New Titles for August and Upcoming Events

The following items were received in August:

• North Texas Conference 2008 Journal, United Methodist Church


• First United Methodist Church, McKinney, Texas (2003)


• Banks and Bankers of McKinney, Texas


• Trail to Texas: A Joint History of the John Alexander Beaty and James Cox Families


• Trail to Texas: A Joint History of the Edward Teague Williams and James O. McFarland Families


• Hicks: Family History Descendants of Willie Ripley Welch and Jacob Mayer Hicks


• The Descendants of Jesse Hensley Gough


• The Daniel Dunn Family


• The People's Journal: Pickens, South Carolina, 1894-1903


• City Charter McKinney, Texas


• 45th Regiment of Virginia Militia Stafford County, Virginia 1781-1856


• Ralls County, Missouri Settlement Records 1832-1853


• Abstracts of Wills and Estate Records of Granville County, North Carolina 1833-1846


• Black Baltimore 1820-1870


• Local History and Genealogy Abstracts from Fairmount News, Fairmount, Indiana 1888-1900


• Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court 1792-1795


• Kentucky German Pioneers


• Morgan County, Missouri Marriage Records 1833-1893


• Immigrants of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750


• Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser (Maryland): Volume 4: 1876-1884


• History of Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio


• Blount County, Tennessee Chancery Court Records: Book 1 Part II 1866-1869


• Mastering Online Genealogy (this item may be checked out)


• St. George's Parish Registers [Hartford County, Maryland] 1689-1793


• Covington's German Heritage (Kentucky)


• Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina: Containing Interesting and Authentic Facts of Lincoln County History Through the Years: 1749-1937


• Colonial Families of Delaware: Volume 1


• Brunswick Troops in North America 1776-1783: Index to All Soldiers Who Remained in North America


• Missouri 1850 Agricultural Census: Volumes 2, 3, 4


• The Heritage of Winston County, Alabama Sesquicentennial Edition


• The Heritage of Lee County, Alabama


• Index of death and Other Notices Appearing in the Cincinnati Freie Presse 1874-1920


• Camp County Texas in the Civil War


• Personalities on the East Texas Frontier


• Parker County, Texas Probate Minutes, 1874-1885: Volume 1 Part Two, Volume 1 Part Three, and Volume 1 Part Four


• Parker County, Texas Divorces: Part Three


• Patrick County, Virginia Will Book No. 2


• News From Marion, Marion County, Ohio 1844-1861


• Forgotten Hoosiers: African Heritage in Orange County, Indiana


• Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana (1949) With Supplement (1954)


• The Scotch-Irish in America


• Peirce's Colonial Lists: Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies


• Bedford County, Tennessee Bible Records Volume 1


• History of the German Element in Virginia


• White Servitude in Pennsylvania: Indentured and Redemption Labor in Colony and Commonwealth


• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York 1868-1871 With Places of Origin


• Smith County, Tennessee Deeds (1867-1884) Volume 5


• Order of the First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies: Volume 1 "The First Two Hundred"


• The Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663-1943


• County Courthouse Book: 3rd Edition


• North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster: Volumes 1 through 18

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, September 8: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will meet at 7:00 pm in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library. Special Guest Speaker to be announced. All are welcome to attend.

Wednesday, September 14: The GLHTA division will present: Genealogy 201 - How to Locate Vital Records 10:30 am - 12:00 pm at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano

New Items Received in July

Items Received in July 2011 at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library:

• Biographical Rosters of Florida’s Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861 – 1865: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI


• Texas: a Historical Atlas


• The Roster of Union Soldiers 1861 – 1865: Volume 1: Missouri – Aansorch, Samuel to Phye, Phillip F., Volume 2: Missouri – Piasseler, Henry to Zwisler, Theodore, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi


• Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-'65: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V


• Abstracts of Beaufort County, North Carolina, Deed Book 2 1729 – 1748


• Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records Volume Two Record Book C 1651 – 1656


• South Carolina’s Royal Grants: Volume Six: Grant Books 38 through 41 1670 – 1785


• Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Presbyterian: Volume III: 1880 – 1891


• Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Presbyterian: Volume IV: 1892 – 1908


• Index to Probate Oklahoma County, Oklahoma 1895 – 1920


• Dallas County History from the Ground Up: Volume III


• Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas


• The Lineage Book of the First Families of the Twin Territories (Oklahoma)


• Wilson County, Tennessee Bible, Family and Tombstone Records


• Washington County, Tennessee Tombstones: Select Cemeteries


• Sumner County, Tennessee Tax Records 1787 - 1794


• Washington County, Missouri Records


• Scotland County, Missouri Records


• Gasconade County, Missouri Records


• Carter County, Missouri Records


• Barton County, Missouri Records


• Barry County, Missouri Records


• Goodspeed’s Washington County History: Washington County, Missouri


• Baltimore Town and Fell’s Point, Maryland Directory of 1796 with Supplement Containing Baltimore Naturalizations 1796 – 1803


• Index to Marriage Records Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory 1889 – 1907


• Bledsoe County Tennessee Deed Books – A: 1807 – 1812, B: 1812 – 1820, C: 1817 – 1821


• Colonial Tavern Keepers of Maryland and Delaware 1634 – 1776


• Deaths Abstracted from the Camp Point Journal 1873 – 1882 Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois


• Land Records of Wicomico County, Maryland 1666 – 1810


• Heirs and Legatees of Caroline County Maryland


• 1783 Tax List of Maryland: Part I: Cecil, Talbot, Harford, and Calvert Counties


• Baltimore County Marriage References 1659 – 1746


• Mt. Olivet Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland Caretaker Records Volume 1: Sections A through D


• Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Volumes I, II, and III


• Biographical Data from Baltimore Newspapers 1817 – 1819


• Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia


• Constables and Tobacco Planters in Orange County, Virginia1735 – 1769


• Complete Delaware Roll of 1898


• Illinois Census Returns: 1820


• Illinois Census Returns 1810 and 1818

Upcoming Events:

August 11 at 7:00 in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library. The North Collin County Genealogical Society will hold its monthly meeting. The speaker will be Mary Carol Strother, author of the children's book: Collin McKinney: Texas Patriot and Statesman. All are welcome - you do not have to be a member to attend this program.

At the Jeanette Bickley Bland Meeting Room (lower level) of the W.O. Haggard, Jr. Library: 2501 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075. Please call 972.769.4240 for more information on the following programs:

"GERMANY TO AMERICA" Saturday, August 13, 2011, 1:00 - 2:30 PM German passenger ships and other tips for German research. Presented by Carol Harper.

"HOW TO GET STARTED" Thursday, August 18, 10:30 AM - Noon Learn how to fill out your family tree chart and where to locate the information.

I will be going on vacation (visiting my roots) for the next two weeks. This blog will continue after my return. Enjoy the rest of your summer! Susan