  CLAIBORNE COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1838-1850, & CAMPBELL
COUNTY, Tennessee, 1838-1853.  By Edythe R. Whitley.
112 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983. Low in Stock.
$15.00
Claiborne County was created in 1801 from parts of Grainger and Hawkins
counties, and Campbell County from parts of Anderson and Claiborne counties
five years later.  The records date from 1838, when marriage registers came
into official use in the state, and apparently the earlier marriage records
do not exist.  Altogether some 2,000 marriages are listed, each with the
names of the bride and groom, the date of issue of the license, and the
date of the marriage.

2086.  COUNTY RECORDS AND GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES In Tennessee, Guide to.
By Richard C. Fulcher. 199 pp. (1987), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
This fabulous work is a county-by-county guide to the genealogical records
and resources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville.
Based largely on the Tennessee county records microfilmed by the LDS
Genealogical Library, it is an inventory of extant county records and their
dates of coverage.  For each county the following data is given: formation,
county seat, names and addresses of libraries and genealogical societies,
published records (alphabetical by author), W.P.A. typescript records,
microfilmed records (LDS), manuscripts, and church records.  The LDS
microfilm covers almost every record that could be used by the genealogist,
from vital records to optometry registers, from wills and inventories to
school board minutes.  There is also a comprehensive list of statewide
reference works.

6322.  DAVIDSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1789-1847.  Comp. by
Edythe R. Whitley. 277 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1981.
$22.50
All of the early Davidson County marriage bonds and licenses were destroyed
by fire, but the first two volumes of marriage registers, compiled from the
original bonds and licenses, are intact.  They cover January 1789-December
1837, and January 1838-December 1847.  The abstracted records cover about
7,000 marriages, and they are in the order of their appearance in the
registers, each beginning with the groom's surname.  The rest of the entry
is the name of the bride, the issue date of the bond or license, sometimes
the marriage date, and the name of the officiating minister or J.P.  All
brides and grooms are listed in the index.

6330.  DAVIDSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Pioneers of.  By Edythe R. Whitley.
84 pp., indexed, wrprs.  (1965), repr. Balto., 1981.
$6.00
The vast amount of data in this work is far out of proportion to its size,
for no fewer than 5,000 Davidson County inhabitants are identified.
Included are Settlers on the Cumberland River, 1780; North Carolina Land
Grants in Tennessee, 1784; Davidson County Taxpayers, 1787; Davidson County
Militia, 1812; Officers in the Tennessee Militia, 1811; Pension List for
West Tennessee, 1818; and Davidson County Pension Lists for 1832, 1840, and
1883.

6345.  GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, Tennessee:  Records of Early Settlers From
State and County Archives.  By Edythe R. Whitley. 393 pp., indexed.
(1980), repr. Balto., 1989.
$25.00
This work offers important source data and is a major advance in Tennessee
genealogical reference material.  From records in the State Archives in
Nashville, and from over twenty county courthouses, the record abstracts
relate to over 18,000 early Tennessee settlers.  There are Revolutionary
warrants, grants and certificates of survey, will abstracts, tombstone
inscriptions, deed abstracts, and marriages--including the valuable Sumner
County marriages, 1791-1813--and court orders and petitions.  Many of these
came from the counties of Bedford, Bledsoe, Carter, Davidson, Dyer,
Franklin, Hawkins, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Maury, Montgomery, Overton,
Smith, Stewart, Sullivan, Sumner, Washington, White, Williamson, and
Wilson.  There also are genealogical notes on some two dozen families.

6332.  GIBSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1824-1860.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 173 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$20.00
Gibson County, situated in the western part of Tennessee, was created in
1823.  Its marriage records, preserved from 1824, are on file in the
courthouse in Trenton.  The records abstracted here derive from both bonds
and licenses and are arranged in chronological order.  Each gives the names
of the bride and groom, the date of the bond or license (frequently both),
and the names of the bondsmen.  At least 4,000 marriage records are in this
compilation, and all 10,000 persons mentioned in the records--brides,
grooms, and bondsmen--are listed in the index.

6321.  GRAINGER COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1796-1837.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 116 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$15.00
Grainger County was established in 1796, the year Tennessee became a state.
The county marriage records were recorded for the first time in a register
by the Work Projects Administration, and this work is an adaptation of that
register.  Apparently no other compiled record of the marriages was ever
made, and since the register was compiled many of the original bonds and
licenses have been lost.  So the WPA register is the most extensive set of
the county marriage records available.  Arranged chronologically, the
records include the names of the brides, grooms and bondsmen, and the date
of the marriage bond and/or license.  The index lists about 6,000 names.

6333.  LAWRENCE COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1818-1854.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 110 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$15.00
Lawrence County, Tennessee, in the south-central part of the state, just
above Alabama, was created from parts of Maury and Hickman counties in
1817.  Its marriage records, commencing in 1818, are on file in the county
clerk's office in Lawrenceburg.  The records abstracted in the first
section of this book, covering the years 1818 to 1838, derive from the
original bonds and licenses; while records appearing in the second section,
covering the period 1818 to 1854, are based on a marriage register.  Both
sets of records, totalling about 2,500 marriages, provide the names of the
bride and groom and the date of the marriage bond or license (frequently
both).  With the exception of the grooms in Section 1, who are listed in
alphabetical order, the index contains the names of everyone mentioned in
the marriage records--about 5,000 brides, grooms and bondsmen.

6343.  McMINN COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1821-1864.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 121 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
$15.00
McMinn County was formed in 1819 from lands ceded to the United States by
the Cherokee Indians.  The early marriage records of the county are
somewhat disorganized for they could only be found in several types of
record sources, so those that are in this work are apparently all that
exist.  Arranged chronologically, the 2,000 records include the names of
the bride and groom, the date of issue of the marriage bond or license, the
date of the marriage, and the names of bondsmen.

6326.  MAURY COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1808-1852.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 245 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$21.50
Maury County was created in 1807 from Williamson County, which had been
taken off of Davidson County a few years before.  The marriage records,
dating from the founding of the county, are based on the county clerk's
marriage registers and are supplemented by some 1,250 recently discovered
marriage bonds.  Arranged in several sections, some chronological, some
alphabetical, the records give the names of the bride and groom, the issue
date of the marriage license or bond, the marriage date and, sometimes, the
name of the person who stood surety to the bond.  Altogether about 6,000
marriage records and the names of the brides, grooms, and others mentioned
in the text are listed in the index.

6335.  OVERTON COUNTY, Tennessee:  Genealogical Records.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 97 pp., indexed, wrprs.  (1967), repr. Balto., 1983.
$6.00
Overton County, established in 1806, at one time included part of the
territory that eventually became Fentress, Clay, Pickett, and Putnam
counties, and since many of the early records of these counties have been
partially or entirely destroyed, the extant records of Overton County are
important.  This work has records of about 2,500 Overton County inhabitants
and features abstracts of various records including Abstracts of Deeds,
Wills, Grants, and Minutes from Overton County Deed Books; Legislative
Petitions, 1801-1860; Officers in the Tennessee Militia, 1807-1811;
Pensioners in Overton and Adjoining Counties, 1818-1883; and Index to
Overton County Will Books, 1870-1891.

175.  PENSIONERS, Twenty-Four Hundred Tennessee:  Revolution [and] War of
1812.  By Zella Armstrong. 121 pp., wrprs.  (1937), repr. Balto., 1987.
$7.50
An alphabetical list of 2,400 Tennessee pensioners, it was compiled from
published government Pension Lists of 1816, 1818, 1828, 1832, and the U.S.
Census of 1840.  Included are name, age, service, residence, and the source
of the data.  Widows drawing on their husband's claims are also listed.
Since the sources are so varied, having them in a list such as this is a
great convenience.

6344.  RHEA COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1808-1859.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 89 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
$15.00
Rhea County was formed from Roane County late in 1807, and so the records
in this volume start with the beginning of the county.  Transcribed from a
microfilm copy of the bonds and licenses at the State Archives in
Nashville, they were also compared with the WPA transcripts of the records.
The marriage records give the names of the bride and groom, the date of the
bond or license, the marriage date, and the name of the officiating
clergyman or J.P.

6346.  ROANE COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1801-1838.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 117 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
$15.00
Roane County was created from Knox County in 1801, and most of its marriage
records from that date on are preserved at the county courthouse in
Kingston.  The records in this work, however, also include data from the
list of marriages in Emma Wells' History of Roane County.  Since some of
the original bonds and licenses have disappeared from the courthouse, the
Wells book is an essential back-up.  About 1,500 marriage records are given
here, and they include the names of the bride and groom, the date of the
marriage bond or license, and the names of the bondsmen.

6324.  ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1839-1861.  Comp. By
Edythe R. Whitley. 135 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1981.
$15.00
Robertson County was erected in 1796, but none of its marriage records
through 1838 are known to have survived.  For the period 1839-1861, the
records are arranged chronologically under the surname of the groom.  The
rest of each entry has the name of the bride, the date the marriage license
was issued (and often the marriage date), and the name of the officiating
minister or J.P.  Over 3,000 marriage records are abstracted, and the names
of brides, grooms, and others mentioned in the text are in the index.

6325.  RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1804-1872.  Comp. by
Edythe R. Whitley. 352 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1981.
$25.00
Rutherford County was erected in 1803 from Davidson County and at one time
extended south to Alabama.  Its records have survived and are voluminous,
as is indicated by the fact that this work has abstracts of 11,000 marriage
records.  They are arranged in three sections, some in alphabetical order,
some chronological.  Each entry has the names of the bride and groom, the
date the marriage bond or license was issued, and sometimes the name of the
surety, often a relative of the bride or groom.  All are listed in the
index.

6338.  SHELBY COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1820-1858.  Comp. by Edythe
R. Whitley. 139 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$15.00
Shelby County, Tennessee was erected November 24, 1819, from Hardin County,
and its records of marriages commenced almost at once.  It is believed that
the original marriage records were destroyed.  However, those that are
given here were copied from a marriage register kept at the courthouse in
Memphis, the county seat.  They were numbered as found in the register, and
those on the opening pages are out of sequence.  While this work is not an
exact copy of the register, it does have all of the marriages found there--
about 5,000!  Arranged in a single numerical sequence, the records
abstracted give the names of the bride and groom, the issue date of the
bond or license, and the marriage date.  All 10,000 brides and grooms are
listed in the index.

6339.  STEWART COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1838-1866.  Comp. by Edythe
R. Whitley. 105 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$15.00
Stewart County was erected November 1, 1803 from a part of Montgomery
County.  At that time it comprised a domain which extended west to the
Tennessee River and south to the Alabama line.  After the Chickasaw
Purchase of 1819 the jurisdiction of the county for a while extended to the
Mississippi River.  While the county seat was established by 1805, the
earliest marriage records in the courthouse at Dover date from 1838.  The
records given here were copied at the courthouse from loose papers (1838-
1848) and from the first two marriage books (1849-1866).  For the most part
they derive from bonds and licenses; there are about 2,500 marriages, and
they are indexed.

