“How did earlier WV pioneers survive the frequent and brutal raids on their homesteads at a time when that wilderness frontier served as the western border of the United States?” Chap.III, “Manners and Customs” alone is worth the cost of this book. Full of names & dates.
Category: Genealogy
Books that focus on genealogy, all facets. Included are history books. One cannot study genealogy without diving into the history of our ancestors.
38 Family Tree Research Resources: Free Resources for the Frugal Genealogist
The resources in this 15-page publication are all FREE and focus almost exclusively in CANADA. The description states the reader will be “… getting information from Birth or Baptismal Certificates; Marriage Certificates; Death Certificates; Census Records; Ship’s Manifests or Logs; Military Records and more.”
The Encyclopedia of American Last Names
Disappointing book. It’s not about “How did your last name come to be — and who brought it to America? Find out in this book … last names of the original colonists and other early settlers.”