Author: Lyman D. Platt
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: history, family, surnames, hispanic
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 080631480X
ISBN-13: 9780806314808

This is an exhaustive review of the development of Spanish surnames in Latin America and the Hispanic United States where there are obvious links between Latin American and Spanish families. (The word Hispanic refers to persons born in Latin America or the U.S. whose parents spoke Spanish and whose principal cultural background was Spanish; Latin America refers to those countries south of the U.S. border, including Puerto Rico and Cuba; and the phrase Hispanic United States refers historically to California, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.) One of t

Author: Kathleen B. Cory
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: third, ancestry, scottish, tracing
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-04
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0806317485
ISBN-13: 9780806317489

A practical, highly readable guide to researching Scottish roots. Packed with information and advice on basic research techniques, essential sources, heraldry, tartans and surnames, this comprehensive manual contains everything to help on your search, and includes a step-by-step model to drawing up a family tree.

Authors:Marion J. Kaminkow, Marian Kaminkow,
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: genealogies, congress, library, volumes, five, supplements, complement
Number of Pages: 4130
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0806316691
ISBN-13: 9780806316697

Researchers and libraries now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase a reprint of the greatest reference work in all of American genealogy, Marian Kaminkow’s Genealogies in the Library of Congress (2 vols.), with its two Supplements and the renowned Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress. Together these five massive volumes comprise the most comprehensive listing of family histories available. Answering the all-important question as to what family histories have already been written, they represent the first step in genealogical research. Indeed, since their firs

Author: Vera McDowell
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: western, biographies, oklahoma, letters, genealogical, ditch
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0806314842
ISBN-13: 9780806314846

Vera McDowell’s letters containing practical advice to genealogists first appeared in the Augusta Genealogical Society’s newsletter, Southern Echoes, in July 1982, and since then she has become something of a "Dear Abby" in genealogical circles. Mrs. McDowell’s emphasis is on problem-solving; thus all her letters bear the unstated refrain: when your ox is in the ditch (i.e. when you’re stuck), here’s what you do! The other thing that sets her apart is her enthusiasm for genealogy, and here her focus is on fun, personal fulfillment, and pure joy, and her letters re

Author: John W. Wayland
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: virginia, county, related, regions, rockingham, historical, valley, records, genealogical, materials
Number of Pages: 491
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0806303727
ISBN-13: 9780806303727

This volume is largely a sourcebook of genealogical and historical materials compiled from public records of the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, and Montgomery. Contents include Rockingham Marriages, 1795-1825; Rockingham Landowners, 1789; Augusta County Church Records, 1756-1844; Men in Service Against the Indians, 1774; Rockingham Militia, 1788; Early Settlers in East Rockingham; Extracts from Augusta Court Records; and Rockingham Wills. The book also includes sketches of a number of families in the area, among them Bowman, Cassell, Connelly, Craig, Custer, Harnsberger, H

Author: Gust Skordas
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: maryland, settlers
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-12-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0806306165
ISBN-13: 9780806306162

Author: Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: america, colonies, british, naturalizations, denizations
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2010-03-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 080631754X
ISBN-13: 9780806317540