Last updated on 12 May 2012
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Family Genealogy Books
These books chronicle the ancestors and descendants of my mother's side of the family. They are published genealogies archived in the Library of Congress.
Descendants of Joseph Mattingly & Hessina Hinton
By Joseph F. Mattingly & Eliza Mattingly Kelly
Published: 1978, McDowell Publications, Utica, Kentucky
Call Number: CS71.M433 1978
Lancaster Ancestors: Wright, Kemp, Malugen descendants
By Ruth Fay Wright Kilgore
Published 1982, Unknown Binding
Call Number: CS71.L245 1982
The following books provide a window into 16th and 17th century Germany, particularly around the time of the 30-Years War. I highly recommend them.
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, 1625-1676.
as translated by George Schulz-Behrend
ISBN: 1879751372 (cloth); 1879751380 (paper)
Call Number 833.5G822A
The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War
by Hermann Löns
as translated by Robert Kvinnesland
ISBN: 978-1-59416-026-4 (hardcover)
Early German Biographies