The Trip Over - How Can I Find the Rest of the Story?

"The Bay and Harbor of New York” by Samuel Waugh (1814-1885). Source: Wikipedia

I knew my ancestor William Kemp had come to America. 

He had left Ireland and came by boat landing in New York City but I didn’t know anything about the trip itself. 

What was it like for him as an immigrant traveling by passenger ship across the ocean to America?

Could old newspapers help me find the answer?

Here's what I did to find out. Click here to read more...

Bookmark This: New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900

Bookmark This: New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900 (Free)

Created by FamilySearch - the online site for the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This collection contains the digital images of the index/abstract of 500,000 early New Hampshire birth records.

The records consist of index cards that give the town and date of the event and often much more information. With the town and date, the original records can usually be located. Normally there is only one index card per child, but occasionally there is a corrected card before or after the original card.

Nice graphics too.

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Bookmark This: Central Database of Jewish Holocaust Victims

The Yad Vashem Library in Israel has announced that it has identified 4 million of the 6 million Jews killed in World War II.

Click here to Search: The Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) Victims' Names

Shoah, in Hebrew: השואה, means calamity or destruction.

Bookmark this: Minnesota Death Certificates Index

Bookmark This:

Minnesota Death Certificates Index

The index to Minnesota death records was prepared from death certificate registration cards from 1904 to 1907 and death certificates from 1908 to 2001.
The site is administered by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Caithness family history. (1884) Online.

John Henderson's Caithness family history is online. In addition to Caithness this Scottish family history includes information on the following families: Bruce; Budge; Calder; Campbell; Coghill; Cunningham; Davidson; Doull; Dunbar; Gibson; Gordon; Gunn; Henderson; Innes; Kennedy; Manson; Mowat; Murray; Nicholson; Oswald; Sinclair; St. Clair; Sutherland; Taylor; Traill; Williamson.

Click on the title to access this online book.

Henderson, John. Caithness family history. Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1884. 341p.

Genealogical Advertiser. 1898-1901 (magazine) Online

Lucy Hall Greenlaw published The Genealogical Advertiser: A Quarterly Magazine of Family History from 1898 to 1901.

The complete backfile of issues is now online.

These free digital copies are every word searchable.

You may download and keep a copy of each issue.

The Genealogical Advertiser: A Quarterly Magazine of Family History. Cambridge, MA: Lucy Hall Greenlaw, 1898 to 1901.

Click on the volume to see or download this online genealogy magazine.
Volume One - 1898. 5 issues

Volume Two - 1899. 5 issues

Volume Three - 1900. 5 issues

Volume Four - 1901. 4 issues

History of Billerica, Massachusetts (1893) Online

Hazen's History of Billerica, Massachusetts is now online. This free digital copy is every word searchable. You may download and keep a copy of this book.

Hazen, Henry Allen, (1849-1900). History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical register. Boston, MA: Williams, 1893. 509p.

Click on the title to access this online book.

Massachusetts Library - Genealogy Program

Thayer Public Library, 798 Washington St., Braintree, Massachusetts.
For more information, call 781-848-0405 x4420 or visit www.thayerpubliclibrary.net

Program: Discovering Your Ancestry Using the Internet
Speaker: Michael Brophy
When: Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public.

The most popular and useful features of www.newenglandancestors.org, www.familysearch.org, and www.genealogybank.com and other Internet resources will be discussed.

New England Ancestors is the database of the 150+ year old New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Family search is the website of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT.

Cyndi’s list is the most powerful search engine on the Internet for high quality genealogy databases and subjects.

Genealogy Bank is a fast growing website that contains one of the best newspaper collections on the Internet.

No prior knowledge is necessary.
You do not have to be a resident of Braintree to attend.

Passenger Lists: 1819-1820 passenger list (all ports) now free online

Passenger Lists: 1819-1820 passenger list (all ports) now free online.

See: http://www.genealogybank.com/free/

This is an important list as it gives info on deaths at sea & other family data. You can also not only the ships/passengers coming from overseas but see passengers from one US port to another US port - with their ages, home state/city locations etc.

Digital Genealogies, Local Histories go Online

If you are looking for digital copies of published genealogies and local histories try the University of Michigan's catalog of digital books. Click here to use it.

