The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, by John Bernard Burke. Contains descriptions of 70,000 British coats of arms listed alphabetically by family name. Also contains a glossary, a dictionary of heraldic terms, and lists of the Orders of Knighthood.

Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain, by James Fairbairn. Alphabetical list of 50,000 names associated with various crests (an ornament or device attached to a helmet or coronet and pictured above the shield in a coat of arms).

An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, by Sir James Balfour Paul. The definitive work on the thousands of arms recorded in the Lord Lyon's Office in Scotland.

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book, by John Matthews. Consolidated edition of three volumes dealing with the armorial bearings of American families. With heraldic descriptions of arms and crests, it links early holders to recent representatives.

Bolton's American Armory, by Charles Knowles Bolton. Includes virtually all coats of arms known to have been in use in the United States since colonial days.

Crozier's General Armory, by William Armstrong Crozier. Details include the name of the first person of the family to settle in America, the date of his arrival and place of settlement, and the name of his town or country of origin.

This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of all seven volumes of George Mackenzie's celebrated Colonial Families of the United States of America (see Item (see Item 3590), an encyclopedic collection of early American genealogies and family histories. More than thirteen years in preparation, Colonial Families treats only those families who trace their ancestry back to the Colonial Period (1607-1776). Ranging from three or four pages to ten or twenty pages or more, each family history article gives the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, followed by a listing of his descendants--generation by generation--up to the time of writing, giving names, birth dates, dates of marriage and death, places of residence, occupation, and a variety of other matter. Also included in the articles are illustrations of coats of arms associated with the families.

Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, by Susan Woodruff Abbott.
This monumental compilation contains genealogies of about 300 families, ranging from a single paragraph to a dozen pages or more. It covers the "Free Planters" who settled Milford in 1639, as well as those who arrived afterwards, called "After Planters."

Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, by Lucius Barnes Barbour.
Based on records available for the period 1645 to 1825, this remarkable collection contains genealogies of more than 950 families. Information on births, marriages, and deaths is augmented by a rich body of biographical and historical detail.

Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, by Alvan Talcott and Jacquelyn Ricker.
This work contains genealogies of all families resident in Guilford from 1639 to 1890. The record of each family is complete in itself, giving the residence and the birth, marriage, and death of each member. As far as is practicable each line is traced from the settlement of the town onward.

History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, by Donald Lines Jacobus. 3 vols.
The ultimate authority on the ancestry and relationships of 50,000 residents of Fairfield County, this compendium was meticulously developed from original sources by the dean of American genealogy. Each family history commences with the original 17th-century settler and is brought forward to the early decades of the 19th century.

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, by William Cothren.
This is an exhaustive chronicle of the persons, places, and events that shaped Woodbury's history until the mid-19th century. The genealogies published here represent the families most intimately linked to the rise and progress of the town.

Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, by Henry R. Stiles.
The hundreds of genealogies collected here trace the pioneer families of Wethersfield forward over many generations from the time of the town's founding in the 17th century. The genealogies are excerpted from Dr. Stiles' two-volume history of Wethersfield.

Families of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, by Henry R. Stiles.
Like the work above, Ancient Windsor contains hundreds of genealogies and sketches of pioneer families. The genealogies are excerpted and compiled from Dr. Stiles' two-volume history of Windsor.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, by William R. Cutter, et al.
This four-volume compendium contains genealogical and biographical sketches of approximately 1,000 Connecticut families. Each essay commences with a sketch of the earliest known ancestor and traces the family in a direct line up to the last decades of the 19th century. Also includes collateral lines.

Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762. 2 vols.
Containing references to 17,000 militiamen and soldiers, these two volumes contain as complete a record as we are ever likely to have of Connecticut men who took part in the French and Indian War. The rolls are arranged in chronological order, and in almost every case they identify a soldier by name, date of enlistment, regiment, company, and date of discharge. Compiled originally by the Connecticut Historical Society.

The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783
Covers almost all primary sources pertaining to Connecticut men in the Revolution that were extant at the time of the book's original publication in 1889, including muster rolls, payrolls, papers of George Washington, and minutes of the General Assembly. Personnel records are arranged by military unit and thereunder by date and rank. Naming tens of thousands of men, the work also lists Connecticut pensioners found in the official 1818 and 1840 U.S. pension lists.

Supplement to the Record of Connecticut Men . . . During the War of the Revolution. 2 vols.
These two volumes contain all the Revolutionary War service records in the custody of the Connecticut Historical Society that do not duplicate the records published in the volume above. While at least half of the records in Volume I pertain to militia or naval units, almost all of those in the longer Volume II have to do with the Connecticut Line, 1777-1783. In Volume I, most rosters identify soldiers by name, rank, company, and dates of service; Volume II identifies the home town or place of birth of each soldier. Altogether, 30,000 soldiers are listed.

Connecticut Revolutionary Pensioners
Compiled originally by the Connecticut DAR, this work lists 11,000 Connecticut Revolutionary War pensioners, often giving the names of the pensioners' widows and the pensioners' place of residence at the time of the various pension acts. In all cases the source of the pension record is identified, e.g., survivor's file, widow's file, rejected file, or bounty land warrant.

