Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive
"Compiled and edited under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States ... Bruce A. Ragsdale, editor in chief ... Kathryn Allamong Jacob, editor in chief"--P. v.
Rev. ed. of: Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971.
The first century of German language printing in the United States of America : a bibliography based on the studies of Oswald Seidensticker and Wilbur H. Oda
Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries
Register of federal United States military records : a guide to manuscript sources available at the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City and the National Archives in Washington, DC
First ed., published 1981, was a revision of: A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825 / compiled by Harold Lancour. 3rd ed. / rev. and enl. by Richard J. Wolfe. 1963.
James J.-G. Blumenson ; foreword by Nikolaus Pevsner ; with photos. from the Historic American Buildings Survey ; commentary on the photos. by David Paine.
"Including chapters on how to operate a homebased 'house histories' business."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
Contents
Chapters: Inspecting the house and site // The paper search/written records // The paper search /graphic records // The final analysis // Your own business // Appendices: Resources // where to write // Additional information
Summary
The book explains how to establish the history of a house by examining the building style and materials and searching for clues in old documents, and offers suggestions for running a home-based house histories business.
The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England