6340.  SUMNER COUNTY, Tennessee, Abstracts of Will Books 1 and 2 (1788-
1842).  Comp. by Edythe R. Whitley. 76 [8 index] pp., wrprs.  (1956), repr.
Balto., 1980.
$6.00
These abstracts give the name of the testator, date of the instrument,
names of heirs (usually wives and children), nature of the bequest, names
of witnesses and executors, probate data, and the location in the original
Will Book.  About 3,000 persons are cited.

6327.  SUMNER COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1787-1838.  Comp. by Edythe
R. Whitley. 150 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1981.
$17.50
This work has abstracts of about 5,000 marriage records, and they are
arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom.  The bride-to-be, the
date of the bond or license, and the names of ministers, witnesses, and
bondsmen make up the rest of each entry.  Frequently the bondsman was a
relative.  All persons mentioned in the entry, except the groom, minister
or J.P. are in the index, the total of the names there being about 15,000.

4800.  TENNESSEE COUSINS, A History of Tennessee People.  By Worth S. Ray.
819 pp., maps, illus., indexed.  (1950), repr. Balto., 1989.
$37.50
This work has an immense amount of genealogical data, which is not confined
to Tennessee but reaches out to the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia,
and other Southern states as well.  Over 6,000 names are in the index, with
some names having as many as fifty references.
All Tennessee counties are covered, each with pertinent genealogical data
such as abstracts of wills and deeds, tombstone inscriptions, marriage
records, and sketches of early settlers.  The most important records
include First Court Records of Washington District, the Marriage Records of
Greene, Washington, Jefferson, and Knox counties, and Revolutionary
Soldiers of Roane County.

2300. WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriage Record of, 1787-1840. By Norma
Rutledge Grammer and Marion Day Mullins. 55 (and 13 index) pp., wrappers.
(1940), repr. Balto., 1991.
$6.00
Washington County originally embraced all of what is now Tennessee, but in
1790, perhaps earlier, it embraced the present northeast counties of
Carter, Washington, and Unicoi. These Washington County marriage records
are arranged chronologically from September 19, 1787 to December 31, 1840
and name a total of about 4,500 men and women. Additional information
includes the exact date of the bond and the name of the bondsman. All
names--brides, grooms, and bondsmen--are listed in alphabetical order in
the index for quick and easy reference.

6328.  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1804-1850.  By Edythe R.
Whitley. 257 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1982.
$21.50
Williamson County was erected in 1799 and included what later became all or
part of Maury, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, and Giles counties.  Since the
existing records (bonds, licenses, and registers) do not have,
individually, evidence of all the marriages authorized in Williamson
County, Mrs. Whitley has combined the several sources to obtain as nearly
as possible a complete listing of the early marriages.  This compilation
contains abstracts of records of about 6,000 marriages, each record giving
the names of the bride and groom, the date of the license or bond, and the
names of the bondsmen and witnesses.  Grooms are listed in alphabetical
order in the text, and the index has the names of everyone mentioned in the
entries--about 10,000 brides, bondsmen, and witnesses!

6329.  WILSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Marriages of, 1802-1850.  Comp. by Edythe
R. Whitley. 306 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1981.
$25.00
Wilson County's marriage records did not begin until 1802.  From then until
1841, when a register was started, the marriage bonds and licenses were
stored in loose bundles in the county courthouse.  Mrs. Whitley's abstracts
derive from the original bonds and licenses and the earliest marriage
register.
The 8,000 marriage records in this work are arranged chronologically under
the name of the groom, the rest of each entry being the name of the bride,
the issue date of the marriage license or bond, the marriage date (if
given), the name of a bondsman (usually a relative), and the name of the
officiating clergyman or J.P.  About 20,000 persons--brides, grooms, and
bondsmen--are listed in the index.


TEXAS

3149.  GENEALOGICAL RECORDS in Texas.  By Imogene and Leon Kennedy.
248 pp., small 4to.  Balto., 1992.
$??.??.
The vast genealogical records of Texas are available to the researcher
provided he knows how and where to find them.  Texas covers a lot of
ground, but this guide cuts it right down to size and makes record
searching fast and convenient.  In text and maps it provides detailed
information on the legal and historical background of the state, the origin
of each county in the state, the location of the records for each portion
of the county before it was organized into its present boundaries, and the
specific records available in the various county courthouses, the Texas
State Library, the Texas State Archives, and the Texas General Land Office.
Essential!

6415.  REGISTER OF FAMILIES, Stephen F. Austin's.  Ed. by Villamae
Williams. xii, 186 pp., indexed.  (1984), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
In 1811 Mexico declared its independence from Spain and established itself
as a republic.  The new government made contracts with Empresarios
(contractors) to bring specific numbers of families into the State of
Coahuila and Texas.  Stephen Austin was the first and most successful of
the Empresarios, and he began granting land to settlers in 1824.
Under the terms of a new colonization law of March 24, 1824, Empresarios
had to record data on every settler, and this included the name, marital
and family status, place of birth or last residence, and occupation.  Until
1828 Austin himself provided the local government for his colonies.
Apparently he and his secretary maintained the record book even after a
full Mexican local government was established.  The entries continued
through February 1836, less than a week before the signing of the Texas
Declaration of Independence.  The records provide information on about
3,000 Anglo-American settlers of Mexican Texas.

3930.  REPUBLIC OF TEXAS:  Poll Lists for 1846.  By Marion D. Mullins.
189 pp.  (1974), repr. Balto., 1982.
Temporarily out of print
A major work, important in the field of Texas genealogy, it consists of an
alphabetical list of about 18,000 taxpayers, and for each is given the
county of residence.  This is the nearest thing to a census for the period.


VERMONT

5895. (CENSUS OF 1790). Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in 1790: Vermont. 8 1/2" x ll". 95 pp., indexed, paper. (1907), repr.
1992.
$15.00

VIRGINIA

920.  (AUGUSTA COUNTY).  Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in
Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County,
1745-1800.  By Lyman Chalkley. 3 vols. 2,000 pp. total, indexed.  (1912),
repr. Balto., 1989.
$150.00
This monumental work consists of court records pertaining to the Scotch-
Irish pioneers who first breached the mountain barrier sealing off the
Atlantic seaboard from the country west of the Blue Ridge.  In 1745, when
Augusta County, Virginia was erected, its domain extended from the
Alleghenies to the Mississippi River, and from the northern part of
Tennessee to the Great Lakes.  So, this stands as the supreme source of
genealogical information for hundreds of thousands who trace their ancestry
to Augusta County, and the Great Valley of Virginia.
The first volume has abstracts of court order books (1745-1799), plus notes
from county court judgments, original papers on suits (1745-1825), and
petitions filed in court from 1745 on.  Volume II has records of the
circuit and district courts, marriage bonds, licenses, and returns (1748-
1800), land entries (1744-1751), guardians' bonds (1782-1801),
administrators' bonds (1776-1810), tax delinquents (1748-1804), proceedings
of the Vestry of Augusta Parish (1746-1799), and records of military
service in colonial wars and the Revolution.  Volume III has will abstracts
(1745-1818) and deed abstracts (1745-1792).  Each volume is indexed, and
the combined total of names is over 50,000!

1425.  BEDFORD COUNTY, Virginia, Marriage Bonds of, 1755-1800.  By Earle S.
Dennis and Jane E. Smith.  [Repr. with] Bedford County, Virginia: Index of
Wills From 1745 to 1830.  By Rowland D. Buford. 99 pp., indexed, wrappers.
(1932, 1917), repr. Balto., 1989.
$7.00
These marriage bonds furnish the names of about 3,000 prospective brides
and grooms, and there are references to some 1,500 parents and sureties.
This edition is in an improved format, and the index of brides is in strict
alphabetical order.  Augmenting this work is the Index of Wills, an
alphabetical list of several hundred testators with the probate dates.


6490.  BOTETOURT COUNTY, Virginia, Early Marriages, Wills, and Some
Revolutionary War Records.  By Annie L. Worrell. 69 pp., wrprs.  (1958),
repr. Balto., 1985.
$5.00
These records are from the late 18th through the early 19th century.  Over
6,000 individuals are named in the marriage records which are arranged
alphabetically by grooms' names, and they include the names of the brides
and sureties and the dates.  The probate records are arranged
alphabetically by decedents, and they identify heirs, with relationships,
and give the probate date.  At least 2,000 persons are named in these
records.

4225. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and
Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. One. By Nell M. Nugent. 767 pp., illus., indexed.
(1934), repr. Balto., 1991.
$40.00
This is one of the most outstanding records of early emigrants to Virginia.
It records under the name of the patentee or grantee, the earliest Virginia
land grants and patents from 1623 to 1666, giving the number of acres,
locations and dates of settlement, names of family members, and it further
provides references to marriages, wills, and other legal instruments. It
also has the names of some thousands who were transported or brought over
by the early settlers as "headrights." The index contains the names of
about 20,000 persons.

5896.  (CENSUS OF 1790).  Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
Taken in the Year 1790: Virginia.  Records of the State Enumerations: 1782
to 1785.  8 1/2" x ll". 189 pp., fldg. map, indexed, paper.  (1908), repr.
Balto., 1992.
See 2000.
$22.50
Since the original returns for the state were destroyed in the War of 1812,
taxpayer lists were reconstructed by the Bureau of the Census.  This
supplements Fothergill and Naugle's Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-1787.

470.  (CENSUS).  Index to the 1810 Census of Virginia.  Comp. by Elizabeth
P. Bentley. 366 pp.  Balto., 1980.
$30.00
The 1810 census of Virginia is the earliest Federal census of the state and
is basic for genealogical research.  This Index to that census is a
carefully and accurately compiled reference work.  Where questions of
interpretation arose, the compiler compared her microfilm copy with the
photocopy of the census at the National Archives.  The index consists of an
alphabetical list of the heads of households, some 85,000 persons, with
tabular entries showing the county of residence and the page number of the
census schedule.
The Introduction to this work will be helpful to the researcher for it
contains a statement of methodology, suggestions for dealing with irregular
spellings and transcriptions, a description of the contents of the original
census returns, and other useful information.

1790. (CENSUS).  Index to the 1820 Census of Virginia.  Comp. by Jeanne R.
Felldin. 486 pp.  (1976), repr. Balto., 1981.
$30.00
This work is truly a basic genealogical tool.  It consists of a list of
about 110,000 heads of households, alphabetically arranged by surname, with
the given name, the county of residence, and the location in the census
schedule.  A considerable number of name spelling variations are included
in the list.

