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Donation History

Archive CD Books USA is proud to donate genealogy and local history books on a regular basis to libraries and societies as part of its corporate mission. Following are some of the company's recent donations. Unless otherwise noted, each donated book is an original publication, not a modern reprint. In each case, the recipient library was selected by Archive CD Books USA based on the appropriateness of the placement or in response to a request for a specific book.

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April 2007

• Donated to: Conner-Bishop Historical Resource Center, Oregon.
  "Atlas of Massachusetts; From Topographical Surveys made in Co-Operation by the United States Geological Survey and the Commissioners of the Commonwealth, 1884-1888, Preliminary Edition", (Boston, 1890).
  
  
• Donated to: Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire
  "The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution" by James H. Stark (Boston, 1910).
  
  
• Donated to: Roanoke Public Libraries, Roanoke, Virginia.
  "The Captives of Abb's Valley" by James Moore Brown (1854).
  

March 2007

• Donated to: Hudson Library & Historical Society, Hudson, Ohio.
  "Cleveland Congregationalists 1895: Historical Sketches of Our Twenty-Five Churches and Missions" by Rev. A.B. Cristy, ed. (Cleveland, 1896).
  
  
• Donated to: Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, North Carolina.
  "A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory" by David E. Johnston (Huntington WV, 1906).
  
  
• Donated to: Boone County Public Library, Union, Kentucky.
  "The History of Salem, Massachusetts" by Sidney Perley, 3 Volumes (1924, 1926, 1928).
  
  
• Donated to: Virginia Beach Public Library, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  "Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest; The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783" by F.B. Kegley (Roanoke, 1938).
  
  
• Donated to: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, Hunsville, Alabama.
  "The History of Salem, Massachusetts" by Sidney Perley, 3 Volumes (1924, 1926, 1928). (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire.
  "The History of Salem, Massachusetts" by Sidney Perley, 3 Volumes (1924, 1926, 1928). (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Satilla Regional Library, Douglas, Georgia.
  "The History of Salem, Massachusetts" by Sidney Perley, 3 Volumes (1924, 1926, 1928). (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Haston Public Library N. Brookfield, Massachusetts.
  "History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts" by J.H. Temple (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Warwick Public Library Warwick, Rhode Island.
  "The Early Records of the Town of Warwick" by The Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society [Howard M. Chapin] (1926) (CD).
  
  
• Donated to: Tazewell Co. Public Library Tazewell, Virginia.
  "History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia, 1748-1920" by Wm. C. Pendleton (1920) (CD).
  

February 2007

• Donated to: Tell City-Perry Co. Public Library, Tell City, Indiana.
  "History of Southwest Virginia 1746-1786" by Lewis Preston Summers (Richmond, 1903).
  
  
• Donated to: Laramie County Library System, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  "A History of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston: To Which is Added a History of the New Brick Church; With Engravings" by Chandler Robbins (Boston, 1852).
  
  
• Donated to: Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles Library, Culver City, California.
  "A History of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston: To Which is Added a History of the New Brick Church; With Engravings" by Chandler Robbins (Boston, 1852).
  
  
• Donated to: Otis Library, Norwich, Connecticut
  "Old Houses of the Antient Town of Norwich, 1660-1800, with Maps, Illustrations, Portraits and Genealogies" by Mary E. Perkins (1895) (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Roanoke Public Library Roanoke, Virginia.
  "History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia, 1748-1920" by Wm. C. Pendleton (1920) (CD).
  "History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870" by Lewis Preston Summers (1903) (CD)
  "A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory" by David E. Johnston (1906) (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Salem Public Library Salem, MA Jane Walsh.
  "The History of Salem, Massachusetts" by Sidney Perley, 3 Volumes (1924, 1926, 1928). (CD)
  
  
• Donated to: Barrington Public Library Barrington, Rhode Island.
  "A History of Barrington, Rhode Island" by Thomas Williams Bicknell (1898) (CD)
  

January 2007

• Donated to: Live Oak Public Libraries, Savannah, Georgia.
  "History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748-1920" by Wm. C. Pendleton (Richmond, 1920).
  
  
• Donated to: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  "Springfield 1636-1886: History of Town and City, Including an Account of the Quarter-Millenial Celebration" by Mason A Green (1888).
  
  
• Donated to: Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire.
  "Springfield 1636-1886: History of Town and City, Including an Account of the Quarter-Millenial Celebration" by Mason A Green (1888).
  

December 2006

• Donated to: British Columbia Genealogical Society, Richmond, BC, Canada.
  "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers" by Charles Edward Banks (1929).
  
  
• Donated to: British Columbia Genealogical Society, Richmond, BC, Canada.
  "History of Londonderry" by Rev. Edward L. Parker (1851).
  
  
• Donated to: Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  "Gwinnett Churches: A complete history of every church in Gwinnett County, Georgia, with short biographical sketches of its ministers" by J.C. Flanigan (1911).
  
  
• Donated to: Green Co. Genealogical Society, Beloit, Wisconsin.
  "Annals of Pennsylvania, From the Discovery of the Delaware, 1609-1682" by Samuel Hazard (Philadelphia, 1850).