Genealogical and Family History of Central New York, by William R. Cutter. 3 vols.
Covers 750 families that were firmly established in central New York by the end of the 19th century. Each essay, or genealogical sketch, traces the family backward to the earliest known ancestor and forward to the then living subject of the essay, which also includes biographical sketches and an enumeration of collateral lines.

Families of Western New York by William R. Cutter.
As with the work above, Families of Western New York traces each family forward from the earliest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay. The genealogy is followed by a detailed biography of the principal subject and includes photos, illustrations, and an enumeration of collateral family members.

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York, by William S. Pelletreau. 4 vols.
Prepared by one of the great authorities on New York families, this four-volume work contains hundreds of genealogical essays pertaining to early New York City families. While the principal focus of the work is on families of early New York, there are chapters on the settlement of New Amsterdam, the English conquest of New York, early schools and institutions, and historical sketches of a number of the oldest churches of New York.

Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, by Cuyler Reynolds. 3 vols.
This is a massive work devoted to distinguished families of the southern portion of New York State. In the tradition of William Richard Cutter, Cuyler Reynolds here traces each family line forward from the earliest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay, naming approximately 40,000 people in over 500 genealogical sketches.

Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, by Cuyler Reynolds. 4 vols.
In this mammoth four-volume work Mr. Reynolds traces approximately 600 families of the Hudson-Mohawk Valley region, examining each family according to a methodology both he and William Cutter were famous for. In addition to family histories, the author here includes a history of the region during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

Marriage and Death Notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1799-1867, by Carrie Broughton. 3 vols.
In chronological order, this three-part work details 30,000 marriages and deaths that were noted in newspaper columns between 1799 and 1867.

North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, by James Hathaway. 11 vols.
The eleven volumes of the Register bear reference to 50,000 North Carolina settlers noted in records found in state and county archives, including conveyances, court records, births, marriages, deaths, wills, and military records.

North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina, by Brent Holcomb
Contains records of more than 1,000 North Carolina land grants for land which is now located in South Carolina.

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, by Cyrus Hunter
Recollections of former residents combine with extracts from state and county archives to form an overview of the western half of North Carolina during the Revolutionary period.

Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851, by John Hill Wheeler
Sketches are drawn from unpublished records and cover the formation of each of North Carolina's counties. Also included are biographical sketches of early settlers and accounts of prominent families.

This GPC/Broderbund CD comprises all six volumes of William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (see Items 2731, 2732, 2733, 2734, 2735, and 2736), originally published between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately 500,000 entries, the Encyclopedia--for all its massive and carefully compiled data--had a flaw: it did not contain an every-name index. Instead, each volume had a separate surname index, making searching for individuals somewhat tedious. With this new Family Archive CD, however, that problem is finally laid to rest, for in this CD we have images of the pages from all six volumes of the Encyclopedia, along with a complete electronic name index which allows you to search all six volumes quickly and effortlessly! Not only that, but the original published volumes had a retail value of $440.00. This CD version, therefore, at $59.99, is both a greatly improved research tool and a blockbuster of a bargain!

Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history and testify to a general movement of population that extended from New England and the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia; then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot be overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers been recorded in civil record offices. Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital records identifying these people are to be met with in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from one meeting to another. (The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics are recorded, is in fact, a business meeting.)

This new Family Archive CD contains hundreds of articles that were originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register and subsequently collected and reprinted by GPC in six volumes under the title English Origins of New England Families. Treating over 1,500 families and referencing 150,000 individuals, this work contains all the immigrant origin data published in the first 137 volumes of the prestigious Register. It is interesting to note that almost all living Americans with colonial Yankee forebears descend from several of the 1,500 immigrants covered in this work; what's more, a sizable number of articles provide information on clusters of nearly-related individuals or on all settlers with a given surname. Most striking perhaps are the articles covering over 50 of the 125 New England immigrants for whom royal descent is now generally accepted. Other articles of note deal with Mayflower passengers, ancestors of large progenies, and clergymen.

This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of six volumes of Barbados baptisms, marriages, and probate records compiled by Joanne McRee Sanders. Naming some 200,000 individuals of English origin, it is very likely that the majority of persons residing in Barbados between 1637 and 1800 are identified here. Barbados was initially settled by the British as early as 1627. Many of these early settlers eventually moved to mainland America, settling in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. In fact, throughout most of the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a continuous flow of settlers from Barbados to virtually every point along the Atlantic seaboard, with the result that many families in America today trace their origins in the New World first to Barbados.

The single volume of Barbados baptisms covers the whole period 1637-1800, and the baptismal entries are presented here in the same sequence in which they were copied from the original parish registers, now housed in the Barbados Department of Archives. Each entry gives the name of the child, the names of parents, the date of baptism (sometimes the date of birth), and a variety of miscellaneous data, all extracted and copied faithfully for the period from 1637 to 1800.

Spanning the years 1643 to 1800, the two-volume collection of marriages is arranged by Barbados parish and then by date. A typical entry provides the date of the marriage and the names of the bride and groom. Like the records of Barbados baptisms, these records are also housed in the Barbados Department of Archives.