1952.  (CHARLES CITY--PRINCE GEORGE COS.).  Early Virginia Families Along
the James River.  Charles City County-Prince George County.  By Louise
Pledge Heath Foley. 211 pp., maps, indexed.  (1978), repr. Balto., 1990.
$25.00
This volume is designed to assist the researcher in locating colonial and
immigrant ancestors in Charles City County and in that part of Charles City
County south of the James River from which Prince George County was formed
in 1703.  To this end Mrs. Foley abstracted the land records from the
fourteen volumes of Patent Books for the hundred-year period 1632-1732,
extracting all data falling within the focus of her project.  Thus, the
main body of the text consists of a chronological series of abstracts
giving the name of the Charles City County or Prince George County
patentee, the location and acreage of the patent and the date of
settlement, with references to family members and owners of adjoining
properties, and, most important, the names of the thousands of settlers
brought over as "headrights."

1242.  COLONIAL MILITIA, Virginia, 1651-1776.  Ed. by William A. Crozier.
(Vol. II of Virginia County Records series). 144 pp., indexed.  (1905),
repr. Balto., 1986.
$15.00
Several thousand officers and soldiers are cited, the information sources
on them being rosters of various counties and wars, county order books, and
land bounty certificates.

490.  COLONIAL SOLDIERS, Virginia's.  By Lloyd D. Bockstruck.
2nd printing. 443 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1990.
$30.00
American military history began with the establishment of the Virginia
colonial militia in the seventeenth century.  Although ill-trained, it was
the colony's only defense against Indian attacks and invasion by hostile
powers.  The records left are fragmentary and scattered, and it has always
been hard to locate them and make them accessible.
With the publication of this work that problem is now behind us.  From
research based on county court minutes and orders, bounty land applications
and warrants, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, Hening's
Statutes at Large, the Draper manuscripts, and manuscripts in the Public
Record Office in London, we now have an authoritative register of
Virginia's colonial soldiers.  And it is not merely a dry catalogue of
names and dates, for included are the military's "size" rolls which
routinely give the soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation,
and physical description.  And sometimes this was made even more
informative when the enlisting officer recorded his impressions of the
soldier!
Little is known of the ordinary people of colonial Virginia for they left
no diaries or journals, but now we have the rare privilege of coming almost
face to face with them in this remarkable book.

953.  ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY, Virginia, Wills and Administrations of, 1688-
1800.  With Other Genealogical and Historical Items.  By Blanche A.
Chapman.  Reprinted in an Improved Format With a New Index.
198 pp., indexed.  (1941), repr. Balto., 1980.
$17.50
Because of an error in Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations it was
thought that the early probate records of the county did not exist, but
this work corrects that error.  These abstracts of the records of wills and
administrations for 1688-1800 are arranged alphabetically by the surname of
the deceased, and they give the names of legatees (usually with
relationships noted), summaries of bequests made, names of executors and
witnesses, dates of instrument and probate, and citations to the original
will books.  For administrations, the names of appraisers and
administrators are given with the dates of the depositions.
Further material included is an index to land patents, the 1704 quit rent
rolls, the tithables of 1782, soldiers of 1776, marriage records, lists of
burgesses, justices, sheriffs, clerks and surveyors, and much else besides.
About 6,000 persons are listed in the index.

3195.  FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia, Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, 1742-
1801.  By J. Estelle Stewart King.  With a new index. 61 pp., indexed,
wrprs.  (1936), repr. Balto., 1983.
$5.00
The will abstracts generally consist of the name of the testator, dates of
instrument and probate, the names of the spouse, children and other family
members, executors and witnesses.  Inventory abstracts usually only have a
reference to the administrator and the inventory date.  Also included are
the Rent Rolls of 1761 and 1774.

3200.  FAUQUIER COUNTY, Virginia, Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and
Marriages of, 1759-1800.  By J. Estelle Stewart King.  With a new index.
101 pp., wrprs.  (1939), repr. Balto., 1986.
$7.50
The probate records (which actually go up to 1804) include the names of the
testator, spouse, children, family members, executors and witnesses, the
dates of the will and its probate, and its location.  In addition, there
are marriage bonds for 1764-1800, the 1770 Rent Roll (including the 1738
Rent Roll of the parent county, Prince William), cemetery inscriptions, and
other data.  The index has nearly 6,000 entries.

2653.  GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers.
Compiled by Robert K. Headley, Jr. xxii, 470 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1987.
$28.50
This is an exceptionally thorough work, for it has genealogical abstracts
from over 7,000 issues of eighty 18th-century Virginia newspapers.  In
addition, where there were gaps in the Virginia papers, newspapers from
nearby states were scanned for Virginia material.  In selecting items to
abstract, Dr. Headley looked for those that gave at least two pieces of
genealogical data: age and place of residence, for example, date of death
and names of executors, or name of spouse and place of residence.
The data provided came from marriage notices, death notices, estate sales
and settlements, advertisements for runaways--usually servants,
apprentices, slaves, or deserters--and court cases.  The data furnished in
the abstracts varies from item to item, of course.  Marriage and death
notices and estate settlements usually provide details on next of kin,
occupation and place of residence, while notices on runaways tend to be the
juiciest of all.  They can provide minute descriptions down to the manner
of wearing the hair, tattoos, personality, and clothing; and they sometimes
give place of birth, age, date imported, name of ship on which imported,
occupation, and suspected destination.
In all there are abstracts of about 10,000 items of a genealogical nature
found in the 18th-century Virginia papers, and there is an index to an
additional 10,000 persons mentioned in the notices.

6385.  GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Virginia, Marriages of, 1733-1815.  By Kathleen B.
Williams. 148 pp., indexed.  (1960), repr. Balto., 1986.
$15.00
This work is based on the Marriage Register at the Virginia State Library,
which was developed from marriage bonds and ministers' returns, and a
number of other sources.  About 3,000 brides and grooms are cited along
with mentions of another 2,000 associated persons.  The marriages are
arranged alphabetically by grooms' names, and each has the date of the bond
or marriage, the bride's name, and names of parents, sureties, witnesses
and the minister, plus a reference to the information source.  There is an
index of brides' names and also one of the other persons mentioned in the
text.

4215.  GRAYSON COUNTY, Virginia, Pioneer Settlers of.  By Benjamin F.
Nuckolls. 219 pp., illus., indexed.  (1914), repr. Balto., 1982.
$17.50
Dealing with the pioneers of the county, this work's emphasis is on their
genealogies, which are thorough and extensive and range from the 18th to
the 20th century.  About 4,000 persons are named, and they are easily
located in the index provided for this edition.

5090.  HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Virginia (Now West Virginia), Early Records.  By
Clara McCormack Sage and Laura Sage Jones. 7" x 10".  170 pp., indexed.
(1939), repr. Balto., 1990.
$25.00
Hampshire County was the first county wholly in the territory that is now
West Virginia.  The documents contained in this carefully compiled work are
therefore the earliest records of West Virginia.  They consist of
alphabetically arranged abstracts of:  (1) deeds, mortgages, leases, and
other instruments from the 1760s to 1800; (2) state censuses of Hampshire
County, 1782 and 1784; (3) Revolutionary pensioners in Hampshire County,
1835; (4) marriage bonds, 1824-28; (5) wills from the 1770s to the 1860s;
and (6) early estate records.  The index contains 11,000 entries, with
women listed under both maiden name and married name where known.

3895.  HIGHLAND COUNTY, Virginia, A History of.  By Oren F. Morton.  With
an added index. 532 pp., illus.  (1911), repr. Balto., 1985.
$28.50
The bulk of this work is a transcription of the records from the
courthouses of Highland County and the adjoining counties of Augusta, Bath,
Orange and Pendleton, and the Richmond archives.  Part I deals with the
early history of the county and has lists of Highland militia, soldiers in
the Dunmore War, the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.  Part
II consists of genealogies of Highland County families.  The new index
contains the names of about 11,000 persons, many with multiple references.

2370.  IMMIGRANTS, Early Virginia, 1623-1666.  By George C. Greer.
376 pp.  (1912), repr. Balto., 1989.
$20.00
This is a list of immigrants to Virginia, 1623-1666, who were not original
patentees of land and, as such, serves as a useful complement to Nugent's
Cavaliers and Pioneers.  The nearly 25,000 names were collected from
original records in the Virginia State Land Office.  Arranged
alphabetically, for each is given the name of the patentee or party acting
as sponsor, and the date and place of residence.

1953.  (JAMES CITY--SURRY COS.).  Early Virginia Families Along the James
River.  James City County--Surry County.  By Louise Pledge Heath Foley.
170 pp., maps, indexed.  Balto., 1990.
$25.00
The purpose of this book is to assist the researcher in finding colonial
and immigrant ancestors in James City County and in that part of James City
County south of the James River which was cut off to form Surry County in
1652, and to place these early settlers in the milieu of their land
patents.  To accomplish this Mrs. Foley abstracted the land records from
the fourteen volumes of Patent Books for the period 1623-1732 which are now
located in the Archives section of the Virginia State Library in Richmond.
The main body of the text consists of a chronological series of abstracts
giving the name of the James City County or Surry County patentee, the
location and acreage of the patent and date of settlement, with references
to family members and owners of adjoining properties, and, most important,
the names of the thousands of settlers brought over as "headrights."

5500.  LEWIS OF WARNER HALL, The History of a Family.  By Merrow E. Sorley.
887 pp., illus., indexed.  (1935), repr. Balto., 1991.
$45.00
The Lewis family of Warner Hall, York County, Va. probably descends from
Robert Lewis of Brecon, Wales who came to Virginia in 1635.  This book
traces his descendants in the male and female lines, and descents from
other early Virginia families.  The bulk of this work is concerned with
Col. John Lewis and Francis Fielding and their descendants, Col. Charles
Lewis and Mary Howell and their descendants, and Col. Robert Lewis and Jane
Meriwether and their descendants, with much attention given to these
related families: Ambler, Ball, Barret, Bowles, Bushrod, Byrd, Carter,
Cobbs, Crawford, Eppes, Fauntleroy, Fielding, Griffin, Howell, Isham,
Jefferson, Kennon, Marshall, Piersey, Ragland, Randolph, Taliaferro,
Taylor, Thompson, Walker, Washington, Willis, Woodson, and Worsham.

