1. Genealogical Dictionary of New England, 1600s-1700s

Item #7169. $29.99

This GPC/Broderbund CD is composed of the two greatest works ever published on New England Genealogy: James Savage’s four-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and its companion volume Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Walter G. Davis, Sybil Noyes, and Charles T. Libby. All genealogical research on early New England families must begin here, and it is wonderful to have these authoritative volumes available on a single CD with an electronic index as a finding-aid.

The Savage work is said to be the best known and most frequently used genealogical reference work, and it provides the name of every settler who arrived in New England before the year 1692, regardless of his class or standing. It further traces his descendants, giving the dates of his marriage and his death, the dates of birth, marriage, and death of his children, and the birth dates and names of his grandchildren, thus recording the beginning of the third generation in New England. "I suppose," writes Savage, "nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642."

"Probably the greatest work on genealogy ever compiled for the New England area."--P. W. Filby, American & British Genealogy & Heraldry (1983)

"A work which must be literally at the elbow of every student of genealogy."--Bulletin . . . of New England Antiquities (Winter 1967)

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire offers biographical and genealogical data on every family established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699, an undertaking touching on many thousands of individuals. The limit of 1692 set for Savage’s Dictionary is here extended seven years to 1699, and as Vermont was then unsettled, this work amounts to a "Savage" for northern New England. In astonishing detail it lists the births, marriages, and deaths of the settlers through the third generation and sometimes into the fourth. Further genealogical information includes place of origin and places of residence, details of wills and deeds, court cases, and highlights of the individual’s life and career.

" . . . no comparable dictionary has been produced for other states. It remains unique."--Ralph Crandall, Genealogical Research in New England (1984)

"If you have lines in Maine and New Hampshire, this is one of your first stops for resources."--Minnesota Genealogical Society Bulletin (March 1989)

2. Irish Immigrants to North America

Item #7257. $39.99

This Family Archive CD is composed of ten volumes of Irish passenger lists naming approximately 60,000 immigrants, the earliest list dating from 1735, the latest 1871. Originally published by GPC, the majority of these lists derive from home-grown Irish sources. And this is what makes the CD remarkable, because the Irish generally did not maintain emigration records. In fact, what information we do have on Irish immigrants comes almost entirely from American sources, and prior to the 1890s that information is woefully spare, and usually limited to name, age, occupation, and sex (in accordance with the immigration laws of the time).

The exodus from Ireland took place on a scale of such magnitude that the identities of the immigrants have all but been lost in statistics. In these books--that is to say, on this CD--many of these identities have been restored, some fleshed out with the names of relatives, precise places of origin, itineraries, physical appearance, financial status, etc. Deriving from widespread and disparate sources, it is unlikely that the researcher would have access to all this information, which is here presented in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an electronic name index, at a fraction of the cost of the books!

Listed below, in chronological order, are the ten volumes included on this CD:

• Emigrants from Ireland to America, : A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America
  
  
• Irish Passenger Lists : Lists of Passengers Sailing from Ireland to America
  
  
• An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to Philadelphia
  
  
• Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817 (Transcribed from The Shamrock or Hibernian Chronicle)
  
  
• Irish Emigration Lists : Lists of Emigrants Extracted from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Counties Londonderry and Antrim
  
  
• Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849
  
  
• A List of Alien Passengers, Bonded from January 1, 1847 to January 1, 1851, for the Use of the Overseers of the Poor in the Commonwealth [Massachusetts]
  
  
• Emigrants from Ireland, : State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland
  
  
• Irish Passenger Lists : Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J.& J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line
  
  
• Irish Emigrants in North America []

3. German Genealogy Research Guide

Item #7199. $29.99

This Family Archive CD combines four outstanding books designed specifically for Americans who are researching their German ancestry. While the books do not contain pre-researched and ready-made genealogies, they do contain all the information you will need to develop your own family history. All four books, originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, are the best in their respective fields, and having them together in this one CD gives you quick, easy, and comprehensive access to a wealth of German genealogical resources.

The best-known of the four, Angus Baxter’s groundbreaking In Search of Your German Roots (3rd edition), is designed to help you trace your German ancestry not only in Germany but in all the German-speaking areas of Europe. It explores the resources of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, in particular the great International Genealogical Index which contains hundreds of thousands of entries from German parish registers, and then it discusses the coverage and the location in Germany of all other important genealogical resources such as church records, city and state archives, wills, censuses, civil records of birth, marriage, and death, passenger lists, military records, and more. It also contains a list of family archives, a list of genealogical associations in Germany, a similar list for the U.S., and a bibliography.

