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This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. 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.
Kings, Pilgrims, United States Presidents - you'd never guess that the ancestry of a humble couple from Norfolk, Massachusetts includes such notables. The Ernest and Sadie Dunton family can boast founding fathers, a famous bear tamer, war heroes, and even a ghost! Although Ernest and Sadie lived traditional lives for their time period, and accomplished nothing that would be considered remarkable or extraordinary, hidden in their respective family trees are gems worth investigating and keeping alive for us, their living descendants, as well as for future generations. This book tells the stories that our parents/grandparents/great-grandparents probably didn't.
The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars—featuring a new foreword by bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, and maps, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than fifty battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative. Students of history, colonial war buffs, those interested in Native American history, and anyone who is curious about how this war affected a particular New England town, will find important insights into one of the most seminal events to shape the American mind and continent.