The three volumes of probate records were originally published as Barbados Records: Wills 1639-1680 (Vol.I), Barbados Records: Wills 1681-1700 (Vol. II), and Barbados Records: Wills 1701-1725 (Vol. III). Abstracted from the "Recopied Wills Series" in the Archives, each entry gives the name of the testator, the names of all heirs, and all dates, titles, relationships, place names, references, land owners, burial locations, slaves, and vessels mentioned in the wills.

This GPC/Broderbund CD is composed of the two greatest works ever published on New England Genealogy: James Savage's four-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and its companion volume Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Walter G. Davis, Sybil Noyes, and Charles T. Libby. All genealogical research on early New England families must begin here, and it is wonderful to have these authoritative volumes available on a single CD with an electronic index as a finding-aid.

The Savage work is said to be the best known and most frequently used genealogical reference work, and it provides the name of every settler who arrived in New England before the year 1692, regardless of his class or standing. It further traces his descendants, giving the dates of his marriage and his death, the dates of birth, marriage, and death of his children, and the birthdates and names of his grandchildren, thus recording the beginning of the third generation in New England. "I suppose," writes Savage, "nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642."

"Probably the greatest work on genealogy ever compiled for the New England area."--P. W. Filby, American & British Genealogy & Heraldry (1983)

"A work which must be literally at the elbow of every student of genealogy."--Bulletin . . . of New England Antiquities (Winter 1967)

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire offers biographical and genealogical data on every family established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699, an undertaking touching on many thousands of individuals. The limit of 1692 set for Savage's Dictionary is here extended seven years to 1699, and as Vermont was then unsettled, this work amounts to a "Savage" for northern New England. In astonishing detail it lists the births, marriages, and deaths of the settlers through the third generation and sometimes into the fourth. Further genealogical information includes place of origin and places of residence, details of wills and deeds, court cases, and highlights of the individual's life and career.

This new Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of all four volumes of Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly and the multi-volume Virginia Colonial Abstracts by Beverley Fleet. The four-volume collection from Tyler's Quarterly contains all 350 family history articles published in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise in 1952. It further includes Bible records and wills, as well as a very important group of articles published under the title "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed."

This is an updated version of the All-in-One Address Book, consisting of the most recent editions of Elizabeth Petty Bentley's three famous genealogical directories: (1) The Genealogist's Address Book; (2) County Courthouse Book; and (3) the Directory of Family Associations. A one-stop resource needed by everyone engaged in family research, this new updated version of The Genealogist's All-in-One Address Book contains approximately 25,000 names, addresses, phone numbers, and other information vital to the researcher at each and every step of the research process.This is a direct line to the agencies, societies, libraries, archives, courthouses, professional bodies, periodicals, and services that are basic to family history research.

The Genealogist's Address Book, the largest of the three directories, is the only comprehensive list of current genealogical and historical resources available. It is in fact a national Yellow Pages for the genealogist. Classified by subject, cross-referenced and alphabetized, it puts you in touch with all the key sources of genealogical information, giving names, addresses, phone numbers, FAX numbers, e-mail addresses, web sites, contact persons, and the business hours of thousands upon thousands of libraries, genealogical societies, historical societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, religious organizations and archives, surname registries, research centers, special interest groups, periodicals, newspaper columns, publishers, booksellers, services, databases, and much, much more. It also contains a complete index of genealogical societies, libraries, and institutions, as well as an exhaustive index of periodicals and newsletters.

The latest revision of the classic County Courthouse Book comprises up-to-date information on 3,125 county jurisdictions and 1,577 New England towns and independent Virginia cities. No mere fine-tuning of the original, this is a complete and systematic overhaul of the 1990 classic--up-to-date, comprehensive, and more useful than ever. Since most genealogical research is organized on county lines, the researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the chief repositories of county records. To proceed in his investigations, he needs current addresses and phone numbers, information about the availability of key courthouse records such as probate, land, naturalization, and vital records, and timely advice on the whole range of services available at the courthouse--fees, hours, personnel, copying facilities, etc. And this is precisely what the County Courthouse Book offers.

1. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, by Charles W. Baird

2. Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-Town, by Robert Brock

3. The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, in South Carolina, from 1680 to 1884, by Robert F. Clute

4. The French Blood in America, by Lucien Fosdick

5. The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, by Arthur Henry Hirsch

6. The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey, by Albert F. Koehler

7. Huguenot Pedigrees, by Charles Edmund Lart

8. Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America, by Mrs. James Lawton

9. The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland, by Grace Lawless Lee

10. The Huguenots in France and America, by Hannah F. Lee

11. History of New Paltz, New York, and its Old Families, by Ralph LeFevre

12. Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island, by Elisha R. Potter

13. List of French and Swiss Who Settled in Charleston, on the Santee, and at the Orange Quarter in Carolina, by Daniel Ravenel

14. The Trail of the Huguenots, by George Elmore Reaman

15. The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland, by Samuel Smiles

* William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania, by William I. Hull

* Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland, by Albert C. Myers

* Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, by Albert C. Myers

* Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819. A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, ed. Michael Tepper

* Pennsylvania German Pioneers. A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, by Ralph B. Strassburger and William J. Hinke

* Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808, by William Henry Egle

* A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, by Israel D. Rupp

* Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices, Servants, Etc. and of German and Other Redemptioners in the Office of the Mayor of Philadelphia . . . 1771 to . . . 1773

This CD contains images of the pages from the following five books originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company: New World Immigrants, Volume I; New World Immigrants, Volume II; Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819; Immigrants to the Middle Colonies; and Passengers to America. Each book contains a complete collection of articles on ships' passenger lists which originally appeared in America's most prestigious genealogical periodicals. All articles identified by Harold Lancour in his celebrated Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 can be found on this CD.

