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Together both volumes contain: a history of the county, its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc., general and local statistics, military record, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the northwest territory, history of Ohio, misce

This third volume on the Youngs from the northeastern coastal area represents the closure of a trilogy begun in 1977. It is a listing of all proprietors, pioneers, land owners, heads of family, soldiers and sailors, brides, widows and orphans with the fam

Under the terms of the charter of Maryland as granted by King Charles I of England, Lord Baltimore and his heirs were given all the land in the colony, with power to dispose of the land in any manner they deemed fit. A land office was set up to administer

An American odyssey, this work follows the lives and times of the Harris family and collateral family lines from the 1700's to the present. Along with the Harris family, there are detailed genealogies for the Baker, Bell, Bransford, Chalfont, Green, Harri

This book is aimed at genealogists with Texas roots, genealogists in search of missing ancestors (perhaps they did "go to Texas"), and also readers interested in Texas and local history. The Telegraph and Texas Register was born at the same time as the Te

When England was faced with the necessity of trying to suppress the revolt in the American Colonies in 1775, there were not enough men in the kingdom to fulfill all the English military commitments. Therefore, England turned to the continent of Europe and

William Adams came to Massachusetts in 1628 and settled at Ipswich sometime before 1642. This extensive new edition examines ten generations of his descendants and contains chapters on the histories of each of the related Dickinson, Knowlton, Leach, Locke

The Rhea family in America is descended from Matthew Rhea of the Campbell Clan of Scotland. His grandson, the Rev. Joseph Rhea, emigrated from Ireland to America in the mid-eighteenth century. This book tracks nine generations of Rheas from Joseph to the

The Southern Argus was a product of the turbulent Reconstruction era. During this period many newspapers failed to survive the hardships brought about by the Civil War and the financial retractions of the early 1870's. The scarcity of Southern newspapers

The purpose of this collection is to help the researcher pinpoint his or her ancestors between the census years. The author takes her information from church records, deaths records, inquests, cemetery lists, tax lists, poll lists, voter lists, licenses,

This book traces the development of both a town and the county in which it resides from their origins in the 1850s through the original publication. The first half of the book provides a chronological account of the development of Emporia. Following this

Little has been published providing reliable data about Indiana pioneers prior to the first federal census in 1820. This book helps to fill that void. The Indiana Territory was formed in 1800 with the division of the Northwest Territory. At that time, Ohi

A largely unexploited source of information on life in colonial America is to be found in the diaries of those German soldiers who came to America as the so-called Hessians during the American Revolutionary War. Of all the diaries, that of Philipp Waldec

The purpose of this collection is to help the researcher pinpoint his or her ancestors between the census years. The author takes her information from church records, deaths records, inquests, cemetery lists, tax lists, poll lists, voter lists, licenses,

The Howell story begins âEURoein colonial New Jersey in the early 1700âEUR(TM)s, where Hugh Howell probably farmed rented land.âEUR? Hugh and his wife Margaret were the beginnings of a family line that gradually spread west to Virginia, to Ohio, and then further, some se

This book is an account of the Revolutionary War on the western border from May 1778 to July 1779 as told through the eyes of the many different participants including the Indians, British and Americans. Within these fifteen months occurred the most momen

The author is the first person to attempt to compile some of the nearly two centuries of missing information from this region. Ms. Fisher recreated the information from church records, newspapers, family Bibles, private notes, deeds, records from other co

While "Texas is the focus of the majority of the death notices, there are over 800 references to the states of AL, AR, GA, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, SC, TN, and VA..." The authors have abstracted the most pertinent information from 40 different newspapers and a

A variety of individuals, libraries, and museums interested in Native American genealogy will find this work informative. This book is the last of three volumes intended to be genealogical reference guides for those seeking to identify a name among the In

Genealogical data pertaining to Virginians and West Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War as derived from National Archives materials. It includes all men who the records show resided in Virginia or West Virginia either before or after the war, o