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                   21 August 2006
                Issue 2006, Number 9
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In this issue:

o  Compendium of New England Pioneers
o  Other New Releases from the U.S.
o  FGS/NEHGS Conference in Boston, Mass.
o  Special pricing for libraries/societies
o  Free shipping
o  How to reach us


=== Compendium of New England Pioneers =========

Archive CD Books USA is proud to announce a major new collection of
digitized books for researchers of early New England families.

For the first time, the "Compendium of New England Pioneers" makes all of
the classic genealogical dictionaries of New England available on a
single CD. The collection encompasses 14 books (22 volumes), nearly 8300
pages, and thousands of families of early New England settlers through
several generations.

The titles in this collection were assembled in consultation with Robert
Charles Anderson, FASG, an authority on New England research, and are so
recognizable to experienced researchers that they are often simply
referred to by the last name of the author. They include classic works by
Eliot, Farmer, Hinman, Goodwin, Drake, Savage, Austin, Pope (2), Holmes,
Flagg, Noyes, Bolton, and Spencer.

Anderson said, “The broad genealogical surveys collected here comprise
the best colony-wide resources for the study of 17th-century New England
families. As such, they constitute the resource of first resort for
building the framework of Great Migration sketches.” Anderson is the
Director of the Great Migration Study Project for the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, editor of the Great Migration Newsletter,
co-editor of The American Genealogist, and Genealogical Consultant for
Archive CD Books USA.

“Our CDs combine high-quality images of every page that was originally
published with the ability to do powerful full-text searching, including
AND, OR, phrase, and proximity searches,” said Bob Velke, President of
Archive CD Books USA. “For the first time, we’ve also included special
indexing technology that will allow researchers to conduct very fast
searches across all of these books at the same time,” said Velke.

“Many of the individual titles have been very popular on our web store,”
said Velke, “and we haven’t forgotten those loyal customers.” The
Compendium is priced at just $89.95 which is 66% off the combined regular
prices of those individual books. Those who have bought one or more of
the individual titles have been extended full credit for those purchases
when upgrading to the Compendium.

For details about the "Compendium of New England Pioneers," please visit:
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0400


=== Other New U.S. Releases ===================

The following new searchable data CDs are (among others) on the new
"Compendium of New England Pioneers" but are also available as separate
CDs at www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Product descriptions are by Robert
Charles Anderson, FASG, for Archive CD Books USA.


Ernest Flagg, GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND: MY
ANCESTORS PART IN THAT UNDERTAKING, (1926) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0303
Flagg goes well beyond the title of this volume and provides extensive
information on more than one hundred early New England families, in some
cases for several generations. He includes extensive biographical
information, full lists of children, and, where available, data on their
English origins.

The book is structured as an account of the author's own ancestors, but
goes far beyond this. An extensive introduction provides historical
background on the settling of New England and the conditions of life in
colonial times.

This is followed by an outline presentation of the author's ancestors in
pedigree form. This section is supported by the core of the book, which
devotes a page or more to each ancestral couple, including biographical
data and the list of children. Flagg is careful to tell us the sources of
his information. There are portraits of many of the subjects of the
accounts.

Next comes a substantial section presenting what the author had learned
of the English origins of more than fifty of the families treated above.
In a number of instances, these are the definitive accounts of the
English origin, with extensive abstracts from English records, especially
parish registers.

The volume concludes with a section that looks more closely at some of
the difficult genealogical problems in the book, or presents copies of
documents relating to some of the families.

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John Osborne Austin, THE GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND;
COMPRISING THREE GENERATIONS OF SETTLERS WHO CAME BEFORE 1690 (WITH MANY
FAMILIES CARRIED TO THE FOURTH GENERATION), (1887) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0305
Austin has compiled accounts of more than 460 families who settled in
Rhode Island during the seventeenth century, tracing some of the families
to the third generation and others to the fourth, including both male and
female lines. These accounts include extensive extracts from original
sources.

Among the original source material, Austin placed special emphasis on
probate records, with full abstracts of the wills and inventories of many
first, second and third generation settlers. He made a special effort to
summarize the officeholding of each settler, and also included
information on land transactions and religious affiliations.

More than 90 of the accounts are taken to the birth of the fourth
generation. The families so treated are generally the earliest settlers,
and include most of the early religious and civic leaders of the colony.
For most sketches, whether of three generations or four, the members of
the final generation listed were born from about the 1690s to the 1730s.

Some of the accounts include information on the European origins of the
settlers, and, where pertinent, on earlier residence in Massachusetts Bay
Colony.

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Royal R. Hinman, A CATALOGUE OF THE NAMES OF THE EARLY PURITAN SETTLERS
OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT; WITH THE TIME OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE
COUNTRY AND COLONY, THEIR STANDINGS IN SOCIETY, PLACE OF RESIDENCE,
CONDITION IN LIFE, WHERE FROM, BUSINESS, &C.,
(1852) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0309
Royal Hinman collected information on every seventeenth-century immigrant
to New England, and then concentrated on those immigrants who came to
Connecticut, tracing many of the lines into the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, providing information on thousands of Connecticut
settlers.

The author used a wide range of sources, frequently setting forth much
biographical data on his subjects, even some of those who were not so
prominent. On the genealogical side, he did not limit himself to vital
records, but made extensive use of the probate records as well, not a
common practice among genealogists of his time.

Hinman's project was too ambitious, and he only reached into the letter D
in his sweep through the alphabet of New England settlers. At some point,
he must have realized that he would not finish his study, for he appended
to the portion he did complete a detailed account of the Hinman family.

