This book will tell you the facts behind the names of persons, places and things: about how names are chosen for business and for success; how they are used for everything from tracing settlement patterns to telling forturnes; how forenames have their fashions; where surnames had their origins; all about names in the U.S. and around the world.  This newly revised expanded edition includes everything you wanted to know regarding name origination and meaning.

            Sing-Sing prison opened in 1828 and since then  more than 7,000 Iews have served time in the famous correctional facility.  The Jews of Sing-Sing  is the first book to fully expose the scope of Jewish criminality over the past 150 years  The author shares the history of his own ancestry as well as other Jewish  prisoners who spent time in this famous New York prison.  The author shares the methodology , resources and history that he used in his research which will be useful to family historians.

            By the time America made her Declaration of Independence in 1776 the prisons of England had disgorged some 50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them destined to survive and, with their descendants to populate the land of their exile.  This book  focuses on the emergence and use of transportation as a means of dealing with this unwanted  populatiion , dwelling  at length on the processes involved , the men charged with the administration of the system of transportation or engaged in transportation as a business, then proceeding with a fascinating look at transportees themselves, and lives and hapless careers, and their reception in the colonies.

            The editor (Bill Jackson) presents more than 200 letters and three generations of the Greeves, O'Brien and Sinton family of County Tyrone and upstate New York.  You'll discover the story of a family separated by an ocean, plus social history in Ireland and America.

            The author portrays 100 years of family history in this book. He was descended from early 20th Century Italian & Polish immigrants.  He weaves history with oral history to chronicle his family through assimilation, Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II and more.

            Using letters, diaries, interviews, medical records, and other sources, this children's author unravels the mysteries of her mother's life and the fate of her long-lost older brother.  The story unfolds like a mystery novel as readers join the author on her search for her mother's past.

            In 1766, 26-year-old Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a teen-age boy and joined a French  expedition as an assistant to botantist Philibert Commerson - who also happened to be her lover.  The book unravels conflicting accounts of the pioneering journey.

            This book is about the author's searches.  She discovered President Obama's Irish roots and the fate of Ellis Island's first immigrant Annie Moore

            What makes this book different from other oral history guides is its approach to online tools, digital recorders and webcam to explore your living family history.