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"American Family History" of Fox, Ellicott & Evans. Charles Evans, Martha Ellicott Tyson & G. Hunter Bartlett, Published by the "Fox, Ellicott, Evans Fund, Ivy Hill Forest, Cocleysville, Maryland, 1882 & 1976. Library of Congress Catalog # 75-37006 Originating from Counties of England, the Fox, Ellicott & Evans families tell their story. Quakers, the story starts in the 1400's and travels to America in the 1700's and to the present. Many influencial families, mostly Quakers, settle in Maryland and Pennsylvania between the 1600's and 1800's. Very thorough genealogies. STH
"Appalachia Crossroads. Volume l. Descendants of Hezekiah Sellards." Clayton R. Cox. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1977. Family Genealogy of names: Sellards, Borders, Wiley, Daniel, Vanhoose, Castle. BJW
"Chapman-Johnson-Wallace-Palmer Family." by Mrs. Josephine Chapman Wallace Williams. Booklet (47pgs) detailing early history of subject famlies settling in Davies County, Indiana in early 1700's. Includes genelogical charts of famlies. Includes several pictures (ie- Judge Elijah Chapman ). RF3
"Clues to Use II." Geraldine Elkins Cook, 1991. Family data on Geraldine Elkins Cook's maternal lines, includes the surnames Hollis, Rogers, McGee, Harrell, Hodges, Collins, Ellis, Macay, Mayes. SD5
"Descendants of East Tennessee Pioneers." By Olga Jones Edwards and Ina Wear Roberts, 1986 (2nd edition). Descendants of East Tennessee Pioneers, Colonel Samuel Wear, inter-marriage with the Eslinger's, some of both families migrated to Georgia and Arkansas. Wear Families from Northern Ireland and Eslinger (Esslinger) Families form Wuertemburg, Germany. CS3
"The Descendants of James A. Dickson (1820-1864) of Tennessee and Texas." Dickson, Roy S, Jr. isbn 0-9619822-0-9, nd. A genealogical study of the allied families of Dickson, Coleman, Fulbright, Harkey, Nall, Tippen. DCO
"The Divine Covenant in Pious Households from 1711 - 1891 Rev. Danial Lawrence Hughes, Rev. J.L. Landis, pub, 1891. 160-page family history written by my maternal great-great-great uncle which covers 150-years of family history in and around Cape May, N.J. Major allied families coverd: Hughes, Lawrences, Eldredges, and Fosters. Also, many of their descendants. Much vital statistics, photos, and some biographical info on the major personalities. Author used about 80% primary sources when compiling this publication. Copies of the "DC" are currently microfiled in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in thier genealogical Holdings. One can find it via their catalogue using either title or publisher. Two remaing physical copies remain in the families of two of the author's decendants. AC2
"Family Lines: A Loving Tribute to Our Southern Heritage." Adelle Bartlett Harper, Published Privately, 1973. Description: Brief histories of a dozen families, including Harper, Bartlett, Ferris, Johns, Randolph, Isham, Fitzpatrick, Woodson, Hunter, Alston, Hinton, and Hardy. SW1
"Family Records." Ashworth P. Burke, Heraldic Publishing Company, Inc., NY NY.c. 1965. 709 pages of lineage hsitory, coat of arms, genealogy charts. KA3
"Family Genealogy." Devorah Smith. I will be happy to do lookups in my family file. I will also scan and email copies of any certificates I have, but I'm sorry that I can't mail copies. Some of the surnames, but certainly not all, are: INGWERSON, INGWERSEN, PULCIFER, HOLLEY, HARSHMAN, HEATH, HIGGINS, WHITE. DIS
"A Family Trilogy." Marjorie Miller Shaw, self pub. c. 1989. Monroe Co. IA, OH, NY, New England and other locations of the families of Miller, Lamb, Trescott, Walker, Ames, Marcy, Morgan, Tyrrell, Shaw, Hollingshead, Chidester, Sarver, Gullion, Fulton, LaRue and others related. SMH
