Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Your ancestors are composed of more than vital records and family group sheets. Behind the names and dates are tales of love, loss, resolve and sweeping change--of history itself. Their stories are what will make them real to your present-day (and future) relatives, the...

Although Mr. Summers' genealogical masterpiece covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, the work focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of...

Your ancestors are composed of more than vital records and family group sheets. Behind the names and dates are tales of love, loss, resolve and sweeping change--of history itself. Their stories are what will make them real to your present-day (and future) relatives, the...

This should be the first work of reference consulted by the genealogist, as it tells what family histories have already been published. These two massive volumes include titles and descriptive details of genealogies listed in the Family Name Index of the Local History and...

This should be the first work of reference consulted by the genealogist, as it tells what family histories have already been published. These two massive volumes include titles and descriptive details of genealogies listed in the Family Name Index of the Local History and...

Reprinted in these three volumes are seventeen books that comprise one of the major achievements of twentieth-century genealogy--the multi-ancestor compendium compiled and published by Walter Goodwin Davis between 1916 and 1963. These 2,100 fully-indexed pages authoritatively cover 180 families, all of Davis's colonial forebears...

This is a consolidated edition of a scarce and very important periodical. Originally titled "Early Settlers of Western New York," then, after its scope was broadened, "Early Settlers of New York State," its nine volumes were issued in monthly, bimonthly, and finally quarterly installments....

Commencing with the settlement of Massachusetts by John Winthrop and followed by succinct accounts of the founding and the founders of the towns along the Bay, the bulk of this work consists of genealogical essays on the following Massachusetts Bay families: Aspinwall, Baker, Balch,...

This publication examines the early families and history of the North Fork of Long Island, New York, from the earliest settlement through the Revolutionary War. Following an introductory chapter on the founding of Southold, Mrs. Jacobson presents genealogies on seventeen families who settled there...

Covering an incredible 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. Starting with the earliest colonial settler, the origins of the...

This work contains all of the articles on Rhode Island families that had been published in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" since 1846. Except for articles relating to the immigrant origins of Rhode Island families, which have appeared elsewhere, this has many...

This is an exceptionally thorough work, for it contains genealogical abstracts from more than 7,000 issues of eighty newspapers printed in Virginia in the 18th century! In addition, where there were gaps in the Virginia papers, newspapers from nearby states were scanned for Virginia...

Using this oral history handbook as a guide, you will be able to record your life experiences on tape simply by answering questions that will lead you, step by step, through the precious moments of your life.Author: Stephen Arthur, Julia ArthurISBN-10: 0806311940ISBN-13: 9780806311944Publisher: Genealogical...

Many of the early settlers of Illinois moved there originally from Kentucky. The trail these migrants left, however, was so indistinct that it has not always been possible to identify them. Now Professor Sprague has assembled a list of these Kentucky migrants with data...

This present work is a consolidation of all the articles published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Committee on English and Foreign Research in the pages of its journal, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Treating the immigrant origins of perhaps 1,000...

This is a list not only of the early settlers of Georgia but of the first settlers of Georgia, and it is apparently a complete list of all those who were sent by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America under...

"Genealogies of Connecticut Families" is a three-volume collection of family history articles-- each volume has its own index. Its references to some 75,000 persons in more than 400 articles, together with a scholarly introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, the Society's Director of Research, combine...

"Genealogies of Connecticut Families" is a three-volume collection of family history articles-- each volume has its own index. Its references to some 75,000 persons in more than 400 articles, together with a scholarly introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, the Society's Director of Research, combine...

The articles forming this unique collection were taken from a total of six Rhode Island periodicals. Three were issued by the Rhode Island Historical Society, namely Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Rhode Island History, and Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society. The remaining...

This work which came from a study of some sixty Missouri county histories and "mug-books," provides records of over 4,000 persons born in Kentucky who migrated to Missouri, some by way of Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois.Author: Stuart Seely SpragueISBN-10: 0806310138ISBN-13: 9780806310138Publisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyLanguage:...

Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up...

In this three-volume work will be found all of the family history articles published in "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine" from its founding in 1895 (as "Publications of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society") through 1980. Here, too, will be found every Bible record and genealogical fragment...

Originally published as Part II of the author's History of York County, Pennsylvania, this work embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data. Colonial York County's prominence as a crucible for German, English, and...

