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Family History Books


These are books authored by subscribers to the Dumfries-Galloway mailing list
IF YOU HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK THAT NEEDS ADVERTISING TO A LARGE AUDIENCE OF GENEALOGY RESEARCHERS, CONTACT ME.

TOM WELCH

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Have you always wanted to preserve those treasured family stories, passed down from your ancestors, but just couldn't seem to get started? Here is an indispensable, simple, and clearly written book full of ideas which will help you get off the mark and Do it.

8 1/2 by 11, card stock cover with plastic comb binding. $9.95 postpaid in continental U.S.

Order from:
Kristy Lawrie Gravlin
Lincs to Our Past Publishing
P.O. box 775
Banks, Oregon, USA 97106-0755



Jane Wile has been researching the local family names of her home county of Colchester, Nova Scotia for over 20 years. The most of these families came to her area from Ireland, Scotland and New England beginning in the early 1760's to take up lands in the three major townships of Londonderry, Onslow and Truro that later became Colchester County. She has a sizable database of over 61,000+ names from which she produces genealogy books on many of the larger families. These books are updated yearly, giving descendants the chance to add their family information to her database and be included in the next updates.

All books are 8 1/2 x 11, stock covered with ring bindings. All names indexed; contents include vital statistics, Wills, newspaper articles, recorded family events etc.


The Crowe Family ~ Ireland to Nova Scotia: A compilation of the family beginning with their 1761 arrival in Nova Scotia up to 1998. This family has many descendants in Canada and the United States. [364 pages, over 13,700 names covering 12 generations - last update August 1998]
price $45.00 Canadian - postpaid

The Archibald Family ~ Ireland - New England - Nova Scotia: This family emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland to Londonderry, New Hampshire circa 1720. In the year 1762, most of this large family came to Nova Scotia to take up lands in the Truro Township. Covers years from 1691 to 1998. [309 pages, over 11,600 names covering 12 generations - last update August 1998]
price $40.00 Canadian - postpaid

Order from: Jane Wile, RR#1 Belmont, Nova Scotia, Canada B0M 1C0
[email protected]




An annotated Index of People, Places and Events in Scotland and America
copyright 1998, second edition, revised

Mrs. Ramsey grew up in Oklahoma, and was a career secretary until 1985. She and her husband Vance have two sons. In about 1987 she commenced an intensive study of the Scottish Covenanters which led to a compilation and listing of information about the history, families, and events which are the subject of her writing.

This material is an A to Z index of individuals involved in the far reaching events in 17th century Scotland. Listings include the Scottish Reformation, a Gaelic word list, Kings, kidnappings, and chronologies. Compilations from many sources include military engagements, colonial congregations, and traces the migration trails of hundreds of Scottish families to America. It contains thousands of names, usually with dates and places, as well as much information about the Religious, social and family conditions of the times. It covers the years 1640 to 1689 in Scotland and from the early 18th century through the 19th century in America.

Over 1000 printed pages equivalent. Available only on CD. $30.00 plus $3.00 postage in the continental U.S.

TO ORDER; Contact the author; Mary Lou McHaffie Ramsey 6797 Radford rd., Athens, Ohio, USA 45701-3434




Brenda Miller has been active in Genealogy research for almost twenty years, and has taught a course, Genealogy For The Beginner, for ten years. She has spoken at several Clan and State conferences. Her books are found in several major Libraries in Scotland and the United States.

MOFFAT-BELL, JOHNSTON-CAMPBELL
The genealogy of the Moffat family from Dumfries, Scotland to Chicago, Illinois, and of the Bell family as they connect to the Moffat line. The Johnston - Campbell line are from the Cumberland, England area.
Price $50.00

BIRTH INDEX - KIRKPATRICK FLEMING
1748-1815 Lists name, parents, location of birth, and date. 40 pages.
Price $22.00

PRE 1855 BIRTH INDEX - ANNAN
Part 1 1703-1748 Lists name, parents, date and witnesses on most. 39 pages
Part 2 1749-1777 Lists name, parents, date and location. 31 pages.
Price $40.00

BIRTH INDEX - ANNAN
1778-1810 Lists name, parents, location, and date. 31 pages.
Price $23.00

BIRTH INDEX - HODDOM
1813-1838 Lists name, parents, location, and date. 36 pages.
Price $22.00

PRE 1855 MARRIAGE INDEX - ANNAN
Indexed by Bride and Groom. Lists date, and origin. (where available)86 pages.
Price $35.00

PRE 1855 MARRIAGE INDEX - GRETNA
Indexed by Bride and Groom. Lists date and origin. (where available) 38 pages.
Price $25.00

PRE 1855 MARRIAGE INDEX - LOCHMABEN
Indexed by Bride and Groom. Lists date and origin. 50 pages.
Price $25.00

PRE 1855 DEATH INDEX - LOCHMABEN
Lists name, date, parents and/or spouse.
Price $20.00

BIRTH INDEX - CAMERTON PARISH, CUMBERLAND, ENG.
1600s-1810. Lists name, parents, location. 42 pages.
Price $25.00

DEATH INDEX - CAMERTON PARISH, CUMBERLAND, ENG.
1782-1870Lists name, age, and place. 27 pages.
Price $ 23.00

All of the above are on 8 X 10 pages with Card stock covers, commercial staple and cloth tape binding. Prices include shipping in Continental U.S.

