The American Census Handbook

The American Census Handbook
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842029254

Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.

The Source

The Source
Author: Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781593312770

Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""

At Home in the Hoosier Hills

At Home in the Hoosier Hills
Author: Richard F. Nation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 025334591X

This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. For them, faith in local institutions reflected a distrust of distant markets and politicians. Localism saw its expression in the Democratic Party's anti-federalist strain, in economic practices such as "safety-first" farming which focused on taking care of the family first, and in non-perfectionist Christianity. Localism was both a means of resisting changes and the basis of a worldview that helped Hoosiers of the hill country negotiate these changes.

Finding a New Midwestern History

Finding a New Midwestern History
Author: Jon K. Lauck
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496201825

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

Good People Beget Good People

Good People Beget Good People
Author: William H. Frist
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780742533363

The beautifully and expensively produced volume is a painstaking record of the family of Frist, the U.S. Senate's majority leader and a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Clearly a labor of love for Frist and his co-author, a longtime genealogist, the work is not in any sense a biography or political memoir, but rather is a straightforward tracing of Fr

Pedigrees of Lynn, Brueggemann & Dietz

Pedigrees of Lynn, Brueggemann & Dietz
Author: Rick McBride
Publisher: rMacBee Publications
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2022-08-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Beginning with those who reached or were born in the New World, explore to the starting points in their or their family’s immigrations from the Old Country and beyond to the Germanic roots of these 3 family branches! This book, Volume I, starts with William Frederick Lynn – born in Indiana in 1882 and resided as well in Texas and Oklahoma throughout his life. Using this pedigree format, the researcher can then work back in time to the known origination of these Lynn/Linn ancestors. Nine generations are included in this volume that spans over 3 centuries. All books in this series provide extensive information about ancestors from personal data (name, gender, birth & death dates and places, religious affiliation and even occupations if known) to timelines with the ancestor’s life events – often authenticated with transcripts from original records. As well, there is some information provided about their families along with pedigree charts for most ancestors and relationship charts between the starting ancestor and all other ancestors included. For ancestors to whom it applies, a DNA Confirmation section presents known AncestryDNA® matches and gives details about which children passed this DNA to descendants who match to the ancestor they have in common. This can include several generations of offspring from a particular ancestor. Note: The internal links are disabled in this online version and cross-referencing is unavailable. Download this free book to take advantage of this feature.

Some Descendants of Ralph Braddock of Maryland and Virginia, Ca. 1695-ca. 1766

Some Descendants of Ralph Braddock of Maryland and Virginia, Ca. 1695-ca. 1766
Author: Allen Beatty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

Ralph Braddock was born in England in about 1695. He married Elizabeth and they had six children from about 1735 to 1749. He died after 1766, probably in Loudon County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska.

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio
Author: Darrel E. Bigham
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813189632

America. Enterprise. Metropolis. Cairo. Rome. These are a few of the grandly named villages and towns along the lower Ohio River. The optimism with which early settlers named these towns reveals much about the history of American expansion. Though none became the next great American city, it was not for lack of ambition or entrepreneurial spirit. Why didn't a major city develop on the lower Ohio? What geographic, economic, and cultural factors caused one place to prosper and another to wither? How did Evansville become the largest and most influential city in the region? How did smaller cities such as Owensboro and Paducah succeed? Regardless of how appealing a locale looked on the map, luck, fate, culture, and leadership all helped determine success or failure. The fate of Cairo, Illinois—on paper an ideal site for a metropolis—emphasizes the extent to which human decisions, rather than physical landscape, affected a town's prosperity. The location of a canal or railroad terminus, the construction of a factory, or the activities of local boosters all mattered greatly. Darrel Bigham examines these towns and villages from the 1790s, when the first settlements appeared, to the 1920s, when the modern pattern of life associated with automobiles, economic upheaval, and mass culture emerged. Bigham's intimate knowledge of the area offers a true sense of the towns and villages and discloses fundamental truths about the workings of the American dream.