Generations and Change

Generations and Change

Author: Robert M. Taylor

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780865541689

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This book discusses the history of genealogy in the United States, and tries to not only bring genealogy into the main stream of historical sources, but also demonstrate the serviceability of genealogy to historians.


The Jewish Journey

The Jewish Journey

Author: Edward Gelles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0857739786

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The history of European Jewry is a vast and complex subject. In this book, Edward Gelles traces Jewish history in Europe and the Near East including population movement, settlement, integration, advancement in aspects of European culture and learning, relations with European states and dynasties, Christians and Ottomans, persecution, the world wars, anti-Semitism, indeed the story of European Jewry from early times to the present. Edward Gelles and his family, both immediate and in their wider circle have huge and distinguished family connections that provide historical context. In combining biography, traditional genealogy and a contribution from the rapidly developing field of genetic genealogy this book weaves emerging patterns into the grand tapestry of European history.


John C. & Christina Borgaard family history

John C. & Christina Borgaard family history

Author: Pat Villars Erickson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-05-06

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1300187190

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Family history of John and Christine (Johnson) Borgaard. John immigrated to Nebraska in 1888-9 and came to work for his uncles in Kearney County, Nebraska. Christine immigrated in 1876 with her Danish parents. They raised their 6 children (Ella, Charles, Martha, Clarence, Raymond & William) in Kearney County, Nebraska. These stories were originally compiled through interviews conducted by Charlene Borgaard Villars.


The Descendants of George Bigbie of Virginia

The Descendants of George Bigbie of Virginia

Author: Scott Bigbie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-01-02

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 145832088X

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Modified format genealogy tracing more than 10 generations of the descendants of George Bigbie, who lived in Tidewater Virginia in the early 1700s. Traces at nearly a dozen distinct family lines in Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, and includes families with surname spelling variants Bigbee, Bigby, Bigbey, and others. Introduction includes a short essay on the probable origins of the Bigbie name. 172 + v pages, 1200-name personal name index, full footnotes, plus maps, photographs and black and white illustrations. This is a revised and enlarged edition of Volume 1 of the same title published in 1994 and 2010.