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Early New England Settlers, 1600s-1800s
This index provides information on family lineages, vital records, and historical essays. It covers around 190,000 individuals and includes 22 well-researched titles about the ancestors’...
The New Jersey Biographical Index, 1800s
During the 1800s, New Jersey established itself as a significant transportation hub between the Northeast and South, thanks to the construction of canals, railroads, and roads. The state's first...
Vital Records: New Netherland, 1600s
This resource shows the history of more than 1,793 families in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. This comprehensive family tree information spans the years 1613–1674. The data assumes...
Rachel Donelson Jackson, Emily Donelson, and Sarah Yorke Jackson: America’s First Ladies #7
Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, is unique in presidential history in that he had more than one First Lady. He had three, in fact. Here are the stories of Rachel Donelson Jackson, Emily...
The State Capitals: New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of the state of New Jersey. It has a history of human habitation going back thousands of years with the Lenape Native American tribe. European Quakers eventually settled it...
American Folklore: New Jersey
New Jersey has a long history with Native Americans, Dutch, Swedish, and English settlers. It is also one of the original thirteen British American colonies, and home to some important and decisive...
Tracing Your New Jersey Ancestors: Online and Offline Resources
Do you have New Jersey ancestors and don't know where to begin looking for them? Here are the best sources for New Jersey genealogy, both on and offline.
1870 Census Index for African Americans
This resource contains approximately 660,000 African-American individuals enumerated in the 1870 federal census returns. Areas represented include Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South...
Genealogies of Long Island Families, 1600s-1800
The articles in these volumes were originally published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, which is a highly respected publisher of genealogies related to Long Island.
German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s Immigration Records
Most of this book's German and Swiss immigrants settled in the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. There are a lot of different kinds of resources here. For example...
Irish to America Passenger and Immigration Lists Volume 2, 1846-1886
Referencing immigrants who arrived in Boston between 1846 and 1851 and in New York between 1866 and 1886. Information obtained from original ship manifest schedules, which are records submitted by...
William Floyd: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Meet William Floyd, a prominent New Yorker who made history as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Although serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress was just a small part...
Connecticut Family Histories #1, 1600s-1800s
This index of materials covers the entirety of Connecticut and includes information on families whose ancestry is associated with other areas, like Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and the Midwest...
Barbara Pierce Bush: America’s First Ladies, Part 41
Barbara Pierce would one day become our forty-first First Lady as the wife of US President George H.W. Bush. Before that, she was the third of four children in a prominent New York City family, and...