Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842029254
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781593312770
Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""
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Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Corey Recko
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0786474904
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton's agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Union's top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.
Author : James D. Lodesky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 146282188X
This book attempts to discover the names of the first Polish settlers in Illinois, when they came to Illinois and their stories when possible. Some left complete stories about themselves while others only a very small amount. The time period starts in 1818, the year Illinois became a state and ends in 1850. I found much more information between 1818 and 1850 then I thought I would so I cut the book off at 1850. The Polish settlers are divided into five different categories. 1. Polish Political Exiles from Russia. 2. Polish emigrants from mainly German occupied Poland. 3. Polish Jews. 4. People of Polish descent, those persons with a Polish ancestor. 5. Emigrants from an undetermined county whose last names look Polish.
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Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1990
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ISBN :
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Martin Novy and Thomas Garwood. Martin Novy was born ca. 1755 in the District of Prague, Bohemia, Austria. He married Doroty Havel sometime prior to the year 1790. They had one known child. Descendants began immigration to America ca. 1862, settled in Chicago and later moved elsewhere. Thomas Garwood was born ca. 1610 in England. He lived in Acton, Suffolk Co., England. Thomas married in England and was the father of one known child who immigrated to America ca. 1683. Descendants settled in New Jersey and later movee to other parts of the United States.
Author : Scott William Barker
Publisher : Scott William Barker
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : Swannee Bennett
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 168226131X
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.
Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 113999297X
A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested and negotiated in them. She explores the role of women as mediators shaping key social, economic, and political systems, as well as the creation of civil political institutions and the ways that men of many backgrounds participated in and influenced them. Ultimately, Great Lakes Creoles takes a careful look at Native people and their complex families as active members of an American community in the Great Lakes region.
Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN :
