Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three
Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three

Author: Dennis Ford

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 166323731X

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Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Three provides nineteenth and twentieth century records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths pertaining to the— • Hunt families • Fitzmaurice families —who resided in the vicinity of Ballyhaunis in Eastern County Mayo. Records in Troves ~ Volume Three derive from the civil and Roman Catholic Parishes of Annagh and Bekan in County Mayo and Kiltullagh in County Roscommon. Records include— • Roman Catholic Parish registers • Civil records • Census records • the Calendar of Wills

Phony Ghost Stories
Phony Ghost Stories

Author: Dennis Ford

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1663257728

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Dare if you will to accompany the Ghost Righter, Desmond St. John, his rational collaborator, Duff Cooper, and Ella Nostrova, their Belorussian trance medium, as they free the drear departed trapped in the Forever Purgatory of the Bardo realm. In five shocking encounters, The Ghost Righter rescues— ~ The groping ghost in the Lincroft Inn ~ Atheist ghosts who left this world while unblessing a road in Deland ~ A chain-smoking ghost who haunts the children of Dumberton ~ A narcissist ghost who, out of loyalty to the boss, topples a Mafia family ~ Moldy Girl, a vengeful ghost intent on slaying the men of Downer’s Grove Readers, be warned—“God’s other door” opens in both directions. The Cosmic Veil that separates this world from the otherworld is crossable. The afterlife is not Summerland. There is no joy in being dead. If the dead remain in the earth’s plane for too long, they become malevolent has-beings. Even the righteous dead turn into hateful things. Say your prayers. Confess your sins. Carry cloves of garlic. Clutch jars of Holy Water. Clutch the jars tightly. Keep the lights on when you encounter these ghosts. All the lights. All the time.

World Without End
World Without End

Author: Dennis Ford

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2023-01-19

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1663249687

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Nothing could have been different. Laurence Mahler returns to Petersburg after five years in the North. He never felt he belonged in the places where he was away from home. And he never felt he belonged in the place that’s home. Adrift and directionless, he’s a freethinker troubled by Virginia’s secession. He feels loyalty neither to the Confederacy or to the Union. He meets Sharyn Strahy, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of means. They fall instantly in love—but the time for romance is not propitious. The quivers of love fly amid the darts of Civil War. Encouraged by Sharyn, Laurence enrolls in a school where all the courses are pass-or-die. Enlisting in the Confederate army, his life changes in a sudden maturity when he surrenders the peaceable halls of academia for gruesome battles in grim places like The Wilderness. Nothing could have been different in Sharyn’s life. Enthusiastic for Confederate victory, Sharyn learns the ghastly cost of total war when she volunteers in the Virginia Hospital. The grotesque deformations she views in men made in the image of God reveal the error of her heedless patriotism. Innocence is always the first virtue obliterated in the majesty of rebellion.

Genealogical Musings
Genealogical Musings

Author: Dennis Ford

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1532060238

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For a quarter century, I’ve pursued genealogical minutiae—the particulars of family compositions in the townlands of Eastern County Mayo and nineteenth century records of the Juchnewicz families of Girdziunai village in Lithuania. But genealogy is more than the obsessive collection of baptisms, marriages, and deaths. The study of family history is also the study of history. Musings traverses the sometimes grim, sometimes odd, events that occurred at the fact-jammed intersection of family history and history—a Revolutionary War massacre, the Black Tom munitions explosion in 1916, the embarkation of troops from Hoboken in World War I, the Women’s Army Corps in World War II, the lives of longshoremen in the New York harbor, and the lives of slaves on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. In our time—and a step ahead of a category 4 hurricane—Musings explores the history and culture of Jacksonville and Saint Augustine. We meet memorable characters on these journeys through time—miserly German spymasters, a psychologically astute general, a luckless Polish legionnaire, groundbreaking female soldiers, two runaway slaves in a Virginia jail, and the Cazique of Poyais, sovereign of an imaginary country. And we meet two timeless characters—the banshee and Count Dracula.

Family Nibbles - Volume 3
Family Nibbles - Volume 3

Author: Mark Jarvis

Publisher: Mark Jarvis

Published: 2020-07-10

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13:

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"Family Nibbles - Volume 3, Stories of Our Jarvis English Heritage" is a compilation of stories from the blog site familynibbles.com. These stories include genealogy research on one line of Jarvis/Jervis families in the English Midlands, as well as some historical context and events. Join our journey as we search for an elusive ancestor, Elizabeth Jervis. We believe she's a widow and a Quaker, and left England for Pennsylvania around 1682. How in the world is it possible to find her in England? We get help along the way from a great genealogist and historian. And a DNA match pulls another Jervis family into the story. With this help, we begin to piece together the story of the Jervis families at the confluence of Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire. We discover some Jervis gentry families in this area, and learn that Jervises were here back in the 13th century. Using our DNA, we learn how our families migrated from Scandinavia. We study Quakers and Quaker meeting records. Piece by piece, our search builds a story of people, hopes and troubles, hardships and charity. In the end we find Elizabeth Jervis, but the journey has been the fun part.

Basics of Genealogy Reference
Basics of Genealogy Reference

Author: Jack Simpson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0313363633

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This book offers novice and experienced reference librarians an introduction to tried-and-true genealogy techniques and resources. With the help of four case studies, Simpson outlines a basic starting strategy for conducting genealogy research. Later chapters deal specifically with genealogical librarianship: how to conduct a reference interview, continuing and professional development, and basic resources every collection should have. Charts, screen shots, and examples of public documents are also included; while a series of appendices present the case studies in their entirety. Genealogy is one of the most popular hobbies in the United States, and is heavily researched in public libraries and historical repositories. Increasingly, major genealogy resources are available online at libraries through subscription databases or free on the internet. As a result, librarians face the overwhelming task of helping a large audience of genealogists cope with an ever growing flood of new resources. This book offers novice and experienced reference librarians an introduction to tried-and-true genealogy techniques and resources. With the help of four case studies, Simpson outlines a basic starting strategy for conducting genealogy research. Later chapters deal specifically with genealogical librarianship: how to conduct a reference interview, continuing and professional development, and basic resources every collection should have. Charts, screen shots, and examples of public documents are also included; while a series of appendices present the case studies in their entirety.

The General Theory of China’s Genealogy
The General Theory of China’s Genealogy

Author: Heming Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-22

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9811563772

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This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the origins and development of China’s genealogy, as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and culture throughout China’s history. This book is divided into two parts: chronological research and thematic research. The first part explains the definition, origin, birth, development, transformation, optimization, popularization and contemporary status of China’s genealogy, while the second addresses its styles, content, quantity, family names, format and value, illustrations, functions and other related issues. The book, for the first time in China’s genealogy, proposes several new concepts and perspectives, such as dividing the history of China’s genealogy into seven stages; redefining genealogy; and analyses of the transformation, popularization and value of China’s genealogy. Given its scope, the book offers a groundbreaking and authoritative resource for a broad readership.

Raking the Ashes
Raking the Ashes

Author: Nancy Simons Peterson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0978569458

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This handbook is a "must have" for researching San Francisco ancestors, providing invaluable guidance on which records were lost in the 1906 earthquake and fire, which records survived, and where to find them.