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1) My Ancestor Left an Heirloom: Hunting Family History and Genealogy Treasure Through Metal Detecti
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Did your ancestor leave an heirloom? In Europe, for well over one thousand years many people from all walks of life have been putting their names and other personal details on a variety of metal objects, to identify or be identified and to advertise trades or professions. In addition the crown, the armed forces and civilian institutions increasingly awarded medals and badges for service and merit.There are many thousands of metal objects around engraved...
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There are many American families with the names Cary or Carey, Estes, and Moore. Numerous genealogy books have been written on all three. This book focuses on one branch of each family and traces them from the earliest known ancestors to the present generation (1981). All three families came to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. the Carys came from England; the Estes from Italy, by way of England; and the Moores from Scotland. This...
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This is a brief genealogical guide to researching ancestry and writing family histories and personal memoirs. It covers all of the basic information that a family genealogist would need in order to research and write their family history, including obtaining and interpreting documents, understanding kinship, telling stories, and troubleshooting. Also includes a long list of questions to use when conducting interviews, explains the use of photographs...
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This family history has largely been based on original (primary source) documents, many of which were recently discovered and progressively sent for safe-keeping to the archives of the Devon Heritage Centre (previously the Devon County Record Office). About a quarter of these are sufficiently important to this family history to be calendared (summarised) in this volume.
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If your ancestors were Devon farmers and country dwellers this volume is of great relevance and interest because it examines the daily life of villagers using the statistical data accumulated by social historians. It answers some of the questions we would have asked our ancestors if we could travel back in time to their era. Questions are discussed regarding• marriage partners• life span• bereavement• re-marriage• size of families• mobility•...
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This series of e-Books will chiefly be of interest to family historians with Devon ancestry. This ninth volume contains information about how the politics and trade of Devon may have affected our ancestors.It also contains information on Dartmoor and the semi-moorland parish of South Brent and genealogical charts and notes regarding the Trist families at South Brent.
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This is the fourth volume in a series attempting to write a social history of Trist families in Devon. It is the first of four volumes devoted to farming and village life in the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian eras (roughly 1530-1830). This social history is not unique to the Trist family. Nearly all English-speaking families today would have had many forbears who followed a similar way of life in a rural community.
12) Pompey on Patrol
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Turn back the clock. It's the start of the 20th century in New York City. Police Officer Redmond Keresey is on patrol astride his magnificent horse, Pompey. Redmond has no cell phone or even a two-way radio to summon assistance. But he has a unique partner: Pompey. Together they can rapidly respond to a developing problem; control an unruly crowd; transport an injured party to the hospital; stop a runaway carriage; and even ferret out the criminal...
13) Aunt Pokie
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Aunt Pokie is a true story about untrue family legacies. If my grandmothers were to be believed, my blood harbored the greatness of Pocahontas and Betsy Ross. After a decade of genealogical research, and a DNA test, I discovered my grandmothers weren't the only ones who could spin a good yarn.
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These are stories of a young boy's experiences during war torn Germany. His adventures included being chased by a gang. They ordered the dog to chase him. The dog was a German Shepherd, he was big, fast and bit him.When he was was abandoned by his boarding school, he returned to his home in Poznan (Poland) where he learned that his family had left that morning for Berlin. Unwilling to wait since the Russians were coming, he found his way to his Berlin...
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Bartholomew Yates was an immigrant to Virginia in 1700, a visitor to William and Mary College, professor of divinity, minister of several Anglican parishes in Middlesex county, and the patriarch of a large Virginia family. This geneology describes in detail many of his descendants and relatives, including Pocahontas and Powhatan, John and Thomas Rolfe, Robert "King" Carter, the Bollings and Murrays, and many Virginians who served America in every...
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"The Spanish people are really wonderful. They always crowd around you asking questions, and showing the greatest kindness to you. They have no prejudice, and I really feel no different between them and myself. Here I am treated as one of them. I like this place," wrote Alphaeus Prowell an African American in Spain fighting in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. These extraordinary letters written by Prowell captured the heart and soul of his war experience....
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Anxiety. Addiction. Depression. We associate these words with the challenges of modern life. Rarely do we consider how these conditions shaped past generations. Using archival sources, testimonies, and her grandfather Walter Parker's experiences, the author not only paints a vivid picture of life in an English Victorian village, but she also draws upon psychological theory to explore the lives of her working-class ancestors. What did your forebears...
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By: Jewell Reeve, Pub. 1962, Reprint 2024, 320 pages, Soft Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-128-0. Located in the northwestern portion of the State, Gordon County was created in 1850 from Cass (later renamed Bartow County) and Floyd Counties. Prior to its creation, these lands were part of the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery. A long out-of-print book filled with stories about the people who made Gordon County, their businesses and many little-known facts...
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Even in this digital age, many libraries and small archives often use microfilm and microfiche to display important information. There are many types of devices for reading these media, and many ways to use and, unfortunately, misuse these technologies. Librarians and archivists are well-aware of the problems and, if they haven't done so already, are almost certainly considering digitization with its obvious advantages. Yet, there are many pitfalls....
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By: R.W. Simpson, Pub. 1913, reprinted 1996, 264 pages, soft Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-101-9. At the close of the Revolutionary War, all the territory embraced in the present counties of ANDERSON, GREENVILLE, PICKENS, and OCONEE belonged to the Cherokee Indians. By an Act of March 1783, this territory was attached temporarily to the adjoining counties of Abbeville, Laurens, and Spartanburg. Pendleton County, as afterwards established, was attached...
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