Ernest Flagg was a descendant of no less than 172 different New Englanders, most of whom settled in this country between 1635 and 1640. All 172 lines, which were concentrated primarily in eastern Massachusetts, the Connecticut Valley, Rhode Island and South Carolina, are set...

Compiled between 1900 and 1903, James Hathaway's 1,700-page "North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register" is widely regarded as the supreme collection of genealogical source materials on the Old Albemarle region of North Carolina. Although a substantial amount of data appearing in the Register was...

Essential to the Virginia researcher, this celebrated book consists of an alphabetical surname index to all works published prior to 1930 containing genealogies of Virginia families. In all, there are about 6,000 family names with more than 18,000 references, each keyed to the work...

This is the most important multi-volume work on the genealogy, biography, and history of central Pennsylvania. It has genealogies, biographies, and family sketches, plus lists of early settlers and soldiers of the various wars, including the Revolution. There are also a vast number of...

Volume V of Virkus's "Compendium of American Genealogy" contains portraits, about 7,800 lineage records, and more than 60,000 names in the index.Author: Frederick A. VirkusISBN-10: 0806303662ISBN-13: 9780806303666Publisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2012Pages: 940Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.85d

This is the fourth volume in the acclaimed seven-volume series by Frederick A. Virkus. Volume IV contains portraits, about 7,800 lineage records, and more than 60,000 names in the index.Author: Frederick A. VirkusISBN-10: 0806303654ISBN-13: 9780806303659Publisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2012Pages: 910Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.63lbsSize: 9.00h...

This is the second volume in the acclaimed seven-volume set by Frederick A. Virkus, "The Compendium of American Genealogy." Volume II contains portraits, 1,600 records, and 5,000 lineages, with cross-references.Author: Frederick A. VirkusISBN-10: 0806303638ISBN-13: 9780806303635Publisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2012Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h...

Probably the finest genealogical record ever compiled on the people of ancient Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, this work consists of extensive source records and documented family sketches. Collectively, what is presented here is a veritable history of a people--a "tribe" of people--who settled in...

This compilation contains 85 pedigrees and a number of charts showing lineal descent from the kings of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and France of hundreds of members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and of the Order of the Crown....

The Wright brothers have long received the lion's share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright's powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John...

He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to "detect the sickness of idolatry," but Bernardino de Sahag佖 (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the...

Philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in Spanish history, but it was his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law--who made his vast castilian empire possible. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole traces the life and career of a key minister in...

"Cochise" was a name that struck terror in hearts across the Southwest. Yet in the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard and his aid-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona's rocky Dragoon Mountains in search of the elusive Chiricahua Apache chief. Accompanied...

A tribal leader preserves Cheyenne history, beliefs, and cultureAs Keeper of the Arrows, William Wayne Red Hat, Jr., is charged with protecting one of the most sacred possessions of the Cheyenne people and serves his tribe as a revered cultural authority. The Arrow Keeper...

When Americans answered the call-to-arms after the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898, a wiry little Oklahoman was in the front ranks. Veteran cowboy Billy McGinty put his horseman's skills to work as one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and participated in the...

General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. And yet, on hearing of Crook's death, the Sioux chief Red Cloud lamented, "He,...

Medical doctor George Cheyne, little known today, was among the most quoted men in eighteenth-century Britain. A 450-pound behemoth renowned for his Falstaffian appetites, he nevertheless advocated moderation to his neurotic clientele. Cheyne was an early admirer of Isaac Newton and a writer on...

George Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and...

Albert B. Fall, interior secretary in the Harding administration, was the first American cabinet member sent to prison for a crime committed in office. In the Teapot Dome affair - the worst modern political scandal until Watergate - Fall leased two naval oil reserves,...

Girl on a Pony is the gritty, humorous, unflinchingly courageous story of five children growing up on a cattle ranch in the remote Valley of the Dry Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico near the little border town of Kenton, Oklahoma. Narrated years later by...

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through...

Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled like to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his...

When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott's duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as...

Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing felons all...

In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last...

In the history of the Southwest, Pat Garrett stood tall, both physically and in legend. He was more than just a famous western sheriff, more than the slayer of the legendary Billy the Kid. While on occasion his gun was for hire, and while...

"A graphic word picture of the experiences of one of the most controversial and publicized Indian Fighters the United States Army has ever produced."--Military History When General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he...