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Our offerings for April 1999 feature three venerable works in American genealogy, as well as two titles devoted to Irish research--one of them new and the other time-honored. Lyman Chalkley's three-volume Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia is the genealogist's starting point for delving into the vast pioneer migration that traversed Virginia's western frontier during the second half of the eighteenth century. What Chalkley is to the Scotch-Irish in Virginia, John O'Hart's two-volume Irish Pedigrees: The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation is to the Irish origins of Hibernian Americans. Both of these multi-volume sets are available at a specially reduced price through May 31 of this year. (See below for details.) Accompanying the re-publication of O'Hart is an important new volume for Irish research, Irish Gravestone Inscriptions: A Guide to Sources in Ulster, prepared by William O'Kane and Eoin Kerr from a survey taken of gravestone inscriptions found in nearly 900 cemeteries across the northern part of Ireland. Rounding out our April releases are two widely consulted titles in American genealogy: Tennessee Cousins, A History of Tennessee People, by Worth S. Ray; and Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, , In the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, by James Magruder. For additional information about these or any other Genealogical Publishing Company publications, please . Irish Gravestone Inscriptions. A Guide to Sources in Ulster William O'Kane & Eoin Kerr, Editors 57 pp. 1999. ISBN . Heritage World of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, has surveyed the gravestone inscriptions for almost 900 cemeteries across the northern part of Ireland. The great majority of these cemeteries are located in Northern Ireland, although the figure includes a substantial number from two other Ulster counties, Donegal and Monaghan, as well as several from County Louth. The survey encompasses cemeteries of all religious denominations as well as those administered by local district and borough councils. In each case, there is an exact transcript of all gravestone inscriptions, together with a simple plan of the cemetery. Information pertaining to these cemeteries can be acquired from Heritage World either as an index, giving county, parish, person, cemetery name, date of death, and denomination, or as a full gravestone inscription. These details can be supplied for any name in a particular cemetery, parish, or county. This book lists all cemeteries surveyed to date by Heritage World. Arranged by county, all 900 cemeteries are listed by the civil parish in which they are located, together with their religious denomination. In brief, then, this is a guide to the 900 cemeteries surveyed in the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan, and Tyrone, with pointers for the researcher to follow for acquiring full details of individual gravestone inscriptions. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, Lyman Chalkley. 3 vols. 2,000 pp. total, indexed. (1912), repr. 1999. ISBN
. This monumental work consists of court records pertaining to the Scotch-Irish pioneers who first breached the mountain barrier sealing off the Atlantic seaboard from the country west of the Blue Ridge. In 1738, when Augusta County, Virginia was erected, its domain extended from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi River, and from the northern part of Tennessee to the Great Lakes. Consequently, Chalkley's esteemed publication stands as the supreme source of genealogical information for hundreds of thousands who trace their ancestry to Augusta County, and the Great Valley of Virginia. The first volume has abstracts of court order books (), plus notes from county court judgments, original papers on suits (), and petitions filed in court from 1745 on. Volume II has records of the circuit and district courts, marriage bonds, licenses and returns (), land entries (), guardians' bonds (), administrators' bonds (), tax delinquents (), proceedings of the Vestry of Augusta Parish (), and records of military service in colonial wars and the Revolution. Volume III has will abstracts () and deed abstracts (). Each volume is indexed, and the combined total of names is over 50,000! Irish Pedigrees. The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation John O'Hart 2 vols. 925, 975 pp., each vol. indexed. (1892), repr. 1999. ISBN
. This work is the magnum opus of Irish genealogy, a vast and prodigious compendium of family history and source material. The first volume explores the origin and stem of the Irish nation. The old Irish genealogies assembled here are brought down to the lineal descendant of each family living at the time of the British dispossession, although many of the descents are brought down to the 19th century. Also included is a lengthy appendix with an extraordinarily detailed table showing families that owned land in the 12th century. In addition, there is an index of several thousand surnames. The first half of Volume II consists of Anglo-Irish genealogies, all carried down at least to the Commonwealth period, and most to the last quarter of the 19th century. Arranged alphabetically by family name, these hundreds of genealogies are heavily annotated, and being supported by references to events of comparatively recent history, they sometimes trace the line of descent to an American branch of the family. There also is data on the Huguenot and Palatine families of Ireland and a chapter on the Ulster Plantation and Scots settlers. The latter half of Volume II is encyclopedic in coverage, bearing reference to countless persons, places, and events associated with Ireland. Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, , James M. Magruder, Jr. 3 vols. in 1. 543 pp. in all. (1933), repr.1999. ISBN
080630233X. This index lists the names of about 16,000 decedents, alphabetically arranged, and gives for each the year of the probate of the will, the county, and the reference to the volume and page where the will is recorded at the Hall of Records. Tennessee Cousins, A History of Tennessee People Worth S. Ray This work has an immense amount of genealogical data, which is not confined to Tennessee but reaches out to the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, and other Southern states as well. Over 6,000 names are in the index, with some names having as many as fifty references. All Tennessee counties are covered, each with pertinent genealogical data such as abstracts of wills and deeds, tombstone inscriptions, marriage records, and sketches of early settlers. The most important records include the First Court Records of Washington District, the Marriage Records of Greene, Washington, Jefferson, and Knox counties, and Revolutionary Soldiers of Roane County. |