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13 January 2008
Issue 2008, Number 1
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In this issue:
o Monthly Special - 20% Off
o New Data CDs from the U.S.
o New Data CDs from Ireland
o Special pricing for libraries/societies
o Genealogy methodology books at 15%+ off
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o How to reach us
=== Monthly Special - 20% Off ================
The following product is on sale for 20% OFF the regular retail price through the end of January, 2008:
United States Geological Survey and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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), (1890) 2007.
$31.96 (regular price=$39.95) http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0501
This atlas of Massachusetts from the earliest days of the U.S. Geological Survey includes 54 detailed maps of the State including towns, roads, railroads, bridges, cemeteries, lighthouses, and other existing structures. The meticulous depiction of topographic features also gives researchers evidence of the natural challenges faced by the people of the times. Hills and bodies of water, for instance, may have discouraged migration or even the intermingling of families which otherwise appear to have been close neighbors. Waterways may have facilitated local travel and commerce by water while the scarcity of bridges would limit access by land to other populations and resources.
Individual maps are available as downloads or can be ordered as reprints. Each map can be displayed in high resolution and enlarged to 800% or more on the screen without loss of clarity (depending on your hardware). Printouts from this product include an obtrusive copyright watermark. Quality print reproductions can be ordered from an inexpensive map-printing service using a link on each map page.
=== New Data CDs from the U.S. ==============
The following new data CDs from the U.S. are now available from ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com:
David Franks, et. al., THE NEW YORK DIRECTORY FOR 1786, (1786, 1905) 2007.
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0319
This is the first directory of its kind for New York City (1786). This directory itemizes the leading businessmen of the time to which was added separate lists of State and City officials, notary publics, lawyers, bankers as well as the members of some notable societies, including the Cincinnati, St. Andrew's, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, and the Society of Peruke Makers and Hair Dressers. Also included from the original publication is an almanack and table of coin valuations. (more...)
BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699 AND BOSTON BIRTHS, 1700-1800, (1883 & 1894) 2007.
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0361
The first of these volumes collects in one place all surviving vital records for the original town of Boston in the seventeenth century, along with the baptisms from the First Church of Boston. The second volume continues with all surviving Boston birth records for the entire eighteenth century. (more...)
Daniel S. Lamson, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WESTON, MASSACHUSETTTS, 1630-1890, (1913) 2007.
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0299
Lamson has compiled a comprehensive, topical history of the first two and a half centuries of Weston, Massachusetts. He devotes special attention to matters of ecclesiastical and military history, and also treats of such subjects as town records, taverns, schools, railroads, businesses and doctors. (more...)
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE; AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL THE POST OFFICES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH COUNTY AND STATE; A LIST BY STATES; A LIST OF STATES AND COUNTIES; LISTS OF MONEY-ORDER OFFICES; DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL; RATES POSTAGE; ..., (1882) 2007.
$14.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0365
Did you know there were 25 Washington counties in the U.S. in 1881? The father of our country came out on top, but he was closely followed by Jefferson and Franklin, each with 23. Even if we know the name of the place our ancestors came from, finding it can sometimes be difficult. Extinct place names and multiple copies of the same name can both cause problems. This post office directory contains an alphabetical list of every post office (with its county) in existence in the U.S. in 1881. Do you immediately think New York when you hear Albany? What about the other 18 Albanys scattered throughout the U.S.? (more..)
DULANY'S HISTORY OF MARYLAND FROM 1632 TO 1882 PREPARED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS IN THE STATE, (1881) 2007.
$9.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0377
Written by an unidentified author and published as a history book for Maryland students in 1881 this is not a detailed history-rather it provides a brief outline of events sprinkled with details intended to interest the student. The author states that "nothing of interest to the general reader has been omitted"- words of wisdom having "been gathered from preambles to her laws, old and new; from her ancient and modern records, her Indian treaties, and her revolutionary constitution." The text begins with a biographical sketch of Lord Baltimore, founder of the province, and includes references to leading events in almost every year from 1633 to 1881. Two-thirds of the text is devoted to the early history of the colony through the Revolutionary War. (more...)
LAND OWNERSHIP ATLASES OF WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN 1876-1925, (1876-1925) 2007.
$29.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0509
This collection contains these three rare atlases:
o Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Wayne, Michigan (1876)
o Detailed Official Atlas of Wayne, County, Michigan (1893)
o McAlpine's Farm Atlas of Wayne County (1925)
This collection of three old land-ownership atlases of Wayne County, Michigan offers researchers valuable records of Detroit and the nearby areas starting in the 1870's and extending nearly 50 years. (more...)
=== New Data CDs from Ireland ==============
The following new data CDs from Ireland are now available from ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com:
THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER: IRELAND: PART 1 (1893).
$11.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IE0027
The Royal Commission on Labour commissioned the reports into the conditions of the Agricultural Labourer in the Poor Law Unions of Ireland, which were carried out primarily in the 1890s. The reports mirrored a survey that was carried out in England previous to the Irish reports. The results, particularly for many of the Poor Law Unions in the West of Ireland were shocking. They painted a picture that had changed little since the famine for the agricultural labourer. The report covered the issues of Supply of Labour, the Conditions of Engagement, Wages and Earning, Cottage Accommodation, Gardens, Benefit Societies, Trade Unions, General Relations and General Conditions. (more...)
GREEN'S THE MAKING OF IRELAND AND ITS UNDOING, 1200 - 1600.
$17.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IE0032
Published during the height of the Irish cultural revival presaging the Easter Rising of 1916, Alice Stopford Green's The Making of Ireland and its Undoing: 1200-1600, was published in London in 1908. The Making of Ireland & its Undoing concerns itself with the period spanning the two centuries after the Norman conquest of Ireland and end of the Tudor dynasty and posits the theory that some two-hundred years after the Norman invasion more than accommodation had been made with the invaders; indeed, by the onset of the Tudor dynasty and Henry VIII's ruinous Irish designs Gaelic Ireland, the Anglo-Normans and the later Anglo-Irish had coalesced to form a new confident and vibrant Ireland. (more...)
STATISTICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF ROSCOMMON, 1832.
$29.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IET0087
The Irish Statistical Survey was carried out under the direction of the Royal Dublin Society. Each county was surveyed with the aim of determining the 'actual state, capabilities and defects of agriculture, manufactures and rural economy'. In practice the surveys contained a vast quantity of local information on almost every aspect of the county surveyed. Because these studies were carried out under central direction the quality of the information provided is good, and given their early date, they remain an invaluable source for the study of each county. They record many details about conditions in pre-Famine Ireland, including social and economic conditions, the growth of population and poverty, education, religion, history, the Irish language and local customs. (more...)
THE HISTORY OF THE HUGUENOT SETTLERS IN IRELAND AND OTHER LITERARY REMAINS
$23.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IET0088
First published in 1888, Thomas Gimlette's The History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland and other Literary Remains offers a fascinating insight into the persecution, flight and ultimate survival of one of Europe's minority Protestant faiths. Made infamous by the Edict of Nantes, its Revocation and the subsequent events of the Reformation, the history of Europe's Huguenots preceded these events by some four centuries when small communities of worshipers could be found all over Europe and especially in Province, southern France, worshipping simply and in their own language, which put them at odds with the established faith. (more...)
HUSSEY DE BURGH'S, THE LANDOWNERS OF IRELAND, 1878.
$29.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IET0089
The unabridged title of this publication provides the extent and scope of the work republished here on CD-Rom: The Land Owners of Ireland: An Alphabetical List of Estates of 500 Acres of £500 Valuation and upwards, in Ireland, with the Acreage and Valuation in each County. And also Containing A Brief Notice of the Education and Official Appointments of Each Person, to which are added his Town and Country Addresses and Clubs. Compiled by U. H. Hussey de Burgh, a land agent, and published in Dublin in 1881, de Burgh's stated aims for his publication are interesting and to some extent put his work at odds with later publications treating on the landowners of Great Britain and
Ireland. (more...)
INDEX TO THE ACT OR GRANT BOOKS, AND TO ORIGINAL WILLS, OF THE DIOCESE OF DUBLIN 1634-1858
$48.49 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=IET0090
Deputy Keeper of Ireland, Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin 1634-1858, 26th, 30th and 31st Reports, 1894, 1899. Previous to the establishment of the Irish Public Records Office (PRO), by an 1867 statute (30 & 31 Vict., c. 70), Ireland's public records were located in a variety of repositories throughout the country. Many of the records were perilously stored in unsuitable conditions, and on the opening of the PRO, records were progressively transferred to the new repository, for safe keeping. Each year, between 1869 and 1920 (and less frequently thereafter), the Office published an annual report, known as the Deputy Keeper's Report, which detailed the records received, and the work undertaken, during the previous twelve months. Though little known, these reports can contain useful source material for the historical researcher. (more...)
=== Special pricing for libraries/societies ===============
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