Proper Family History


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Johann Jost Proppert/Propper (b. ca. 1679) and Anna Elisabetha were married ca. 1699. They immigrated to America in 1709-1710 with 3 children and settled in New York state. Includes families of Allen, Althauser, August, Beers, Decker, Fletcher, Grove, Ham, Harrington, Houghtaling, Keller, Kightlinger, Lasher, Miller, Ostrander, Quigley, Rice, Simmons, Young and others.




New York Legislative Index


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Constituting a complete record of bills introduced in the Senate and Assembly during the annual session of the Legislature of the State of New York.







Tennessee Records


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This is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee mortuary inscriptions, with a separate section of over 100 pages devoted to biographical and historical sketches.







The Negro in Virginia


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Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.




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Street Index of Census Tracts


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Words of Valediction and Remembrance


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This beautiful book is a moving tribute to fallen soldiers of the Second World War. Filled with examples of the inscriptions families requested for the headstones of their lost ones, the book builds around these epitaphs a tapestry of past history and present landscapes. The author takes us on a virtual tour of cemeteries and monuments all over Europe where Canadian soldiers are buried. His eloquent descriptions are richly interwoven with background information on relevant events of those years, and together with the many photographs they bring his subject to life.