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3 March 2008
Issue 2008, Number 2
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=== New Data CDs from the U.S. ==============
The following new data CDs from the U.S. are now available from ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com:
William H. Whitmore, ed., THE COLONIAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS. REPRINTED FROM THE EDTION OF 1672, WITH THE SUPPLEMENTS THROUGH 1686., (1890) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0329
The core of this essential reference volume contains complete transcriptions of two compilations of the seventeenth-century laws of Massachusetts Bay Colony: the Body of Liberties of 1641 and the Laws of 1672, with extensive explanatory introductions and detailed subject and name indexes to each. The 1641 Body of Liberties, a compilation of colony records which had been enacted up to that point, was not published at the time it was compiled, but a contemporary copy did survive in a collection of other seventeenth-century documents. This volume publishes in parallel a facsimile of the manuscript and a modern printed transcript of the same material. (more...)
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF MAINE VOLUNTEERS, ETC., MUSTERED INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF 1861 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE STATE OF MAINE FOR THE YEARS 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 AND '66), (1867) 2008.
$24.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0348
This publication of the State of Maine Adjutant General's office sets forth the names of tens of thousands of men who volunteered for or were drafted for service in the Civil War, along with a shorter list of those drafted in 1863 who furnished substitutes or paid a commutation to avoid service. The first list, which comprises nearly half of the 1200 pages of the volume, lists "Volunteers from April, 1861, to January 1, 1863." The other long list, occupying most of the second half of the book, presents "Volunteers, Drafted Men and Substitutes, [who] entered service in Maine and U.S. Organizations from January 1st, 1863, to the close of the War." The entry for each soldier gives name, rank, company and regiment. (more...)
Henry M. Burt, THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD: THE OFFICIAL RECORDS FROM 1636 TO 1736, WITH AN HISTORICAL REVIEW AND BIOGRAPHICAL MENTION OF THE FOUNDERS, 2 VOLUMES, (1898-1899) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0375
These two volumes contain three types of information of the first importance for the early history of Springfield, Massachusetts: transcriptions of the first three volumes of town records, a narrative historical overview of the early years of the town and biographical sketches of the first settlers. Each of the two volumes begins with historical accounts of the first century of Springfield, arranged both chronologically and topically. An important item embedded in this section of the first volume is a facsimile of the title page and a full transcription of The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, a controversial theological tract written by William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, and published in London in 1650. (more...)
Charles William Manwaring, compiler, A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, HARTFORD DISTRICT, 1635-1750, 3 VOLUMES, (1904-6) 2008.
$27.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0360
This essential tool for colonial Connecticut research contains abstracts and extracts of the estate papers of about three thousand individuals who died in Connecticut between 1635 and 1750. The records include wills, inventories, distributions and other probate documents from all available sources. During the earliest years covered by these volumes, Hartford jurisdiction covered a large part of the colony. As the number of towns and the population of the colony grew, Hartford probate district was carved up into more and smaller units. The first volume contains a section which details the division of Connecticut into probate districts. (more...)
S.V. Talcott, compiler, GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, (1883) 2008.
$24.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0363
Talcott has compiled extensive accounts of twenty-eight New York families and twenty-four New England families, tracing multiple lines of descent for each family from colonial times into the late nineteenth century, based on a wide range of sources, including especially Bible and death records. The family accounts are presented in standard genealogical form, with abstracts of wills for many of the early generations and substantial biographical data for the eighteenth and nineteenth centruy individuals. Those family members who served in the military are especially well documented. (more...)
Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., WHO'S WHO IN NEW ENGLAND: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LEADING LIVING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE STATES OF MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT (1916) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0217
This early entry in the Who's Who series contains nearly thirteen thousand sketches for prominent, living residents of the six New England states, each incorporating in brief compass data on occupation, education, family, religious affiliation and professional, cultural and military accomplishments. This book was an offshoot of the broader Who's Who in America series, which provided nearly three thousand of the sketches for the present volume, to which another ten thousand new sketches were added. (more...)
Thomas F. Gordon, THE HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY; FROM ITS DISCOVERY BY EUROPEANS TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, (1834) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0387
This two-volume set should be a part of any New Jersey researcher's library. Gordon's history of New Jersey presents a detailed description of the colonial New Jersey history and government describing the various government entities and jurisdictions and presenting a chronological description of both those governing the various parts of the colony and the impact this had on the settlement of the area. Citations to other histories and documents present opportunities for further study. This volume serves both the reader new to New Jersey history as well as those interested in specific information about an event. While the first volume is useful it is the second that is the real jewel of the collection. (more...)
Sherman Day, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, (1843) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0396
Written in 1843 not as a general history of the state but as individual histories of each county, this volume serves both as a history and gazetteer and provides interesting anecdotes tidbits of information. Perhaps no better explanation of the contents of Day's work can be found than in the writer's own description of the source of much of his material: "the compiler has been compelled to undertake personally the tour of the entire state; spending much time in each county, examining ancient newspapers and musty manuscripts; conversing with the aged pioneers, and collecting from them, orally, many interesting facts never before published, which otherwise would probably not have been preserved." (more...)
John Frederick Lewis, THE HISTORY OF AN OLD PHILADELPHIA LAND TITLE: 208 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, (1934) 2008.
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0370
Lewis traces the complete ownership history of a single parcel in downtown Phildelphia, gathering data on each owner of the property and on that owner's ancestry and family. Along the way he undertakes digressions to investigate aspects of local history related to this Philadelphia neighborhood. The author begins with an outline of the history of European colonization on the Delaware River prior to the arrival of William Penn, providing the story of the various periods of rule by the Dutch, the Swedes and the English. Finally, he describes the grant by King James II to William Penn of the land that became Pennsylvania. (more...)
Gilbert Adam Hays, UNDER THE RED PATCH; STORY OF THE SIXTY THIRD REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 1861-1864, (1908) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0274
Under the Red Patch is the story of the 63rd Pennsylvania Volunteers. Published in 1908 it draws upon an interesting series of personal reminiscences of army life in the 63rd, published in the Wilmerding News by William A. Murrow, a member of the 63rd's Company A. The list of the members of the 63rd who were originally recruited from Braddock, Etna, McKeesport, New Brighton, Pittsburgh, Sharpsburg, Turtle Creek Valley and Allegheny, Armstrong, Clarion, and Venango counties, provides details of their service and often their death and burial (more...)
VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS -- BOUNTY LAND AND COMMUTATION PAY, (1840) 2008.
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0382
Over fifty years after the end of the Revolution, claims were still being made to the federal government for commutation pay and bounty land for service in the Revolutionary War. On 24 April 1840 the Committee on Revolutionary Claims presented a report to the House of Representatives. This report provides a detailed history of various awards and the process followed in the awarding of claims for the service of officers in the Virginia Continental and State Line and navy. Record loss has made it difficult to reconstruct the service of many individuals who served in the war. Consequently, of most interest to researchers, will be the references to various lists of officers who served or were declared supernumerary during the war. (more...)
Lewis Preston Summers, ANNALS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA (1769-1800), (1929) 2008.
$24.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0346
The student of early southwest Virginia history can find no better beginning point than Summers' Annals. The bulk of this over 1000-page compilation focuses on abstracts of court minutes and early surveys which often mention early settlers who left no trace in wills and deeds. Although the stated area covered is the area south of the James River and west of the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Cumberland Gap, court records (Botetourt and Fincastle) include Kentucky until 1777 when Kentucky County was established and southern West Virginia to 1778 when Greenbrier County was established. (more...)
George S. McWatters, KNOTS UNTIED: OR WAYS AND BY-WAYS IN THE HIDDEN LIFE OF AMERICAN DETECTIVES, (1871) 2008.
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0383
Witches, horse thieves, bank robbers, charlatans-skeletons in the closet of our family tree! Most of us enjoy the occasional "odd" ancestor if they're far enough back in the family tree. But can we document them. Family stories are often questioned and autobiographies no less so. And then there are the fake inheritances (and family trees) that make up those genealogical swindles. McWaters autobiography is filled with fodder for family trees. Whether or not all the events in McWaters's life are as they are described herein, some things can be documented. (more...)
=== New Downloadable Products from the U.S. ====
The following digitized products are among our most popular data CDs and are now alternatively available as a download, thereby saving the cost of shipping:
Henry Campbell Black, M.A., A DICTIONARY OF LAW CONTAINING DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS AND PHRASES OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE, ANCIENT AND MODERN (FIRST EDITION, 1891) (DOWNLOAD), (1891 and 1910) 2006.
$29.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0211-DL
Every genealogist, regardless of their time and place of interest, must have a copy of Black's Law Dictionary in their library. Legal terminology differs from place to place and time to time, and successful genealogical research depends on the clear understanding of this changing terminology. (more...)
Robley Dunglison, M.D., LL.D., MEDICAL LEXICON. A DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (DOWNLOAD), (1865) 2006
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0226-DL
This compendious volume is far more than a dictionary, providing a wide range of medical information as it was known at the end of the Civil War. The author has added much to this second edition of his work, and has designed it to be "A French As Well As An English Medical Lexicon." There are many areas of terminology included here, included anatomy, chemistry, herbal medicine, pharmacology, and many more. Latin and French forms of many words are given, and Latin and Greek etymologies are also frequent. There are also unexpected data sets dispersed through the volume in their proper alphabetic place, such as spas and health resorts, both in Europe and in the United States, or the terminology used in various magical systems of healing. (more..)
Bishop [William] Meade, OLD CHURCHES, MINISTERS AND FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA (DOWNLOAD), (1857) 2006.
$27.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0236-DL
This history of the Episcopal Church in Virginia focusses on a narrative of each parish in the state, with biographical and genealogical details on many of the early ministers and prominent members of that church. Complete transcripts of many colonial documents are included for most of the parishes. Like so many other nineteenth-century antiquaries, Bishop Meade conducted his research through a combination of onsite visits and correspondence with other antiquaries. In the preparation of this history, which was first published as a series of eighty newspaper articles, he attempted to locate and examine the surviving vestry books for each parish. In some cases he saw these records himself, and in other instances he relied on reports by others. (more...)
Cotton Mather, MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA; OR, THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND; FROM ITS FIRST PLANTING, IN THE YEAR, 1620, UNTO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1698, 2 VOLUMES (DOWNLOAD), (1855) 2007.
$29.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0249-DL
Cotton Mather was the most prolific writer of colonial New England. In these two magnificent volumes, he preserves much history of the institution that became the Congregational Church. Most importantly, he collected important biographical information on nearly all the early New England ministers. Mather knew no moderation in collecting information and putting it in print. Although the work is described as an ecclesiastical history, there is more to it than that. Mather also presented accounts of the founding of the various New England colonies, with biographical sketches of the governors of those colonies and of some other leading citizens. He also included accounts of the early history of Harvard College and of the Indian wars of the seventeenth century. (more...)
John E. Stillwell, M.D., HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY: DATA RELATING TO THE SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY (VOLUMES I AND II) AND EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW JERSEY AND THEIR DESCENDANTS (VOLUMES III, IV AND V) (DOWNLOAD), (1903-1932) 2006.
$27.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0209-DL
These five volumes, two providing a wide range of colonial source material and three presenting compiled genealogies, constitute at the same time an essential reference work for Monmouth County, New Jersey, and an important broader source for the early years of New Jersey, New York and New England. (more...)
Frank Esshom, PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN OF UTAH, COMPRISING PHOTOGRAPHS - GENEALOGIES - BIOGRAPHIES (DOWNLOAD), (1913) 2006.
$34.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0212-DL
The author has collected nearly six thousand photographs of Utah pioneers (before 1869) and other prominent early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a separate section are included brief biographical and genealogical sketches of these men and many more from the same era. This large volume is divided into three sections. The first seven hundred pages are devoted to the photographs, nine to a page. Next are the sketches, filling nearly six hundred pages. The book concludes with a brief chronological history of the church. (more...)
Andrew Jenson, LATTER-DAY SAINT BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: A COMPILATION OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (DOWNLOAD), (1901-1936) 2006.
$34.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0213-DL
These four volumes comprise more than three thousand biographies of the early leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many accompanied by photographs. The author has included accounts of all the general authorities and many of the presidents and bishops of the stakes and wards. (more...)
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