Order from: Brenda Miller, 21640 Chalon St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080
[email protected]




A HISTORY OF THE JARNAGIN FAMILY IN IOWA (1856-1996)

P99
The Jarnagin family has been in Iowa for over 140 years. Most of the family found there are descendants of John Jarnagin and Mary Smith. John was born about 1748 in Virginia. He was a landowner in Henry County, Virginia, in 1777. By 1790 he relocated to what is now Grainger County, Tennessee. He moved with his family one final time - to Highland County, Ohio. He died there in 1816. Over 1,300 descendants of John Jarnagin and Mary Smith are included in this history of the family, representing descendants of four of their nine children - Nancy who married Jacob COOPER (240 descendants included), Mary (Polly) who married Jacob WEYER (11 descendants included), Isaac who married Sarah GROVE (750 descendants included), and Eli who married Mary FRANKLIN (328 descendants included). Today their descendants can be found throughout the United States and in at least two foreign countries.

$40.00 (postage paid in USA)

published in 1997
6 x 9 size - hardbound - over 100 pictures - 511 pages, including an every-name index (with women cross-referenced by their married names) - printed on acid-free paper. Extensive endnotes and a bibliography are also included.

To Order, contact Jeri L. Corbitt @ [email protected]


P99
Robert S. Riley is the author of several important family history books.

His latest effort, THE RILEY FAMILIES, A History of Several Riley Families Originating in Colonial Maryland and Virginia, is currently headed towards publishing and should be available early in 1999.

You are invited to review the details of all these books at the following web addresses.

THE COLONIAL RILEY FAMILIES
OR THIS URL



THE DESCENDANTS OF JEREMIAH MITCHELL AND ALLIED FAMILIES

P99
Allied families are Rouse, Milliken, Downie, and Campbell of Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, and Montgomery Counties of NC. It contains 450 pages of documented, indexed Bible, church, and census records which prove family connections from 1750-1996. Includes Baldwin, Bartholemew, Benson, Calais, Council, Edwards, Fatheree, Haddock, Hargrove, Inman, McDonald, McEwen, McKeithan, McNaughton, Melvin, Pate, Russ, Vann, Woodward, and Wright families.

8 1/2" X 11" format
Unbound copies $25.00 postpaid in USA
Hard-bound $45.00 postpaid in USA

send check to;
Ann Mitchell Horne
P.O. Box 3726
El Centro, CA 92244-3726.



Hollyhock Press is pleased to announce the availability of a new book containing very old public records:

ABSTRACTS OF BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILL BOOKS 5 and 6 (1843-1875)
compiled by Holly Wanless Cochran
ISBN 0-9666399-0-1

8199
Abstracts of the entire contents of Will Books 5 and 6 (March 1843 through September 1875) of Bath County, Virginia, in one 282-page paperback volume.
Contains wills, estate inventories (names only, not estate contents), estate sale buyers, heirs mentioned in estate settlements, guardian bonds for minor children, records of commitment for insanity, children born out of wedlock, land sales, slave sales, slave emancipations, marriage contracts; licenses to operate various businesses, perform marriages, or be a minister; bonds to guarantee performance in public office; powers of attorney for distant heirs to receive their portion of an estate.
Includes many Highland County families, plus many families who lived earlier or later in Augusta, Botetourt, Alleghany, Rockbridge, Greenbrier(WV), Pendleton(WV), and Pocahontas(WV) counties.
Easy-to-read format, decedent index, heirs index, slave index, location index, everyname index, glossary of legal terms, explanation of probate process.

This book is intended to help genealogists untangle the many intermarried families of the Bath County region. Following Jean Bruns's abstraction of Will Books 1 through 4 (available from the Bath Co. Historical Society), this book takes Bath Co. through the 2 decades before the War Between The States, the war itself, and the reconstruction period. Most valuable, it includes many names from the pre-1850 census years (before the census listed every name in the household). Also listed are many slaves, some in family groups.


Please visit:HOLLYHOCK PRESS for details, including a sample page from the book, an order form, and an online searchable index.

Price $25.00 plus shipping ($3.00 book rate, $3.50 priority mail).