TIP:
There are more than 20 million books and items in this collection.
All of these books can be searched and read for free.
No fees, no registration - just click and read.

This project has cataloged digital books, journals, portraits and other items that are free and available on the Internet. All genealogists have to do is look in the online catalog for material about their family or town that they are researching. Then just click and start reading. It's that simple!

What can you expect to find online?
Here are some titles I have used:
(Click on the title to read the book)
Hanscom, Constance Franklin Richardson. Ancestors and descendants of James Garcelon and Deliverance Annis : from Guernsey and Gloucester to Maine in the 18th Century.
This genealogy is about the descendants of Sea Captain James Garcelon who was born 4 April 1739 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. His parents were Rev. Pierre Garcelon and Jeanne Bedat. He married Deliverance Annis, daughter of Isaac Annis and Experience Haraden, 29 February 1760 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They had seven children. James died 18 November 1813 in Lewiston, Maine. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in France, Channel Islands, Massachusetts and Maine.

This index also includes the full-text digital copies of genealogical journals. These are fully indexed. I did a search for anything written about County Cavan, Ireland and quickly found this citation:

(Click on the title to read the book)
Notes and Queries. Volume CXLVI, Number May17. pp. 353-355
Click here to see this issue
This article gives details about the soldiers and officers that were stationed in County Cavan in the 17th & 18th Centuries. Their names; spouses; dates of marriage, death etc.

(Click on the title to read the book)
Runnels, Moses Thurston. History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Boston, MA: Mudge, 1882.
This is the standard history of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. It includes biographical sketches, genealogies and a history of the town.

TIP:
Libraries may catalog these digital books and add them directly into their own online catalogs. Instantly expand your genealogy collection and offer these free digital books to your researchers.

Let's make it easy for genealogists to find and use these eBooks.

No doubt about it -
It is a great day for genealogy!

Tom

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Allen County Library (Ft. Wayne, IN) - Receives $10 Million gift

The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Library (Ft. Wyane, IN) has received a $10 million gift - to be given as $1 million payments each year over 10 years from the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation.

The announcement is in the Ft Wayne News Sentinnel 1 August 2008

This landmark library has been active in genealogy for decades.

The Center will host a Military Records Symposium

Friday & Saturday, September 26 & 27, 2008
Speaker: Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL

Friday, September 26, 2008
3:00 PM "Using Records at the National Archives: A Researcher's View"
This session will cover National Archive records, some that have been microfilmed or digitized, from a researcher’s point of view. The session will explain how and why the records are arranged the way they are. Ms. Melchiori will also discuss “archijive,” the short-cut phrases used by archivists that genealogists need to know in order to understand what they are being told.

6:30 PM Dinner, speaker Curt Witcher, Genealogy Center Manger, “Our Military Heritage Website: Record, Recall, & Revere”

Saturday, September 27, 2008
9:30 AM “If Grandpa Wore Blue: Union Records in the National Archives”
This session will be a look at commonly used records as well as some of the lesser
used records for researching an ancestor who was a Union soldier. Some of the records covered will include correspondence, carded medical files, and the investigative records of Baker and Turner.

11:00 AM “If Grandpa Wore Gray: Confederate Records in the National Archives”
This session will be a look at Confederate records, both microfilmed and original, at the National Archives. Records created by the Union Army may help locate information on your Southern soldier as well as male and female civilians.

1 – 6 PM: Individual consultations
Genealogy Center staff and other researchers will be available to assist one with specific research challenges, and recommend sources and methodologies to find more records and data.

Click here to register for this important conference.

New York Genealogical & Biographical Society entrusts entire library to NY Public Library

The venerable New York Genealogical & Biographical Society sold its building (2007) and has now given its entire library collection to the New York Public Library (NYPL).

The New York Times reported this morning that even though the NYG&B had sold their building for $24 Million that they would not undertake the effort to relocate and maintain the library but instead has given the 75,000 volumes, 30,000 manuscripts and 22,000 reels of microfilm to the NY Public Library. The NYG&B was founded on 27 February 1869.

In the mid 1960s I would train down to New York City to use both libraries. It made quite an impact to be in the NYG&B Library - with it's impressive reading room and open stack collection - to walk the marbled halls of the NYPL, lined with paintings and be able to research my family history in both locations.