1430.  LOST VIRGINIA RECORDS, English Duplicates of.  By Louis des Cognets,
Jr. 380 pp., indexed.  (1958), repr. Balto., 1990.
$25.00
Since its publication in 1958 this work has been regarded as an important
source-book for colonial Virginia genealogy.  It contains transcriptions of
numerous historical documents and provides a great deal of out-of-the-way
information pertaining to Virginians of the seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries, much of it previously unknown.  It is the product, in
fact, of the compiler's researches into the by-ways of the Public Record
Office in London, in particular his investigations of the reports sent from
Virginia to the Colonial Office--an investigation into the very marrow of
Virginia history.
Among the documents copied and recorded here, such as lists of colonial
officials, naval and militia officers, petitions, French refugees (1700-
1702) and lists of ships leaving and arriving at Virginia ports, three
groups of records in particular deserve to be singled out:  (1) The Present
State of Virginia (with respect to individual counties), which gives county
acreage, number of tithables, and names of sheriffs, burgesses, coroners,
justices, clerks, surveyors, and ministers; (2) Patents for Land, 1699-1737
(with gaps), giving the name of the patentee, date of the patent, county,
and acreage; and (3) The Rent Rolls of 1704, which supply the names of
thousands of property holders in twenty Virginia counties!  "No student of
colonial Virginia history, biography and genealogy can afford to be without
this source book."--Milton Rubincam, National Genealogical Society
Quarterly.

2865. LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, Index to the Tithables of, and to
Slaveholders and Slaves 1758-1786. By Margaret Lail Hopkins. 156 pp.
Balto., 1991.
$20.00
The first part of this work consists of an alphabetical list of tithables,
or taxpayers, of Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the key counties of the
Northern Neck. Covering the period from 1758, shortly after the county was
formed, until 1786, entries are keyed to the two Anglican parishes which
were co-extensive with the county--Cameron Parish and (after 1771)
Shelburne Parish. Thus taxpayers are listed according to the parish of
their residence and the years in which they paid tithes. In all, about
10,000 taxpayers are recorded!
Also among the annual lists of tithes for Loudoun County are lists of
slaveholders and slaves, and all their names--slaves and slaveholders
alike--are recorded in the second part of this work. It was the custom at
the time to list only the first names of slaves under the full names of
their masters, and this is the way they are recorded here. Altogether about
6,000 slaves and slaveholders are named in this section.

6260.  LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, Marriages of, 1757-1853.  By Mary Alice
Wertz. 231 pp., indexed, cloth.  2nd printing, Balto., 1990.
$22.50
Painstakingly compiled from marriage bonds, ministers' returns, marriage
registers, court order books, fee books, deed books, and minute books, as
well as parish registers and Quaker meeting records, this work is the
comprehensive listing of the 12,000 persons who were married in Loudoun
County from the date of its creation until the introduction of marriage
licenses in 1853.  And not only does the work provide us with a list of
married couples but also with all the other information in the records
likely to be of value to the researcher:  date of marriage bond and
ceremony, place of residence, age, names of parents or names of bondsmen,
sureties, and witnesses.  An unusually thorough collection of marriage
records!

3205.  LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia, Abstracts of Wills, Inventories and
Administration Accounts of, 1757-1800.  By J. Estelle Stewart King.  With a
new index. 85 pp., wrprs.  (1940), repr. Balto., 1984.
$6.00
The probate records include the names of the testator, spouse, children,
family members, executors and witnesses, the dates of the will and its
probate, and its location.  Supplementing this are a 1761 rent roll, lists
of militia officers and pensioners, and inscriptions from four cemeteries.
The new index has 4,250 entries.

1244.  MARRIAGES, Early Virginia.  Ed. by William A. Crozier.  (Vol. IV of
Virginia County Records series). 155 pp., indexed.  (1907), repr. Balto.,
1986.
$15.00
These marriage records, primarily late 18th and the first half of the 19th
century, cover fifteen counties, and are so arranged.  The index provided
for this edition contains all of the names in the text.

6485.  MONTGOMERY AND FINCASTLE COUNTIES, Virginia, A Brief of Wills and
Marriages in, 1733-1831.  By Anne L. Worrell. 56 pp., wrprs.  (1932), repr.
Balto., 1984.
$5.00
The marriage records from ministers' returns, marriage bonds, and
miscellaneous sources name about 6,000 newlyweds, with the date and names
of parents or sureties.  The will abstracts give the name of the testator,
the date of the instrument or probate, and the names of the heirs.

2315.  NORTHERN NECK, Virginia, Land Grants, 1694-1742.  By Gertrude E.
Gray. 184 pp., indexed.  (1987), repr. Balto., 1988.
$20.00
The Northern Neck of Virginia comprises all of the territory between the
Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers.  The "headright" system, widely used
for acquiring land in Virginia was never recognized in the Northern Neck.
People wanting to acquire land there had to purchase a warrant and obtain a
survey before they were issued a grant.  The original Grant Books, now on
microfilm, were used in making this collection of abstracts, and they
generally provide the following information:  the name of the grantee,
dates of warrant and survey, date and location of grant, amount of acreage,
names of former owners/occupiers, names of adjacent property owners, and
often the names of heirs and other family members.  Altogether, in more
than 2,000 abstracts, over 5,000 early Virginia residents are cited, all of
them easily located in the index.

2316.  NORTHERN NECK, Virginia, Land Grants.  Vol. II.  1742-1775.  By
Gertrude E. Gray. 282 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$25.00
This, a continuation of the preceding work, has abstracts of all of the
grants from 1742 to 1775, a period that saw the formation and settlement of
Frederick, Fairfax, Culpeper, Loudoun, Fauquier, and Dunmore (changed in
1778 to Shenandoah) counties in Virginia, and Hampshire and Berkeley
counties now in West Virginia.
The Abstracts show grant book designation, page number, name of grantee,
place of residence (if given), number of acres in grant, location of grant,
surveyor, adjoining land owners, and date the grant was issued.
Altogether, in more than 4,000 abstracts, about 7,500 early Virginia
residents are cited, all of them listed in the index.

4555.  PATRICK AND HENRY COUNTIES, Virginia, History of.  By Virginia G.
Pedigo and Lewis G. Pedigo. 400 pp., illus.  (1933), repr. Balto., 1990.
$35.00
After an illuminating account of the history of Patrick and Henry counties,
which occupies the first third of the book, the authors turn their
attention to genealogy, providing authoritative histories of no fewer than
110 families.  The genealogies generally begin with the first settler in
either Patrick or Henry County and proceed to enumerate descendants in
several generations, providing incidental detail according to the materials
available.  In addition to the remarkable collection of genealogies, the
book also contains transcriptions of important genealogical source
materials, such as the Patrick and Henry land grants and patents registered
in the old Land Office in Richmond.

1040.  PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Virginia, The History of.  By Maud C. Clement.
340 pp., illus., indexed. (1929), repr. Balto., 1987.
$21.50
This is one of the best Virginia county histories.  It is a well-documented
work on Pittsylvania County from its creation in 1767, and it includes
material on the parent counties of Lunenburg and Halifax, and the
contiguous counties of Henry, Patrick, Franklin, Bedford, and Campbell.
Also included is a 1767 list of tithables of Pittsylvania County, with
names of nearly 1,000 land and property owners.  Additional lists include
the names of sheriffs, justices of the peace, members of the House of
Delegates 1776-1928, members of the Senate of Virginia 1776-1928, clerks of
the court, and judges.  About 5,000 individuals are noted in the index.

4980.  POCAHONTAS, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage
at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman.  With
Biographical Sketches by Wyndham Robertson, and Illustrative Historical
Notes by Robert A. Brock. 84 pp.  (1887), repr. Balto., 1986.
Temporarily out of print
Chiefly a tabulation of names, although many dates of birth, marriage and
death are given, this work traces the descendants of Pocahontas and John
Rolfe through seven generations.  Names covered include Alfriend, Archer,
Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge,
Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay,
Gordon, Griffon, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade,
McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard,
Tazewell, Walke, West, and Whittle.

6320.  QUAKER RECORDS, Early, in Virginia.  By Miles White, Jr.
64 pp., indexed, wrappers.  (1902-1903), repr. Balto., 1989.
$6.00
This is an exact transcription of genealogical data in the oldest Quaker
records in Virginia, the so-called Chuckatuck Record.  It is mainly birth,
marriage, and death records in Nansemond and Isle of Wight counties,
beginning in 1673, although a few entries relate to events of an earlier
date.  The birth and death records provide the usual names and dates, while
the marriage records have the names of the parties to the marriage, the
date, parents' names, and the lists of witnesses, many of whom were
relatives of the bride and groom.

5440.  QUIT RENTS of Virginia, 1704, The.  Comp. by Annie Laurie Wright
Smith. 114 pp., wrprs.  (1957), repr. Balto., 1987.
$7.50
The first part of this work is the Quit Rent Roll of 1704, for the fourteen
counties that paid tribute to the King, while the remainder is the list of
those in the Northern Neck area who were granted lands by the Lords
Proprietors.  Over 6,000 individuals are listed alphabetically, and for
each is given the county of residence and the acreage owned.

6370.  RAPPAHANNOCK, OLD, AND ESSEX COUNTIES, Virginia, Index to Marriages
of, 1655-1900.  By Eva E. Wilkerson. 256 pp.  (1953), repr. Balto., 1983.
$17.50
The information in these marriages came from official records and was
supplemented with inferential marriage proofs from wills, deeds, and order
books.  The arrangement is alphabetical by brides' and grooms' names, the
date of the marriage and the source of the information are provided, and
the parents and guardians are sometimes listed.  The coverage is for nearly
250 years, and about 10,000 individuals are named.

2430.  (REVOLUTIONARY WAR).  Historical Register of Virginians in the
Revolution.  Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783.  By John H. Gwathmey.
872 pp.,  (1938), repr. Balto., 1987.
Temporarily out of print

6180.  (ROCKINGHAM COUNTY).  Virginia Valley Records.  Genealogical and
Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia and Related Regions.
By John W. Wayland. 491 pp., map, indexed.  (1930), repr. Balto., 1985.
$25.00
A source-book of genealogical and historical materials, it was compiled
from records of Rockingham, Greenbrier, Wythe and Montgomery counties.
Included are lists of marriages, landowners, militia, settlers, church
records, and other compilations of basic genealogical data of the 18th and
early 19th centuries. In addition, there are a number of sketches of
families of the area.

SCOTCH-IRISH Settlement in Virginia, Chronicles of the, Extracted From the
Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800.  By Lyman Chalkley.
See 920.

6175.  SHENANDOAH COUNTY, Virginia, A History of.  By John W. Wayland.
894 pp., illus., indexed.  (1969), repr. Balto., 1989.
$38.50
The author traces the origin and development of the county, describing its
formation and settlement (probably three-quarters of its early settlers
were of German extraction), its subsequent growth, the citizens, towns and
villages, churches, schools, landmarks, businesses and industries.
Much genealogical information is included.  There is, for example, a
chapter on heads of families in 1785 (about 1,500 named), there are lists
of militiamen and soldiers, public representatives and church members, and
there are chapters of genealogical sketches and biographies.  The Appendix
includes, among other things, Births and Baptisms (1773-1782), Marriages
(1782-1800), and Civil War Muster Rolls, and these three sections alone
name more than 5,000 persons.

