• American Place Names of Long Ago - (Book - Amazon.com) : George Cram's Unrivaled Atlas of the World contains an index of over 100,000 place names of "every county, city, town, village, and post-office in the United States [showing] the population of the same according to the Census of 1890." This index is of critical importance to the genealogist, for most genealogical research takes place on the county level, and in Cram's index all 100,000 places--large and small--are tied to a specific county. Furthermore, when you consider how many nineteenth-century place names have changed or disappeared in the intervening years, and that 45 percent of the places listed in this index were too small or obscure to have their population counts listed by the census taker, the importance of such a work is self-evident. -

• Directory of Photographers in the United States 1888 & 1889 and Canada 1889 - (Book - Amazon.com) : This Directory was taken from the First and Second Annual Editions of the Lithographers’ and Photographers’ Directory: A Directory for Lithographers, Photographers and for all allied Arts and Trades in the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, published in 1888 and 1889. In the original format entries were arranged by country, state and city. Ms. Gagel has included a copy of this format in this publication. To make it easier to locate the name of a photographer in either the United States or Canada, she has also compiled an alphabetical listing by the surname and first name of the photographer.
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• Missing Relatives and Lost Friends - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This remarkable book contains 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. -

• Passport Applications, 1795-1905 - (Database Online - Footnote) : Images of handwritten letters and application forms for US passports, 1795-1905. This series consists of letters and form applications for passports. Included with the typical application are supporting letters and affidavits from friends and relatives concerning the applicant's citizenship, residence, and character. The letter or application also contains information regarding the applicant's immediate family, date and place of birth and (if foreign) of naturalization, occupation or business, and physical characteristics. Requires payment. -

• Pioneer Families of the Midwest - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This important, albeit scarce, three-volume collection of family histories pertaining to persons who migrated to the Midwest during the last quarter of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth century is now available in a consolidated edition. Mrs. Walden, who privately published these genealogies between 1939 and 1941, has here bridged the earliest known records pertaining to each family so that future researchers might be able to trace their lines with less difficulty. In all, the reader will find about 150 allied families and some 7,500 Midwestern pioneers treated within these pages. -

• State Census Records - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Ann Lainhart's inventory of state census records is the first comprehensive list of state census records ever published. State by state, year by year, often county by county and district by district, she shows the researcher what is available in state census records, when it is available, and what one might expect to find in the way of data. -

• The County Court Note-Book and Ancestral Proofs and Probabilities - (Book - Amazon.com) : The geographical coverage of the subject matter includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, Delaware, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Among the articles (some run through many issues) are: 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. Most of the data in these notes are of timeless and unique value and, what's more, are amply documented. 788 pp., (1921-31, 1935-36), 1995. -

• The Genealogist's Address Book - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist’s Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups. Based on a written survey of thousands of organizations and institutions across the United States, and supplemented by information from printed and Internet sources. -

• The Prominent Families of the United States of America - (Book - Genealogical.com) : of the three great Burke's volumes produced on American families, this present one, published in 1908, is generally thought to be the most authoritative. Hundreds of pedigrees are included, each beginning with the living subject and showing his descent from the earliest known forebear. Click on link for a list of the families covered in the work. -

• United States Pioneer Database - (Database Online - MyTrees.com) : Subscription Required - Free Preview of Search Results. -

• Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation 1908-1922 - (Database Online - Footnote) : These case files cover important investigations by a department of the US government which ultimately became the FBI. They include tales of espionage during World War I, case files for German aliens who were politically suspect, records pertaining to Mexican neutrality, and reports dealing with alleged violations of Federal laws. Serious, as well as far-fetched accounts will give you a fresh insider's perspective to the history of this time period. Requires payment. -

• The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference - (Book - Amazon.com) : A biography and genealogical history of the 56 signers, and of Secretary Charles Thomson who attended all meetings and witnessed the original broadside with John Hancock but did not actually sign it, are presented in this unique reference work. Each of the 57 entries open with a biography of the man, focusing on his education, political career and the events that led him to advocate for independence, based in large part on contemporary sources. This is followed by a narrative genealogical history, providing names, birth and death dates, marriages, children and other details of the signer’s ancestors. Photographs of the men are included.
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