This new GPC/Broderbund CD is an index to the greatest of all Irish genealogical resources, Griffith's Valuation, or the Primary Valuation of Ireland (see our book Richard Griffith and His Valuations of Ireland). Carried out between 1848 and 1864 under the direction of Sir Richard Griffith, this survey of Ireland was intended to determine the amount of tax each person should pay towards the support of the poor within their poor law union. The Valuation is arranged by county, barony, poor law union, civil parish , and townland, and lists every landholder and every householder in Ireland--at that time about 1.25 million people.

The significance of the Valuation as a substitute for census records is obvious. No early or mid-nineteenth-century Irish census survives; only Griffith's Valuation stands as an enumeration of the Irish population at mid-century--the period of the Great Famine! Few other records can be used to identify the immigrant ancestor's exact place of origin, and only Griffith's Valuation links the individual to a specific townland and civil parish. This is of enormous importance, for the first step in Irish genealogical research is to identify the townland and the civil parish, which in turn lead to the all-important ecclesiastical parish records of births and marriages.

The Valuation, of course, was never intended as a census substitute, but as things stand it is the only record that shows where people lived in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, just prior to the great exodus to America. From the perspective of the American researcher, therefore, there is no record quite as important as Griffith's Valuation--no other reference source that connects the immigrant ancestor to a place of origin. Of course it is just as valuable to Irish researchers, and what is more, because the Valuation entries were subsequently revised at regular intervals, it is often possible to trace living descendants of those originally listed in the Valuation.

Omitting the acreage, valuation, and description of the property, this index gives the full name of the householder and his county, parish, and townland of residence. Over the years there has been a great demand for such an index, but publication in conventional book form has always been prohibitive. With the advent of CD-ROM, however, Heritage World Family History Services of County Tyrone put in place a project to index the entire Valuation for publication in CD format. After three years and the assistance of 100 staff members, the index to Griffith's Valuation has at last come to fruition. Previously little more than a dream, this index to the greatest of all Irish genealogical sources is now a reality.

Among the many miscellaneous records used to piece together information on people living in Ireland in the 18th century, few are more important than the Flax Growers List of 1796, known officially as the Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlement List, or more commonly the Flax Growers Bounty List. During the 18th century, Ireland, and Ulster in particular, established a reputation as a producer of fine linen (made from flax). At various times the government introduced special incentives to encourage the production of linen, usually giving away spinning wheels and looms.

In 1796 the Irish Linen Board published a list of almost 60,000 individuals who had received awards for planting a specified acreage of flax. Those who had planted one acre were awarded four spinning wheels, and those planting five acres were awarded a loom. Arranged by civil parish in each county (except Dublin and Wicklow, which were not included), the Flax Growers List contains the names of those individuals recognized by the Irish Linen Board as having planted specific acreages of flax.

1. Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America.

2. Irish Passenger Lists 1803-1806: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Ireland to America.

3. An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to Philadelphia 1803-1850.

4. Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817 (Transcribed from The Shamrock or Hibernian Chronicle).

5. Irish Emigration Lists 1833-1839: Lists of Emigrants Extracted from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Counties Londonderry and Antrim.

6. Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849.

7. A List of Alien Passengers, Bonded from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 1851, for the Use of the Overseers of the Poor in the Commonwealth [Massachusetts].

8. Emigrants from Ireland, 1847-1852: State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland.

9. Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J.& J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line.

The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the LandGrants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924, by Willard R. Jillson. Usually the first book used by anyone researching Kentucky ancestors, this standard two-volume reference work contains abstracts of approximately 150,000 Kentucky land grants. Arranged alphabetically according to the type of grant, it provides the full name of the grantee, number of acres, date of survey, name of county, watercourse, and the volume and page number of the original entry.

Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: A Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants, Deeds and Wills of . . . Kentucky, by Willard R. Jillson. This is a complete index to the earliest land records of Kentucky, alphabetically arranged under the names of the grantees, giving the number of acres, dates, locations, and page references in the original records. The bulk of the 50,000 entries derive from the records of Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson counties which had been turned over to Kentucky by Virginia in 1792. Also included are Military Warrants, 1782-1793; Grantees and Grantors, 1783-1909; and Wills, 1769-1850.

Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811, by James F. Sutherland. This volume lists 17,000 landholders whose names appeared in the annual tax lists for Lincoln County, Kentucky between 1787 and 1811. Information given includes the date of the tax list, the number of the tax book, the page number of the original entry, the amount of acreage, the nearest watercourse, and the name of the prior assignee.

