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Early
Tennessee Settlers
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The fourteen books included on this CD cover a time period both shortly before and shortly after Tennessee was erected as a state from North Carolina in 1796 and identify a large proportion of Tennessee's original settlers. Compiled from traditional record sources, these books generally contain a selection of county, state, church, and family records, specifically cemetery records; Bible records; records of deeds, wills, and marriages; Revolutionary and War of 1812 payroll and pension records; militia records; and census records. Of the 165,000 persons named in these books, many are found in the carefully crafted genealogies which the authors developed from out-of-the-way sources in North Carolina and Tennessee. United by a single electronic index, the following books are included on this easy-to-use Family Archive CD:
*Tennessee Genealogical Records: Records of Early Settlers from State and County Archives
*Tennessee Records: Bible Records and Marriage Bonds
*Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts
*Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution
*Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution
*Twenty-Four Hundred Tennessee Pensioners, Revolution and War of 1812
*Record of Commissions of Officers in the Tennessee Militia, 1796-1815
*1770-1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements: Davidson, Sumner, and Tennessee Counties
*Index to the 1820 Census of Tennessee
*Pioneers of Davidson County, Tennessee
*Overton County, Tennessee: Genealogical Records
*Red River Settlers [Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner Counties]
*Sumner County, Tennessee Abstracts of Will Books (1788-1842)
*Henry County, Tennessee Old Time Stuff
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If you haven't already started your Revolutionary War research, now's a great time to do so with some good resources listed below:
RESOLUTIONS, LAWS, AND ORDINANCES RELATING TO THE . . . OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOUNTY LAND GRANTS
"FIRE, CAKE AND WATER." THE CONNECTICUT INFANTRY AT THE VALLEY FORGE ENCAMPMENT
WHAT CAN'T BRAVE AMERICANS ENDURE?" THE NEW JERSEY INFANTRY AT THE VALLEY FORGE ENCAMPMENT
REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS OF MARYLAND
INDEX TO U.S. INVALID PENSION RECORDS, 1801-1815
KING'S MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROES
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S GUARD: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
HISTORICAL REGISTER OF VIRGINIANS IN THE REVOLUTION
GEORGIA'S ROSTER OF THE REVOLUTION
ROSTER OF SOLDIERS AND PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN INDIANA
KNOWN MILITARY DEAD DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-1783
THE LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
IRISH
SOURCE RECORDS
Irish genealogical source records have been prey to an astonishing amount of
destruction, the most serious instance of which was a fire at the Public Record
Office in Dublin in the year 1922, which destroyed virtually all pre-1901
census records, recorded wills, and Church of Ireland parish registers. Since
then, reconstructing the lost records has been a passion of historians and
genealogists alike, who have succeeded in patching together substitute records
and bringing to light the various indexes, abstracts, and transcriptions of
records that had been made before the fire. Many such records have been
published by the Genealogical Publishing Company and are included on this CD
(along with some additional records), linked by a single electronic name index.
WHY FRANCE IS A CATHOLIC COUNTRY AND WHY YOU MAY HAVE HUGUENOT ANCESTORS
In 1685, following years of bitter religious wars, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes—which had granted French Protestants a measure of religious toleration—setting the stage for the expulsion of two million French men, women, and children. Composed of a large number of the nation's commercial and artisan class, these French Protestants, or Huguenots, dispersed to the Netherlands, England, Ireland, and North America. In the United States Huguenots founded, or figured in the establishment of, early settlements in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and South Carolina—in some instances even before the English arrived. If your missing links settled in one of the numerous Huguenot jumping-off points in North America during the late 17th- or early 18th-century, you might have Huguenot ancestry.
This CD, HUGUENOT SETTLERS IN AMERICA, 1600s-1900s, which consists of page images of sixteen separate Huguenot publications, not only chronicles the story of this great Diaspora but also preserves the identities of thousands upon thousands of Huguenot emigrants to the Americas and beyond. Fully searchable via its electronic index, this CD provides you with the equivalent of a comprehensive library of Huguenot history and, quite possibly, just the link you need to your own Huguenot ancestors.
