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The Buckners of Virginia is the family history of an old and well known Virginia family, written by one of the most prominent genealogists and historians of his time, William Armstrong Crozier, and...

Introduction written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. With new Index of names. This book has been resurrected after lying dormant for nearly a century. Reportedly used as a reference and textbook in the...

The Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Formed in 1776, the Guard was with Washington in all...

Paperback, (1912), 2015, Illus., Index, 394 pp. This work addresses the secessionist movement in the early 1860s on the West Coast, primarily California and Oregon, and the efforts of Colonel Edward...

This book includes ten generations of the descendants of Johann Adam Forney and several generations of their ancestors. Johnn Adam Forney arrived in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 16 October...

John Filson's, "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky: And an Essay Towards the Topography, and Natural History of that Important Country: To Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing...

A complete transcription of the Town Meetings and Selectmen's Records contained in the first two books of the general records of the town. Also included is a copy of all the vital statistics of the...

This is the first ever book written about the Jewish men and women who came to Central Louisiana to settle as early as the 1830s in Avoyelles Parish. Far more than a genealogy, the author takes the...

The Forney Family of Hanover, Pennsylvania. 1690-1893.Author: Lucy Forney BittingerPublisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc.Publication Date: Nov 01, 2013Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

The great Valley of Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, lies near the present north-western border of the State, between the Blue Ridge and the first ranges of the Alleghanies. The Shenandoah Valley of...

The German New River Settlement, lying next to what is now known as the Middle New River Settlement of Southwest Virginia, generally is located within the current counties of Pulaski, Giles, and...

The Germans are the largest ethnic group in the United States after the English, numerically exceeding even the Irish and Scots. The major role they played in the founding of this nation has not been...

Reprinted from German American Annuals, Vol. VII). This work distinguishes itself from others for its scholarly and systematic approach to immigration in early Texas. It begins with early German...

The original town of Guilford, including the present towns of Guilford and Madison, stretched along Long Island Sound from Branford to Killingsworth, a distance of approximately nine or ten miles...

This early history, written in 1849, is arranged in a fashion typical for the period. It contains, the history and background for the towns, villages, and cities located in the county; the geology;...

This work is often considered a companion volume of O'Hart's, "Irish Pedigrees: the Orgin and Stem of the Irish Nation," 2 Volumes, the Third Edition of which was published in 1881, and provided the...

The Battle of King's Mountain, which occurred on October 7, 1780, was a decisive victory for the Americans in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. This encounter lasted only 65...

A most useful book for any researcher with early Davidson County connections. History of the first couple to be married in Nashville (1780) and their descendants. Surnames of allied families include...

The MANRIQUE de LARA and HOPKINS FAMILY From Spain to Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico And England to the Island of Saint Helena, a British Territory, To California, United States of America With MANRIQUE de...

An informative history of the Moravians in North Carolina, beginning at the time of the first land grant near Winston-Salem in 1752. In addition to the history of North Carolina in 1752, the chapters...

Students of history are generally aware that Texas, for ten years, was an independent Republic. However, many in this select group are surprised to learn that Texas in her struggle for independence...

This book is an invaluable resource to those researchers of families with early descendants from England. The work is primarily directed toward the three ethnic groups of Anglo-Saxons, Danish, and...

Few ships' passenger lists have survived from the seventeenth century, and those documents that can be found provide only a small sampling of English-speaking immigrants to America during this period...

This work provides the researcher with the names of approximately 1,000 early settlers to Maine and New Hampshire, and, in some cases, information about them provided by records, both private and...

This work contains the names of all persons found in the journals and lists of the colonies, towns, churches and counties of Massachusetts in the period of 1620-1650, inclusive, as well as those...

Substitute for the lost 1810 Tennessee Census, abstracted from a wide range of records from 1809-1811. Many entries include extra information about women, children, free blacks/slaves. Cites name,...

"This work is of vital importance in libraries where there is any call for the reading of records in Latin," according to the "Library Journal," January 16, 1966, as well as for any researcher...

According to the author, "The Fones Records, beyond all doubt, are the most historic Land Evidence compilation extant today in New England." This book is a history of the gifting of land in...

The famous Roll of Battle Abbey is believed to have been compiled following the Battle of Hastings in 1066 in obedience to a clause in William the Conqueror's foundation charter, that enjoined the...

This book was excerpted from the Third Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, published in 1911. The author, Mr. Lewis, was the State Historian and...