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The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: 1600-1700

Filed in Barbados, Book Reviews, Caribbean, Immigration/Emigration, Jamaica, New England, Passenger Lists on Mar.04, 2013

In another of the fantastic books reprinted in 2012 by the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS), the 1874 book The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: 1600-1700, by John Camden Hotten, provides individual names compiled from documents listing seventeenth-century English immigrants to New England, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean. The current reprint comes [...]

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The Dark Side of Genealogy

Filed in American Revolutionary War, Canada, New England, Ontario, Thomas Fiske articles on Jan.06, 2013

The following article was written by my friend, Thomas Fiske Who knew there was a dark side to genealogy? I certainly did not know until today. It was news to me before I figured it out. While looking at an Internet epistle from Family Roots, I saw two books that looked mighty interesting. As a [...]

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FamilySearch Adds New Collections from Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, & the United States

Filed in American War with Mexico, Brazil, Cemeteries, Chile, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, FamilySearch, Germany, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Italy, Manitoba, Netherlands, New England, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, Ohio, Peru, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Social Security Records, South Africa, Spain, Vermont, Vital Records, Washington on Dec.14, 2012

FamilySearch added an additional 6.4 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,034,803 records for the Netherlands, Zeeland Province, Church Records from 1527-1907, the 1,436,121 added from Italy Civil Registrations from 1824-1941, and the 1,069,308 added to the new Saskatchewan, Canada, collections from 1846-1957. Other new [...]

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New Englanders in the 1600s

Filed in Book & CD Announcements, Book Reviews, Immigration/Emigration, New England, Uncategorized on Sep.12, 2012

The “mass migration” of the Americas by Europeans began in the 1620′s. New England was the kicking off point, as it were, for many European immigrants. New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2010 is a source list of materials on over 3,600 families who immigrated in the [...]

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