Author: David W. Kruger

Foreword: Ryan J. Woods

Published: January 2018

Hardcover; 5,150 pages in 6 volumes

Author: Alvy Ray Smith
Published: Sep-03

Author: Marsha Hoffman Rising
Published: 2010

Author: Helen Schatvet Ullmann
Published: November 2010

Helen Ullmann, CG, FASG

6 x 9 hardcover;

280 pp.

Prior to 1700, the European population of New England was still sufficiently small and compact enough to be manageable from a genealogical standpoint. In many cases, town vital records, church, colony, court, probate, land, military, and tax records not only have survived, but have been abstracted and published. This Portable Genealogist will direct you to the most relevant and useful resources-including study projects, scholarly resources, and finding aids-for tracing your seventeenth-century New England ancestors.

Citations—notes that tell your readers the sources of your information—are an important part of every genealogy and family history, regardless of whether you think your primary audience will be family members or members of the genealogical community. This Portable Genealogist will help you determine how to formulate your reference notes. Numerous examples of both full notes and shortened forms are provided for both print and online sources.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Kyle Hurst

Beyond the usual problems encountered in genealogy-lost records, inaccurate indexes and transcriptions, and variant spellings (to name a few)-Irish-American research presents a unique set of obstacles. So much of Irish genealogical investigation depends on knowing the exact location of where your ancestor came from in Ireland. The prevalence of common surnames, the lack of a nationwide search capability, and faulty family tradition can make it difficult to discern your ancestor's true origins and will give anyone a genealogical headache.

New York is a crossroads for many of our ancestors. Some families may have been in New York State for less than a generation on their way farther west, whereas other families became permanent settlers. New York's sources for genealogical inquiry, however, are often lacking-statewide registration of vital records did not start until 1881!

The immigrant ancestors of the Hawkins and Lawshe lines covered in this book arrived in America within twenty years of each other in the early 1700s. Their backgrounds differed vastly: Philemon Hawkins descended from a family of merchants and seamen in England, while Johannes Jacob van Laaschet left Prussia for America with other members of the Brethren congregation.