Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales had genealogical links to this country. Not only was she one-eighth American, but she also had ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies, near relatives throughout this country, several hundred distant kinsmen well known in American history, and probably between twenty and thirty million living distant ...
This work, compiled over a period of thirty years from about 2,000 books and manuscripts, is a comprehensive listing of the 37,000 married couples who lived in New England between 1620 and 1700. Listed are the names of virtually every married couple living in New England before 1700, their marriage date or the birth year of a first child, the maiden names of 70% of the wives, the birth ...
Outlined on 466 pages of charts in this work are the best royal descents of 576 immigrants to the American colonies or the United States who were notable themselves or who left descendants who were notable in American history. Based on a comprehensive survey, undertaken over a period of more than 25 years, of virtually all printed sources that lead to these lines, this book ...
This work contains all of the articles on Rhode Island families that had been published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register since 1846 . Except for articles relating to the immigrant origins of Rhode Island families, which have appeared elsewhere, this has many of the best genealogical articles of the last 140 years, many by leading genealogists of the 19th and 20th ...
This work is a collection of primary source material published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register between 1847 and 1983 concerning the area of Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable (Cape Cod) Counties, and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, where the majority of the descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims settled by the end of the 18th century. Altogether the ...