November 2006

• Donated to: The Carroll Co. Genealogy Library, Carrollton, Ohio.
  "A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia" by Oren F. Morton (Frankin, VA: 1910)
  
  
• Donated to: Otis Library, Norwich CT
  "Inscriptions from Gravestones in the Old Burying Ground, Norwich Town, Connecticut" by George S. Porter (Norwich, Connecticut, 1933).
  
  
• Donated to: British Columbia Genealogical Society, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
  "Inscriptions from Gravestones in the Old Burying Ground, Norwich Town, Connecticut" by George S. Porter (Norwich, Connecticut, 1933). [CD Only]
  

October 2006

• Donated to: Palm Harbor Library, Palm Harbor, Florida
  "Soldiers in King Philip's War; A Critical Account of that War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677; Official Lists of the Soldiers of Massachusetts Colony Serving in Philip's War, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, Copies of Ancient Documents and Records Relating to the War; also Lists of the Narraganset Grantees of the United Colonies: Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut; with an Appendix" by George M. Bodge (Leominster, Mass, 1896)
  
  
• Donated to: Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro, North Carolina.
  "Annals of Portsmouth Comprising a Period of Two Hundred Years from the First Settlement of the Town; with Biographical Sketches of a Few of the Most Respectable Inhabitants" by Nathaniel Adams (Portsmouth, 1825).
  
  
• Donated to: Riley County Genealogical Society Library, Manhattan, Kansas.
  "Memorials of the Dead in Boston; Containing Exact Transcriptions of Inscriptions on the Sepulchral Monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston. With Copious Historical and Biographical Notices of Many of the Early Settlers of the Metropolis of New England" by Thomas Bridgman (Boston, 1853).
  
  
• Donated to: Washington County Public Library, Marietta, Ohio.
  "Old Westmoreland: A History of Western Pennsylvania During the Revolution" by Edgar W. Hassler (Pittsburg, 1900).
  

September 2006

• Donated to: Somerville Public Library, Somerville, Massachusetts.
  "The Real Founders of New England: Stories of Their Life Along the Coast, 1602-1628" by Charles Knowles Bolton (1929).
  
  
• Donated to: Cleveland County Genealogical Society, Norman, Oklahoma .
  "The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 (With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation)" by John Osborne Austin (1887).
  
  
• Donated to: The Allegan Public Library, Allegan, Michigan.
  "Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families" by Frank R. Holmes (1923).
  

August 2006

• Donated to: Van Buren District Library, Decatur, Michigan.
  "A Biographical Dictionary Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New England" by John Eliot (1809).
  
  
• Donated to: United Daughters of the Confederacy, Little Rock Arkansas.
  "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America" by Stella Pickett Hardy (1911)
  Originally inscribed "To the Little Rock Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. From Hardy A. Nash, Batesville, Ark."
  
  
• Donated to: Central Kansas Library System, Great Bend, Kansas.
  "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England: My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking" by Ernest Flagg (1926)
  
  
• Donated to: Center Moriches Public Library, Center Moriches, New York.
  "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England: My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking" by Ernest Flagg (1926) (reprint)
  
  
• Donated to: Friends of the Groveland Library, Groveland, Massachusetts.
  "History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904" by Walter Eliot Thwing (1908)
  

July 2006

• Donated to: Cedar County (Iowa) Historical Society Musuem, Tipton, Iowa.
  1897 ledger book from the Union Church in Buchanan, Cedar County, Iowa.
  
  
• Donated to: Indian River County Main Library, Vero Beach, Florida.
  "History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts" by Rev. Martin Lovering (1915).
  
  
• Donated to: Millinocket Memorial Library, Millinocket, Maine.
  "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War (1861-1865)" by William F. Fox (1889).
  

June 2006

• Donated to: Bethel Historical Society, Bethel, Maine.
  "Historical Sketches of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of Events in the Coos Country and Vicinity..." by Rev. Grant Powers (1880).
  
  
• Donated to: Waterford Township Public Library, Waterford, Michigan.
  "History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1884", 2 volumes, by Hamilton Andrews Hill (1890) and
  "An Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1882," by Hamilton Andrews Hill and George Frederick Bigelow (1883).
  
  
• Donated to: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, New York.
  Census of the State of New York (1845)
  
  
• Donated to: Columbus Public Library, Columbus, Georgia.
  "Early Settlers of Alabama, with Notes and Genealogies" by Col. James Edmond Saunders (1899).

May 2006

• Donated to: Stagecoach Library for Genealogical Research, Wimberley, Texas.
  "Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts" by Nathaniel Goodwin (1856).
  
  
• Donated to: Mount Calm Public Library, Mount Calm, Texas.
  "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England …" by John Farmer (1829)
  
  
• Donated to: Library of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan.
  "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia", 2 vols, by Bishop William Meade (1857).
  
  
• Donated to: National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland.
  "Medical Lexicon. A Dictionary of Medical Science …" by Robley Dunglison, M.D., LL.D. (1865).

April 2006

• Donated to: Reuben Hoar Library, Littleton, Massachusetts.
  "History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts" by James R. Pringle (1892).
  
  
• Donated to: Laramie County Library System, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  "History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts" by J.H. Temple (1887)
  
  
• Donated to: Palm Harbor Library, Palm Harbor, Florida.
  "History of the Town of Palmer, Massachusetts..." by J.H. Temple (1889)
  
  
• Donated to: Van Buren District Library, Decatur, Michigan.
  "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England..." by James Savage (1860-1862)