"French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936." Dennissen Revision Vol.1&2. The Rev Fr Christian Dennissen, Author; Publisher, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1987 Revision. ND1
"Genealogy of the Families of Gallemore, Bullen, McAnulty, Pierce, MacFarland and Dunlap." Holt, Esther Caroline Gallemore; Eagle Printing, Augusta, Illinois, 1922. This is a family genealogy. It is not indexed; however, I have most of it in my computer database. BC
"Held Captive By Indians, Selected Narratives, 1642-1836." Richard Van der Beets, University of Tennessee, 1973. Narratives of Isaac Jogues, Mary Rowlandson, John Gyles, Elizabeth Hanson, Robert Eastman, John Marrant, Frederic Manheim, John Corbly, Charles Johnston, Mary Kinnan, and Rachel Plummer. I am happy to extract some biographical content. DC9
"Heritage Of A Pioneer." Author-Charles Tunis Dodrill. Published by Charles T. Dodrill 1967. Surnames include: Dodrill, Hamrick, Gregory, Duffield any many, many more. M1
"HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA FAMILIES." MYRTLE HOUSE-WATSON, SELF, 1958, EL DORADO, UNION, AR. From early 1700's to 1958. Mark House (Marx Haus), Cress(Kress), Barringer, Misenhimer, Ludwig, Faggart, Propst, Litaker, Lemons, Krimminger, Carpenter, Austin, Ludwick, etc., etc. and the Willifords of Georgia. G4
"History of the Families of McConnell, Martins, Barbers, Wilsons, Bairds, McCalls and Morris." Newton Whitfield McConnell (privately published about 1915). JG7
"History of The Hancock and Barton Families: From Virginia To California" Karen J. Harvey and Maureen E. Ward, dist. by Hancock Family Organization, Oct. 1991. See also Barton family history. GB
"HOFFMAN - MANNING - SIMMONS FAMILIES of NEW YORK." Joyce Williams Hoffman & C.William Hoffman; The Anundsen Pub. Co; This is a wonderful book on the HOFFMAN, MANNING, SIMMONS families and many associated families. It gives lots of detailed information including many short biographies! MU
I wish to contribute my family tree to this listing. Surnames RETZER, RIETZ, WASSERMANN, GRABINGER, HELMINGER, HURIAS, SCHUMACHER are the major names, residents of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Illinois. JLR
"Jones-Easter-Black-Foster Family Records." compiled by David Tracey Jones in 1930. The book is a bound volume of copied hand-written pages. I made a copy of it at the New York State Library in Albany. Includes decendents of Nicholas Easter and Margaret Ayers (Ayres as it appears in this document). RVW
"Landrus, Williams, Forbes Family History." Freda Landrus Misenheimer, no publisher, August 15, 1958. Contains information on Ammerman, Beals, Bount, Brown, Cathey, Farr, Ferguson, Forbes, Fuller, Gallup, Gentry, Greeson, Landrus (Landers, Landres), Parr, Parsons, Schee, Smith, Sparks, White, and Williams surnames. Volume one produced in 1958 by a Landrus decendant. Some source information is listed in the text, however some information listed does not have a source identifying where/how the information was proven. FB
Les Lorrains en Amerique du Nord, Jean Houpert, 1985, 517 pp, eds. Naaman, Sherbrooke. Includes numerous family names of people having emigrated from French Lorraine to the USA and Canada (all names are indexed), a detailed history of the emigration, settlements, parishes; a history of Catholic orders in North American. A very useful book, very hard to find. JPR
"Listen to the Mockingbird." Daniel Dunbar Howe. Sections on families of Howe, Hoge, Dejarnette, Haven and Patton. DC4
"The Mohawk Valley Herkimers and Allied Families." by Hazel Patrick, Jane Spellman, William Watkins, Herkimer County Historical Society, Herkimer, NY, 1989. Some families include: Bell, Bellinger, Brown, Casler, Coppernoll, Dygert, Folts, Green(e), Herkimer, Petrie, Schuyler, Shoemaker, Smith, Waggoner/Wagner, and more. Herkimer progenitor is Johan Jost Herkimer (1700-1775), father of General Nicholas Herkimer and 12 others. KLB
