New Items for February and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

February 2013

General:

·         British Origins of American Colonists 1629 – 1775

·         Descendants and Kin of Toliver Wallace (1809 – 1882) North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas

·         Families Directly descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) and Mayflower Descendants

·         A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice

·         Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume Six, Volume Eighteen Part 1

·         People With No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World 1689 – 1764

·         The Royal Descendants of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States With a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Addition: Volumes I and II

·         The Scotch Irish: A Social History

Alabama:

·         1850 U.S. Census: Marion County, Alabama

·         Unionists in the Heart of Dixie: 1^st Alabama Cavalry, USV: Volume I Surnames A – G

Indiana:

·         Admission Record Indianapolis Asylum for Friendless Colored Children 1871 – 1900

·         Indiana Negro Register 1852 – 1865

Kentucky:

·         Kentucky Pioneer Genealogy and Records: Volume 3 Number I, Number II, Numer III, and Number IV

·         Stray Book & Tax Records Mercer County, Kentucky 1787 – 1806

Massachusetts:

·         The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620 – 1633

·         Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620 – 1650

Mississippi:

·         1850 U.S. Census: Itawamba County, Mississippi

·         Itawamba: A History

·         Warren County Mississippi Probate Index

New Jersey:

·         Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey

New York:

·         New York State Probate Records: A Genealogist’s Guide to Testate and Intestate Records

North Carolina:

·         1790 Guilford County, North Carolina Census

·         Abstracts of Pasquotank County North Carolina Guardian Bond Books – Volume: 1798 – 1831 and Volume: 1832 – 1867

·         Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina

·         Catawba County North Carolina Marriages 1842[50] – 1880: Volume 1

Pennsylvania:

·         1790 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

·         1800 – 1820 U.S. Census Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

·         1800 – 1820 U.S. Census Beaver County, Pennsylvania

·         1830 – 1840 U.S. Census: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

·         1850 U.S. Census: Beaver County, Pennsylvania Volumes 1and 2

·         Abstracts of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book A 1803 – 1806

·         Abstracts of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book B2 1806 – 1810

·         Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania Archives Vol. I

·         Beaver County Cemeteries: Volumes I, II, III, and IV

·         Beaver Co. PA. Marriages 1830 – 1873

·         Beaver County Soldiers in the Civil War 1861 – 1865

·         Beaver, Pennsylvania “Argus” Genealogical Gleanings 1830 – 58

·         Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18^th Century

·         Deep Waters Sailors Shallow Water Soldiers: Manning the United States Fleet of Lake Erie 1813

·         Delayed Birth Registration Index: Beaver County Pennsylvania: Birth Records from 1872 to 1905

·         Families of Beaver County Pennsylvania

·         Frankfort Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery: Frankfort Springs, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

·         History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

·         Index to Pennsylvania’s Colonial Records Series

·         Memoirs of Allegheny County Pennsylvania: Personal and Genealogical Portraits: Volume 2

·         Pittsburg, PA Gazette Genealogical Gleanings 1786 – 1820

·         The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania

·         Service Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery Raccoon Twp. Beaver Co., PA

South Carolina:

·         Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District Wills and Bonds

·         Citizens and Immigrants – S.C. 1768

Virginia:

·         Burials of War of 1812 Veterans in the Commonwealth of Virginia

·         A History of the Valley of Virginia

·         Marriages of Louisa County Virginia 1766 – 1815

 

Thanks to a very generous donor for most of the Pennsylvania books on this list!

Upcoming Area Events:

Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 pm at the Haggard Public Library - 2501 Coit Road Plano: The Collin County Genealogical Society will host Carol Hackemack Harper.  Ms. Harper will present "German Ancestors - Where in the World are their Records".  This is a FREE program that is open to all.