We accept purchase orders or orders on letterhead from schools and libraries, but we are not set up to take credit cards or faxed orders.

Orders may be sent to:
Hollyhock Press
1660 Peachey Rd.
Ashland OR 97520

Contact: [email protected]




WEISCHEDEL AND RELATED FAMILIES FROM FEUERBACH, WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY 1550 to 1997

A Genealogy by Zelda Zeuge Dubel.

P99
Allied surnames from Feuerbach area, connected to Weischedel: Mini-genealogies of pedigree ancestors Adelheit, Alber(s), Baur, Bayer, Beata, Bierer, Bilder (Belder), Bofinger, Brauneisen, Brigel, Dinger (Denger), Elsesser, Epple, Eyselin, Feuecht, Frauenpreiss, Freyh, Geer (Gehr), Gerlach, Gleich, Goetz, Hahnle (many spellings including Hoen, etc.), Has (Haas), Haug, Held, Hermann (Herma), Jaeger, Kab (Kaab), Keller, Kercher, Klessing, Kocher, Lebar, Luff (Lufft), Mauch, Mayer, Moessner, Naus, Niethammer, Reyss, Saltzmann, Schaefer (Pfeffer?), Schmid(t), Schomel (Schamel), Schwarz (Schwartz), Seiz, Sigel, Singer, Steimer, Stoelher, Stroheckher, Stubenrauch, Trapp, Treiber (Treibor), Urbanus, Veit (Veith), Werner, Widman, Zoller and Zweigle (Zweiglin).

Mini-genealogy of pedigree surnames from Nurnberg area connected to Bettschnitt: Behman, Gastner, Knod, List, Wackersreuther and Warnick.

Description of book: My ancestor Johann Jacob "Jake" Weischedel was born in 1828 in Feuerbach, now a suburb of Stuttgart, and came to Iowa in 1854. His wife Margaretha Bettschnitt was born in 1832 in the Nurnberg area and came to Iowa in 1855. They were married in Dubuque Co, Iowa in 1856. In 1857 they bought land in Sperry Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa and lived near Volga and Strawberry Point and worshipped at the St.Siebald (protestant) Church in Strawberry Point. Jake was a farmer and died in 1869 just before the birth of his eighth child. One daughter remained in Clayton Co, Iowa and the widow and most of the adult children went to Sully Co, South Dakota about 1883. The book includes all their descendants to the present time. There are 5691 names and 578 pages. The author spent 32 years in research.

Published 1997.
Indexed, Illustrated: 65 photographs.
Cloth bound.
Price: $51.00 each, postpaid in USA.


BREHE AND TOEDT FAMILIES FROM LIPPE-DETMOLD, GERMANY 1675 to 1997

a Genealogy by Zelda Zeuge Dubel

Allied names: Mini-genealogies of pedigree ancestors, Bodekers, Busse, Coring, Gerken, Huppen, Jurgens, Ludolph, Schnittger (Schnitker) and Twete.

Description of book: I had ancestors named Toedt(mann) who lived in Holzhausen-Externsteine and worshipped at the Evangelical Reformed (protestant) church at Horn. Archives are in nearby Detmold. My ancestor Johann Toedt (1800-1873) married Sophia Schaefer who was the widow of Johann Christoph Brehe. In accordance with the custom of that time and location, he changed his name to Conrad Brehe. They emigrated to Franklin Co, MO about 1847. By coincidence, another Conrad E. Brehe emigrated to Gasconade Co, MO about 1843 and he was probably related to Sophia's first husband. Other relatives who retained the surname Toedt came to Illinois and Iowa. The book covers the genealogy of all these branches as known to me to the present time. Information came from the church record books in Horn and the archives in Detmold. There are 2365 names and 288 pages. The author spent 32 years in research.

Published 1997.
Indexed, Illustrated: 65 photographs.
Cloth bound.
Price: $51.00 each, postpaid in USA.

Books can be purchased directly from the author;

Zelda Zeuge Dubel
2437 East Shea Drive, Fresno, CA
93720-4405

Phone (559) 434-9260
E-mail [email protected]



With emphasis on Joel Blackburn and Anna Fry

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This book, spanning 10 generation of Blackburn and several generations of Frys, was compiled by Drusilla Cochran Sheldon, Suzy Brown Burt, Euple Blackburn Walker and Erline Harwell Tackett, all of Texas.

James A. Blackburn, Philip Fry, their children and grandchildren, were found in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. From there they have spread across the United States.