Despite the fact that he only made it about a quarter of the way through
the alphabet, his massive efforts in behalf of Connecticut families make
this an important reference for the families of that colony.

Hinman's frequent references to coats of arms should in most cases not be
taken to mean that these heraldic achievements actually belonged to the
New England settlers.

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Frank R. Holmes, compiler, DIRECTORY OF THE ANCESTRAL HEADS OF NEW
ENGLAND FAMILIES, 1620-1700, (1923) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0310
Holmes has produced a unique resource in which he combined a brief
biographical and genealogical entry for each New England immigrant head
of household prior to 1700 with etymologies of many of the surnames,
reflecting his conviction that the "study of names is of itself an
absorbing subject."

For each immigrant, Holmes included information on English origin (where
known), date and place of first residence in New England, known
relationships to other immigrants, removes from one town to another, and
a variety of other biographical details.

Holmes covered all of New England to the end of the seventeenth century,
including some deaths of immigrants well into the eighteenth century. He
took notice of removes outside of New England, for the most part to New
York.

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Charles Knowles Bolton, THE REAL FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND: STORIES OF
THEIR LIFE ALONG THE COAST, 1602-1628, (1929) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0311
To the author, the "Real Founders of New England" were those who arrived
before the landing of Endicott in 1628, as agent of the Massachusetts Bay
Company. Bolton attempts here to write the history and provide a full
list of everyone known to have visited or lived in New England before
that event.

Bolton has separate historical chapters on the early explorers, the semi-
permanent fishing colonies in the northern parts of New England, and the
small settlements made around Massachusetts Bay.

He then compiled an alphabetical list of all the settlers at these
various locations, with some biographical information on each. The
passengers on the Mayflower and the other early vessels bringing
passengers to Plymouth are also included in this compilation. A second
listing gives a brief chronology for each of the early settlements, and
includes the names of the settlers known to have been at each of these
plantations.

Bolton's principal motivation was his antipathy toward the Puritans and
his strong devotion to the Church of England. This may be seen, for
example, in one of his chapter titles: "The Break-up of the Church of
England Colony in the Bay."

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Samuel G. Drake, RESULT OF SOME RESEARCHES AMONG THE BRITISH ARCHIVES FOR
INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND: MADE IN THE YEARS
1858, 1859 AND 1860, (1860) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0312
Drake collected in one place all the passenger lists that had been
discovered by 1860, of emigrants leaving England for New England in the
years before 1676. He included lists from the port of London, as well as
lists from some of the out-ports, along with a few contemporaneous
private compilations.

The largest part of this volume consists of the names of the passengers
bound for New England as found in the London port book for 1635 (actually
covering the period from Christmas 1634 to Christmas 1635). Drake also
included the entries from the same port book for passengers bound for the
Caribbean.

Lesser lists include the London port book for 1632, and those few lists
from the 1630s that have survived from the ports of Yarmouth,
Southampton, Ipswich and Sandwich. To these Drake has added the private
record, kept by Daniel Cushing, of the earliest immigrants to Hingham,
Massachusetts, and also the lists of Scottish prisoners sent to New
England in 1651.

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John Eliot, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY CONTAINING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE
FIRST SETTLERS, AND OTHER PROMINENT CHARACTERS AMONG THE MAGISTRATES,
MINISTERS, LITERARY AND WORTHY MEN, IN NEW-ENGLAND, (1809) 2006
http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0313
In this early biographical dictionary, Eliot has provided accounts of the
lives of hundreds of colonial New Englanders, running from the earliest
explorers and settlers to the leaders of the revolutionary movement of
the mid-eighteenth century, and including many others from the years in
between.

In this early example of the prosopographical art, Eliot gives us
biographical sketches of all those we would expect to find here, from
Bradford and Brewster and Winthrop to Adams and Franklin and Hancock.
What makes this volume especially useful is his inclusion of many
prominent New Englanders from the three or four generations between the
Founding and the Revolution, a feature not often found in more modern
biographical dictionaries.

For example, in several of the leading families, like the Mathers and
Mayhews and Winthrops, Eliot includes not just the one or two famous
patriarchs, but a number of other not-so-well-known, but still important,
scions of these families.

As we may see from the title of the book, Eliot was especially interested
in the more learned members of society. In colonial New England, an
overwhelming majority of the well-educated went on to become ministers of
one denomination or another. But we find here also such men as Isaac
Greenwood, the first professor of mathematics at Harvard, in the 1720s,
and John Osborne, a prominent physician of the same period.


=== FGH/NEHGS Conference in Boston, Mass. ==========

If you are in the Boston area next week (Wednesday, August 30, through
Saturday, September 2, 2006), then don't miss the The Federation of
Genealogical Societies and New England Historic Genealogical Society
conference at the Hynes Convention Center.  There will be 350
presentations for genealogists of all levels, beginner to professional,
and speakers from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Northern Ireland,
Scotland, and England.

Representatives from Archive CD Books USA and Archive CD Books Ireland
will be in the exhibit hall selling CDs and answering questions.  Please
stop by our booths to say hello!

Access to the exhibit area is FREE and does not require attendence at the
lectures.

For more information, please visit:
   http://www.fgs.org/2006conf/FGS-2006.htm


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can receive a discount of at least 33% off from ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com and
a FREE on-site network license.

It is a great way for libraries/societies on a limited budget to serve
their patrons and members.  It is also a great way for you to get access
to data CDs that you may not want to purchase individually.

Please ask a representative from your favorite research library or
genealogy society to visit:
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