Finding Your African American Ancestors

Finding Your African American Ancestors
Author: David T. Thackery
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780916489908

Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.

Kern-gen

Kern-gen
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1995
Genre: Kern County (Calif.)
ISBN:

Hidden Sources

Hidden Sources
Author: Laura Szucs Pfeiffer
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Family history researchers are accustomed to searching among vital records, censuses, and other commonly used sources. But there are any number of more-obscure sources that can lead researchers to vital information, and Obscure Sources: Great Clues in Hidden Places will introduce you to them. Bankruptcy records, special censuses, employment records, and coroners' records are only a few of the kinds of records you can turn to when other sources prove unfruitful. Obscure Sources is an overview of a large number of sources that are often overlooked. It discusses where these records can be found, offers some options for locating these records through the Internet, and provides a selected bibliography of background information and methodology.

The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists

The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists
Author: Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Publisher: Family Tree Books
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2004-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Provides genealogists with research summaries, maps, and timelines for every U.S. state; county-level data that can be utilized to acquire most genealogical records; and listings of contact information, Web sites, libraries, and genealogical and historical societies.

A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia

A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia
Author: Charles A. Johnson
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780932807298

This history is enriched with personal recollections and reminiscences. Its pages are filled with the names of those individuals who settled, or helped in some way to establish the County, as well as those who are remembered for various other reasons. The fifty-four illustrations include Wise County’s commonwealth attorneys, from the first (1856) to the twenty-first (1935).

The Source

The Source
Author: Arlene H. Eakle
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Publishing Company
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1984
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN:

Useful to the novice searcher, as well as the professional genealogist. Covers all aspects of research--major records, published sources, and special resources.

Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia

Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia
Author: Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1975
Genre: Grayson County (Va.)
ISBN: 0806306408

Grayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county, which, typically, provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and their dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference.

The Source

The Source
Author: Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher: Ancestry.com
Total Pages: 860
Release: 1997
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Includes record types, census records, ethnic origins, tracking ancestors, and more.

Lowder Families in America

Lowder Families in America
Author: William Neal Hurley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

John and Hannah Lowder of Guilford County, North Carolina were the parents of thirteen children: Catherine (July 17, 1758, and died June 30, 1760), Caleb (Sept. 2, 1760), John, Jr. (June 29, 1762), Mary (Aug. 2, 1764), Joseph (June 19, 1766), Ralph (May 8, 1768), Rebecca (Mar. 15, 1770), Samuel (Jan. 17, 1772), William (June 29, 1773), Hannah (Aug. 8, 1774), Job (July 25, 1776), Joshua (June 14, 1778) and Nathan (Dec. 31, 1780). Other research suggests that John and Hannah were Quakers in England and immigrated to a Quaker community in New Jersey before settling in Guilford County. Numerous descendants can be found in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa and Utah. Some Lowder descendants in Virginia in the later 1800's joined the Mormon faith and went west. Some descendants include: Burchett, Champ, Collingsworth, Crum, Hurley, Loudder, Shope and Watts families.