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BETTY'S BOOKSHELF

GENEALOGY RESOURCES

(with links to some online books)

Here is a list of some of the many genealogy books & pamphlets currently on my bookshelf that I have used in my family research. Scanned copies of several of these books are available on Ancestry.com or Google Book Search. I have provided links for some others independently published on the web.

 

VIRGINIA

Genealogies of Virginia Families Volume 1-5, from William & Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, publ 1982

Tidewater Virginia Families by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis

Moseley Family History, Book 1: Descendents of William Moseley of Norfolk, VA by Forsythe, D'Aiutolo, Hubbard & Mitton

Moseley Family History, Book 2: Non Norfolk, VA lines, by Forsythe, D'Aiutolo, Hubbard & Mitton

Early Virginia Families Along the James River Vol 1 & II by Louise Pledge Heath Foley

Randolphs of Virginia, by Jonathan Daniels

Lees of Virginia, by Paul C Nagel

Register of the Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co VA 1723-1728

Deeds & Will Abstracts of Stafford Co VA: 1686-1689; 1689-1693; 1699-1709; 1780-1786 compiled by Ruth & Sam Sparacio

Images of Stafford, by De'Onne C Scott

Stafford Co VA Tithtables 1723-1790 by Voght & Kethley

Marriage Records City of Fredericksburg, and of Orange, Spotsylvania & Stafford Counties VA 1722-1750 by Fisher

Wills of Westmoreland Co VA 1654-1800 by Augusta Fothergill

Wills of Richmond Co VA 1699-1800 by Robert K Headley

Northumberland Co VA Records of Births 1661-1810

Isle of Wight Co VA Colonial Deeds 1647-1719, Court Orders 1693-1695 & Guardian Bonds 1740-1767 by William Lindsay Hopkins

Surry Co VA Wills & Administrations 1671-1750 by Eliza Timberlake Davis

Surry Co VA Wills, Estate Accounts & Inventories 1730-1800 by Lyndon H. Hart III

Surry Co VA Deeds & Other Court Papers 1684-1733 by William Lindsay Hopkins

Surry Co VA Deeds & Estate Accounts 1734-1755 by William Lindsay Hopkins

Surry Co VA Deeds & Estate Accounts 1756-1787 by William Lindsay Hopkins

Colonial Surry by John Bennett Bodie

Albemarle Parish Vestry Book Surry & Sussex Co VA 1742-1786 by Virginia Lee Hutchinson Davis

Marriages of Brunswick County Virginia 1750-1810 by Catherine L. Knorr

Middlesex Co VA Wills, Inventories & Accounts by William Lindsay Hopkins

A 400 Year Ancestral History by Thomas Ross Gambrell (Bruton of Surry Co VA, Anson Co NC & Spartanburg SC)

Lancaster County VA wills 1655-1800 by Ida J Lee

Lancaster County VA Marriage Bonds 1652-1850 by Ida J Lee

Lancaster County VA Court Orders 1652-1655

Marriage License Bonds of Lancaster Co VA 1701-1848 by Stratton Nottingham

History of Pittsylvania County VA by Maud Carter Clements

Story of Goochland by Wight

Douglas Register, St James Northam Parish Goochland Co VA (on loan from Max Miller of VA)

Goochland Yesterday & Today, by CeCe Bullard (on loan from Max Miller of VA)

History of Buckingham County VA by Eugene Maloney

Red Clay & Rattlesnake Springs by James Franklin Corn (Buckingham VA Cherokee)

Buckingham Co VA Church & Marriage Records 1764-1822 by Mary Bondurant Warren

Buckingham Co VA Surveyor's Plat Book 1762-1858

Buckingham Co VA Natives Who Died Elsewhere 1853-1896 by Roger Ward

Early Records of Hampshire Co VA by McCormick & Jones

1790 Hampshire Co VA census ( transcribed)

Historical Records of Old Frederick & Hampshire Co VA by Wilmer Karris , PhD

History of the Valley of Virginia, by Samuel Kerkeval (reprint of the 1850 volume)

History of the (German) Reformed Church in Virginia 1714-1940 by Rev. J. Silor Garrison

 

VIRGINA BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH:

Married Well & Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of VA 1649-1800 by Robert K Headley

Christ Church Parish records 1653-1812 Middlesex County VA

St Peter's Parish Register & vestry book New Kent County VA

St Mary's White Chapel Parish Register & vestry book Lancaster County VA

Historical Genealogy of the Woodson Family & Their Connections by Henry Morton Woodson

A Catalogue of the Descendents of Thomas Watkins of Chickohominy by Francis N Watkins

Lee of Virginia 1642-1892 by Edmund Jennings Lee

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742 Vol I by Gertrude E Gary

The Leake Family & Connecting Lines by George W Chappalear

Selden & Kindred of Virginia by Edna Mae Selden

Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vol I & II by Beverly Fleet

Surry Co VA Records 1652-1684 by Eliza Timberlake Davis

Southside Virginia Families by John Bennett Boddie

Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia by John Bennett Boddie

Wills & Administrations of Isle of Wight Co VA by Blanche Adams Chapman

Wills & Adminsitrations of Southampton Co VA 1749-1800 by Blanche Adams Chapman

Records of Colonial Gloucester County Virginia by Polly Cary Mason

Virginia Ancestors & Adventurers by Charles Hughes Hamlin

Cavaliers & Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents & Grants 1623-1666 Vol 1 by Nell Marion Nugent