Thursday, March 14, 6:45 - 8:00 in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library (downtown McKinney) 101 East Hunt Street McKinney: The North Colli9n County Genealogical Society will host Paula Perkins.  Ms. Perkins will present "Skirts & Skirmishes, Wars & Widows; Honoring Our Veterans"  Finding Soldiers, Widows, Veterans Military Records & pensions. Draft registration cards can provide a wealth of family information. Learn birth dates, places, migration to name a few marvelous things. This is a FREE program that is open to all.

Saturday, March 16, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Haggard Public Library - 2501 Coit Road Plano: The Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will host Mr. Don Raney.  Mr. Raney will present "How to Find Your Ancestor's Maiden Name".  This is a FREE program that is open to all.

Saturday, March 16, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas: The Dallas Genealogical Society presents “Records, Research & Stories”, a one-day workshop featuring Paula Stuart-Warren.  Fees for this program are: Member: $50, Non-Member: $60, Lunch: $10.  Please see http://www.dallasgenealogy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=523 for more information.


 

New Items for January and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

January 2013

General:

·         African American Faces of the Civil War

·         Applications for Enrollment of Choctaw Newborn Act of 1905: Volumes I, II, III

·         Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers arriving at U.S. Ports:

Volume 11: July 1875 – February 1877

Volume 12: March 1877 – May 1878

Volume 13: June 1878 – May 1879

Volume 14: June 1879 – December 1879

Volume 15: January 1880 – June 1880

Volume 16: June 1880 – December 1880

Volume 17: January 1881 – June 1881

Volume 18: July 1881 – December 1881

·         Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada: Volume III 1751 – 1858, Volume IV to 1863

·         Francis Cooke of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations

·         History of the Huguenot Emigration to America: Volumes I and II

·         The Mayflower Descendant: Volume 14 – 1912

·         Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Volume Eighteen Part 2

·         North America’s Maritime Funnel: The Ships that Brought the Irish 1749 – 1852

·         War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861 - 1865

Alabama:

·         DeKalb County, Alabama, Probate Court Records, 1836 – 1930

Indiana:

·         Cedar Grove Cemetery Inscriptions: South Bend – St. Joseph County, Indiana

Maryland:

·         Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland Volume XLII: 1776 – 1777 Liber: 47 (pp. 97 – end) & Abstracts of Inventories & Accounts contained in Will Libers 3 & 5

·         Naturalizations of Washington County Maryland Prior to 1880

·         Revolutionary Patriots of Baltimore Town and Baltimore County Maryland 1775 – 1783

·         Scots on the Chesapeake 1621 – 1776  

Massachusetts:

·         The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635 Volume II C – F

New Jersey:

·         Old Burying Ground: Cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church: Orange, Essex County, New Jersey

New Mexico:

·         Wildest of the Wild West: True Tales of a Frontier Town on the Santa Fe Trail

North Carolina:

·         Person County North Carolina Deed Books 1792 – 1825

Pennsylvania:

·         Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania

·         Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania: Volumes I and II

·         Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties Pennsylvania

·         History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron, and Potter, Pennsylvania.  Volumes 1, 2, and 3

·         Keystone Thunder: Pennsylvania Field Artillery in the Civil War

·         The People and Times of Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Gazette Abstracts: Vol. 1 1786 – 1797, Vol. 2 1797 – 1803, Vol. 4 1812 – 1816

       ·     A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign 1812 – 1813

Texas:

·         Around Farmersville (Images of America Series)

·         Catching Shadows: A Directory of 19^th-Century Texas Photographers

·         East Texas in World War II (Images of America Series)

·         From Jamestown to Texas

·         McKinney Living Magazine: Jan – Dec 2009, Feb – Dec 2010, and Jan – Dec 2011

·         Nacogdoches in World War II (Images of America Series)
 

Virginia:

·         Appomattox County History and Genealogy

·         Jefferson County, Virginia 1814 – 1824 Personal Property Tax Lists

·         Virginians & West Virginians 1607 – 1870: Volume 3: Part A, Volume 3: Part B

Washington D.C:

·         Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700

 

 

Upcoming Area Events:

      Saturday, February 16 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Haggard Public Library 2501 Coit Road, Plano the Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc. will present “Whoa, Whoa, Yikes”. The speaker will be Sandra Crowley and the subject is a genealogist guide to using the Internet. This is a FREE program open to all.

