Christian Names in Local and Family History
Christian Names in Local and Family History

Author: George Redmonds

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2004-04-13

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1459718267

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Surnames have always provided key links in historical research. This groundbreaking new work shows that first names can also be highly significant for those tracing genealogies or studying communities. Standard works on first names have always concentrated on etymology. George Redmonds goes much further: he believes that every name has a precise origin and history of expansion, which can be regional or even local; up to c. 1700 it may even have centred on one family. This text fully explores the implications of this belief for local and family history, and challenges many published assumptions on the historical frequency of first names.

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Author: Jeff Carter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0786489545

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During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter's son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.

James George Thompson, 1803[sic]-1879
James George Thompson, 1803[sic]-1879

Author: Mary Wilson Kelsey

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13:

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James George Thompson (1802-1879) was a son of Jesse G. Thompson (ca. 1776-1852/1857) and Anna McDonald, both probable descendants of Scottish immigrants to the Carolinas. They lived in the Carolinas, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas. Descendants and relatives also lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere.