edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
ISBN
0313225931 (lib. bdg.)
Place of Publication
Westport, Conn
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xxxix, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Librarians and genealogical research / Russell E. Bidlack -- Basic sources for genealogical research / Jean Elder Cazort -- Library records and research / Casper L. Jordan -- Researching family history / Bobby L. Lovett -- The national archives and records service / James D. Walker -- The genealogical society of Utah library / Roger Scanland -- American indian records and research / Jimmy B. Parker -- Asian-American records and research / Greg Gubler -- Black American records and research / Lyman De Platt.
Volume 2 and 3 originally published in 1974 and 1976 under title: English convicts in Colonial America, Volume 1 and 2.
Contents
v. 1. History of transportation, 1615-1775 -- v. 2. Middlesex, 1617-1775 -- v. 3. London, 1656-1775 -- v. 4. Home counties, 1655-1775 -- v. 5. Western Circuit, 1664-1775 -- v. 6. Oxford Circuit, 1663-1775 -- v. 7. Norfolk Circuit, 1663-1775 -- v. 8. Northern Circuit, 1665-1775 -- v. 9. Midland Circuit, 1671-1775.
"The material in this book is an abstract of, and index to, information reported by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and published in their annual reports to the Smithsonian Institute [sic], printed as Senate documents (1900-1974), published by the Society in a separate volume (1975-1977) and published annually in the DAR magazine (1978-1987)"--T.p. verso.