 

       Saturday, February 16 8:30 am - 4:00 pm at the Southfork Hotel in Plano, the Collin County Genealogical Society will hold its 2013 Seminar featuring Lloyd Bockstruck.  Fees for this seminar are $35.00 for members and $40.00 for non-members.  For more info: Email ccgs.workshop@gmail.com or call 972-964-3178 or 469-693-7982.

 

     Thursday, February 21 10:30 am - 12:00 pm at the Haggard Public Library 2501 Coit Road,

      Plano the GLHTA will be presenting "How to Search Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, and Fold 3.

      This is a FREE program and open to all.

 

 

 

 

New Items for December and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

December 2012

Texas:

• McKinney Courier – Gazette 10/2/2011 – 12/30/2011 (on microfilm)

Virginia:

• Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities, and Native Leaders

 

Due to the Holidays, lots of the items ordered were not processed in December.  Look for lots more additions in January.  Susan

 

 

Upcoming Area Events:

 

Wednesday, January 9, 10:30-noon at the Haggard Library, 2501 Coit Road, Plano: "Preserving Photos and Documents: How to care for your family photographs and documents."   

Thursday, January 10, 6:45-8:00 at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 East Hunt Street, McKinney: North Collin County Genealogical Society meeting.  All are welcome!

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy and Healthy New Year! Susan

 

New Items for November

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

November 2012

General:

• Kinship: It’s All Relative (this item may be checked out)

 

• Confederate General William R. “Dirty Neck Bill” Scurry 1821 – 1864
• The Pioneer Women of the West
• You Ought to Write All That Down

Florida:

• Too Late for Blood: Florida Volunteers in the Mexican War

Georgia:

• 1840 Lee County, Georgia Census Index
• Citizens of Lee County, Georgia 1860 Census Index
• Lee County, Georgia History and Biographies

Illinois:

• We Enlisted as Patriots: The Civil War Records of Battery G, 2^nd Illinois Light Artillery

Louisiana:

• African American Inhabitants of Rapides Parish Louisiana 15 June to 4 September 1870
• Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Louisiana
• Marriages & Deaths From the Caucasian, Shreveport Louisiana 1903 – 1913

Maryland:

• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XXXVII: 1770 – 1771 Libers: 43 (pp. 464 – end) 44 (pp. 1 – 202)
• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XXXVIII: 1771 – 1772 Libers: 44 (pp. 203 – 596)
• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XXXIX: 1772 – 1774 Libers: 44 (pp. 597 – end) 45 (pp. 1 – 284)
• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XL: 1774 – 1775 Libers: 45 (pp. 285 – end) 46 (pp. 1 – 212)
• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XLI: 1775 – 1776 Libers: 46 (pp. 213 – end) 47 (pp. 1 – 96)

Mississippi:

• 1890 Genealogical Census Reconstruction: Mississippi Edition, Volume 1
• Fisher Funeral Home Records: Vicksburg, Mississippi 1854 – 1867

Missouri:

• The “Show – Me” Guide to Missouri: Sources for Genealogical and Historical Research

New York:

• Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1775 – 1764
• New York Soldiers in the Civil War: A Roster of Military Officers and Soldiers Who Served in New York Regiments in the Civil War – Volume 1: A – K, Volume 2: Volume L – Z

Ohio:

• Frontier Militia: The War of 1812
• The Pioneer Women of the West

 

Oklahoma:

• Cherokee Citizenship Commission Dockets: Volume I 1880 – 1884 and 1887 – 1889

 

Pennsylvania:

• A Genealogical and Biographical History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 