 

OTHER SOUTHERN STATES: NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, ALABAMA

Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina: Burke County, Volume I & II by Emmett R White

Colony of North Carolina 1735-1764 Abstracts of Land Patents by Margaret M. Hofmann

The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763 Vol I, II & III (land deeds, including Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Chowan, Cumberland, Currituck, Dobbs, Granville, Halifax, Hyde, Johnston, Northampton, Orange, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt & Rowan Co NC) by Margaret M. Hofmann

The Historical Records of North Carolina Craven--Moore Counties by Crittenden & Lacy publ 1938 (not actual records; just tells what's available)

Wills of Edgecombe County, North Carolina 1733- 1856 by Ruth Smith Williams & Margarette Glenn Griffin

Johnston County North Carolina Marriages 1764-1867 by Charlotte D. Meldrum

History of Spartanburg, South Carolina by Dr J. B. O. Landrum

Some South Carolina Genealogy Records by Janie Revill

Spartanburg County South Carolina Minutes of the County Court 1785-1799 by Brent H. Holcomb

A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records Vol III by James E Wooley

History of Jackson County Alabama by John Kenamer

Bradley Divided: Bradley County Tennessee during the Civil War by Melba Lee Murray

 

OTHER SOUTHERN STATES BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH

A number of volumes on North Carolina History are available online at the UNC library website Documenting the American South

Biographical History of NC from Colonial Times to the Present edited by Ashe, Weeks & Van Noppen pub 1906 now available on Google Books

Caswell Co NC Wills, Administratiions & Tax Lists

Anson Co NC Deeds Abstracts and Estates & Wills Abstracts by Brent H. Holcomb

Bute (Warren) County NC Deeds & Abstracts by Brent H. Holcomb

Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange Co NC by Ruth Herndon Shields

State Census of North Carolina 1784-1787 by Alvaretta K Register

North Carolina Taxpayers 1679-1790 by Clarence B Ratcliff

North Carolina Wills & Inventories by J. Bryan Grimes

North Carolina Historical & Genealogical Record edited by J.R.B. Hathaway

Some South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799 by Brent H. Holcomb

Marriage & Death Notices from Up-Country of South Carolina fr Greenville Newspapers 1826-1863 by Brent H. Holcomb

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol 1 North Carolina Yearly Meeting by William Wade Hinshaw

Second Census of Kentucky 1800 by G. Glenn Clift

Genealogies of Kentucky Families by Kentucky Historical Society

Register of the Kentucky Genealogical Society by Kentucky Historical Society

Madison County Kentucky Court Order Book A 1787-1791 by Jackie Couture

Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records by Mrs. Harry Kennett McAdams

 

 

NEW ENGLAND , NEW YORK & CONNECTICUT

The Brown Families of Essex County Massachusetts compiled from the Essex Antiquarian 1897-1908

First Settlers of Salisbury Massachusetts and Their Children 1639 compiled by Essex Books from "Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury" by David W Hoyt

Marriage Returns of Cumberland County ME prior to 1892 by Judith Holbrook Kelley

 

NEW ENGLAND , NY & CT BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH

History of Northfield New Hampshire by Mrs Lucy Rogers Hill Cross (now available on Google Books)

History of Andover Massachusetts (can't remember author)

Descendents of George Abbott of Rowley MA by Lemuel Abijah Abbott

History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr Charles Banks available online

Edson Family History & Genealogy by Carroll Andrew Edson

History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Connecticut Vol I by Donald Lines Jacobus

Dibble Family by VanBuren Lamb

The Blauvelt Family (NY) by Louis L Blauvelt

The Van Houten Manuscripts by Gerrebrandt Van Houton

Tombstone Record of Eighteen Cemetaries in Westchester NY by Mable L Jordan

Early Wills of Westchester NY 1664-1784 by William Pelletreau

Westchester County New York During the American Revolution by Otto Hufeland

New York in the Revolution as Colony & State NY State Comptroller's Office

Bolton Families of Ireland by Charles Knowles Bolton

Boltons of Old & New England, Including Descendents of William Bolton of Reading MA by Charles Knowles Bolton

History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (CT) Vol 1 & 2 by Donald Linus Jacobus

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647-1697 by John Metcalf Taylor

The History of Fairfield: Fairfield County Connecticut by Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck

The Slason, Slauson, Slawson, Slosson Family by George Clarke Slawson

Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendents of John Bouton by James Boughton et al

Palmer Families in America by Horace Wilbur Palmer et al

A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight & Hight Family by Daniel Webster Hoyt

The St. John Genealogy: Descendents of Matthias St John of Dorchester, Massachusetts by Orline St John Alexander

The History of Stamford, Connecticut by Elijah Baldwin Huntington

Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700 by Jeanne Majdalany

Stamford Barbour Index Birth/Death/Marriage 1641-1852 Stamford Historical Society