The NYPL's genealogy collection - more formally called: The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy has long been known for its strong collection of research materials gathered for over a century - from the founding of the NYPL in 1848.

When I first began using the NYPL in the 1960s it was administered by Gerald D. McDonald who served from 1945-1969 and then by Gunther Pohl (1969-1985) and John Miller (1985-1987). The Division is currently under the capable leadership of Ruth Carr long serving Chief of that Division.
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Library of Congress & National Archives Team-up for World Digital Library

The National Archives and the Library of Congress announced today that they have begun loading digital copies of their materials on a new site called the World Digital Library.

Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced today that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become a founding partner in the World Digital Library (WDL). NARA will contribute digital versions of important documents from its collections to the WDL, which will be launched for the international public in early 2009.

These documents include Civil War photographs, naturalization and immigration records of famous Americans, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, and photographs by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Lewis Hine. Examples of the images that NARA is contributing to the World Digital Library are now available online.

Example of a naturalization document - Declaration of Intent of Maria von Trapp, 01/21/1944 - that was put online in the WDL collectiton by NARA. NARA ARC Identifier 596198.

The WDL will include representative examples from these document categories - not the complete backfiles of these documents.

The complete run of the

American State Papers is already available on GenealogyBank. See GenealogyBank's Historical Documents collection where you will find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including the complete American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 146,000 reports, lists and documents. GenealogyBank has the most comprehensive collection of these US Government reports and documents available to genealogists online. GenealogyBank is adding more documents to this collection every month.

Proposed in 2005 by the Library of Congress in cooperation with UNESCO, the WDL will make available on the Internet significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The project’s goal is to promote international understanding and to provide a resource for use by students, teachers, and general audiences."We are pleased that our fellow Federal cultural institution, the National Archives, is joining the Library of Congress in the early stages of this project," said Billington.

"NARA’s participation not only will ensure that the World Digital Library contains a full record of the American experience, but it also will encourage archives around the world to join with their counterparts from the library world in this important initiative."

"The mission of the National Archives is to make U.S. Government records widely accessible," said Weinstein. "The World Digital Library will be a valuable conduit for us to share some of our nation’s treasures with others around the world. We look forward to working with the Library of Congress on this important project."In addition to NARA and the Library of Congress, the WDL project partners include cultural institutions from Brazil, China, Egypt, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia and many other countries. Click here for more Information about the WDL.

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest Federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Founded in 1800, the Library seeks to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections.

The Library seeks to spark the public’s imagination and celebrate human achievement through its programs and exhibits. In doing so, the institution helps foster the informed and involved citizenry upon which American democracy depends. The Library serves the public, scholars, members of Congress and their staffs through its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. Many of the rich resources and treasures of the Library may also be accessed through its award-winning web site and via interactive exhibitions on a new, personalized web site.

New Journal Articles - Arizona, Family Chronicle, California

Arizona History
Autumn 2007 (vol. 48, no. 3)
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Articles
DeJong, David H. "The Granary of Arizona": The Civil War, Settlers, and Pima-Maricopa Agriculture, 1860-1869. pp. 221-256.
Turner, Danette L. Arizona's Twenty-Four Hour War: The Arizona Rangers and the Cananea Copper Strike of 1906. pp. 257-288.
Jackson, Jane E. Monumental Tasks: Flagstaff's Mt. Elden Civilian Conservation Corps Camp. pp. 289-304.


Book Reviews - pp 305-318
Hayes, Allan, and Carol Hayes. The Desert Southwest: Four Thousand Years of Life and Art. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2006.
Botham, Fay, and Sara M. Patterson. Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Fleek, L. Sherman. History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion. Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006.
Mueller, Jerry E. Autobiography of John Russell Bartlett. Providence, R.I.: John Carter Brown Library, 2006.
Hurtado, Albert L. John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
Christen, William J. Pauline Cushman: spy of the Cumberland. Roseville, Minn.: Edinborough Press, 2006.
Ninnemann, John L., and Duane A. Smith. San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining Legacy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Hunt, Geoffrey R. Colorado's Volunteer Infantry in the Philippine Wars, 1898-1899. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Harmon, David, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley. The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservatio, and Nature Conservation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Thorson, John E., Sarah Britton, and Bonnie G. Colby. Tribal Water Rights: Essays in contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.
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Published by Arizona Historical Society
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Family Chronicle
November/December 2007 (vol. 12, no. 2)
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Articles
Douglass, Mary Clement. Land Records: An Introduction. pp. 11-15.
Nickerson, Janice. Home Children - British Child Immigrants to Canada. pp. 16-19.
_____. Early Canadiana Online. pp. 21-23.
Brown, Frances Susanne. The Photograph's Ghostly Infancy: The Daguerreotype. pp. 24-26.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Planning a Genealogical Research Trip. pp. 29-33.
Meates, Susan C. DNA Q&A. pp. 35-37.
Family Chronicle Forum. pp. 39-40.
Nickerson, Janice. How to Read Between the Lines of the Census. pp. 41.
Hait, Michael. Getting the Most from "the Rest" of the US Federal Census. pp. 42-45.
The Best Websites You've Never Heard of! pp. 47-48.
Knights, Edwin M. Genome-wide Studies. pp. 49.
Norris, David A. Genealogy Web Sites Worth Surfing. pp. 52-53.
Nickerson, Janice. Secrets to Researching Smiths. pp. 54.
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California History
Spring 2007 (vol. 84, no. 3)
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Articles
Collections: Philopolis: "Love of the City". pp. 3-4.
Most, Stephen. Salmon People: Crisis and Continuity at the Mouth of the Klamath. pp. 5-22.
McCovey, Shaunna OIteka. I Still Eat All of My Meals with a Mussel Shell. pp. 13-17.
Oppenheimer, Helene H. Mattz Family Interviews: Oral History Transcripts. pp. 18-19.
Clements, Kendrick A. Managing a National Crisis: The 1924 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak in California. pp. 23-42.
Parkman, E. Breck. Missiles of Peace: Benny Bufano's Message to the World. pp. 43-60.


Book Reviews - pp. 65-76
Runte, Alfred. Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservatin. Kirksville, MO.: Truman State University Press, 2006.
Schiesl, Martin, and Mark M. Dodge. City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles. Claremont, CA.: Regina Books, 2006.
Beauchamp, Cari. Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Putnam, Jackson K. Jess: The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh. Lanham, MD.: University Press of America, 2005.
Hart, John. Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006.
Parson, Don. Making A Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Meyer, Amy. New Guardians for The Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Lesley, Lewis Burt. Uncle Sam's Camels: The Journal of May Humphreys Stacey, Supplemented by the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1857-1858). San Marino, CA.: Huntington Library Press, 2006.
Vettel, Eric J. Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Farris, Glenn. Visit of Cyrille Pierre-Theodore Laplace to Fort Ross and Bodega Bay in August 1839. Jenner, CA.: Fort Ross Interpretive Association, 2006.
Taylor, Henry. From Lead Mines To Gold Fields: Memories of an Incredibly Long Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Johnson, David H. Sonora Pass Pioneers: California Bound Emigrants and Explorers, 1841-1864. Sonora, CA.: Tuolumne County Historical Society, 2006.
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New Journal Articles - IL, TX, FL, PA

Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly
Fall 2007, (vol. 39, no. 3)
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Articles
Beaumont, Gary. German Immigrant Farmers in Illinois - part I. pp. 6-17.
Weible, Cherié L. Illinois Sources: Conscription During the Civil War. pp. 17-19.
Bonilla, Janice. The Circus Families of Petersburg, Illinois. pp. 21-34.
Hassan, Hazel N. The Barretts of Jo Daviess County, Illinois. pp. 36-43.
Lowe, Jeanie. Illinois House Joint Resolutions. pp. 52-55.

