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If your ancestors set foot between Maryland and New York, this could be your lucky weekend. We
have dropped the price on 15 stellar mid-Atlantic genealogy titles, any one of which might lead you to
an elusive ancestor. Until 11:59 p.m. EDT, July 11, 2016, you can save at least 40% off the retail price
of books covering New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or Maryland ancestors. Chances
are you will find yourself using these titles on a number of occasions, so be sure to add them to your
collection--while the price is right.
New Netherland Roots
The purpose of this book is to show the researcher how to trace a 17th-century New Netherland
ancestor back to his place of origin in Europe. Gwenn F. Epperson demonstrates that without leaving
the U.S., and without speaking or reading a foreign language, the researcher can successfully trace
his/her New Netherland ancestry.
Was $22.00
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Abstracts from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1748
Arranged chronologically from 1728 to 1748 during the period of Franklin's personal charge, this useful
reference tool consists of genealogical abstracts of the most important newspaper in 18th-century
America, the Pennsylvania Gazette. The pages of the Gazette recorded fires, accidents, crimes,
desertions, mutinies, piracies, and (in the advertisements) listings of merchants, artisans, teachers,
and shippers. The abstracts contained herein identify 12,000 individuals, not only Philadelphians or
Pennsylvanians but also inhabitants of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
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The German Element in the Northeast: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey & New England, by
Gustav Koerner. Translated and Edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann
In 1880 Gustav Koerner (1809-96) published a comprehensive history of Germans in America entitled
Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818-48. For this work Don
Heinrich Tolzmann translated and edited selected chapters from Koerner covering the states of
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. Dr. Tolzmann has added extensive
annotations that further explain the text and provide references to additional sources as well.
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The Old and New Monongahela
The compiler of this work extracted liberally from early and contemporary newspapers of Monongahela
and adjacent regions, including the Pittsburgh Gazette, Williamsport Chronicle, Monongahela
Republican, Daily Republican, and Bellevernon Enterprise. Besides obituaries, the book includes
lengthy sketches of the early families of the Monongahela Valley, each showing, in substance, family
members and their relationships; dates and places of birth, marriage, and death; occupation; and
more.
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The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania
Wayland Dunaway's classic outlines the circumstances behind the settlement of Lowland Scots in
Ulster, their life in that Province for two or three generations, and the reasons for their immigration to
America. It then proceeds to trace the important migratory movements of the Scotch-Irish from
Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania, and from Pennsylvania down the foothills of the Appalachians
through the Great Valley of Virginia to the Carolinas and Georgia.
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. II (New Jersey and Pennsylvania Monthly
Meetings)
The second volume of the great Hinshaw Encyclopedia is complete in itself for the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania monthly meetings, which were part of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. It includes all
records of genealogical value (e.g., birth, marriage, death, and removal), both Orthodox and Hicksite,
known to be in existence for the meetings from the last quarter of the 17th century down to the time the
work was originally published in 1938.
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Missing Relatives and Lost Friends
For this book Maryland genealogist Robert Barnes has abstracted advertisements for missing relatives
and lost friends from scores of newspapers published in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and
Virginia, as well as a few from New York and the District of Columbia. The newspaper issues begin in
1719 (when the American Weekly Mercury began publication in Philadelphia) and run into the early
1800s. The author's comprehensive bibliography, in the Introduction to the work, lists all the
newspapers and other sources he examined in preparing the book. The volume references 1,325
notices that chronicle the appearance or disappearance of 1,566 persons.
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The Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies, 1628-1776
This is an annotated alphabetical list of approximately 1,250 clergymen who settled in New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the colonial era.
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Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783
This book identifies some 3,000 Scots who settled in the mid-Atlantic colonies prior to the
Revolutionary War. In point of fact, Scottish settlement in the middle colonies of America dates from
the early 17th century, and Mr. Dobson demonstrates that even before the establishment of English
colonies in that region in the 1660s, there were a number of Scots pioneers living with the Dutch
settlers of New Netherland and probably also in the Swedish settlements along the Delaware.
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Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices Advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1796
During the Pennsylvania Gazette's years of existence, 1728-1796, ads for 6,000 runaway indentured
servants were placed in the newspaper. In this work Prof. Farley Grubb has extracted all relevant
details on those runaways, including colony or county of residence, national origin, age, occupation,
circumstances of employment, date of escape, height and physical features, place and time of arrival in
America, and so on.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750
Combining a history of the Quakers in Ireland and in Pennsylvania, this work contains abstracts of
certificates of removal at various monthly meetings, providing dates of birth, marriage, and death,
residence in Ireland, names of family members, dates of immigration, and residence in Pennsylvania.
Was $43.50
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The County Courthouse Note-Book and Ancestral Proofs and Probabilities
The geographical coverage of this diversified collection of source records includes Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, Delaware, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Among the articles are
the following: Authentic References for Inferred Marriages, Maryland's Next of Kin, Virginia Colonists,
Military Notes both Colonial and Revolutionary, Eastern Shore Families, Stafford County Indices, Ships
in Port, Colonial Forenames, Delaware's Tax List for 1776, and many others.
Was $69.50
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The Delaware Finns
This pioneering work recounts the various expeditions of Finns to Pennsylvania, Delaware, New
Jersey, and, to a lesser extent, the Elk and South Rivers in Maryland throughout the colonial period.
The author identifies many of the Finnish passengers by name, occupation (soldier, farmer, prisoner,
etc.), destination (Christiana in Delaware, for example), and in some instances by place of origin in
Finland. Later chapters document the growth of the Finnish communities on the Delaware when, as
late as 1760, there were 3,000 members of Finnish churches in the American colonies.
Was $31.50
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A Gazetteer of Maryland and Delaware
This work consists of extensive alphabetical lists of Maryland and Delaware place names. Places listed
in this gazetteer, one of many compiled by Gannett, include post villages, towns, counties, mountains,
rivers, and other notable topographical features. Most places are identified in relation to a county and
thereupon described in further detail.
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Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records
In this groundbreaking work, Richard Hayes Phillips has collected the names of more than five
thousand children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England, and sold into slavery
in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. In almost every case the entries provide the name of the child,
the name of the owner, the date they appeared in court, and the age assigned by the judges, many of
whom owned the very children they were sentencing to servitude. For ease of use, the volume
contains an index to the ships--and their captains--that imported these kidnapped children, as well as a
surname index to guide the researcher to alternate or incorrect spellings as found in the Court Order
Books.
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