More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women features 12 exceptional women born prior to 1900. Portraits include Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across America; Hannah Silverman, a labor activist during the Paterson silk strikes who fought fearlessly for better working conditions; Abigail Goodwin, a gentle Quaker who bravely conducted many slaves to freedom from her ...

Manufacturer: TwoDot
Written By: Lynn Wenzel, Carol J. Binkowski

Manufacturer: Genealogical Bks in Print
Written By: Netti Schreiner-Yantis

While books about the gods of antiquity abound, there are few works that give us entrance to the classical world as it existed in the personalities and deeds of its most important citizens. With the arrival of Who's Who in the Classical World, all this is changed. This volume holds biographical entries on nearly 500 individuals of central importance from the civilizations of ancient Greece and ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA

Manufacturer: Meadowbrook Press
Written By: Bruce Lansky, Barry Sinrod

One of the most comprehensive baby name reference guides available, featuring more than 30,000 baby names, has been revised and expanded. Each chapter focuses on names from specific countries, regions, and ethnicities, including details about traditional naming customs. Each entry contains various spellings and pronunciations, as well as the name's meaning, history, etymology, and derivations.

Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
Written By: Teresa Norman

Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh explores the lives of three successful women -- TV correspondent Meredith Vieira, conductor and first lady of West Virginia Rachel Worby, surgeon Dr. Alison Estabrook -- to answer the serious questions of how women in the 1990s balance career achievements with the demands of having a family. Walsh, who's won awards for her investigative reporting, spent ...

Manufacturer: Anchor
Written By: Elsa Walsh

Enjoyable, easy-to-use introduction to genealogy designed specially for children. Data pages plus text. Instructive, educational, valuable.

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Written By: Rosemary Chorzempa

This is a much-needed guide to genealogy software. Along with a variety of other useful features it comprises reviews of the major software programs, including commercial and shareware software as well as utilities. We are all painfully aware of the fact that genealogy software changes rapidly, and indeed over the last few years countless genealogy programs have been orphaned with outdated ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Marthe Arends

Author Phyllis Theroux has assembled a large collection of funeral praises, and, amazingly, there's nothing morbid about it. A number of noted writers, including Thomas Merton, Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, H. L. Mencken, Hannah Arendt, and many others offer very lively thoughts on the departed. The book is well organized in thematic sections, and included in the more than 100 essays are a ...

Manufacturer: Scribner

Completely revised, updated, and expanded, The New Age Baby Name Book is the quirky naming guide that has outlasted the trendiness of New Age. Now at 512 pages, with 10,000 new names for a total of 20,000, with over 125 new sidebars filled with naming rites, stories, trends, and reverse trends, cultural trivia, and quotes, it is the definitive resource for parents who wish to celebrate ...

Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Written By: Sue Browder