Book Reviews - pp. 44-51
Calvary Cemetery, Aurora, Illinois: Tombstones & Obituaries. IA.: Anundsen Publishing Co., 2006.
Baer, M. Teresa, and Geneil Breeze. Finding Indiana Ancestors: Guide to Historical Research. Indiana Historical Press: Indianapolis, 2007.
Rose, Christine. Nicknames Past and Present. San Jose, Calif. : CR Publications, 2007.
Grenham, John. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Baltimore, MD.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006.
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Texas State Genealogical Society Quarterly
September 2007, (vol. 47, no. 3)
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Articles
Steger, Charles A. Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty: The Richest Woman in Texas. pp. 9-25.
Lone Star History Links, Primary Source Documents. pp. 25.
Adkins-Rochette, Patricia. Brush Battalion Confederates from Dallas, Kaufman, Navarro, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood Counties, Texas. pp. 26-28.
Ports, Michael A. Sarah Rotan Garnett, Frontier Mother. pp. 29-34.
Adkins-Rochette, Patricia. Petitioners from Gillespie, Kimble, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, and San Saba Counties, Texas. pp. 35-37.
McKewen, Erica. Texas State Library Building Getting a Facelift. pp. 37.
Pearce, Teri Donaldson, and Robert Kay Pearce, Jr. Fife, Texas: Dreams of the Past. pp. 38-45.
Cozart, Doris Galyean Franklin. Old Greer County Mailing Lists. pp. 46.
Fitzgerald, Scott. Abstract of South Western Reporter. pp. 47-62.
Adkins-Rochette, Patricia. Forted up in 1865 at Fort Davis, Stephens County. pp. 63-66.
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Florida Libraries
Fall 2007 (vol. 50, no. 2)
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Articles
Parker, Charlie. These will be the Good Times for Florida Libraries; We just have to figure out how. pp. 3.
Cavallaro, Nicole, and Jamie Conklin. Mobile Gamma: The Right People at the Right Place at the Right Time. pp. 4-6.
Pike, Nancy. Feeling at Home in Florida. pp. 7.
Simpson, Thomas. Keeping Up with Technology: Orange County Library Embraces Learn 2.0. pp. 8-10.
Melillo, Paolo. Transforming ESOL-Learning Opportunities through Technology. pp. 11-13.
Freund, Leilani, and Colleen Seale. Transforming Library West at the University of Florida: A Fairy Tale Makeover. pp. 14-16.
Slocum, Melonee. Destination: next, Jacksonville Public Library's Journey toward Transformation. pp. 18-20.
Haywood, Anne. Plant City's Not So Extreme Makeover - Library Edition. pp. 21-23.
Sparrow, Joyce. Florida on the Boil. pp. 24.
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Pennsylvania History
Spring 2007 (vol. 74, no. 2)
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Articles
Gerbner, Katharine. "We Are Against The Traffik of Men-Body': The Germantown Quaker protest of 1688 and the origins of American Abolitionism. pp. 149-172.
Flinchum, Jessica Lee. Reluctant Revolutionaries: The Philadelphia Baptist Association and the American Revolution. pp. 173-193.
McGettigan, Joan. Working for "The Company": Managing Philadelphia Movie Theatres in the 1930s and 1940s. pp. 194-215.
Fox, Francis S. Resources in Pennsylvania History: Digital and Microfilm Resources for Teaching and Researching Pennsylvania History. pp. 216-223.

Book Reviews - pp. 224-241
Carocci, Vincent P. A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and the Making of Public Policy in Pennsylvania. University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Treadway, Jack M. Elections in Pennsylvania: A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State. University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Lyons, Clare A. Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender & Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Estes, Todd A. The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profitted from Slavery. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.
Bjelopera, Jerome P. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philladelphia, 1870, 1920. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Golin, Steve. The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
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New Journal Articles - NH, PA, FL, OK, RI

Historical New Hampshire
Spring 2007 (vol. 61, no. 1)
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Articles
Dishman, Robert B. "Natives of Africa, Now Forcibly Detained": the Slave Petitioners of Revolutionary Portsmouth. pp. 6-28.
Dixon, David T. Freedom Earned, Equality Denied: Evolving Race Relations in Exete and Vicinity, 1776-1876. pp. 29-48.
Clark, Lynn, and Rebecca Courser. Rural Free Black Settlement in Post-Revolutionary New Hampshire: A Study of Five Towns. pp. 48-67.


