Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Author: Marion J. Kaminkow

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 9780806316673

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This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Women of the Constitution
Women of the Constitution

Author: Janice E. McKenney

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0810884984

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Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This book will be the first work devoted exclusively to providing brief biographies of the forty-three wives o...

The Wrights of Wilmington
The Wrights of Wilmington

Author: Susan Taylor Block

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Thomas Wright who was born ca. 1714 and lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a descendant of Sir John Wright who was born ca. 1500 and was the Lord of Kelvedon Manor in Essex, England. Thomas married Ann Grainger sometime prior to the year 1761. They were the parents of at least one known child. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere.

Silent Cities
Silent Cities

Author: Kenneth T. Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Urban historian Kenneth Jackson (The Encyclopedia of New York) and photographer Camilo Vergara collaborate to present a fascinating and beautiful examination of the American cemetery.

The Last Great Necessity
The Last Great Necessity

Author: David Charles Sloane

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801851285

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The Last Great Necessity is a quite wonderful, and often surprising, portrait of American popular culture in action. As David Charles Sloane traces the history of modern cemeteries he meets all the ambivalences and coping strategies Americans have used when they have been forced by nature to confront the meanings of their lives. - From Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Boston University.