- King's
Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673
by Peter J. Gagné www.quintinpublications.com
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Scandinavian
Kings and Queens by Selma Lagerlöf
Three stories: Astrid, Sigrid Storräde and The Silver Mine. Also includes the essay On the Site of the Great Kungahälla, which reveals some of the particulars Lagerlöf gathered when working on Queens at Kungahälla, published in 1899. (Queens at Kungahälla is a collections of stories about Scandinavian royalty during the Viking age.) The Silver Mine is from a later volume (1908) and centers around Gustav III, King of Sweden from 1771 until his assasination 1792.
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Books on Vikings
- Viking Genealogy
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Ireland, Co. Cork Genealogy & Family History Notes
This book contains genealogy and family history notes from the IGF archives.
It includes the complete 1659 census for Cork City and County; maps; modern
parish names; Local resource list; searches on file; coats of arms connected
to families in Cork; and notes on families from O'Harts work. It is not a big
collection of surname histories, it is a hands on research aid with an actual
census and vital data. Produced for members of the IGF. Indexed. This volume
supplements "Families of County Cork, Ireland" the larger hardbound book in print.
- Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records This book is intended to help researchers locate their Catholic ancestors in Quebec. The bulk of this work consists of county-by-county lists of parishes within the Province of Quebec, and all known Catholic parishes are listed to 1900. Each list gives the names of all the parishes within that county, arranged in order of formation, with the date of the oldest records for that parish. A reference letter and name after the parish indicates the compiler and publisher of a marriage register for that parish, or whether the marriages for that parish may be found in the important Loiselles Marriage Index. The compiler has also included a few Protestant parishes and marriage indexes. In the front of the book, researchers will find an inventory, diocese by diocese, of the parishes covered in the Loiselles Marriage Index, a listing of organizations that publish parish records, a map of the province to be used as a finding aid to the lists of parishes, background information on archives and additional resources, and other helpful information. For persons not familiar with the counties or parishes of Quebec, the author has provided a county-to-parish index and a parish-to-county index at the back of the volume.
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Detroit River Connections
Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Eastern Great Lakes Border Region
This volume is available on a Family Archive CD. (** Details here)
Mrs. Jacobson here examines the history of the area along Lake Erie encompassed by Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, an area that shares a rich cultural heritage. At one time or another the area was ruled by three different sovereigns and changed hands five times in all. After the border between the U.S. and Canada was pacified during the last century, there was a constant flow and settlement of peoples on both sides of Lake Erie. By 1870, 500,000 Canadians had migrated to the U.S. through the port of Windsor, and today countless Americans who claim Michigan ancestry also possess Canadian ancestry.
In this book Judy Jacobson examines this border's history, focusing attention on a number of families whose heritage spans our two nations. Thus we learn about the origins of Detroit, Grosse Pointe, and Michilimackinac on the American side and Kingston, Thamesville, and Windsor on the Canadian, to name just a few of the communities surveyed. What genealogists will find most valuable about the book, of course, is the collection of genealogical and biographical sketches spanning the 18th and 19th centuries on the following border families: Askins, Barthe, Baudry, Bondy, Brush, Burns, Campeau, Cassidy, Chapoton, Donovan, Elliott, Fields, Jacob, Landon, McKee, May, Navarre, Pattinson, Reddick, Richardson, Robertson, and Viller/Villier. Mrs. Jacobson also includes a helpful guide to French names and naming practices at the outset of her book and an appendix of source records and a bibliography at the back.
- Early Ontario Settlers A Source Book Covering the years 1783 to 1789, this source book contains
official records of the early settlers of Upper Canada, or Ontario--chiefly population returns, provisioning lists, settlers' location lists, and lists of immigrant arrivals. The core of the work consists of two provisioning, or ration, lists for 1784 and 1786, which provide the name of the head of household, place of settlement, and statistical details of the family. Most of the settlers named in the records were from the American colonies, and a very substantial proportion were from New York, especially from the Albany area and the Mohawk Valley. Includes maps, detailed notes on sources, and an every name index of 6,000 entries.
** Midwest Pioneers The twelve volumes making up the contents of this CD focus on military records, marriage records, census records, and genealogies. Naming tens of thousands of individuals in early Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, and Illinois, chiefly from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, this CD comprises the broadest cross-section of Midwest genealogical reference materials available. The following are the books included on the CD, all linked by a single electronic name index and a powerful search engine:
*A History of Pioneer Families of Missouri, by William Bryan and Robert Rose
*An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West, by Charles Flagg
*Detroit River Connections, by Judy Jacobson
*Illinois Census Returns, 1810 [and] 1818, by Margaret Cross Norton
*Illinois Census Returns, 1820, by Margaret Cross Norton
*Roster of Soldiers . . . of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, by Mrs. Roscoe O"Byrne
*Missouri Marriages Before 1840, by Susan Ormesher
*Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860, by Clara Hamlett Robertson
*Michigan Military Records, by Sue Silliman
*Pioneer Families of the Midwest, by Blanche Lea Walden
*Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois, by Harriet Walker
*Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana, by Margaret Waters
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