This CD comprises the three great gazetteers published by Samuel Lewis in the early to mid-1800s: (1) A Topographical Dictionary of England (4 vols.); (2) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (2 vols.); and (3) A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (2 vols.). (A topographical dictionary, or gazetteer, describes the political, social, cultural, and physical features of a particular locale.)

Of critical importance to the genealogist is the fact that even the most obscure places in England, Ireland, and Scotland are identified in relation to a parish and in most cases to a specific church, leading in turn to the identification of parish records. Thus, if you know the place of origin of your ancestor--the village or town--these gazetteers will show you, in effect, which parish records to search for births, marriages, and deaths. Modern gazetteers are useless for this purpose. But over and above their obvious genealogical value, these gazetteers are fascinating and illuminating in themselves, bringing to life the ancestral homes and villages which until now have existed in name only, or as part of family lore and tradition. Information that was once obscure and mysterious is now at your fingertips, and while helpful in compiling a family history, this type of information is indispensable in understanding the culture and environment in which your ancestors lived.

The Topographical Dictionary of England gives a minute account of the history, topographical features, and principal events of every county, city, borough, market town, post town, parish, chapelry, township, hamlet, tything, and hundred in England. Information furnished includes population statistics, history of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, accounts of local courts, and relationships between civil and church parishes. In the Topographical Dictionary of Ireland every fact of importance tending to illustrate the local history of Ireland is given. Arranged alphabetically by place, it provides a faithful description of all Irish localities, showing, for example, exactly where a civil parish was located in relation to the nearest town, the barony, county, and province in which it was located, its physical features and principal landowners, the diocese in which it was situated, and the Roman Catholic district in which the parish was located. The Topographical Dictionary of Scotland contains much the same kind of detail, but since the LDS Church has made all the old Scottish parish records (pre-1855) available, there is now all the more reason to know the parish from whence your ancestor came.

In addition to the points noted above, these gazetteers contain full-page maps of the counties of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Furthermore, almost every page is embellished with engravings of the arms of cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns and boroughs, and the seals of municipal corporations. So detailed are these works, with their focus on local topography, history, and parishes, that the researcher will have no need to search out additional reference material.

1. Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, by Marion Gilroy

2. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution, by Robert DeMond

3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution (2 vols.), by Lorenzo Sabine

4. Orderly Book of the "Maryland Loyalists Regiment," by Caleb Jones

5. Orderly Book of theThree Battalions of Loyalists Commanded by Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey

6. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War (3 vols.), by Murtie June Clark

7. United Empire Loyalists. Enquiry into the Losses and Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty (2 vols.), by Alexander Fraser

8. The Old United Empire Loyalists List

The three-volume Maryland Marriages, 1634-1820 is a compilation of all marriages recorded in church records and other documents on deposit at the Hall of Records in Annapolis and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. In general, the marriage records were extracted from parish registers, ministers’ returns of licenses, and printed sources, including the Maryland Historical Magazine and the Archives of Maryland. Also included are marriages recorded in the registers of certain individual ministers that are not housed in either of the above repositories. Besides giving the names of the bride and groom and the date of the marriage, entries also note places of origin, parentage, and previous marital status.

Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 provides comprehensive genealogical data on the hundreds of families and thousands of individuals who settled in the county during the first hundred years of its existence. Parish registers, administration bonds, wills, and inventories were used as the nucleus for each family group, while court records and deeds were combed for supplementary data. In general, family histories commence with the Baltimore County progenitor and continue for about three generations.

Maryland Genealogies is composed of articles that originally appeared in the Maryland Historical Magazine, the well-known journal of the Maryland Historical Society. The first volume of the Magazine contained accounts of the Brooke and Tilghman families, and in fact since 1906 the Magazine has included articles on families from all parts of the state--from the Goldsboroughs, Lloyds, and Tilghmans of the Eastern Shore, to the Lowndes, Spriggs, and Taskers of southern Maryland; from the Todds, Merrymans, and Gists of central Maryland, to the Brengles and Fritchies of western Maryland--nearly 100 articles in all, naming 15,000 persons. Most of the articles begin with the first member of the family in Maryland and trace descendants in the male line down to the early 18th century. The format is the so-called New England Register plan, with the immigrant ancestor described, then his children, his grandchildren, and so on, generation by generation.

This CD contains images of the pages of two important works, Leonard Smith's Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy and Walter Goodwin Davis's Massachusetts and Maine Families, which between them refer to approximately 80,000 individuals.

Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy is based on a little-known series of 108 pamphlets published at Yarmouthport by Charles W. Swift in the early part of this century. Although contributors to the Cape Cod Library included many celebrated New England genealogists whose work in original Cape Cod records is showcased here, the series never reached a large audience, and it is today virtually inaccessible. No library in the country holds the complete collection of 108 pamphlets. With great diligence, however, Col. Smith put together a complete collection for himself, arranged the pamphlets in the order in which they were published, and then, to make the material usable, compiled an index of names. In just over 2,000 pages he managed to put together a reference work that compensates for the chronic shortage of printed Cape Cod source material, for in spite of the destruction of the Barnstable County Courthouse in 1827, and similar disasters among the town records of Chatham and Yarmouth, many important Cape Cod records still exist; it's just that very few of them had ever been printed.