Connecting lines in the first four generations include, but are not limited to: Austin, Barnes, Birdwell, Blakely, Brammer, Brewer, Bynum, Campbell, Cannon, Carnes, Churchill, Clowdus, Cornelius, Cowden, Crump, Cunningham, Durrett, East, Gillespie, Grant, Gray, Hall, Hallmark, Hancock, Hanna, Hartley, Hay(e)s, Hendricks, Hudson, Huffstutler, Hughes, Hullett, Ivy, Jones, Little, Liles, Loyd, Marlow, McClendon, McClung, Miller, Moncrief, Montgomery, Moor, Moore, Moss, Morton, Mote, Odem, Pearson, Perkins, Perry, Poe, Pye, Rawlinson, Rhea, Rhoades, Rhodes, Richardson, Robbins, Sanderson, Thomas, Vann, Ward, Wear, Well(s), Wilson and Wood.

This beautiful 8-1/2x11 hardback book of 575 pages of text plus Index and 8-page Supplement, covers known descendants to the present generation. The title is imprinted in gold on the spine and front cover. There are 30 pages of photographs, averaging 3 per page, through Generation IV. The Index includes all surnames mentioned. A full-name index is included for all Blackburns; others are indexed by surname only.

Price $45.00.

Quarterly newsletters contain corrections, additions, research results, family news, information on reunions as well as on publications by other family members which might be of interest, etc. The 4-page newsletters are published in February, May, August and November. Newsletter price $6.00 per year for 1991 through 1995; $9.00 per year thereafter.

Please make checks payable to;

Association of Blackburn & Fry Families {ABFF}
and mail to:
Suzy Brown Burt
900 Kingsbury Ct.
Longview TX 75604-3421

The William and Elliott Lacy Family of New Kent and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia by Hubert Wesley Lacey and Howard Elton Lacey published by Bookcrafters, 1996 640 pages price (new) $45 (incl. S&H) contact Elton Lacey at [email protected]




JOSEPH AND RACHEL RABB NEWMAN
an Old Three Hundred Family of Texas and their descendants
written by Patty Newman Turner

This book details the descendants of their ten children. It contains family histories, narratives, pictures and a full name index.
published in September, 1998. The book is hard bound, contains 500 pages.
Available for $60.00 including postage in the USA

Send check or money order to;
Patty Newman Turner
P. O. Box 69223
Odessa, Texas
79769.



Dumfriesshire O.P.R. Index of Births and Christenings for the Surnames Johnston(e) and Bell supplied in A4 Book form, web slide binding or on Compact Disc as Database in Microsoft Works 4.0 or Microsoft Excel format. It lists Christan name, male or female, birth or christening, day, month year, Parish, Father's names, and Mother's names per entry. The database is sortable for easy searching, i.e. for grouping children by Mother and Father, etc.

JOHNSTON(E) OVER 5000 ENTRIES.
BELL OVER 3500 ENTRIES.

THE BOOKS CAN BE SUPPLIED IN THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:-
(1) ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF CHILD I.E. ADAM THROUGH TO WILLIAM.
(2) ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY PARISH.
(3) ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY PARENTS.
(4) BY DATE I.E. DAY MONTH YEAR.

PRICES ARE AS FOLLOWS:-

JOHNSTON(E) BOOK FORMAT 1, 2, 3, OR 4 AT �8-00 EACH + P&P.
BELL BOOK FORMAT 1, 2, 3, OR 4 AT �7-00 EACH + P&P.

JOHNSTON(E) C/D, WORKS 4.0 OR EXCEL FORMAT AT �12-00 + P&P.
BELL C/D, WORKS 4.0 OR EXCEL FORMAT AT �10-00 + P&P.
BELL AND JOHNSTON(E) C/D, WORKS 4.0 OR EXCEL FORMAT AT �16-00 + P&P.

PLEASE EMAIL DAVE MORGAN AT [email protected] for further information.



THE EWES VALLEY
ISBN 0 9517858 1 8

THE EWES VALLEY is aimed at the genealogist or local historian who wishes to find out more about this valley in the Borders of Scotland. The contents include an annotated map, historical description, militia lists, testament records, extracts from the Kirk Session book as well as over 300 headstones recorded covering almost 200 surnames.

The Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser says, "A boon for ancestor chasers in the Ewes Valley"

The chapter headings and pages are:
Chapter  1, Ewes Valley by John J. Elliot
Chapter  2, Ewes Memorials
Chapter  3, Unthank Memorials
Chapter  4, Ewes Church Centenary Leaflet
Chapter  5, Ministers of the Parish of Ewes
Chapter  6, Register of Testaments
Chapter  7, Pardoned, or Amnesty List
Chapter  8, Ewes War Memorial
Chapter  9, Additional Notes
Chapter 10, Militia List
Chapter 11, Session Minutes

�7.50 + �1.35 post and secure packing (UK). Please enquire about overseas postage.

Contact Cairndhu Publishing at [email protected]
See our Website at http://www.cairndhu.btinternet.co.uk/page1.htm


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