"The Mohawk Valley Petries and Allied Families." by Hazel Patrick, Herkimer County Historical Society, Herkimer, NY, 1979. Some families include: Bellinger, Casler, Herkimer, Petrie, Snell, Timmerman/Zimmerman, Waggoner/Wagner, and more. Petrie progenitor is Johan Jost Petri of Strassburg, Alsace (d. abt 1710). KLB
"Nordmenner i Amerika (Norwegians in America)." Lists numerous Norwegian immigrants if they were either early enough or prominent enough in their particular part of the country. RV
"Our Children's Ancestors." Robert W. Young and Evelyn Cross Young, Publisher : Robert W. Young, 1695 Los Altos Road, San Diego, California 92109, 1966. Family genealogies of Ohio and Pennsylvania ancestors of Young, Conrad, Asire, Barr, and some from Alsace, France. S32
"Our kin Dominy-Duncan-Ellington-Fordham-Miller." Lanell Dominy Claxton, McDowell Publications, 1989. These lines are from Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia. JA1
"Pocahontas' Descendants." by Stuart E. Brown, Jr., Lorraine F. Myers, and Eileen M. Chappel; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; 1985. A revision, enlargement and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book "Pocahontas and Her Descendants" 1887. CG3
"Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families." Douglas Richardson , Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004. "This book documents lines of descent fo aproximately 190 seventeenth-century North American colonists from the Plantagenet dynasty that ruled England from 1154 to 1485. This dynasty was founded by Geoffrey Plantagenet (died 1151), Count of Anjou. The book has been compiled for three basic audiences: (1) For those who desire a reliable reference work for events and individuals in the colonial and medieval time periods; (2) For those interested in their personal family history who seek information regarding their more remote ancestry; and (3) To help readers better understand English history from the view point of family dynamics." L1
"The Price, Blakemore, Hamblen, Skipwith and Allied Lines." Jay Berry Price, Knoxville, 1992. CWM
"Roots & Wings." Leslie W. Hamrick, Jr. The family records of Benjamin Hamrick (~1728-~1787) & Mary Sias and their descendants. JI
"Saints and Strangers." George F. Willison, Reynal & Hitchcock, N.Y. 1945. "Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and Their Families, with Their Friends and Foes and an Account of Their Posthumous Wandering in Limbo, Their Final Resurrection and Ruise to Glory and the Strange Pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock. CSM
"Selections From The Diary of Joseph S. Elkinton" William T. Elkinton, Leeds & Biddle Co., 1913. 1830-1905 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SN2
"Southern Sojourners." Rosemary Corley Neal, published privately, copyright 1991. The book is an excellent source for these surnames: Corley, Sanford,Byars, Hanes, Horner, Bowne, Feake, Fones, Winthrop, Leonard, Richards, Bird, Coleman, Crow. Corley's and Hanes were in New Kent and Hanover VA. Sanfords from Westmoreland and Fairfax Co. VA. Horners from NJ,VA. Bowne England, NY, NJ. Feake from England, NY. Fones and Winthrop from England. Horner from NY, NJ. Leonard from MA, NJ. Richards from Falmouth, VA. Bird from King and Queen County VA. Coleman from King and Queen County, Essex, Caroline Counties in VA. Crow from Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, VA. B4
"Taylor - Mumford - Holland Family History." Margaret Ann Butler, privately published, 1993. Primarily in Georgia, Florida, Louisana & Texas. JH10
"The True & Eaton Family Bible." printed in 1613. SN2
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