South Carolina:

• Voices From the Past: 104^th Infantry Regiment, USCT Colored Civil War Soldiers From South Carolina

Tennessee:

• Marriages of Jefferson County, Tennessee 1792 – 1836

 

Texas:

• Black Land, Red River: A Pictorial History of Grayson County, Texas
• Cooke County Then and Now
• Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Texas, Collin County, TX
• Tom Green County, Texas Marriage Records Book A & B 1875 – 1888

 

Virginia:

• Alexandria County, Virginia Free Negro Registers 1797 – 1861
• Colonial Records of Virginia
• Wenches, Wives & Widows: Sixteen Women of Early Virginia

 

West Virginia:

• Lewis County, West Virginia History and Biographies
• Monroe County, West Virginia History and Biographies

 

I hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season!  Susan

New Items for October and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

October 2012

General:

• Civil War Genealogy (this item may be checked out)
• Italians to America
• Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
• Surnames in Ireland
• Tracing Your Irish & British Roots

Alabama:

• Mobile Confederates From Shiloh to Spanish Fort: The Story of the 21st Alabama Infantry Volunteers

Illinois:

• St. Mark: A Century of Faith, Praise, and Service 1893-1994 

Kentucky:

• Menifee County, Kentucky Births – Deaths – Marriages 1874 – 1878

Maryland:

• Complete Personal Name Index to a History of Washington County, Maryland
• Index of Obituaries and Marriages in The [Baltimore] Sun 1861 – 1865

Massachusetts:

• A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

Tennessee:

• 1863 Henderson County, Tennessee Tax Listing and Civil Districts
• Carroll County, Tennessee Guardian Account Records 1842 – 1845
• Dickson County, Tennessee 1836 Civil Districts 1839 Tax Listing
• Madison County, Tennessee Guardian Renewal Bonds 1868 – 1879
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: First Order Book of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: Reports and Rosters of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: Questionnaires of Veterans of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• Reminiscences of William G. Allen McKenzie’s 5^th Tennessee Regiment

Texas:

• Another Taste of Heritage
• The Heard Legacy – we have two copies of this title – one of them can be checked out
• Report City of McKinney, Collin County, Texas: Assets and Liabilities Fiscal Year February 1, 1926 to January 31, 1927
• Report on McKinney City Hospital, McKinney, Texas: Receipts and Disbursements from January 1, 1924 to June 30, 1926
• The Saga of Marshal Todd Warden

West Virginia:

• Cabell County, West Virginia History and Biographies
• Greenbrier County, West Virginia History and Biographies

Upcoming Area Events:

Wednesday, November 14 7:00 pm at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano: The Collin County Genealogical Society will host Ms. Lynell Moss, Consultant Training Director of the Family History Center in Plano. Ms. Moss will be speaking on "The FamilySearch Family of Websites". This event is FREE and open to all.

Saturday, November 17 9:30 am - 3:00 pm at the Plano Bible Chapel, 1900 Shiloh Rd, Plano The Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will be holding a workshop featuring Lloyd D. Bockstruck. Pitfalls in Research, will help the dedicated researcher wade through court orders and court minutes; birth and death substitute records; and understand the naming quagmire. These are out of the ordinary records that are seldom used in research. More information is available at http://www.genealogyfriends.org/all-day-workshops.html
Fees: $40 for members and $45 for nonmembers

Wednesday, November 28 10:30 am - 12:00 at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano: The Genealogy, Local History, Texana, Archives (GLHTA) department presents: FamilySearch.org. The latest, greatest, old and hidden uses for your research

Something to add to your calendar: the Collin County Genealogical Society will be having their 2013 All-Day Seminar on Saturday, February 16.  The Featured speaker will be Lloyd Bockstruck.  Topics will include: The Colonial Germans, The Scots-Irish in Colonial America, Anglican Church Records for Genealogical Research, and Virginia: Where the British Empire Began.