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1) Mayflower families through five generations: descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620

Publisher

General Society of Mayflower Descendants

Pub. Date

1975-<2016>

Language

English

Description

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"The tracing of the descendants of the Mayflower passengers." --

2) Inheritance: a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love

Author

Shapiro, Dani

Series

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Appears on list

Jewish-American Heritage Month

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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"In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her conception and, remarkably find a YouTube video of her...

3) The Vanderbilts

Author

Patterson, Jerry E

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD

Description

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In The Vanderbilts, the family's astounding story is told in full: from the farmstead beginnings of the Commodore on Staten Island to the pinnacle of wealth, fame, and social standing achieved by the legendary Vanderbilt ladies-Consuelo, Alva, Grace, Gertrude, and Gloria. The text traces the commercial machinations that established their fortune and the Vanderbilt mania for house building that engaged some of America's finest designers and architects....

4) The researcher's guide to American genealogy

Author

Greenwood, Val D

Language

English

5) DAR patriot index

Author

Daughters of the American Revolution

Language

English

6) Searching for your ancestors: the how and why of genealogy

Author

Doane, Gilbert Harry

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Language

English

Description

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Offers instructions for tracing ancestors through the use of family papers, wills, town and church records, and gravestone inscriptions (etc.).

7) The complete idiot's guide to genealogy

Author

Rose, Christine

Language

English

Description

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The next best thing to a personal genealogist, this guide gives you all the knowledge to trace your heritage, and sort through the vast amount of information online, in family scrapbooks, in libraries, and at courthouses.

8) Passenger and immigration lists index: Supplement

Publisher

Gale Research Co

Pub. Date

[1982-]

Language

English

9) Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Rhode Island

Author

United States. Bureau of the Census

Series

Its Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 [v.5]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Government Document

10) The source: a guidebook of American genealogy

Publisher

Ancestry

Language

English

11) A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England: showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, onthe basis of Farmer's Register

Author

Savage, James

Publisher

Little, Brown and company

Pub. Date

1860-62.

Language

English

12) Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation

Author

Newton, Maud

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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"Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age during the Great Depression in Texas, was supposedly married thirteen times, and survived being shot in the stomach by one of his wives. His father purportedly killed a man in the street with a hay hook, and later died in a mental institution. On her father's side, a Massachusetts ancestor was accused of being a witch, who cast sickness...

13) It's all relative: adventures up and down the world's family tree

Author

Jacobs, A. J

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.

14) Finding Italian roots: the complete guide for Americans

Author

Colletta, John Philip

Language

English

15) The genealogist's companion and sourcebook

Author

Croom, Emily Anne

Publisher

Betterway Books

Language

English

16) Mastering online genealogy

Author

Quillen, W. Daniel

Series

Quillen's essentials of genealogy ; 1

Publisher

Cold Spring Press

Language

English

Description

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The best introduction to using the Internet to search for your ancestors! Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy series examines one topic per book so you can really go in-depth in the search for your ancestors. Mastering Online Genealogy covers the use of computers and the Internet to successfully do your own genealogical research. The book includes information on: genealogy databases; what they are, where they are, and how to use them; free genealogy...

17) Born on the water

Author

Hannah-Jones, Nikole

Series

Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominee 2023

Publisher

Kokila

Pub. Date

2021.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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"Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States."--