958.  SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, Virginia, Wills and Administrations of, 1749-
1800.  By Blanche A. Chapman.  Reprinted from an Improved Format With a
Consolidated Index. 208 pp., indexed.  (1947, 1958), repr. Balto., 1980.
$17.50
This work has abstracts of over 2,500 wills and administrations from
Southampton's earliest will books, Books I-IV.  Arranged more or less
chronologically, provided is the name of the deceased, the testator (when
there was a will), the names of legatees (often showing relationships),
summaries of bequests in the will, names of executors and witnesses, the
dates of the will and its recording, and the will book location where the
full will is recorded.  The administration records generally give the dates
of inventory and appraisal, the names of the auditors and appraisers, and
material on the estate settlement.  The index has the names of about 8,000
persons.

6500. (SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA). Over the Mountain Men, Their Early Court
Records in Southwest Virginia. By Anne Lowry Worrell. 69 pp., wrappers.
(1934), repr. Balto., 1991.
$6.00
The records in this unpretentious volume are of four kinds--marriages,
wills, Revolutionary petitions, and gravestones--though, indeed, the bulk
of the work is comprised of marriage records and wills. The marriage
records derive from the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Grayson, Pulaski,
and Roanoke; and the wills from the counties of Bedford, Botetourt,
Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke. There is also a scattering
of Revolutionary petitions and tombstone records form many of these same
counties. Although the dates of the records vary, most of them touch on the
late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Entries are arranged
alphabetically under record group and county and concern approximately
9,000 persons.

1235.  SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY RECORDS. (Vol. 1 of Virginia County Records).
By William Armstrong Crozier. 576 pp., indexed.  (1905), repr. Balto.,
1990.
$35.00
This is a basic book in Virginia genealogy as it consists of thousands of
abstracts of original courthouse records.  Will books are abstracted from
1722 to 1800, except for the years 1750 to 1761.  Marriages are abstracted
from 1722 through 1750 and from 1795 to 1800.  Guardians' bonds are listed
from 1725 to 1798, and deeds from 1722 to 1800.  Genealogists will
appreciate that settlers from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland
passed through Spotsylvania County, often remaining a generation or two
before moving on to Orange, Culpeper, or Madison counties.

2000.  TAX PAYERS, Virginia, 1782-87, Other Than Those Published by the
United States Census Bureau.  By Augusta B. Fothergill and John M. Naugle.
142 pp., 4to.  (1940), repr. Balto., 1986.
See 5896.
$20.00
This is an alphabetically arranged list of 34,000 residents, gathered from
personal property tax lists, who were not included in the 1790 Federal
Census to which it forms an important supplement.

2500.  THEY WENT THATAWAY.  By Charles H. Hamlin.
3 vols. in 1.  440 pp. in all, indexed.  (1964-1966), repr. Balto., 1985.
Low in stock.
$25.00
Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage and legal
records, and other data from a wide variety of sources, it provides
evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia, or from
Virginia to other parts of the country.

1382.  TIDEWATER VIRGINIA FAMILIES.  By Virginia L. H. Davis.
8 1/2" x 11". 730 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1990.
$75.00
Covering an incredible 375 years, this book sets forth the genealogical
history of some forty families who have their roots in Tidewater Virginia,
families whose very history mirrors the social development of Virginia
itself.  Starting with the earliest colonial settler, the origins of the
following Tidewater families are presented:  Bell, Binford, Bonner, Butler,
Campbell, Cheadle, Chiles, Clements, Cotton, Dejarnette(att), Dumas,
Ellyson, Fishback, Fleming, Hamlin, Hampton, Harnison, Harris, Haynie,
Hurt, Hutcheson, Lee, Mosby, Mundy, Nelson, Peatross,  Pettyjohn, Ruffin,
Short, Spencer, Tarleton, Tatum, Taylor, Terrill, Watkins, Winston, and
Woodson.

1890.  VIRGINIA COLONIAL ABSTRACTS.  By Beverly Fleet.
3 vols. 2,087 pp. total, each vol. indexed.  (1937-1949), repr. Balto.,
1988.
The set: $150.00
Per volume: $50.00
Published between 1937 and 1949 in the form of thirty-four paperback
volumes, this work brought together a wealth of data from the records of
Tidewater Virginia--vital records of birth, marriage and death, tax lists,
court orders, militia lists, wills, and deeds.  The result of extensive
research in county courthouses, municipal and state archives and private
collections, most of the abstracts were based on the earliest records known
to exist.  This was an important work but it had some flaws.  Records of
some counties were published in fragments and scattered through various
volumes, and the poor quality of the printing aggravated the problem even
further.  Since each of the thirty-four volumes had its own index,
searching for names was needlessly protracted.
To correct these problems we have reprinted the entire work in an improved
format.  So the contents have been rearranged, retyped, and consolidated in
three hardcover volumes, each with its own master index.  Volume I has
records of Accomack, Lancaster, Richmond, Northumberland, and Westmoreland
counties;  Volume II has records of Essex, and King and Queen counties; and
Volume III has records of York, Charles City, Henrico, Lower Norfolk, and
Washington counties.
A mine of information, this is possibly the greatest collection of colonial
Virginia source records ever published!

VIRGINIA COLONIALS, Maryland and: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families.
See 1491.

4985. VIRGINIA COUNTIES: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation. By
Morgan P. Robinson. 283 pp., maps, indexed. (1916), repr. Balto., 1992.
$25.00
This is the only book in existence which accurately shows the dates of
formation of Virginia counties, the territory from which they were formed,
their boundaries and jurisdiction, and the origin of their names--and backs
up the information with documentation.  While only 100 Virginia counties
exist today, at least 172 were created at one time or another by Virginia
legislation.  Numerous counties became extinct, merged with other counties
or changed their name, while others were cut off to form the states of
Kentucky and West Virginia.  Since genealogical records created at the time
of these events are not easy to track down without accurate information,
this work, a kind of "Rosetta Stone" to Virginia counties, unravels all the
mysteries surrounding their origins and alterations.

6075.  VIRGINIA FAMILIES, Genealogies of, From Tyler's Quarterly Historical
and Genealogical Magazine, With an Intro. by John Frederick Dorman.
4 vols. 3,621 pp. in all, each vol. illus. and indexed.  Balto., 1981.
The set: $180.00
Our second multivolume work on Virginia genealogies consists of material
from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, a notable
periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of
help to the researcher.
A four-volume set, it has all of the family history articles, about 350,
that appeared in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise
in 1952.  This is a significant body of genealogical material, and many of
the contributors were leading Virginia researchers.  Also included is some
miscellaneous material (Bible records, diary extracts, etc.), and a lengthy
series of articles titled "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose
Records Have Been Destroyed," which provides basic information on numerous
early Virginia families (in Volume IV).
For convenience the articles are arranged throughout the four volumes in a
single alphabetical sequence.  Since each volume has its own index, the
genealogist need only consult the particular volume required for his
research.

6071.  Vol. I.  Albridgton-Gerlache.
894 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6072.  Vol. II.  Gildart-Pettus.
939 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6073.  Vol. III. Pinkethman-Tyler.
892 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6074.  Vol. IV.  Walker-Yeardley.
896 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00
(For a complete list of the contents write the Publisher.)

6096.  VIRGINIA FAMILIES, Genealogies of, From the William and Mary College
Quarterly. 5 vols. 4,740 pp., in all, each vol. illus. and indexed.
Balto., 1982.
The set: $225.00
Of the three periodicals which were originally devoted to Virginia
genealogy and history, the William and Mary College Quarterly was the most
scholarly.  Its contribution in the field of family history made it the
fountainhead of Virginia genealogy.
The five volumes together contain every family history article published in
the Quarterly from its beginning in 1892 until 1943, when genealogical
contributions to the Quarterly ceased.  The total output of family history
articles in this period was immense.  No fewer than 500 genealogies were
published--nearly one-third of them in multiple installments--and these,
together with a substantial number of Bible records, are reprinted in their
entirety.  Also reprinted is the two-part history, "The Goodwin Family in
America," which originally appeared in 1897 and 1899 as supplements to
Volumes VI and VIII.
With these five volumes the researcher has within his reach a comprehensive
collection of family history articles with accompanying indexes to the
100,000 persons mentioned (marking the first time complete name indexes
have been published).  Since each volume is separately indexed, the
researcher has the option of buying individual volumes of the set.

6091.  Vol. I.  Adams-Clopton.
944 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6092.  Vol. II.  Cobb-Hay.
990 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6093.  Vol. III. Heale-Muscoe.
903 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6094.  Vol. IV.  Neville-Terrill.
893 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00

6095.  Vol. V.  Thompson-Yates.
1,010 pp., illus., indexed.
$45.00
(For a complete list of the contents write the Publisher.)

6470.  VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.  Abstracts of 17th and 18th Century
English Wills and Administrations Relating to Virginia and Virginians.  By
Lothrop Withington. 745 pp., illus., indexed.  (1903-1929), repr. Balto.,
1980.
$35.00
"Virginia Gleanings in England" was the title of the series of about
eighty-five articles that appeared in The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography.  Assembled here in book form for the first time, they consist of
abstracts of English wills and administrations relating to Virginia and
Virginians and bear reference to heirs and issue, family members,
administrators, property, bequests, places of residence and dates of
emigration, shedding light on the English origins of Virginia families of
the 17th and 18th centuries, and naming some 15,000 persons in passing.
There also are many added annotations which supply more valuable
information.  A complete index of names has been provided for this work.

1245.  VIRGINIA HERALDICA, Being a Registery of Virginia Gentry Entitled to
Coat Armor.  Ed. by William A. Crozier.
(Vol. V of Virginia County Records series). 116 pp., indexed.  (1908),
repr. Balto., 1978.
$12.50
This has complete descriptions of the coats-of-arms of about 275 early
Virginia families, with descriptions of crests and mottoes.  There also are
genealogical notes on these families.

6067.  VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS From The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.
794 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1984.
$45.00
This is the first volume in an important new series of publications made up
of articles which have been excerpted from the leading Virginia
periodicals.  Apart from some marriage records which appear in the second
volume of this series (6068, below), this volume contains every list of
marriages published in these authoritative magazines.  The combined lists--
fully indexed--comprise some 20,000 marriage records, largely from bonds,
ministers' returns, registers, ministerial records, and newspapers.  Most
of the articles are copious, some others fragmentary, but on the whole they
form the largest collection of Virginia marriage records ever published,
and they give the researcher easy access to a vast body of information.

6065.  VIRGINIA TAX RECORDS From The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.
663 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1983.
$40.00
This is primarily a compilation of articles pertaining to tax records--a
term used rather freely to permit inclusion of such records as personal
property tax lists, tithables, poll lists, land tax lists, and rent rolls.
Like census records, tax records have the distinction of placing people in
a particular location at a definite time and identifying them in relation
to their households and property, thus providing irrefutable evidence of
their existence and places of habitation.  These records probably represent
only a fraction of the early tax records of Virginia, but they do
constitute a large proportion of the surviving records and refer to some
20,000 individuals in all. Their consolidation in this volume, with an
extensive index, will certainly facilitate research in this field.

