Genealogy Books

An excellent buy, easily accessed on my pc and consequently saved me hours of travelling time to local reference libraries. Traced ancestors whom I never knew existed and of course their details.

Written by Robert O. Day the author of "The Mormon Battalion"), The Enoch Train Pioneers: The Trek Of The First Two Handcart Companies 1856 is a thoroughly documented account of the historical journey undertaken by the Enoch Train Pioneers, which ultimately led to their settlement in Salt Lake valley. Black-and-white sketches bring additional life to the vibrant prose. Highly recommended for school and community library collections, he text for The Enoch Train Pioneers reads smoothly from first page to last as the story of this memorable bit of American history unfolds. Exhaustive appendices round out this fascinating narrative and historical reference.

Ethnic Nationalism: Genealogy, Politics, And Legacy by Gi-Wook Shin (Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center) explores the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism. Descriptively analyzing the separation and differences in the communist north and democratic south of the Korean peninsula, Ethnic Nationalism addresses the general identity formation of the two Koreas. A core addition to academic library International Studies reference collections, Ethnic Nationalism is strongly recommended to the attention of political science, sociology, and cultural anthropology students studying the contrasts and similarities of North and South Korea through their collective history of anti-colonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and globalization.

Just went to the local bookstore to find some good books for my mother-in-law who has expressed an interest in family history. After reading through several excellent choices, I finally settled on Everything Family Tree by Kimberly Powell. The layout and format is very easy to follow and the writing is friendly, professional, and easy to understand. It covers every genealogy topic I can think of, including surname origins and DNA testing, plus research in all of the major record types. Not very expensive either, so I ended up buying a second copy for myself. An outstanding book for beginner to intermediate genealogists.

The original records abstracted for this series belongs to the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 217). The National Archives description for this specific collection of Third Auditor records is "Entry 722: Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864." The National Archives staff formed this collection by culling only the "settled accounts" or very last payments made by each pension office to each pensioner. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) describes this collection as follows, from a current hand-out given to researchers:
"Final Pension Vouchers Revolutionary War"
Recognizing the great genealogical value of the final pension vouchers and the difficulty in locating them among the pension agents' accounts, the National Archives located and removed these vouchers from the voluminous accounts of the pension agents, thus rendering them more accessible to researchers and the staff of the National Archives. This project, which took about five years to complete, resulted in the segregation of about 55,000 final or last payment vouchers and the creation of an index to these vouchers. The segregated vouchers are arranged by State and then alphabetically by name of pensioner; the index is alphabetical. The final payment is the record of the "final" payment paid to the heirs of a pensioner after his death. If the heirs did not file for the money that was due the pensioner from the time of the receipt of his last pension payment until the time of his death[,] there is no final payment, only a "last" payment. The removal of the final or last payment vouchers was a time-consuming and involved project, requiring thousands of staff-hours of work. From the registers of payments to United States pensioners (available on microfilm as T718), the name of every Revolutionary War veteran paid under the acts of 1818, 1828, and 1832 was placed on a 3 x 5 index card. The following information obtained from the registers was also included on the card: place where the pension agent was located, the act under which payment was made, date of death, and date either of the final or of the last payment. The date of the last payment to the pensioner was recorded only if there was no indication in the register that a final payment had been made to his heirs. The accounts of the appropriate pension agent were then searched. If the voucher was located, it was removed and placed in an acid-free envelope, the proper index card was then annotated with the asterisk (*) to indicate that the voucher had been located and withdrawn. The same procedures were followed for widows and invalid pensioners; only if the ledgers indicated that a final payment had been made after their death. No search was conducted for the last payment vouchers for these individuals. The Central Reference Staff of the National Archives will search the index cards and the segregated vouchers. If the requested voucher is not among these files, no further searching will be made except in the cases where the researcher has determined from the registers of payments (microfilm T718) that final payment was made. The researcher must provide the staff with the name of the pensioner, the location of the pension agency, the act under which he was paid, the date of death, and the date of the final payment. This information is available from the pension application files and the registers of payments. The Central Reference Staff will not search for last payment vouchers. Despite the title of this NARA hand-out, not all vouchers pertain to Revolutionary War pensioners. Others claim service in the War of 1812, Florida War, and Seminole War, or regular army service. Neither do these vouchers represent every pensioner paid by any given pension office. Further, the pension act of 6 April 1838 resulted in a collection of pension payment vouchers which were not handled by the various pension agencies but by the Treasury Department itself (RG 217, Entry 724). Those vouchers contain the very same types of information, but were neither culled nor indexed by the NARA staff in their above-described project. Last and final pension payment vouchers contain a variety of "extra" data, such as the maiden names of widows, and their full dates and places of marriage (sometimes supplied by attendees or the celebrant). One such marriage record in Louisiana among these vouchers was transcribed by the priest at St. Louis Cathedral, and gives the parentage of both bride and groom as well as the groom's birthplace. In another instance, a coroner's report confirms that a veteran drowned in Lake Pontchartrain when the steamboat he was riding burned to the water's edge. And, in a final example, a 32-year-old veteran's death was reported by his brother-in-law, who identified not only the exact time of death, but the place as well, right down to the French Quarter street location and the proprietor's name of the coffee house (suggesting that perhaps one can have one too many beignets).

Researching family history in Lisbon, Portugal I was blessed to find this invaluable 1996 publication which contained my complete family history going back to 1770, with links to further history going back to 1497. Bravo to Jorge Forjaz and the Fundacao Oriente on this most important and monumental work.

This book contains family lineages to hundreds of Connecticut families! I was able to track 200 years of records for my families: Hall, Ives, Mix, Moss, and others. If you have roots in Connecticut, you need this book!

This book is excerpted from Dr. Stiles two-volume history of one of Connecticut's original three river towns. Many of the hundreds of genealogies found in Clearfield's reprint carry the pioneering families of Wethersfield forward over many generations from the time of the town's founding in the seventeenth century and are replete with biographical details on numerous descendants. What follows is a partial list of the main families covered in the volume from among the more than 12,000 persons referred to in the index: Adams, Allen, Andres, Andrus, Ayrault, Baker, Baldwin, Barber, Barnard, Barnes, Beach, Beadle, Beckley, Beebe, Belden, Benton, Bidwell, Bigelow, Blinn, Boardman, Boosey, Booth, Bradley, Brewer, Bronson, Brooks, Brown, Buck, Bulkeley, Bull, Bunce, Burnham, Burr, Butler, Callender, Camp, Carpenter, Carter, Case, Chapin, Chapman, Chester, Church, Churchell, Churchill, Clark, Cole, Coleman, Collins, Colt, Cook, Cooke, Cowles, Crane, Crocker, Culver, Curtis, Davis, Deming, Dennison, Dickinson, Dimock, Dix, Dudley, Dunham, Edwards, Ely, Flint, Flowers, Foote, Fosdick, Fox, Francis, Frary, French, Fuller, Gardner, Gates, Gaylor, Gibbs, Gilbert, Gillett, Goff, Goodrich, Goodwin, Grant, Graves, Green(e), Gridley, Grimes, Griswold, Hale, Hall, Hanmer, Harris, Hart, Hatch, Havens, Hawley, Hill, Hills, Holcomb, Hollister, Holmes, Hooker, Hopkins, House, Howard, Howe, Hubbard, Hun(n), Hunt, Hurlbut, Ingraham, Johnson, Jones, Judd, Keene, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kilbourn, Kilby, Kimberly, King, Kirby, Kirkham, Landers, Larned, Latimer, Lawrence, Lee, Lewis, Lindsey, Lockwood, Loomis, Lord, Loveland, Lusk, Lyman, Marsh, Mason, May, Meakins, Merriam, Merrills, Miller, Mills, Miner, Mitchell, Mix, Montague, Moore, Morgan, Morley, Morris, Morse, Moseley, Newton, Nichols, Noble, North, Nott, Ogden, Olmstead, Palmer, Parke, Parker, Parsons, Peck, Pelton, Perkins, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pierson, Pitkin, Porter, Potter, Pratt, Price, Reed, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Rich, Richards, Richardson, Riley, Robbins, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwell, Root, Rose, Russell, Sage, Sanders, Sanford, Savage, Scott, Scovel, Seymour, Shepard, Sherman, Smith, Spencer, Standish, Stephens, Stillman, Stoddard, Strickland, Strong, Talcott, Taylor, Thompson, Tilden, Trac(e)y, Treat, Tryon, Turner, Tuttle, Walker, Ward, Warner, Warren, Watson, Webb, Webster, Weede, Well(e)s, Whaples, Wheeler, White, Whiting, Whitmore, Whitney, Whittlesey, Wickham, Wilcox, Willard, Williams, Wilson, Wolcot, Wood, Woodhouse, Woodruff, and Wright.

Cabarrus County in south central North Carolina was formed in 1792 from Mecklenburg County and is today situated between Mecklenburg and Rowan counties. Mrs. Marler's new work on Cabarrus County is the first effort we know of to systematically present information on all families in that county from its inception until the end of the War of 1812. The author extracted her findings from the 1790 Mecklenburg County census, the 1800 Cabarrus census, court records, Mecklenburg county deed records, marriage records, wills, and newspaper obituaries. She has arranged the families alphabetically according to the surname of the head of each household, incorporating all available data and its source in an outline format. Whenever possible, Mrs. Marler embellishes the limited content from these early censuses with information such as the name(s) of neighboring families, persons who bought/sold land to the principal householder, details of a marriage, and so forth. In all, the volume identifies 2,000 early families in Cabarrus County and perhaps five times as many persons overall. Can there be any doubt that Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina must be reckoned as the new starting point for research in this early North Carolina county?

I've had to go through this book three times just to begin to digest all the information. Its given me a lot of history along with all the families in Dublin. I really appreciate this work for giving me a better understanding of the history of this area - as well as my family