Book Reviews - pp. 68-75
Earle, Jonathan H. Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Knoblock, Glenn A. "Strong and Brave Fellows": New Hampshire's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2003.
Salerno, Beth A. Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Sammons, Mark J., and Valerie Cunningham. Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2004.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: the Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Benes, Peter. Slavery/Antislavery in New England: Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, volume 28. Boston: Boston University Press, 2005.
Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig: or, sketches from the Life of a Free Black. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
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North Hills Genealogists (PA)
October 2007
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Articles
North Hills Genealogists Donate Fourteen Reference books to NorthLand Library. pp. 21.
Valentine, Steph. Random Thoughts. pp. 23.
Wichter, Curt. Allen Co. Public Library Seeks Genealogy Librrian. pp. 23.
The Rubincam Youth Award Newly Revised information. pp. 24.
News about programs from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. pp. 25.
Heinz History Center Hosts Opening of Coal Mining Exhibit. pp. 28.

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Suncoast Genealogy Society: Suncoast Searcher
October 2007 (vol. 24, no. 10)
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Articles
Family health history can help save lives. pp. 1
Moody, Sharon Tate. Copyright complications. pp. 4.
Daughters of the American Revolution. pp. 4.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay. pp. 4.
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Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly
2007 (vol. 52, no. 2)
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Articles
Calaway, Ila Yarneau. Adventures in Genealogy. pp. 54-56.
Cole, Jodie. Researching in the OHS Library. pp. 59.
Slade, Jennie. Acquisitions: Donations, Purchased. pp. 60-62.
Shirley, Jeanne. First Territorial Census of Oklahoma 1890. pp. 63-65.
Jimenez, Virginia. Queries. pp. 65-67.
2008 Family story writing contest sponsored by Oklahoma Genealogical Society. pp.68-69.
Unique opportunity to celebrate Oklahoma with the Oklahoma Family Tree. pp. 70-71.
Oklahoma Genealogical Society Centennial Project: "Index to Early Oklahoma Land Tract Books". pp 73.
Surname Index. pp. 74-76.
First Families of the Twin Territories. back cover.
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Rhode Island Roots
Special Bonus Issue 2007
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Articles
Mathew, Linda L. Gleanings from Rhode Island Town Records: Providence Town Council Records, 1789-1801.
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New Journal Articles - SD History, CA History, MD Gen. Soc. Bull., GA History

South Dakota History
Fall 2007 (vol. 37, no. 3)
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Welch, Eddie. Bridging Cultures Abroad: Oscar Howe's American Specialist Tour. pp. 185-208.
Ziemann, Zelma. " My Best Pal" The Story of a Girl and Her Horse. pp. 209-223.
Lindell, Terrence J. An Iowan's View from Fort Randall: The Letters of Doctor Samuel N. Pierce, 1861-1862. pp. 224-255.


Book Reviews - pp. 258-269
Bray, Kingsley M. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
Castile, George Pierre. Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Zontek, Ken. Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Lauck, Jon K. Daschle vs. Thune. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Bjorkman, Timothy W. Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2007.
Katanski, Amelia V. Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
Draine, Cathie. Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2007.
Woods, Lawrence M. Alex Swan and the Swan Companies. Norman: Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006.
Scherneckau, August. Marching with the First Nebraska: a Civil War Diary. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Larsen, Lawrence H., Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl A. Dalstrom, and Kay Calamé Dalstrom. Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Stokker, Kathleen. Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007.
Wilson, R. Michael. Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions. Guilford, Conn.: Two Dot Press, 2007.
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California History
Fall 2007 (vol. 84, no. 4)
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Articles
Collections: The Fernery. pp. 3.
Goudsouzian, Aram. The House that Russell Built: Bill Russell, the University of San Francisco, and the Winning Streak that changed College Basketball. pp. 4-25.
Stokes, Sally Sims. In a climate like Ours: The California campuses of Allison & Allison. pp. 26-65.