6068.  VIRGINIA VITAL RECORDS From The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.
835 pp., indexed.  (1982), repr. Balto., 1984.
$45.00
This is essentially a collection of articles containing lists of births,
marriages, and deaths.  It contains virtually everything in the way of
vital records ever published in the three leading Virginia periodicals.
Spare and comprehensive by turns, the information is derived from church
and parish registers, Bible records, tombstone inscriptions, and obituary
notices--vital records in the broadest sense of the term.  The articles
range from brief abstracts of individual documents to transcriptions of
entire files and encompass a wealth of out-of-the-way detail.  In all,
since this indexed work has reference to some 30,000 persons of Virginia
origin or descent, it will be a valuable and easy work for the researcher
to use.

1243.  WILLIAMSBURG WILLS.  Ed. by William A. Crozier.  (Vol. III of
Virginia County Records series). 77 pp., indexed.  (1906), repr. Balto.,
1973.
$9.50
This consists of transcriptions of about 350 wills from the original files
at the Chancery Court at Williamsburg.  They are from the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.

1030.  WILLS, Virginia, Before 1799.  By William M. Clemens.
107 pp.  (1924), repr. Balto., 1986.
$10.00
This is a complete abstract register of all names mentioned in over 600
wills recorded before 1799, and they were obtained from the courthouse
records of Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Loudoun, Prince William, and
Rockbridge counties.  Arranged alphabetically by the name of the testator,
there are about 3,000 names (mainly relatives) who were listed in the
wills, plus the place and date the will was filed.

5820.  WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS, Virginia, 1632-1800.  By Clayton
Torrence. 483 pp. (1930), repr. Balto., 1990.
$25.00
This invaluable index, by a distinguished genealogist, lists over 50,000
names of individuals for whom wills and administrations were recorded in
the counties of Virginia (colony and state), some of which are now in West
Virginia.


WEST VIRGINIA

3050.  ESTATE SETTLEMENTS, West Virginia. By Ross B. Johnston.
176 pp.  (From W. Va. Hist., 1955-1963), repr. Balto., 1988.
$15.00
This is an index of wills, inventories, appraisements, land grants, and
surveys up to 1850.  It covers the thirteen counties that were formed
before 1800, and it contains the names of about 25,000 residents,
alphabetically arranged by the names of the principals in the estate
settlements.

3527.  GENEALOGY, West Virginia, Sources and Resources.  By Carol McGinnis.
135 pp., indexed.  Balto., 1988.
$18.50
This detailed guide to genealogical sources and resources in West Virginia
covers what records to look for, what is available, and where it can be
found.
From the large to the small, it identifies records on the state and
regional level and then county level (county by county), providing details
of vital records, Bible records, church records, cemetery records,
newspapers, naturalizations, military records, county and regional records,
census records (including special schedules, indexes, and census
substitutes), land records, maps, and city directories.  Also included is a
detailed bibliography of West Virginia genealogical sources--again
statewide, regional, and countywide.  Also there are appendices with: (1) a
complete inventory of the Historical Records Survey Archives on microfilm,
and (2) a list of West Virginians who filed Civil War damage claims, 1871-
1880.
The main focus of the book, however, is the holdings of the various
institutions whose resources support the genealogist's special needs.
County by county, it lists the names, addresses, and business hours of
libraries, archives, societies, courthouses, and other record repositories;
describes their manuscript and record collections; highlights their special
holdings; and provides details regarding queries, searches, and
restrictions on  the use of their records.

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Virginia (Now West Virginia), Early Records.  By Clara
McCormack Sage and Laura Sage Jones.
See 5090.

3900.  MONROE COUNTY, West Virginia, A History of.  By Oren F. Morton.
510 pp., illus., fldg. map, indexed.  (1916) repr. Balto., 1988.
$25.00
The historical coverage of this work is extensive, and it is supplemented
with much data of genealogical concern from a variety of official records.
In addition, about a third of the text is devoted to concise, yet
informative, histories of several hundred families.


CANADA

391.  CANADIAN ROOTS, In Search of Your.  By Angus Baxter.
368 pp., wrappers. Balto., 1989. Low in stock.
$14.95
This is the first book by Angus Baxter to deal exclusively with the sources
available for genealogical research within Canada.  He discusses the great
migrations of Scots, Irish, English, Germans, Huguenots, Ukrainians, and
Jews to Canada; covers the National Archives in Ottawa, with its holdings
of censuses, parish registers, naturalization records, land and homestead
records, and military records; and even summarizes the holdings of the LDS
Church relating to Canada.
But the best is a step-by-step guide to the records and record repositories
in each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and the Northwest
territories.  Comprising the bulk of the book, this core section has a
detailed breakdown--by province and territory--of vital records, wills,
land records, censuses, church records, newspapers and books, and it then
lists the libraries, societies and archives, and their major holdings and
ongoing projects.  Finally, there is a chapter that tells you how to use
the data to build a family tree or write a family history.

NOVA SCOTIA IMMIGRANTS TO 1867. By Leonard H. Smith, Jr. and Norma H.
Smith.
See 5474.


GREAT BRITAIN

840.  BATTLE ABBEY, The Roll of.  Comp. by John B. Burke.
127 pp., indexed.  (1848), repr. Balto., 1985.
$12.50
The Roll is a list of several hundred of the noble companions of William
the Conqueror, and it is the earliest record of the Normans.  Burke
annotated the work extensively, and there are biographical and genealogical
details for each name on the Roll.

2176.  BISHOPS' TRANSCRIPTS AND MARRIAGE LICENSES, A Simplified Guide to,
Their Location and Indexes in England, Wales, and Ireland.  By J. S. W.
Gibson. 40 pp., wrappers.  Third Edition, Balto., 1992.
$5.00
This is a guide to the location of Bishops' Transcripts and of the records
connected with the issuance of marriage licenses in England, Wales, and
Ireland, such as Bonds and Allegations.  Also included are abstracts,
calendars, and indexes to marriage licenses, published or not, and when
these are lacking there is an indication of the arrangement of the
surviving documents.  English marriage records were maintained in a wide
variety of ecclesiastical courts.  Anyone searching for marriage records
prior to 1837, when civil registration was introduced, will find this
simplified guide to be of inestimable value.  This is the first completely
new edition to appear in ten years.

3340.  BRITISH PEERAGES, A Directory of.  By Francis L. Leeson.
174 pp., wrappers.  (1984), repr. Balto., 1986.
$12.50
This book identifies all past and present holders of British peerages--
Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons--and is the first such work
to be arranged in one continuous alphabetical sequence by both titles and
surnames.  So, it is a quick and convenient means of discovering whether or
when a peerage existed, the surname of the individual who held or continues
to hold it, his rank and nationality, and the approximate period of the
peerage's tenure and its final fate, if no longer extant.
In this consolidated list the reader can locate both the peerage title with
the names of the families or individuals bearing the title, and the names
of families or individuals with the title and date of the peerage.  Under
titles, peerages are listed in chronological order of creation, along with
promotions, ranks, period covered, etc., while under surnames there is a
listing of titles in alphabetical order with similar information.

830.  (BURKE'S) EXTINCT AND DORMANT BARONETCIES of England, Ireland, and
Scotland, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the.  By John and John
Bernard Burke. 644 pp., illus.  (1841), repr. Balto., 1985.
$35.00
This work sets forth, in alphabetical order, the lineages of nearly 1,000
holders of the order of Baronet, whose titles were dormant or extinct by
1841.  The lineages are narrative in style and informative, and for each
there is an illustration of the amorial bearings.

2181.  CENSUS RETURNS, 1841-1881 On Microfilm.  By J. S. W. Gibson.
56 pp., wrappers.  Fifth edition, Balto., 1989.
$7.00
The books of enumerators' returns for the censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861,
1871, and 1881, for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of
Man are in the Public Record Office in London. Those for Scotland, included
for the first time in this edition, are in the General Register of
Scotland, in Edinburgh.  Microfilm copies of these five censuses are in
libraries and record offices throughout Britain.  This guide shows what
microfilm is available and where, and it provides--county by county,
library by library--a breakdown of local holdings and the registration
districts that are covered.

2187.  ELECTORAL REGISTERS SINCE 1832; and Burgess Rolls.  By J. S. W.
Gibson & Colin Rogers. 2nd. Ed.  60 pp., wrappers, Balto., 1990.
$7.50
Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and
addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which
brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or
ownership of property.  During most of the 19th century the printed
registers were arranged in alphabetical order by constituency, while later
they were arranged in street order by parish.  Thus they are used  widely
by genealogists as a tool to locate individuals in the various decennial
censuses.  Until now there has never been a guide showing just where these
amazingly informative lists can be consulted, but this present work
redresses that problem and provides a county-by-county inventory of
published electoral registers held in libraries and record offices
throughout Britain.

2191.  HEARTH TAX, The, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association
Oath Rolls.  By J. S. W. Gibson. 60 pp., wrappers.  Updated Balto., 1990.
$7.50
The Hearth Tax, for which records survive between 1662 and 1674, is the
best known of taxation sources for local and family history, listing the
inhabitants of most houses in England and Wales by county and parish.  This
booklet at last provides a clear and simple guide to the lists that survive
in the Public Record Office and elsewhere, with notes on dates, condition,
and published transcripts.  Similar records for Scotland and Ireland are
listed.  Also included are an assortment of subsidy rolls, poll tax lists,
and the "Marriage Tax" of the late 1690s.  Additionally, references are
given for the Association Oath Rolls for England and Wales, the Channel
Islands and transatlantic colonies, which were signed by many of the adult
male population.

XXXX. LOCAL CENSUS LISTINGS, 1522-1930. Holdings in the British Isles. By
J.S.W. Gibson & Mervyn Medlycott. 60 pp., wrappers. Balto., 1992.
$??.??
Civil censuses in Britain prior to 1841 were purely statistical surveys, so
a detailed list of local censuses for the whole period 1522 to 1930 must be
of enormous value to the genealogist.  As used here the term "local census"
refers to lists of inhabitants which are not connected with the 1841-1891
civil censuses.  Covering entire communities, this survey of the holdings
of eighty British record offices covers such records as Communicants Lists
and parish censuses in England and Wales, Examination Rolls in Scotland,
and lists of church members in Ireland.  Also listed are "drafts" of the
1841-1891 civil censuses secreted in parish and private collections, some
1801-1831 borough censuses which were actually name lists rather than
summaries, tax lists such as the 1694 Marriage Tax, rate lists, including
the earliest local census so far discovered in Britain (Coventry, 1522),
and censuses taken for charity distribution by overseers of the poor.  This
is one of the most helpful guides to the location of records in Britain so
far published in the distinguished series of Gibson guides.