Registrations of B/M/D of Stamford Families by Reverend Elijah Baldwin Huntington

 

PENNSYLVANIA & MARYLAND

Church Records of Berlin, Somerset Co Pennsylvania Evangelical Lutheran & Reformed 1788-1856 by Saylor & Greenberg

Huber/Hoover History by Amos B Hoover

Emigrants From the Palantine to the American Colonies in the 18th Century by Friedrich Krebs & Milton Rubingcam

A History of the Shriver Family, with particular reference to JACOB SHRIVER and son LEWIS SHRIVER by Harry C. Shriver

 

PA & MD BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH:

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750 by Albert Cook Myers

History of Chester County Pennsylvania by J. Smith Futhey

Chester County Pennsylvania Wills 1713-1825 Chester County Archives

The Burlington (NJ) Court Book 1677-1709 American Historical Association

The Somerset County (PA) Outline by John C. Cassady

Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania by Thomas Allen Glenn

Pennsylvania Vital Records Vol 1 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine

Returns of Taxables for the Counties of Bedford, Huntingdon, etc (PA) by William Henry Egle

Mother Bedford (PA) by Larry D. Smith available online HERE

Pennsylvania Archives by Hazard, Lynn, Egle, Montgomery, et al

Proprietary & State Tax of the County of Berks (PA) by William Henry Egle

Early Families of Lancaster, Lebanon & Dauphin Counties Pennsylvania by Keith A. Dull

Colonial (Court) Records of Pennsylvania (published by PA State)

Colonial & Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania by Charles Alcott Flagg

Bucks County Pennsylvania Deed Dockets 1785-1857 by Thomas G. Myers

Abstracts of Bucks County PA Wills 1785-1825 Historical Society of Pennsylvania

History of Bucks County Pennsylvania by William Watts Hart Davis et al

Baptism & Marriage Records of Rev. John Waldschmidt 1752-1786 Lancaster Co PA by Luther R. Keller

The Fathers of the German Reformed Church in America by Henry Harbaugh et al

Gateway to the West Vol 1 (Pennsylvania Families who went to Ohio) by Ruth Bowers & Anita Short

Maryland Calendar of Wills by Jane Baldwin Cotton & F. Edward Wright

Land Records of Prince Georges County Maryland 1733-1739 by Elise Greenup Jourdan

Marylanders to Kentucky by Henry C. Peden

Calendar of Sussex County Delaware Probate Records 1680s-1800 by Leon Devalinger Jr

Marriage Licenses of Frederick County Maryland by Margaret E. Myers

 

MISSOURI

Chadwick Then & Now by the Chadwick, MO Centennial Committee (Marie Day)

Chadwick Collections & Recollections by Marie Day

Christian County Missouri 1912 Plat Book Western Publishing Co (has some photos of residents in 1912 and lots of interesting information)

Taney County Missouri Land Sales & Plat Book 1926

MISSOURI BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH:

A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region available online on the Christian County MO Library website

Several local history books available online on Springhill and Chillicothe MO at the Livingston County MO Library Website

 

CALIFORNIA

Sacramento Co CA census 1870 & 1880 transcribed by the Sacramento Genealogy Society

Masonic Lawn/ Old Sacramento Cemetary Tombstone Transcriptions 1859-1939 by Lorrain Gorman and Lois Dove

Lundy by Allen H Patera

Bodie Bonanza by Warren Loose

The Story of Early Mono County by Ella M Cain

The Story of Bodie by Ella M Cain

Bodie 1859-1900 by Fred Wedertz

Bodie Boom Town--Gold Town by Douglas McDonald

Bodie State Historical Park Informational Pamphlet

Bodie Cemetary Transcriptions compiled by the Friends of Bodie

Big Bad Bodie by James Watson & Doug Brodie

Bodies' Gold: Tall Tales & True History from a California Mining Town by Marguerite Sprague

Bodie:"The Mines Are Looking Well..." by Michael H Piatt

 

ALASKA

Unga Island Girl by J.R. B. Pels

Sailing the Mail in Alaska: the Maritime Years of Alaska Photographer John E. Thwaites by J. Pennelope Goforth

The Aleutians compiled by Alaska Geographic Society (has a chapter on Unga Island)

 

OTHER BOOKS ON MY BOOKSHELF--CANADA & SPECIAL SUBJECTS

DAR Patriot Index (1966 edition)

Historic Guide to Ross Bay Cemetary, Victoria BC Canada by John Adams

Victoria BC: A History in Photographs by Peter Grant

Rawdon & Douglas: Two Loyalist Townships in Nova Scotia by John V. Duncanson (reprint)

The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States by Gary Boyd Roberts

Ancestors of the American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts

Notable Kin Vol I & II by Gary Boyd Roberts

A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent by Craig Hart

Scottish Quakers and Early America 1650-1700 by David Dobson

 

OTHER BOOKS NOT ON MY BOOKSHELF THAT HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN MY RESEARCH

A Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames by Charles W E Bardsley

 

 

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