Are You Tracing Your Irish Roots?

If you are searching for your Irish Roots, we have received the 4th edition of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham.  This edition includes detailed guides to Irish online records.  It discusses research strategies, contains information on obtaining information on county-by-county reference lists, census records, church records, occupational records and much more.  This is a reference book, so it can't be checked out.  We have made the third edition available for check out.

Upcoming Area Events:

Saturday, July 21 10:30 am - 12:30 pm:  Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will host Sandra Crowley.  Ms. Crowley will speak about "Genealogists Go Mobile".  This will take place at the Haggard Public Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano

New Titles for May 2012 and Upcoming Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

May 2012

General:

• 101 Brick Wall Busters
• Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII
• The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661 – 1699 in Two Volumes: Volume I, Volume II – Index Volume
• Discover Your Family History Online (can be checked out)
• Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina From the Colonial Period to About 1820: Volumes I and II
• Genealogies of Mayflower Families From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume I Adams – Fuller, Volume II Gibbs – Parker, and Volume III Peck – Wolcott
• The Genealogist’s Census Pocket Reference (we have two copies – one of these maybe checked out)
• Skeletons in the Closet
• Tombstones of Your Ancestors
• Windows on the Past: Identifying, Dating, & Preserving Photographs (this item may be checked out)
• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice

Florida:

• Seminole Indians of Florida 1875 – 1879

Illinois:

• Greene County, Illinois Miscellaneous Marriages 1823 – 1858

Massachusetts:

• Boston Marriages From 1700 to 1751

Mississippi:

• The Woodville Republican Mississippi’s Oldest Existing Newspaper: Volume 3 January 8 1848 – January 9, 1855

New York:

• Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration

Pennsylvania:

• Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution

Tennessee:

• Estate Settlements in Blount County Tennessee
• Roster of Our Dead Buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn.
• Tennesseans to Missouri 1810 – 1875
• Warren County, Tennessee Genealogical Notes From the McMinnville Newspapers 1880 – 1914

Texas:

• Anderson County Texas Marriage Records 1846 – 1875 Vol.1
• Bee & Borden Counties, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bell County, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bexar County, Texas Land Titles
• Blanco County, Texas Marriage Records 1876 – 1880
• Brazoria County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Brazoria County Republic of Texas Marriage Records 1829 – 1844
• Brazos County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1844 – 1878
• Bosque County, Texas Marriage Records Book F 1891 – 1896 Vol. II
• Bowie County, Texas Index to Probate Records
• Caldwell County Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1848 – 1869
• Caldwell County Texas Marriage Records 1868 – 1873 Vol. II
• Caldwell County, Texas Marriage Records Book E – F 1874 – 1886
• Calhoun County, Texas Marriage Records 1847 – 1890
• Chambers County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Coke County, Texas Marriage Records 1890 – 1900
• Comal County, Texas Marriage Records Book A 1846 – 1853
• Crockett County Texas Marriage Records 1892 – 1912
• De Witt County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1846 – July – 1865
• Deaf Smith County Texas Marriage Records Book I 1891 – 1916
• Ellis County,  Texas Marriage Records 1878 – 1886 Vol. II
• Fort Bend County Texas Marriage Records 1838 – 1868
• Frio County, Texas Marriage Records Book 1 – 2 – 3 1871 – 1900
• Frio County, Texas Selected Cemeteries
• Glasscock County Texas Marriage Records 1883 – 1910
• Gray County, Texas Marriage Records Book I 1902 – 1928
• Gregg County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Guadalupe County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Hemphill County Texas Marriage Records 1887 – 1910
• Hutchinson County Texas Marriage Records Book A 1901 – 1914
• Irion County, Texas Marriage Records 1889 – 1904
• Jasper County, Texas 1880 Census Records
• Jasper County, Texas Marriage Records 1849 – 1880
• Jones County, Texas Marriage Records 1881 – 1892
• Kerr County, Texas Marriage Records Book A 1856 – 1866
• Liberty County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1875 – 1899
• Lipscomb County Texas Marriage Records 1887 – 1910
• Parker County, Texas Marriage Records 1889 – 1893 Vol. II
• 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule of Refugio County, Texas
• Robertson County, Texas Index to Probate Records
• Texas Cherokees 1820 – 1839 A Document for Litigation 1921

Virginia:

• Virginia Military Bounty Land in the Northwest Territory

Washington D.C:

• Daily National Intelligencer Index to Deaths 1855 – 1870
• Daily National Intelligencer Washington, District of Columbia Marriage and Death Notices
• National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts: Volumes: 1814 – 1817, 1818 – 1820, 1821 – 1823, 1827 – 1829, 1836 – 1837, 1847, and 1848
• National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts Special Edition: The Civil War Years: Volume 1: January 1, 1861 – June 30, 1863 and Volume 2: July 1, 1863 – December 31, 1865

West Virginia:

• Calhoun County, VA [Now West Virginia] Birth Records 1855 – 1860 Death Records 1855 – 1859

Upcoming Events:

June 14, 6:45 pm at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library - 101 East Hunt Street, McKinney: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Ms. Dorina Thomas.  Ms. Thomas will be speaking about Hispanic Ancestors.  Ms. Thomas is the President of the Hispanic Organization of Genealogy and Research (HOGAR) of Dallas.