2183.  MARRIAGE, CENSUS and Other Indexes in Great Britain.  By J. S. W.
Gibson. 60 pp., wrappers. Fourth edition, Balto., 1992.
$6.50
This is an amazingly useful little book for it is mainly a guide to
unpublished indexes to marriage records, census records, and other types of
records in Great Britain and Ireland.  For the most part they are privately
compiled indexes, usually unknown or inaccessible to the researcher.
Arranged by counties, and thereunder by type of record (marriage, census,
etc.), each entry gives the place or places of coverage of the index
(county, town, parish, village, etc.), dates of coverage, a description of
the contents, and the name and address of the compiler, with tips on
requesting a search in the index. Vastly expanded.  Includes all new
compilations to 1992.

2189.  MILITIA LISTS AND MUSTERS 1757-1876.  A Directory of Holdings in the
British Isles.  By J. S. W. Gibson & Mervyn Medlycott.
2nd Ed.  42 pp., wrappers. Balto., 1990.
$6.50
By law, a certain number of militiamen had to be recruited from among the
able-bodied men in each parish.  Thus, lists of all those eligible had to
be drawn up by the parish constable, and where these survive (between 1757
and 1831) they constitute a veritable census.  Along with the "Defense
Lists"--the Posse Comitatus of 1798 and the Levee en Masse of 1803-04--and
muster rolls of various militia regiments and local forces, these militia
lists (in theory) are almost a complete census of the male population.
Militias were generally raised on a county basis, and most of these
voluminous records are found today in the various county record offices.
This new work is a guide to the location of all such records in the county
record offices throughout Britain.

2188.  POLL BOOKS, c. 1696-1872, A Directory to Holdings in Great Britain.
By J. S. W. Gibson & Colin Rogers. 2nd Ed.  60 pp., wrappers.  Balto.,
1990.
$7.50
Until 1872, when the secret ballot was introduced, voting was a public
matter, and a record of just how people voted was frequently published.
Going back to the 1690s, poll books list the names and parishes of the
voters, often noting their occupations and voting qualifications, with
their choice of candidate.  Genealogists find these poll books
indispensable because they identify individuals by parish, thus pointing
the way to the location of other invaluable records.  This guide lists
concisely the location of all known printed and manuscript poll books in
public repositories throughout England, Wales, and Scotland.

4965.  PRINCESS OF WALES, American Ancestors and Cousins of The.  By Gary
Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. 194 pp., illus., indexed.
Balto., 1984.
$14.95
Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales has genealogical
links to this country.  Not only is she one-eighth American, but she also
has ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies, near
relatives throughout this country, several hundred distant kinsmen well-
known in American history, and probably between twenty and thirty million
distant American cousins, including most people named Strong, Hibbard,
Newbold, Coggswell, Holton, Clapp, and Waldo, and many named Hart, Parke,
Morgan, Stanton, Avery, Lyman, Hunt, Tuttle, Dennison, and Huntington.
This work will make it possible for the reader to determine if he or she
has any relationship with the Princess.

2177.  PROBATE JURISDICTIONS, A Simplified Guide to.  Where to Look for
Wills in Great Britain and Ireland.  By J. S. W. Gibson. 72 pp., maps,
wrprs.  Third Edition, Balto., 1989.
$7.50
This simplified guide to probate jurisdictions in Great Britain and Ireland
is designed for the newcomer to local and family history.  It suggests
where to start looking for wills and associated records, for before 1858
British wills were probated in a wide variety of ecclesiastical courts.
This guide will lead to the correct record offices, both for places in the
expected ecclesiastical jurisdictions and those that are the exceptions.
The arrangement is by county and thereunder by court of jurisdiction and
repository, with information indicating the present location of the wills,
the period of coverage, and the existence of indexes.  Each county section
has an outline map showing the approximate boundaries of the various
ecclesiastical jurisdictions.

1625.  QUEEN VICTORIA'S DESCENDANTS.  By Marlene Eilers.
252 pp., illus.  Balto., 1987.
$39.95
Through her marriage into the German royal house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
and through the marriages of her nine children and her many grandchildren,
Queen Victoria guided and manipulated the destiny of European royalty.
Today the British royal family is connected by blood and marriage to the
royal houses of Spain, Germany, Greece, Russia, Romania, Yugoslavia,
Sweden, and Denmark.
This is the first book to treat the subject of Victoria and her
descendants.  The first section is the story of Victoria and her children,
and it follows them and their children and grandchildren through the royal
courts of Europe. The second part of the book--the genealogy--shows the
descents from each of Victoria's children, listing births, marriages,
deaths, annulments, divorces, honors, titles, and connections up to the
present time.  Easy to read and understand, it unites an enormous body of
data and renders it instantly accessible.

2182.  UNPUBLISHED PERSONAL NAME INDEXES In Record Offices and Libraries in
Great Britain.  By J. S. W. Gibson. 40 pp., wrappers.  Second edition,
Balto., 1989.
$6.00
Except for census records and marriage records (see entry 2183, p. ??) this
is a guide to unpublished indexes of just about every class of record
useful to the genealogist--from apprenticeship records to tithe lists, from
tax rolls to debtors lists.  To get this data Mr. Gibson sent
questionnaires to 600 libraries and record offices asking for details of
manuscript indexes in their collections.  The responses were broken down by
geographic area and by record group, and they form what is the most
comprehensive guide to unpublished finding aids available.


ENGLAND

3450. ANGLO-NORMAN FAMILIES, The Origins of Some. By Lewis C. Loyd. 140
pp., fldg. map, indexed. (Pub. of the Harleian Soc., 1951), repr. Balto.,
1992.
This work deals with the Norman origins of several hundred families and
related individuals, primarily those who settled in England between 1066
and 1205.  There are two indexes, one of the families, names and places,
and the other of Norman overlords and their undertenants in England.

9455.  DOMESDAY BOOK.  A complete set of 35 volumes in hardcover.
$1,000.00
Postage and handling charge $20.00

9456.  SAME.  A complete set of 35 volumes in paperback.
$650.00
Postage and handling charge $17.50
Nine hundred years ago--in 1086--William the Conqueror launched the great
Domesday Survey of England to ascertain the extent and value of his newly
acquired lands.  Commissioners were sent to every county to discover the
names of landowners and their tenants, as well as those who had owned land
in the time of Edward the Confessor (d. 1066), the extent of the cultivated
territory, and the value of land, plows, and livestock.  The returns from
the various counties were collected, corrected and abridged, and fair-
copied by one writer.  Since this was accepted as the final authoritative
register of rightful possession, people called it Domesday Book, by analogy
with the Day of Judgement.
This is considered to be one of the most important books ever written.  The
full Latin text was printed once, in 1783, but in 900 years there has never
been a complete English translation!  To set this situation to rights, the
late Dr. John Morris undertook the task of translating and annotating the
text in its entirety.  After fifteen years, when the last of the thirty-
five volumes came off the press, this mammoth project was completed--in
time for the Ninth Centenary of the Domesday Survey, which is being
celebrated all over England.
It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this work or to overstate its
achievement.  But now the general public has access to the work that
codified the structure of English society.  To students of local history
and genealogy, to scholars who want to reexamine the evidence on which
modern scholarship rests, or to explore areas of social and administrative
structure which have received less attention, this work is absolutely
basic.
To preserve the original arrangement of Domesday Book this edition is
arranged by counties, one county per numbered volume.  It also corrects the
few errors in the 18th-century Latin text while providing a parallel,
modern English translation.  Detailed notes on the text and translation are
one of the features of this work, which also includes biographical sketches
of some of the principal figures named in the Survey, translations of
related contemporary documents, statistical summaries, descriptions of
local places, maps, indexes of names and places, and an explanation of
technical terms.

880.  EVERYONE HAS ROOTS.  An Introduction to English Genealogy.  By
Anthony J. Camp. 189 pp. Balto., 1978.
$12.50
Designed to instruct the beginner in the use of English genealogical
records, this work describes their origins and present-day applications.
It treats virtually all facets of research, discussing methods and
principles, books and archives, and adventures and misadventures.  The
author of this book is very well qualified, because for over fifteen years
he has been Director of Research of the Society of Genealogists in London.

5450.  GENEALOGICAL GAZETTEER of England, A.  An Alphabetical Dictionary of
Places With Their Location, Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, Population, and
the Date of the Earliest Entry in the Registers of Every Ancient Parish in
England.  By Frank Smith.
599 pp.  (1968), repr. Balto., 1987.
$30.00
The only book of its kind, this indispensable reference tool with its
17,000 entries is designed to facilitate research by giving the names and
descriptions of places in England as they existed prior to 1831, giving
location, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, population, and the date of the
earliest entry in the registers of every ancient parish, thus combining
genealogical information hitherto impossible to find in any but the rarest
sources.

2186.  LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, 1750-1920 in England and Wales, Channel Islands,
Isle of Man.  By J. S. W. Gibson. 64 pp., maps, wrappers.  Balto., 1989.
$7.50
In the mid-18th century the provincial press stopped copying news from
London newspapers and began to carry news of local events in their own
columns.  Coverage was usually limited to the area of circulation, and this
let the papers focus on local events such as births, marriages, and deaths,
for example.  Such papers are of obvious value to the genealogist, and Mr.
Gibson has produced a fine location list.  Arranged by county, and
thereunder alphabetically by local area, it describes concisely what papers
were published, when they were published, and where they can be found
today.

4130.  NORMAN PEOPLE, The, And Their Existing Descendants in the British
Dominions and the United States of America.
xvi, 484 pp., indexed.  (1874), repr. Balto., 1989.
$30.00
The first part of this work is on the composition and character of the
British people with emphasis on the Normans, for they existed in greater
numbers in England than had heretofore been thought.
The second section is a directory of Norman names, from what they had been
to what they became in popular usage.  It cites the first usage of the name
in Normandy and identifies the early bearers of the name in England.  The
alphabetical listing has thousands of entries, and is followed by an index
of 5,000 Norman surnames found in the work as a whole.

2184.  QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS in England and Wales.  By J. S. W. Gibson.
47 pp., wrappers.  Third edition. Balto., 1992.
$5.00
The records of Quarter Sessions are the oldest and largest collection of
public records of the counties of England and Wales.  They cover almost
every type of record arising from civil and criminal court proceedings,
records of oaths and declarations to innkeepers' licenses, calendars of
prisoners to registers of tradesmen and gamekeepers.  So, a concise
inventory of the Quarter Sessions records is an invaluable research tool.
Based on information furnished by county archives or culled from published
guides, this work lists the various categories of Quarter Sessions records
likeliest to be useful to the genealogist, showing where the records are,
their dates of coverage, and whether finding aids are available.
Completely revised and updated.