Book Reviews - pp. 74-80
Goerke, Betty. Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2007.
Gunther, Vanessa Ann. Ambiguous Justice: Native Americans and The Law in Southern California, 1848-1890. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006.
Gonzales-Day, Ken. Lynching in the West, 1850-1935. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Guerrero, Vladimir. The Anza Trail and the Settling of California. Santa Clara and Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2006.
Scambray, Kenneth. Queen Calafia's Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel. Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickenson University Press, 2006.
McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Univeristy Press, 2006.
Rose, Gene. Yosemite's Tioga Country: A History and Appreciation. Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Association, 2006.
Scott, Amy. Yosemite: Art of an American Icon. Los Angeles: Autry National Center in Association with University of California Press, 2006.
Worthen, James. Governor James Rolph and the Great Depression in California. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2006.
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Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Summer 2007 (vol. 48, no. 3)
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Articles
Burgess, Jane F. Annotated Index of Maryland Provincial Court Judgements Liber E.I., Number Four, volume 28 1737 and 1738 for Cases Involving Calvert County and Saint Mary's County residents and property. pp. 239-252.
Russell, Donna Valley. William Mears of Lyons Creek, Anne Arundel County, MD. pp. 253-266.
McKeithan, Kim. Documenting Maryland's Merchant Fleet: The Records of the United States Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, 1789-1907. pp. 267-275.
Heger, Kenneth W. Personnel and Patients: Marylanders at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. 1855-1905. pp. 276-295.
League, Nathaniel. Guns, Gangs, Shootings and Murders on the Streets of Baltimore. pp. 296-313.
Christou, Christos, Jr. Stevens Family Bible Records. pp. 314-316.
Inscriptions on Tombstones: Iglehart-Harris-Heart Graveyard "Wavertree", Glenelg, Howard County, Maryland. pp. 317-321.
Lt. Cmdr. John Trippe, Hero of Naval Battle off Tripoli, Buried in Todd's Point Grave. pp. 322-325.


Book Reviews - pp. 326-333
Ruppert, Gary B. Obstetrical Casebooks of Dr. Ferdinand E. Chatard: An Alternative Genealogical Resource for Baltimore City, Maryland, 1829-1883. Westminster, MD.: Heritage Books, Inc., 2007.
Skinner, V.L., Jr. Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, Volume IX: 1700-1703, Libers 18B, 19A. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc:, 2007.
Skinner, V.L., Jr. Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, Volume X: 1704-1707, Libers 19B, 19c. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc:, 2007.
McCartney, Martha W. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007.
Coldham, Peter Wilson. Emigrants in Chains. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.
Wright, F. Edward. Early Lists of Frederick Countians [Maryland], 1765-1775. Westminster, MD.: Heritage Books, Inc., 2007.
DeMarco, Christopher, Colonial Families of York County, Virginia. volume 1. Lewes, DEL.: Colonial Roots, 2006.
Pritchett, John W. Southside Virginia Genealogies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Quicksheet: Citing Online Historical Sources. Evidence! Style. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007.
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Georgia History Today
Fall 2007 (vol. 1, no. 3)
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Articles
Jackson, Edwin L. Feature: The Centennial of Flight in Georgia: Ben Epps, Georgia's First Aviator. pp. 2-3.
Battin, Jim. Inside GHS: Teaching the Teachers. pp. 4-5.
Weber, Robert K. Georgia Gems. pp. 6-7.
Battin, Jim. Profiles: Robert S. Jepson, Jr.: It's All About Impact. pp. 8-9.
Bailey, Deborah Grayson. The State of History: GPB's World War II Veterans Oral History Project. pp. 10.
Giving: Contributions. pp. 11.
Milestones: GHS News. pp. 12.
Deaton, Stan. Footnotes: A Message from the editor. pp. 13.
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Books of the Day - Surrender at Yorktown - Oct 19, 1781

Books of the Day

Today is the anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown in 1781 when General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington, ending the war.

Here is an oration given on the 10oth anniversary of the victory along with other histories of the battle, the men that fought and the details of the conflict.

You especially want to read this scare item by General Cornwallis that was published in London in 1783.

Winthrop, Robert Charles. Oration on the hundredth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the combined forces of America and France, at Yorktown, Virginia, 19th October, 1781: delivered at Yorktown, 19th October, 1881. Boston, MA: Boston, Little, Brown, 1881. 73p.
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Johnston, Henry P. The Yorktown Campaign and the surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. NY: Harper & Bros., 1881. 206p.
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and of particular interest is this item with an account by General Cornwallis (1738-1805)

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis. An answer to that part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton which relates to the conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis during the campaign in North-America, in the year 1781. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1783. 260p.
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