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• Blood & Belief - (Book - Amazon.com) : Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility. The author focuses on one unspectacular Huguenot family as a paradigm for his study of the role of religious ideology in family cohesiveness in ancien regime France. He traces the evolution of that family over the early modern period, illuminating the familial, cultural, and economic situation of the provincial nobility. -

• Huguenot Ancestry - (Book - Amazon.com) : The book begins with an outline of the historical and religious events in France which led up to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which resulted in the flight of so many refugees. It provides a detailed description of the methods and sources for tracing Huguenot ancestry in all the places in which they took refuge such as Britain and the USA.
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• Huguenot and Scots Links, 1575-1775 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Are you on the trail of a Huguenot (French Protestant) immigrant ancestor? Has the trail grown cold after you pursued every possible lead? If so, have you ever thought that your family might have settled in Scotland for a period of time prior to arriving in the New World? -

• Huguenot Emigration to Virginia - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This definitive work on the Huguenot emigration to Virginia contains lists of refugees and emigrants and several passenger lists, the longest and most valuable of which is a record of baptisms at Manakin-Town, 1721-1754, which gives the names of godparents (usually relatives) and other genealogical data. An eighty-eight page Appendix contains a several-generation genealogy of each of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, while the index contains the names of approximately 4,000 individuals. -

• Memorials of the Huguenots in America, with Special Reference to their Emigration to Pennsylvania - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links to check for availability. -

• Story of the Huguenots: A Sixteenth Century Narrative Wherein The French, Spaniards and Indians Were The Actors - (Book - Amazon.com) : In 1562, inspired by Cortez, Pizarro, Balboa, De Leon and De Soto, Admiral Coligny of France sent two vessels with colonists, under Jean Ribault and Rene Laudonniere, in search of a refuge for French Huguenots, but a settlement was not established in Florida until 1564. -

• The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement C.1550-1700 - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This is a much-revised version of Professor Cottret's acclaimed study of the Huguenot communities in England, first published in French by Flammarion in 1985. The Huguenots in England presents a detailed, sympathetic assessment of one of the great migrations of early modern Europe, examining the social origins, aspirations and eventual destiny of the refugees, and their responses to their new-found home.
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• The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina - (Book - Amazon.com) : First published in 1928, The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina is the authoritative work on the Huguenot presence in one of the most important American colonies. Arthur H. Hirsch provides a thorough description and analysis of the Huguenot migration and settlement in South Carolina throughout the colonial period. He describes how the Huguenot communities and churches throughout the state were founded and how the first-generation Huguenots integrated into the religious, political, and socioeconomic fabric of early South Carolina.
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• The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This work, prepared by the former treasurer of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, contains thumbnail genealogical and biographical sketches of hundreds of early Huguenot families in the Garden State. Click on link for the list of surnames covered. -

• The Trail of the Huguenots - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is the story of the great exodus of the Huguenots from France at the end of the seventeenth century, and of their dispersal to places in Europe, the United States, Canada, and South Africa. It traces their migrations through Europe and across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, providing startling insights into the origins of many of our earliest colonial settlers. Over half of the book is devoted to the Huguenots and their direct descendants in Canada and the United States, dealing with those who settled in North and South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England. -

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