2185.  RECORD OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES, A Simplified Guide to.  How to
Find Them.  By J. S. W. Gibson & Pamela Peskett.
Fifth Edition. 60 pp., maps, wrappers.  Balto., 1992.
$7.00
Since the redrawing of county boundaries in 1974 there has been a wholesale
change in the location of record offices in England and Wales.  There are
now many new county record offices, new archive departments (even certain
divisions of the Public Record Office in London have changed location), and
many consolidated and reconstituted diocesan record offices.  This  guide,
designed to help you locate these record offices, has 97 maps to guide you
to them.  It also has addresses, phone numbers, a list of relevant
publications, and a variety of information pertaining to each of the record
offices in England and Wales. Revised and expanded, with new addresses and
phone numbers, and new maps.


IRELAND

1755.  ANCESTRAL RESEARCH, Irish and Scotch-Irish.  By Margaret D. Falley.
2 vols. 813, 354 pp., each vol. indexed.  (1962) repr. Balto., 1988.
$60.00
This is the best book on Irish genealogy ever published.  The first volume
is a guide to preliminary research.  It describes genealogical collections
and indexes in all the major Irish repositories and the published indexes,
catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the United States.
The various chapters detail the types of records that exist and where, the
nature and extent of the holdings, dates of coverage, and the existence of
indexes to wills and probates, birth, marriage and burial records, land,
census and tax records, and church and parish records.
Volume Two is a bibliography of family histories, pedigrees, and source
materials published in books and periodicals.  It covers such printed works
as parish, town and county histories, church records, and family histories.
It also has a list of over 1,400 manuscript family histories deposited in
public record offices, a survey of the microfilm holdings of various
American and Irish institutions, inventories of other manuscript
collections, and an index of family history articles appearing in over
twenty periodicals.

FAMINE IMMIGRANTS, The.  Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of
New York, 1846-1851.  7 vols.
See 2211 ff.

3853.  GENEALOGICAL ATLAS OF IRELAND, A New.  By Brian Mitchell.
123 pp., maps, wrappers, 4to. (1986), repr. Balto, 1992.
$18.95
Genealogical research in Ireland depends on a knowledge of geography, for
all major Irish record sources are linked to at least one of the six
administrative divisions mapped in this work: counties, baronies, civil
parishes, dioceses, poor law unions, and probate districts.
The most important record source, the mid-19th century survey of Ireland
known as Griffith's Valuation, is organized by poor law union, parish,
barony, and county.  But wills probated before 1858 are organized by
diocese, and after 1858 by probate district; while parish registers,
marriage license bonds, and census records all have an organization linked
to one or another of these administrative divisions.
To help in identifying the precise location of these divisions, and thus
their jurisdiction, Mr. Mitchell has drawn at least three maps for every
county.  The first county map depicts the civil parishes; the second shows
the baronies and dioceses of that county; the third illustrates the poor
law unions and the parishes included in the probate districts serving that
county.  Three maps of Ireland are also included to show the area covered
by each county, diocese, and probate district.  In addition the
Introduction covers the link between the major administrative divisions and
the major record sources of Ireland.

2962. GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX To The Townlands and Towns, Parishes and
Baronies of Ireland, Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. 968
pp. (1861), repr. Balto., 1992.
$45.00
In all genealogical work the first and most important step is to establish
the geographical origin of the ancestor.  In Irish research the genealogist
may know the name of the county where the ancestor lived but be puzzled
about a place-name given as the place of birth or residence.  In all
probability the place-name is that of a townland, the smallest territorial
subdivision in Ireland.  Since research in Ireland will usually start at
the parish level, there must be a reference tool that will key the townland
to the parish in which it is located.
This work was prepared under the auspices of the British government for
almost that purpose.  The over 900 densely printed pages show the county,
barony, parish, and poor law union in which the 70,000 townlands were
situated in 1851, as well as the location of the townlands on the Great
Ordnance Survey maps, with appendices containing separate indexes to
parishes and baronies.

3856.  IRISH CHURCHES AND GRAVEYARDS, A Guide to.  By Brian Mitchell.
253 pp., 4to. Balto., 1990.
Temporarily out of print
In Ireland, the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in
1864, and the registration of Protestant marriages in 1845.  Before this,
church registers have the only reference to an ancestor's birth, marriage
or death, but because of the destruction of many Church of Ireland burial
records, and the late beginning dates of many Roman Catholic and
Presbyterian burial registers, a gravestone inscription may be the only
record of an ancestor's death.  Also they frequently mention the person's
residence and age at death, and many graves are family plots with
gravestones recording the deaths of other family members.  So, the location
of Irish churches and graveyards is very important to the family historian.
In this book every church and burial ground in Ireland is identified in
relation to a townland or street address.  Each townland is located in its
appropriate civil parish, and each parish is listed in alphabetical order
in its county and is preceded by a number which gives its location in A New
Genealogical Atlas of Ireland (see entry 3853, above).  An Ordnance Survey
number lets the researcher pinpoint the church's exact location on a six-
inch Ordnance Survey map.  Churches that are now defunct and graveyards
that have been separated from their churches can be located with this
guide.

3852.  IRISH PARISH REGISTERS, A Guide to. By Brian Mitchell.
151 pp. total, 4to.  Balto., 1988.
$25.00
This work tells you which Irish parish registers exist (all denominations),
their starting dates, and where and how they can be located, and it links
them to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, the great survey of property
holders taken between 1848 and 1864.
The civil parish, rather than the church parish, was the basic unit for the
administration of records in Ireland.  Most important Irish records--parish
records of birth, marriage, and death, for instance, and Griffith's
Valuation--are either organized along civil parish lines or, as in the case
of Catholic parish records, which are organized by diocese, can be tied
into civil parish records for further research.
Here are located churches of all denominations, including Roman Catholic,
and given is the earliest date of their registers.  In tabular form, in
alphabetical order in each of the thirty-two counties, is the name of the
civil parish; the name of the Church of Ireland parish (if different), and
the earliest baptism entry in the registers; the Roman Catholic parish and
the earliest baptism or marriage entry in the registers; the Presbyterian
congregation and its earliest baptism entries; and, if registers of
dissenting churches are extant (Quaker, Methodist, Congregationalist,
Baptist, etc.), it gives the beginning of their registers.  It also
provides map references to Mr. Mitchell's New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland
(see 3853, above) and to the maps accompanying the householders' index to
Griffith's Valuations.  This makes parish records and Griffith's Valuations
compatible, for they can be identified by the same administrative division-
-the civil parish.

4290.  IRISH PEDIGREES.  The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation.  By John
O'Hart.  2 vols.  925, 975 pp., each vol. indexed.  (1892), repr. Balto.,
1989.
$125.00
This work is the magnum opus of Irish genealogy, a vast and prodigious
compendium of family history and source material.  The first volume
explores the origin and stem of the Irish nation, and the old Irish
genealogies assembled here are brought down to the lineal descendant of
each family living at the time of the British dispossession, although many
of the descents are brought down to the 19th century.  Also included in a
lengthy appendix with an extraordinarily detailed table showing families
that owned land in the 12th century.  In addition, there is an index of
several thousand surnames.
The first half of Volume II consists of Anglo-Irish genealogies, all
carried down at least to the Commonwealth period, and most to the last
quarter of the 19th century.  Arranged alphabetically by family name, these
hundreds of genealogies are heavily annotated, and being supported by
references to events of comparatively recent history, they sometimes trace
the line of descent to an American branch of the family.  There also is
data on the Huguenot and Palatine families of Ireland and a chapter on the
Ulster Plantation and Scots settlers.  The latter half of Volume II is
encyclopedic in coverage, bearing reference to countless persons, places,
and events associated with Ireland.

6060. PREROGATIVE WILLS of Ireland, 1536-1810, Index to the.  By Sir Arthur
Vicars. 512 pp.  (1897), repr. Balto., 1989.
$30.00
All of the Prerogative Wills of Ireland were destroyed by fire in the
Dublin courthouse in 1922, but before that Sir William Betham had made
abstracts of the genealogical data in the wills from 1536 to 1800.  In 1897
Sir Arthur Vicars prepared an index to Betham's abstracts.
The index has 40,000 entries arranged alphabetically by the name of the
testator, showing his rank occupation, or condition, his town or county of
residence, and the year when the estate was probated.  In view of the loss
of the original wills, this must be one of the most useful tools in all
Irish genealogical research.

2963.  RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND in Ireland, 1876.
325 pp.  (1876), repr. Balto., 1988.
$35.00
In 1873 the Local Government Board in Ireland set about to learn the number
and names of owners of land of one acre and upwards in Ireland.  Clerks of
the various Poor Law Unions were called upon to draw up lists of such
persons from the property valuation and rate books in their custody.  The
lists were "returned" to the Local Government Board by the end of 1875,
arranged into counties, alphabetized, and finally published in 1876 as a
Parliamentary paper.
Since the returns include the names of small landowners as well as large,
they stand as a census of a significant proportion of the population of
Ireland in 1876 and no doubt include the names of many people related to
emigrants of an earlier period.  In all there were 32,614 owners of land of
one acre and upwards.
The returns are organized by provinces (Leinster, Munster, Ulster, and
Connaught), then by counties, and thereunder alphabetically by the
landowner's name, with his address, the extent of his property (acreage),
and its evaluation.  Few libraries in the U.S. are known to have copies of
this important book in their Irish collections, so this reprint should find
a warm welcome.


SCOTLAND

3368.  SCOTLAND, A Topographical Dictionary of.  By Samuel Lewis.
2 vols. 2nd edition. 1,233 pp. (1851), repr. Balto., 1989.
$75.00
Every fact of importance that illustrates the local history of Scotland is
in this book.  Arranged alphabetically by place (village, parish, town,
etc.) it has an accurate description of all Scottish localities as they
were at the time of publication (1851), showing where a village was located
in relation to its parish, or the nearest town or towns, where a parish was
located in relation to its nearest district, and the names of villages in
it, the number of inhabitants of an area, the main landowners, and chief
topographical features.
This work enables you to identify a given locality in relation to a parish
and thus the identification of the parish records.  So, if you know the
place of origin of your ancestor--the village or town--this gazetteer will
show you, in effect, which parish records to search for births, marriages,
and deaths.  Modern gazetteers are useless for this purpose.
The civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1855, at
which time all the old parish registers were called in.  The LDS Church has
copied the parish registers of every parish in Scotland, from the earliest
up to 1855, and has indexed virtually all of them--all the more reason to
know your ancestor's parish.

SCOTTISH ANCESTRY, Tracing Your. By Kathleen B. Cory.
See 1155.

SCOTTISH LOCAL HISTORY.  By David Moody.
See 3861.

SCOTTISH SETTLERS in North America, 1625-1825, Directory of.  By David
Dobson. Vols. I, III, IV, V, and VI.
See 1486, 1488, 1489, 1481, and 1482.

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