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For four years I’ve blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can’t forget my own roots.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

I WOULD LOVE TO BUY THESE BOOKS

Because of my proximity to many local libraries and the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Library (NEHGS) in Boston, I don't purchase many books. I do have a collection, but I wouldn't call it large. However, there are some I would really love to own, to read cover-to-cover, and would like to buy these displayed below. Anybody wanting to sell their gently used copies?
Many years ago, I met Robert Charles Anderson, the author of  the series of books, while he was working on  one of the early volumes in this series. I couldn't wait for them to be published because they cover the time frame 1620-1633, and I hoped some of my ancestors would be included. (Book title: Anderson, Robert C., The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. III, P-W, (Boston: NEHGS, 1995)
Three of these books are used almost every time I go to the library. Two pertaining to cemeteries in Connecticut are new to me as of this past week.
  • Jones, Henry Z., Jr., The Palatine Families of New York (A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710) (Universal City, CA: 1985)
  • Duemyer, Louis, Intro. by, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, NY 1683-1809 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc. 1978)
  • Hosley, William, By Their Markers Ye Shall Know them: A Chronicle of the History and Restorations of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground (Hartford, CT: The Ancient Burying Ground Association, Inc., 1994)
  • Barlow, Claude Willis, John Steevens of Guilford, Connecticut, (Rochester, NY: John M. Stephens, 1976).
  • Tillotson, Edward S., compiler, Wethersfield Inscriptions : a complete record of the inscriptions in the five burial places in the ancient town of Wethersfield , (William F.J. Boardman, Hartford, Conn.1899), (reprinted Whitefish, MT] : Kessinger Publishing, [2008?])
The last book, is a set of two, referred to Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines compiled by Mary Walton Ferris in 1931. I absolutely love this book. One book covers many of my Massachusetts Ancestors, the other the Connecticut lines. This was the first book a genealogist told me to look at when I began.  If you have Ancestry.com, you can find it here and a listing of names from Vol. 1 is below. Maybe take a peek at my Balch line (in red) and see why I'm excited, and there are 43 sources. Vol. 2 isn't displayed like Vol. 1, so I typed the names, they are at the bottom.
Vol I. Antrobus
The books are huge, and there are over 900 pages in each book.


MARY BEMAN (GATES) DAWES
GATES, GEORGE
ACKLEY, NICHOLAS
ANDREWS, NICHOLAS
BANGS, EDWARD
BARTLETT, JOHN
BATCHELDER, JOHN
BEAMAN, SIMON
BEAMON, WILLIAM
BLISS, THOMAS
BRAINERD, DANIEL
BREWSTER, WILLIAM
BULL, ROBERT
BUSHNELL, FRANCIS
CHALKER, ALEXANDER
CHAPMAN, EDWARD
CHAPMAN, ROBERT
CLARKE, JOHN
CLARKE, WILLIAM
COE, ROBERT
CONANT, ROGER
CONE, DANIEL
COOKE, FRANCIS
COREY, JOHN
DANFORTH, NICHOLAS
DEVEREAUX, JOHN
DOANE, JOHN
DODGE, RICHARD
DODGE, WILLIAM
ELIOTT, ANDREW
FOOTE, NATHANIEL
FOX, MARGARET
FREEMAN, EDMOND
GODFREY, GEORGE
GRANT, MATTHEW
GRAVES, GEORGE
GRISWOLD, EDWARD
GUNN, THOMAS
HAWLEY, JOSEPH
HAYWARD, ROBERT
HERRICK, HENRY
HOPKINS, STEPHEN
HULL, GEORGE
HULL, ISAAC
HUMPHREY, MICHAEL
HUNGERFORD, THOMAS
JOHNSON, JAMES
KILBOURN, THOMAS
KIRTLAND, PHILIP
LASKIN, HUGH
LITTLE, JOHN
LOOMIS, JOSEPH
MARVIN, MATTHEW
MERRICK, WILLIAM
MITCHELL (MATTHEW OR THOMAS)
NICHOLSON, EDMUND
OBER, RICHARD
OLMSTEAD, JAMES
PALGRAVE, JOAN (HARRIS)
PARSONS, JOSEPH
PETTYJOHN, JAMES
PINNEY, HUMPHREY
POST, STEPHEN
POTTER, HANNAH
PRATT, WILLIAM
PRENCE, THOMAS
RAYMOND, JOHN
RAYMOND, WILLIAM
ROBERTS, JOHN
SAXTON, RICHARD
SCRUGGS, THOMAS
SEYMOUR, THOMAS
SHIPMAN, RICHARD
SPENCER, GERALD
STILLWELL, JASPER
TAYLOR, JOHN
THRALL, WILLIAM
TRACY, STEPHEN
VENTRES, WILLIAM
WHITE, ROBERT
WOODBURY, WILLIAM
WOODWARD, HENRY
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10 comments:

Becky said...

I haven't done much work on my New England lines but "found" the Dawes-Gates books a few years ago with lots of info on my Gardner, Goodrich, Kilbourn, Marvin and Moody lines (some lines we share, I think). I agree, Dawes-Gates is a fantastic resource! A real gem.

Another book on some of those lines is "Hale, House and Related Families" by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman.

I'll have to look into some of the other books you have listed when I get around to doing more New England research! Thanks for the leads.

June 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Wendy said...

Oh my goodness, how I would love to own "The Great Migration" series as well! I have quite a few books purchased from NEHGS, some by Robert Charles Anderson. It would be lovely to live closer and make use of the library - I've only been once during a visit home. If I track down anything of interest here in England, I'll send it your way. ;)

June 23, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Barbara Poole said...

Becky, you are right, we share Gardner, Kilbourn, Marvin and Moody. Hello cousin x4. I like HH too. And, Wendy I wish I had the $$ for TGM series. Enjoy England, and I'll enjoy the New England for you. If I can help either of you, you know where I am.

June 23, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Brenda said...

Thanks for the references. I love The Great Migration series, too. I have used the Dawes-Gates many times. Just think of what we could do with money for genealogy!

June 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM
Heather Rojo said...

Barb, what a great list. "Great Migration" would be at the top of my list, too, but fortunately it is available on line. I love the Gates-Dawes books and you must have worked a long time on all those links! I'm glad you highlighted the Balches.

June 23, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Barbara Poole said...

Brenda, I'm glad you've discovered those two books as well. Heather, is the entire series online, I thought just the first few? Regarding DG, I didn't do the links, I copied them from Ancestry. Yes, I knew we share the Balches, thought of you.

June 23, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Susan Petersen said...

Good idea for a post, Barbara! One I'd like to at least see sometime is American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), which apparently is located at the Godfrey library in Middletown, CT.

June 23, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Hummer said...

Thanks for the increased knowledge. I did not know about these books. Living in the south, I was informed by the Librarian they were a Southern Library. (rolling eyes)

June 23, 2011 at 11:07 PM
Marian Pierre-Louis said...

Barbara, it looks like we share Palatine interest. I have gotten the Hank Z. Jones book from the library so many times. I had a great chat with him at NERGC in 2007. Those Palatines can be tough to research. You have some old lines you are researching! I would love to have the Great Migration books too.

June 24, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Barbara Poole said...

Thank you Susan, Frances and Marian for your comments. Susan, I've never been to the Godfrey (now on my Bucket List), Marian I've envious that you met Mr. Jones, and Frances you need to teach that librarian a thing or two!

June 24, 2011 at 3:33 PM

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