The Elements of Japanese Design is a library of traditional Japanese design motifs in the form of more than 2,700 family crests ( mon) compiled and drawn by a Kyoto publisher and bookseller early in the twentieth century, and selected and interpreted by John Dower, a leading American scholar of Japan. First used for identification on the battlefield beginning in the twelfth century, ...

Manufacturer: Weatherhill
Written By: John Dower

This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the three-dimensional Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 was written for historians and ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing
Written By: Eugene Aubrey Stratton

If you've ever thought of find your roots, Emily Anne Croom's is the genealogy guide to get you going. She's got sensible chapters on how to get started, the meaning of names, the difference between a family history of dates and a family history of stories, how to gather sources, who to interview, and how to fit it all together. Croom breaks the process into bite-sized pieces to turn it into a fun ...

Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Written By: Emily Croom

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received Genealogy for the First TimeŽ with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and ...

Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
Written By: Laura Best

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

The prodcut of several years of research, this is a comprehensive compilation of Hindu names in current use. The meaning of each of the 20,000 names in the volume is extensively discussed and information on sources and usage is also provided. The book is cross-referenced to make it easier to use.

Manufacturer: Penguin Books India
Written By: Maneka Gandhi

The Worlds Largest Collection in Print New third edition now includes 28 volume index to the Irish Families series The Best and Final Edition. Over 45,000 entries total: 700 illustrated coats of arms Origins & Locations Includes families settled from Scotland, England, etc... Ancient Maps and illustrations All 32 counties of Ireland and ...

Manufacturer: Irish Genealogical Foundation
Written By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

There are few American families that feature such a collection of characters, both heroic and ignoble, who have made such a mark on history as the Lees. In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, covering over two hundred years of accolades and scandals. We meet Thomas Lee, who dreamed of America as a continental empire, and his son, Arthur Lee, who created a ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Paul C. Nagel

You've almost certainly faced the problem: you've got an album or box of old photographs but almost all lack any identification. Family Chronicle's special publication can't help you identify the subject but it can help you with dating when the picture was taken - often within a couple of years. A number of books have already been published that describe how to date old photographs but they rely ...

Manufacturer: Moorshead Magazines Ltd

On Saturday, February 26, 1938, 17-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to his first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family were proudly Austrian. They were also Jewish. Just two weeks later came the Anschluss. A family had been condemned to death by genocide. This new edition of George Clares incredibly affecting account of Nazi brutality towards the Jews includes a previously unpublished ...

Manufacturer: Pan Books
Written By: George Clare