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If your ancestors settled in Virginia before 1700, there is a strong likelihood that they were inhabitants of the Virginia Tidewater region, an area bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the fall line, an imaginary line that crosses the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James rivers at their first unnavigable points. The Tidewater counties of Virginia include, in whole or part, Caroline, Charles City, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Richmond, Northumberland, Warwick, Westmoreland, and York.
The Tidewater region was home to most of the celebrated events of Virginia ’s early life as a colony. These included the founding of Jamestown and the mythic encounters of John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe; Virginia’s transformation from proprietary to royal governance; early years filled with disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, notably in 1622 and 1644; the adoption of tobacco cultivation; the introduction of the headright system; and related events that assured the colony’s economic growth and set the stage for dramatic increases in English and African slave population. In fact, Virginia’s 17th-century non-indigenous population would grow from 8,000 in 1640 to 25,000 in 1660, and to 40,000 by 1680.
If your ancestors were among the intrepid inhabitants of this storied region of Virginia, the following CDs and books may hold the information you’re looking for. While only the two volumes of TIDEWATER VIRGINIA FAMILIES below deal exclusively with the area, each of the CDs is, nonetheless, a veritable library of linked genealogical findings or source records pertaining to the Tidewater. For example, GENEALOGIES OF VIRGINIA FAMILIES FROM TYLER’S QUARTERLY includes the 34-volume work VIRGINIA COLONIAL ABSTRACTS, by Beverly Fleet, which is devoted exclusively to Tidewater county records. Similarly, one of the books on VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS is Nell Marion Nugent’s CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS . . . 1623-1666, the most important collection of early Tidewater land records in existence. If you have Tidewater Virginia ancestors, one of these books or CDs is bound to help you:
Covering an incredible time span of 375 years, this book sets forth the genealogical history of some forty families who have their roots in Tidewater Virginia, families whose very history mirrors the social development of Virginia itself.
TIDEWATER VIRGINIA FAMILIES: GENERATIONS BEYOND
When "Tidewater Virginia Families" was published by GPC in 1990, it was considered a landmark publication, so powerful a contribution to Virginia genealogy that it was one of only a handful of genealogical compendia that commanded the respect and admiration of all serious genealogists. In the intervening eight years, enough new material has turned up to warrant publication of this supplement, "Generations Beyond."
COLONIAL VIRGINIA SOURCE RECORDS
This Family Archive CD identifies 350,000 individuals in a unique collection of colonial Virginia source records, namely, wills and administrations, marriage records, family histories, tax records, newspaper abstracts, and military records. The materials drawn on in this compilation are especially useful because they were collected from local sources and cover a period of time before centralized record-keeping was established.
VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES
This two-CD set encompasses a huge collection of Virginia genealogies and biographies, the majority of which were compiled by recognized authorities from source records dating from the 1600s to the early 1900s.
This is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled on CD, representing the combined efforts of several generations of talented and dedicated genealogists. Anyone with suspected colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family histories, for this Family Archive CD contains a treasure-trove of records that identify many of Virginia's earliest immigrants and settlers.
GENEALOGIES OF VIRGINIA FAMILIES from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
This CD contains all five volumes of "Genealogies of Virginia Families," published originally by GPC in 1981. The five volumes together contain all the family history articles that appeared in VMHB from its inception in 1893 to 1977.
GENEALOGIES OF VIRGINIA FAMILIES From Tyler’s Quarterly. With Virginia Colonial Abstracts
This Family Archive CD contains all four volumes of "Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly" and the multi-volume "Virginia Colonial Abstracts" by Beverley Fleet. The four-volume collection from "Tyler's Quarterly" contains all 350 family history articles published in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise in 1952. It also includes Bible records and wills, as well as a very important group of articles published under the title "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed."
This CD contains images of all five volumes of "Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly" and the single volume of "Virginia Gleanings," which had originally been published serially in "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography."
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