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WINNER OF THE SUMNER A. PARKER PRIZE for the best genealogical work concerning a Maryland family published in 2015. Awarded by the Maryland Historical Society. John F. Polk Jr. This book of the Polk...

This important work is the culmination of twelve years of detailed investigation aimed at identifying all the people born with the surname Young (prior to 1870) who lived in Strafford County, New...

Biographies reprinted from the original book printed in 1897 entitled Portrait and Biographical Records of Harford and Cecil Counties Maryland. New and complete index of personal names by Harford...

"History sets forth the principal events marking the progress of civilization; genealogy offers a study of dry names and dates; biography, acknowledging its indebtedness to both, concerns itself with...

Mainly from East and West Nottingham Meetings, Little Britain Meeting, Deer Creek Meeting, Eastland Meeting and the Octorara Meeting.Author: Alice L. BeardPublisher: Heritage BooksPublication Date:...

The Effect of Immigration on the Negro in Baltimore 1850-1860 describes the effects of predominantly non-Black immigration into the city on the lives of the free and slave Blacks before the Civil War...

A clasic treatment of the laws that affected blacks in Virginia. It illustrates the importance of knowledge of the law in doing historical or genealogical research. "Black Laws of Virginia" was...

These documents provide Bland County, Virginia marriage records for the years 1861-1929. Entries list the full names of the bride and groom, their ages, marital status prior to the wedding, parents'...

This publication provides a comprehensive collection of court records from 1834 to 1841 for Bledsoe County, Tennessee, with the original full-name index which refers to the page number in the...

The records contained in this volume cover not only the recently discovered Book 0 (dated 1852-1859 and the very beginning of record-keeping for chancery court in Blount County, Tennessee), but Book...

In the mid-1800s, Blount County officials found the deed books of the county in a state of deterioration and they voted to have the books copied into new ledgers. After being copied, the original...

This publication provides a comprehensive collection of court records from 1814 to 1817 for Blount County, Tennessee. "The WPA Records are, for the most part, carbon copies of the original that was...

This publication provides a comprehensive collection of court records from 1795 to 1804 for Blount County, Tennessee. "The WPA Records are, for the most part, carbon copies of the original that was...

This work provides tombstone records for Blount County, Tennessee, with a full-name index. A brief description of each cemetery, along with its inscriptions are covered in these records. "The WPA...

In about 1630, Gov. William Bradford began to record the history of Plymouth Colony from its inception until 1647, finishing his manuscript in 1651. This history was used in manuscript form by many...

Bristol was originally considered part of Plymouth Colony, then Massachusetts, and, finally in 1746/1747, Rhode Island. The town was a major boat-building center and "became one of the most important...

The area that would become Brooke County, Virginia, was settled about 1744. It was created from Ohio County, Virginia, in May 1797, and became Brooke County, West Virginia, on June 20, 1863, when the...

Buckingham Burials, a Survey of Cemeteries in Buckingham County, Virginia: Volume 2Author: Janice J. R. HullPublisher: Heritage BooksPublication Date: Feb 01, 2013Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding:...

The Bucks County Recorder of Deeds began the Miscellaneous Docket series in 1785 to record various transactions other than standard transfers of real estate. The transactions in the Miscellaneous...

This work contains abstracts of entries found in Bucks County Orphan's Court dockets through 1852. Surname index is by Orphans' Court file number. Includes the guardian accounts-which is of great...

This work contains abstracts of entries of genealogical interest found in Bucks County Orphans' Court dockets. In Pennsylvania, the Orphans' Court in each county had jurisdiction to approve the...

Each entry contains the Register of Wills file number, the Will Book volume and page number where the will was recorded, name of the decedent, place of residence at the time the will was written,...

Each entry contains the Register of Wills file number, the Will Book volume and page number where the will was recorded, name of the decedent, place of residence at the time the will was written,...

Eastern Cemetery is Portland's oldest burial ground. It is believed that burials were made here in the 1600s, but no records or markers survive from that period. Record keeping was equally lax in the...

A family cemetery located at the corner of Vaughan and Bridge (Danforth) Streets in use in 1811, it was purchased by the city in 1829 and remained open until 1888. Although lots and family plots...

The records in this volume are those of the Pro-Cathedral Cemetery at Charles and Saratoga Streets and of the Cathedral Cemetery at North Fremont Avenue and Winchester Street for the period 1791...

The history of Burrillville to the mid-19th century.Author: Horace A. KeachPublisher: Heritage BooksPublication Date: Jan 18, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This slender volume contains abstracts of the combined "First" Minute and Law Order Books of Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia. Three-quarters of the cases are either debt (by bond, contract, or...

This volume contains abstracts of all the extant wills found in the original (loose) probate papers and the recorded volumes as of 1911. Many of the earliest wills were not recorded in the probate...

Short abstracts of the wills and administration accounts found in the state archives, naming heirs and giving the Liber and folio number of the document.Author: Leon Devalinger Jr.Publisher: Heritage...