One of the monuments of twentieth-century genealogy, and the greatest multi-ancestor series ever published in American genealogy, Walter Goodwin Davis's Massachusetts and Maine Families treats all 180 families deriving from each of his sixteen great-great-grandparents. Almost anyone with considerable New England ancestry--and as many as 100 million living Americans, about 40 percent of the population, have some colonial New England forebears--will descend from one or more, often a dozen or more, of the 180 families covered here. One hundred fourteen of these families lived mostly in Massachusetts, while the bulk of the remainder lived in Maine. Most of the 114 Massachusetts families resided in Essex County, a few in Middlesex or Plymouth counties, or in Boston. Thus Massachusetts and Maine Families is largely a compendium of "North of Boston" families. It is a superb and authoritative work, compiled by a man considered to be one of the outstanding genealogists of the twentieth century and who was recently inducted into the National Genealogical Society's Hall of Fame.

This CD contains images of the pages of the following works by Susan Roser: Mayflower Increasings, Mayflower Marriages, Mayflower Births and Deaths, and Mayflower Deeds and Probates. Combined, the records refer to 85,000 persons descended from Mayflower passengers. With the added convenience of an index that covers all four books, this collection is essential for any serious Mayflower research. Mrs. Roser compiled these books by extracting birth, death, marriage, deed, and probate records from the "Bowman Files." Researchers will appreciate that George Ernest Bowman was a genealogist who spent fifty years tracing the families of Mayflower passengers, amassing more than 20,000 pages of documented records.

This Family Archive CD--another collaboration between GPC and Broderbund Software--contains electronically searchable text of the First and Third series of William Cutter's popular compendium New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. The eight volumes that make up these two distinct series contain about 2,000 genealogies and refer to approximately 20,000 related individuals.

Between 1913 and 1916, William Richard Cutter, one-time corresponding secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, published four separate four-volume series of books entitled New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. The First Series, published in 1913, featured genealogical and biographical essays on 1,000 New England families. The Second Series (1914), while containing some families not found in the 1913 series, is substantially similar to its predecessor. The Fourth Series (1916) is essentially a collection of biographies and does not command quite the same level of interest among genealogists as the other series. The Third Series (1915), however, is comprised of 1,000 additional genealogical and biographical essays not found in the First Series, and thus the First and the Third series--the two most genealogically significant series--are included in this Family Archive CD.

This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of the recently published New Jersey Biographical Index. The Index is a comprehensive finding-aid for 100,000 New Jersey biographies--in effect an index to the biographical contents of 237 collective sources. These 237 publications, nearly 2,000 separate volumes, are of various kinds: biographical cyclopedias, histories with biographical components, certain annual reports and other serials, selected periodicals, and other collective biographical sources. The subject of each of the 100,000 biographies is first identified by his full name and his dates of birth and death, following which is a citation to the publication in which his biography appears.

Consisting of six authoritative works, this Family Archive CD identifies approximately 225,000 New Yorkers who fought in the colonial wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. First among these books, in point of time, is the two-volume work originally published by the State Historian's Office called New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775. Incorporating a variety of records, including pay rolls, size rolls, petitions, minutes of meetings and official proceedings, journals, correspondence, and various field reports, this official record of New York's colonial militia lists members of militia companies which were raised to quell mutinies, insurrections, and uprisings, or to do battle with the French and Indians and to protect New York's borders--usually from French and Iroquois incursions or threatened hostilities from Connecticut. At a minimum, each militiaman is noted in connection with his date of enlistment, his company, his rank, and his place of residence, with additional information giving his place of birth, age, occupation, height, and physical description.

Of equal, if not greater, importance is New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, by James A. Roberts and Frederick G. Mather. Second only to Massachusetts in furnishing troops for the Revolutionary War, New York put at least 43,000 men in the field, all of whom are identified in this work from original muster rolls and pay rolls in the State Comptroller's Office. Several other works had identified New York soldiers of the Revolution, but this is the only one to be based on original papers and documents, and is therefore the single indisputable authority on its subject. In a supplementary volume, also included on this CD, an additional 8,000 soldiers are identified from Land Bounty Papers which were later found in the Comptroller's Office. The purpose of the supplementary volume was to supply a complete resume of the records in the Comptroller's Office and to furnish a documentary history of the war as it was conducted in New York, which was by far the most active theater of operations in the entire Revolutionary War.

Based on records ranging from diaries to orderly books, from recruitment lists to war claims, and from biographies to histories, the other books included on this CD are:

Originally published by GPC, the four titles reproduced on this Family Archive CD name approximately 135,000 individuals who are cited in wills, administrations, and inventories recorded in the probate records of North Carolina between 1665 and 1900. Probate records are among the very best genealogical sources because they provide "proof" of family relationships. Accessed by a single electronic index, the four titles on this CD are as follows:

North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900, by Thornton W. Mitchell
Naming 75,000 persons who died and left wills in North Carolina, this may be the most important finding-aid in North Carolina genealogy. Gives name, date, location of will, and book and page number of the will book.

Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 1663-1760, by J. Bryan Grimes
Based on wills found in the Office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina this work furnishes such information as date of probate, place of residence, names of family members, and bequests.

An Abstract of North Carolina Wills . . . 1760-1800, by Fred A. Olds
Supplementing Grimes' work on state wills, this work contains abstracts of wills, 1760-1800, that were recorded on the county level for the entire state of North Carolina.

Since the 1820s the Burke family has produced a series of world-renowned books dealing with British nobility, aristocracy, and landed gentry. Beginning with Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (1826), followed by the four-volume set of Burke's Commoners (later called Burke's Landed Gentry), and extending right up to the present time with the most recent edition of Burke's Peerage (no longer a family effort, however), Burke's publications have dominated the field of British and Anglo-American genealogy. With only a few exceptions, a typical Burke publication contains many hundreds of narrative pedigrees, each beginning with a biographical sketch of the principal subject, a description or illustration of his coat of arms, and a listing of marriages, children, and dates and places of birth and death in successive generations. Most pedigrees also contain details pertaining to education, occupation, honors, collateral families, and places of birth, residence, and death.

Along with an electronic search engine, or index, this Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of the most celebrated works ever published by Burke's (excepting only the various Burke's Peerage volumes). While most of the volumes included here deal with British lineages, at least two of the volumes deal with the British origins of American families. The following books, naming over 550,000 individuals, are included on this CD:

Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: Adapted from the 16th edition of Burke's Landed Gentry, this works gives the lineages of 1,600 American families with British ancestry and names 50,000 related individuals. All articles are drawn up along the lines of other Burke's publications except that descendants in the female line are not excluded from the pedigree.

The Prominent Families of the United States of America: Thought to be one of the most authoritative volumes of its kind, this work contains the lineage records of historically prominent American families, most of British ancestry. Hundreds of pedigrees are included, each beginning with the living subject and showing his descent from the earliest known ancestor.

A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire: Lineage records of 2,000 peerages--dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons--that are now extinct. Lineages commence with the first known representative of the line and are carried through successive generations up to the extinction of the title.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Lineage records of 1,000 holders of the Order of Baronet whose titles were dormant or extinct by 1841. Each article follows the baronet's lineage from its creation to its extinction, providing details of education, service, occupation, collateral families, and places of birth, residence, and death.

The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: This is the classic work on British heraldry, hailed as a monument when it was first published and never superseded. It is arranged alphabetically by family name and provides descriptions of 70,000 coats of arms. Also included are sections on royal heraldry and the orders of knighthood, as well as a dictionary of heraldic terms, an illustrated glossary, and a list of mottoes.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: This four-volume work is the standard genealogical guide to the lineage records of families in Great Britain and Ireland who had extensive land holdings and official rank but who did not have inheritable titles (the so-called landed gentry). Naming 50,000 individuals, each lineage identifies the earliest ancestor of record and proceeds in a straight line of descent, enumerating births, marriages, and deaths in successive generations.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry: Provides lineage records of many of the leading colonial families of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, South Africa, and other parts of the British Empire.

This CD offers unprecedented advantages and savings to anyone undertaking research in central Pennsylvania. Comprising a total of twelve volumes, Egle’s celebrated Notes and Queries is the most important multi-volume work on the genealogy, biography, and history of central Pennsylvania ever published. Included in its nearly 5,000 pages are a vast number of genealogies, family sketches, and biographies, as well as extensive lists of early settlers and soldiers of the various wars, including the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. In addition, the work encompasses an impressive array of genealogical source records--early wills, church records, marriage and death records, tax lists, and lists of early immigrants and frontiersmen.

*Early Ohio Settlers: Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840, by Ellen T. Berry and David A. Berry
Contains a complete list of the 25,000 persons who bought land in southwestern Ohio and eastern Indiana through the Cincinnati Land Office between 1800 and 1840.

*Early Ohio Settlers: Purchasers of Land in East and East Central Ohio, 1800-1840, by Ellen T. Berry and David A. Berry
Contains a list of 22,700 persons who bought land in east and east central Ohio through the Zanesville and the Steubenville Land Offices.

*Early Ohio Settlers: Purchasers of Land in Southeastern Ohio, 1800-1840, by Ellen T. Berry and David A. Berry
Contains a list of 7,500 persons who bought land in southeastern Ohio through the Marietta Land Office, giving date of purchase, place of residence, etc.

*Early Ohio Tax Records, by Esther Weygant Powell
Presents a county-by-county list of Ohio residents from about 1820 to 1825. Along with the 1801 tax list of the Virginia Military District it contains the names of about 50,000 taxpayers in the seventy-five counties covered. Also contains lists of original proprietors and settlers, holders of military warrants, voters' lists, and householders' lists.

While there is no single body of records that identifies all immigrants and settlers in Nova Scotia and Ontario before Confederation in 1867, the six books included on this CD comprise the largest pool of information on early Canadian settlers available, naming over 130,000 settlers from Ireland, Scotland, England, and colonial America, many of them Loyalists from disbanded regiments or pro-British refugees fleeing New York and New England. Based on the best primary and secondary sources available, these works contain a mix of data featuring name, occupation, residence, place of origin, age, family members, name of ship, date of arrival, military affiliation, and land grants. As a group, they form a virtual encyclopedia of early Nova Scotia and Ontario families.

Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, by Leonard and Norma Smith, contains data abstracted from dozens of manuscript repositories, including the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and archives in Fredericton, Church Point, Ottawa, Boston, London, and Paris. Also included is data from over 450 articles in Nova Scotia periodicals.

Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Volume II, by Leonard and Norma Smith, identifies immigrants recorded in selected periodicals published outside Nova Scotia. Designed to help researchers untangle Nova Scotia roots, this volume and the one described above may be viewed as the starting point in Nova Scotia immigration research.

Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies, by George S. Brown, is a collection of 186 articles that were originally published in the Yarmouth Herald between 1896 and 1910. Naming some 60,000 individuals, Brown's columns focus on New England families who migrated to Nova Scotia around the time of the Revolutionary War, tracing them from their earliest known origins down to the end of the 19th century. With additional articles containing selected Yarmouth source records, this is clearly the pre-eminent work on Nova Scotia genealogy.

Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, by Marion Gilroy, encompasses all surviving information on the 10,000 Loyalists who were eligible for land in Nova Scotia. Each Loyalist is identified by name, date and site of grant, acreage, and, in some cases, the individual's military rank.

Early Ontario Settlers, by Norman Crowder, contains official records of the early settlers of Upper Canada, or Ontario, for the years 1783 to 1789, chiefly population returns, provisioning lists, settlers' location lists, and lists of immigrant arrivals. The information provided ranges from a record of the Niagara region of 1783, which lists family members and their respective ages, to a 1789 return of disbanded troops and Loyalists in the Detroit region. The bulk of these early settlers were discharged servicemen, refugees, or American Loyalists who had served with the Royal Highland Emigrants, the King's Royal Regiment of New York, Butler's Rangers, Jessup's Loyal Rangers, or James Rogers' King's Rangers, among other units.

A unique blend of family history and biography, this CD names 315,000 individuals who lived primarily in southeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania during the colonial and early federal periods. Brought to life in an exhaustive series of historical sketches, essays, biographies, and genealogies, these early Pennsylvanians (mainly Quakers, Scotch-Irish, and Germans) are the ancestors of hundreds of thousands of individuals living today and are a reminder of our cultural diversity. The numerous volumes of biographies, county histories, and genealogies which were drawn on in the compilation of this CD were originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and all seventeen volumes--available on this CD at a fraction of their original cost--are now conveniently accessed by means of a single electronic index.

*Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, by Charles K. Bolton

*The Scotch-Irish, Or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America, by Charles A. Hanna. 2 vols.

*The Scotch-Irish in America, by Henry Jones Ford

*Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, by Lyman Chalkley. 3 vols.

*Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, by William Henry Egle

*The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, by Wayland F. Dunaway

*Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725, by David Dobson

*Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772, by Jean Stephenson

This GPC/Broderbund CD is a blockbuster. It contains images of the pages of two classic works on Southern genealogy, namely, John Bennett Boddie's 23-volume Historical Southern Families and Zella Armstrong's 6-volume Notable Southern Families. The combined works deal with hundreds of Southern families and provide information on approximately l50,000 individuals.

Boddie's Historical Southern Families, begun in 1957, has long been considered the foundation of Southern genealogy--the product of impeccable research and outstanding scholarship. Boddie himself was a Fellow of the American Society of genealogists (limited to fifty members) and one of the few Americans ever inducted as a Fellow into the Society of Genealogists (London). Although his 23-volume series was completed after his death by his wife, the same high standards that characterized the earlier volumes are present in the later ones.

Each volume contains a number of lineages that run from a few pages each to as many as several dozen, and in some cases, over a hundred pages. Thoroughly researched--often compiled in collaboration with the descendants of the families themselves--these genealogies are models of authority and scholarship and cover multiple generations of many of the largest and best-known families in the South. Writing in the April-June (1968) issue of the distinguished journal The Virginia Genealogist, a reviewer commented that "those undertaking research on Southern families, and particularly those of Virginia, will find an examination of these volumes a necessary first step in their investigations."

Zella Armstrong's Notable Southern Families was begun in 1918 and completed in 1932. It comprises a large collection of family histories that refer to thousands of persons of Cavalier, Scotch-Irish, and Huguenot descent, the one common denominator being the milieu of the South. In almost every instance family lines are brought down to the early 20th century, each line convincingly developed after a thorough study of court records, histories, family bibles, and miscellaneous family documents. Although the primary aim of the work is to trace the colonial or Revolutionary settler and his American progeny, treatment is sometimes given to the European forebears of the original settler. Each genealogy is carefully developed, giving all names in both collateral and direct lines of descent, dates and places of birth, marriage, and death, places of residence, and all other particulars of genealogical significance.

In preparing this work, Miss Armstrong drew on the services of a large group of specialists, in some instances publishing their findings in entirety, and in the case of Volume V--covering the Crockett family and connecting lines--actually collaborating with Janie Preston Collup French (who incidentally contributed the entire contents of Volume VI). The net result is a product of enduring reference value.