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Without question, the greatest storehouse of information on Pennsylvania is found in the 138 volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives, published in ten series between 1838 and 1935. The first sixteen volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives, forming a distinct series known as Colonial Records, are a treasure trove in themselves and represent 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 and 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 indexes to the sixteen volumes of Pennsylvania's Colonial Records, which have now been consolidated into a single alphabetical sequence by Mrs. Martha Reamy. This remarkable index names 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.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list ofsome 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records inwhich they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type ofrecord, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records,deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, andother data sources. ... Read more

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Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for the Society by J. SkinnerPublication date: 1908Subjects: Scotland -- GenealogyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This new publication, which is extracted almost entirely from newspapers and archival sources in Scotland, follows the settlement of Scots west of the Mississippi River during the first hundred years after American Independence. Mr. Dobson's latest book identifies about 2,000 individuals who ventured to the West. While the entries vary considerably, virtually every one provides the name of the immigrant, a date (birth, arrival, marriage, death), the state or territory of his/her residence, and the source of the information. Some of the listings give the individual's occupation, the name of a parent(s) and/or spouse, place of residence in Scotland, or more. ... Read more

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This is a standard reference work in South Carolina genealogy, and for the period1766-1853 it is absolutely indispensable. Testators are listed with references to the volume andpage numbers of the books in which copies of their wills are recorded. All pre-1853 SouthCarolina counties are covered, except for the counties of Beaufort, Chesterfield, Colleton,Georgetown, Lancaster, Lexington, and Orangeburg, whose wills, having been destroyed by fire,were not included in the original WPA transcripts from which our work derives. ... Read more

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The fourth federal census, taken in 1820, is the earliest census for the Volunteer State for which enumerations of most counties survive, although several eastern Tennessee counties are missing even from this census. Overall, this is an alphabetical index to 35,000 heads of households, with reference to the individual's county of residence and the page number of the census schedule wherein full data on the household and its occupants may be found. ... Read more

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This index bears reference to some 50,000 heads of households, showing the countyof residence and the page number of the census schedule wherein full data on the household andits occupants may be found. It lists every head of household in every county in the state ofKentucky in the year 1810, i.e. everyone enumerated in the third federal census. ... Read more

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Essentially the only usable census index for the state of Georgia, this new referencetool constitutes the most reliable source of Georgia genealogical data published to date. Recordsof the first three censuses of the population of the United States for Georgia--taken in 1790,1800, and 1810--were apparently destroyed in the British assault on Washington during the Warof 1812, for nothing earlier than the 1820 census of Georgia survives. To be sure, name indexesto the 1820 and 1840 censuses of Georgia do exist, but these indexes do not identify the originalcensus page on which the names appear and are clearly unequal to the exacting demands ofprofessional research. Mrs. Register's publication, however, is keyed to the original census pageand is, therefore, the only Georgia census index with complete finding apparatus.

The Index to the 1830 Census of Georgia contains the names of 52,000 Georgia heads ofhousehold, giving for each the county of residence and page number in the census where hisname appears. Individuals are indexed alphabetically by surname. A particularly interestingfeature of the book is the method of dealing with variant spellings: all names of like sound aregrouped together, the variants being arranged in order of the most frequently used spelling, sothe researcher is unlikely to miss a name through oversight or carelessness. The compiler of thebook, moreover, was a nationally known figure in federal administration programs and aCertified Genealogist. ... Read more

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The New York World had a curious history. Philadelphia journalist Alexander Cummings launched the paper on June 14, 1860. A year later, Cummings absorbed the old Courier and Enquirer, one of the city's oldest newspapers. Cummings, a Republican, then sold the World to a group of Democratic financiers that included banker August Belmont and New York City mayor Fernando Wood. During the Civil War, the World was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration. In May 1864 General John Dix, provost marshall for New York, acting under orders from the White House, suspended the paper's publication briefly because it had published a forged presidential proclamation purporting to order the military induction of 400,000 men. Railroad tycoon Jay Gould acquired the paper in 1879, only to sell it to "yellow journalist" Joseph Pulitzer in 1883.

Genealogist James P. Maher, who has published a four-volume index to the marriage and death notices that appeared in the New York Herald between 1835 and 1876, has now produced a similar index to the New York World for the years 1860 to 1865. During this brief period, the World's notices, unlike those of the Herald, referred mainly to persons living between Philadelphia and New York, rather than in New York proper. After the change of ownership, by 1865 the World's marriage and obituary notices essentially mirrored those published in the Herald. These are indexed in Mr. Maher's other volumes--a fact that accounts for the brevity of this new book.

Mr. Maher has compiled an index to 3,500 marriages and about 8,500 obituaries for the period 1860 to 1865. The marriages are arranged in two alphabetical sequences: one for grooms and the other for brides. Each marriage entry gives the full names of the bride and groom and the date of the marriage. The death notices are arranged alphabetically, giving each deceased's name and date of death. Persons seeking additional information from a particular marriage or death notice (age at death, place of birth, name of minister, groom's residence, etc.) may contact Mr. Maher, who has transcribed all the genealogically significant data from the notices and stored them in a separate database. ... Read more

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This is an index to the 1820 census of Maryland and the District Columbia, in effecta complete register of 61,000 heads of household living in Maryland and Washington, D.C. atthe time of the fourth census of the United States. The index is simplicity itself, with heads ofhouseholds listed in alphabetical order, followed by a citation to the page number of themicrofilm on which the original enumeration is found and a reference to the county of residence.For convenience, the names of Maryland and Washington heads of household are merged into asingle alphabet, enabling the researcher to identify an individual while at the same timeobserving references to family members living in adjoining areas. There is no more reliablegenealogical tool than the federal census, and there is no more reliable index to any federalcensus than the one offered here. ... Read more

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This work is divided into three sections, for the counties of Kent, New Castle, andSussex, each alphabetically arranged. For every person, and this includes all householdmembers, information is given on the age, place of birth, and the census sheet number of theoriginal listing. Over 92,500 persons are named. ... Read more

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This modest work indexes approximately 4,000 obituary notices during the periodprior to Virginia's adoption of a uniform vital record system, and it is not confined to Richmondobituaries, but to obituaries of Virginians. Entries are arranged alphabetically by family name,followed by a reference to the part of the state of which the deceased was a resident (usually thecounty), followed by the name, date, and page number of the newspaper carrying the notice. ... Read more