Manufacturer: Universal Publishers
Written By: Perry Allan Snow, Perry Snow

Discover ancestors and trace New England history in court records from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Whether you are a novice researcher--or an experienced genealogist or historian--this book will help you to research court records with confidence. Learn how to read and use court records--with clear explanations of legal terms, illustrations from real cases and step-by-step research ...

Manufacturer: Quill Pen Press, LLC
Written By: Diane Rapaport

Following a history of Chinese calligraphy — going all the way back to the pictographic beginnings of Chinese writing more than 4,000 years ago — the author explains the basic construction of individual characters and the ways in which calligraphy is used by Chinese artists, including calligraphic seals and inscriptions on paintings.

Manufacturer: [Self]
Written By: Dorothy Dillard Hughes

Stories of some of the Bluegrass state's known and lesser-known eccentrics give the phrase "favorite sons and daughers" a new twist. McQueen engagingly spins tales of the likes of career criminal George Barrett, psychic Edgar Cayce, duelist Alexander McClung and more than 20 other Kentuckians who he says are "peculiar footnotes to history." Keven's twin brother, Kyle. pens cartoon illustrations to ...

Manufacturer: McClanahan Publishing House
Written By: Keven McQueen

This is your complete guide to using Family Tree Maker 2006 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for year to come. This book gets you started by helping you enter what you already know. Learn how to search the INternet for more ancestors. As the information starts rolling in, yoiu will learn how to organize and plan your ongoing family history by using the research ...

Manufacturer: Generations Network
Written By: Tana Pedersen Lord

George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: George Byron Merrick

Researching family history is the second most popular topic on the Internet (after sex). In Online Roots, Pamela Boyer Porter, a Certified Genealogical Records Specialist, explains how to search effectively on the Internet, how to assess the value of what you find, and the best way to make full use of the resources of the Internet to trace your family's history and heritage.Topics ...

Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Written By: Pamela Boyer Porter

The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces the crown's full history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors present a ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: John Cannon, Ralph Griffiths

This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people--the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and ...

Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Written By: Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar

Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Reg

Manufacturer: Phillimore & Co.
Written By: Humphrey-Smith