And then there are the two celebrated works of Ernest Thode--Address Book for Germanic Genealogy and German-English Genealogical Dictionary. The first of these--the Address Book--is indispensable for researchers with interests in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking areas of central and western Europe, as it provides the names and addresses of German archives (city, state and federal), libraries, historical and genealogical societies, and religious organizations; and it also provides a comprehensive list of American institutions with substantial holdings of German research materials. The companion volume--German-English Genealogical Dictionary--is designed for the researcher who has little or no knowledge of German but who nevertheless needs to make a translation of German-language documents. With its emphasis on simplicity, the Dictionary covers thousands of German terms and defines them in single words or brief phrases. All words, symbols, and abbreviations in the Dictionary were chosen on the basis of their association with genealogy, having been noted in church records, civil registration records, genealogical journals, passenger lists, and emigration records. In conjunction with a standard German-English dictionary, the researcher should be able to make a word-for-word translation of any German document.

Lastly, Professor George F. Jones’ German-American Names gives the spellings and variants of 15,000 names, and it explains the meaning of names borne today by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects. Moreover, it deals with the Americanization of some of those names, explaining the social and historical phenomena that contributed to the distinctive character of German-American names. And it deals as well with names many of us would never have thought of as German. Best of all, the book is for everyone. German names are so widespread that there can be few people who will fail to find something of interest in a German-American name list.

4. Huguenot Settlers in America, 1600s -1900s

Item #7600. $29.99

Some two million Huguenots, or French Protestants, fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685--an edict which had originally protected them from persecution at the hands of the Catholic Church. Dispersing first to the Netherlands, then to England, Ireland, and even South Africa, then to America and Canada, thousands of these French Protestants became the founders or early settlers of such places as Oxford, Massachusetts, Narragansett in Rhode Island, New Amsterdam, New Rochelle, and New Paltz in New York, the Santee River and the Orange Quarter in South Carolina, Manakin-Town in Virginia, and a host of other sites in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and South Carolina--in many cases establishing permanent settlements long before the arrival of the first English colonists.

This Family Archive CD, produced in collaboration with Broderbund Software, contains electronically searchable text of the pages of sixteen Huguenot reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Together these books comprise the most notable collection of Huguenot reference materials in the English language. In general, they provide accounts of the origins of the Huguenots in France, their persecution and subsequent flight from the European mainland, and their dispersal throughout Great Britain and America. Key sections of the books are devoted to histories of Huguenot settlements and churches and to studies of the Huguenot influence on American life before the Revolutionary War. But the most significant portions of the books are reserved for accounts of Huguenot immigrants and their families, some taking the form of pedigrees, genealogies, and lengthy family histories, others appearing as lists of baptisms, marriages, and deaths.

In both narratives and records, there is a profusion of genealogical detail, which is here presented in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an electronic name index, at a fraction of the cost of the books! Listed below are the sixteen books included on this CD:

• History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, by Charles W. Baird
  
  
• Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-Town, by Robert Brock
  
  
• The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, in South Carolina, from 1680 to 1884, by Robert F. Clute
  
  
• The French Blood in America, by Lucien Fosdick
  
  
• The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, by Arthur Henry Hirsch
  
  
• The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey, by Albert F. Koehler
  
  
• Huguenot Pedigrees, by Charles Edmund Lart
  
  
• Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America, by Mrs. James Lawton
  
  
• The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland, by Grace Lawless Lee
  
  
• The Huguenots in France and America, by Hannah F. Lee
  
  
• History of New Paltz, New York, and its Old Families, by Ralph LeFevre
  
  
• Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island, by Elisha R. Potter
  
  
• List of French and Swiss Who Settled in Charleston, on the Santee, and at the Orange Quarter in Carolina, by Daniel Ravenel
  
  
• The Trail of the Huguenots, by George Elmore Reaman
  
  
• The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland, by Samuel Smiles
  
  
• Memorials of Huguenots in America, by Ammon Stapleton

System Requirements for Family Archive CD-ROMs: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CDs you must use either Family Tree Maker Version 3.02 or higher (available for Windows or for Power Macintosh), or the Family Archive Viewer Version 3.02 or higher (available for Windows only). The Viewer (#7590) is FREE upon request with the purchase of any of the CDs offered at GenealogyBookShop.com.