New Items for January and Upcoming Events

 

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

January 2014

General:	Indian Tribes of North America	R GEN 929.373 SWA
	Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations	R GEN 929.375 COO
Alabama:	Carolina Church, Coosa County, Alabama 1837 – 1845	R GEN 929.376159 WIL
Arkansas:	Fort Smith, Arkansas Post Returns 1820 – 1846	R GEN 929.376736 ACK
Delaware:	Delaware Families 1787 – 1800	R GEN 929.3751 DEL
Florida:	Seminole of Florida: Indian Census 1930 - 1940 with Birth and Death Records 1930 - 1938	R GEN 929.3759 BOW
Georgia:	Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church: Lyerly, Chattooga County, Georgia Session Record Book 1927 - 1948	R GEN 929.3758344 WIL
Illinois:	Tabernacle Congregational Church, Chicago, Illinois 1898 – 1901	R GEN 929.377311 WIL
Indiana:	Newspaper Extracts from “The Hoosier State” Newport, Vermillion County, Indiana January 4, 1882 – December 30, 1885 January 6, 1886 – December 28, 1887 January 4, 1888 – December 25, 1889 January 1, 1890 – December 30, 1891 January 6, 1892 – December 27, 1893 January 3, 1894 – December 25, 1895	R GEN 929.3772462 NEW R GEN 929.3772462 NEW R GEN 929.3772462 NEW R GEN 929.3772462 NEW R GEN 929.3772462 NEW R GEN 929.3772462 NEW
Maryland:	1890 Special Census of the Civil War Veterans of the State of Maryland Volume II: Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s Counties	R GEN 929.3752 MOO
	A Closer Look at St. John’s Parish Registers 1701 - 1801	R GEN 929.375271 PED
New Mexico:	The Road to Glorieta: A Confederate Army Marches Through New Mexico	R GEN 929.3789 HEA
Ohio:	Ohio and the War of 1812: A Collection of Lists, Musters and Essays	R GEN 929.3771 JOH
	Columbiana County, Ohio Newspaper Abstracts: Volume 2	R GEN 929.377163 COL
Oklahoma:	Index and Abstracts of Obituaries from the Chickasaw Times 2005 – 2007	R GEN 929.3766 ACK
	Index to Select Obituaries from the Chickasaw Times 1994 – 2004	R GEN 929.3766 ACK
	Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn Act of 1905 Volumes I through XIV	R GEN 929.3766 APP
	Chickasaw by Blood Enrollment Cards 1898 - 1914 Volumes 1 through 4	R GEN 929.3766 BOW
	The Complete Seminole	R GEN 929.3766 ERN
	1899 Residents of Guthrie, Indian Territory	R GEN 929.376633 WIL
	Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Twin Territories: February 1877 – February 1893	R GEN 929.3766 WIL
	Outlaw Escapades: Oklahoma and Indian Territories 1872 to 1899	R GEN 929.3766 WIL
	Trials and Tribulations: Law and Disorder in the Indian Territory and Nearby States: Volume 1: July 4, 1891 to June 30, 1892 Volume 2: July 7, 1892 to June 29, 1893	R GEN 929.3766 WIL R GEN 929.3766 WIL
	Family Maps of Cleveland County, Oklahoma	R GEN 929.376637 BOY
	Fort Reno, Indian Territory Post Returns August 1874 – December 1884	R GEN 929.376639 WIL
	Abstracts of Post Returns for Fort Sill, Indian Territory (originally Camp Wichita) March 1869 – March 1875	R GEN 929.37664 ACK
	“The Chickasha Star” Grady County, Oklahoma: January 4, 1940 – December 25, 1941 Abstracts of Births, Marriages, Divorces & Deaths	R GEN 929.376654 WIL
	Fort Towson, Arkansas Territory Post Returns 1824 – 1840	R GEN 929.376663 WIL
	Every Name Index to Guardian Record Book A. Oct. 22, 1890 – Oct. 1905, Guardian Book B. July 20, 1904 – Oct. 19, 1907, and Administration of Estate Book A. Sept. 9, 1890 – Aug. 15, 1906 United States District Court Central Division South McAlester, Indian Territory	R GEN 929.376675 WIL
South Carolina:	“Lists des Francois et Suisses” from and Old Manuscript List of French and Swiss Protestants (Settled in Charleston, on the Santee River and at the Orange Quarter in Carolina Who Desired Naturalization, Prepared Probably About 1695 – 6)	R GEN 929.3757 RAV
Tennessee:	Ocoee Land District Maps	R GEN 929.3768 DOU
Texas:	1850 Forts of Texas	R GEN 929.3764 WIL
	Lee Young: Memoirs of a Black Seminole Texas Ranger	R GEN 929.3764 YOU
	Existing Post Returns for Nacogdoches, Texas July 1836 – February 1870	R GEN 929.3764182 ACK
	Hardcases and Horse Thieves from the Dallas Daily Herald May 1, 1880 – September 30, 1880	R GEN 929.37642812 WIL
	Abstracts of Post Returns for Fort Graham, Texas April 1849 – October 1853 with a List of Soldiers Enumerated on the 1850 U.S. Census of Navarro County	R GEN 929.3764283 ACK
	Fort Ringgold, Starr County, Texas Post Returns: Volume 1: October 1848 – December 1855 Volume 2: January 1856 – March 1861, Existing Returns of the Post at Roma, Texas January – February 1852	R GEN 929.3764485 WIL R GEN 929.3764485 WIL
	Texas Land Survey Maps for Tarrant County	R GEN 929.3764531 BOY
	U.S. Military Post Returns, Fort Richardson, Texas: Part 1: June 1866 – December 1873 Part 2: January 1874 – May 1878	R GEN 929.3764544 ACK R GEN 929.3764544 ACK
	Talk of the Town: News & Gossip from the “Jacksboro Frontier Echo June 30, 1875 – December 6, 1878	R GEN 929.3764544 WIL
	Post Returns: Fort Belknap, Texas November 1846, June 1851 – January 1859, May June and August 1867	R GEN 929.3764545 ACK
	Bits and Pieces from the Palo Pinto Star 1885 – 1887	R GEN 929.3764552 ACK
	The Spirit of Collin County	R GEN 929.3764556 BEN
	Scalawags, Six-Shooters and Shenanigans from the Fort Griffin Echo January 4, 1879 to November 13, 1880	R GEN 929.3764734 WIL
	Mischief, Mayhem, and Miscreants from the Quanah Tribune-Chief September 29, 1898 to May 18, 1899 and June 13, 1907 to May 27, 1909	R GEN 929.3764747 WIL
Virginia:	Land of Hogs and Wildcats: People and Places of Lower Stafford County, Virginia	R GEN 929.375526 EBY
Washington, D.C.	Index to District of Columbia Estates 1801 - 1929	R GEN 929.3753 PIP
West Virginia:	Church Records: Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia 1849 – 1860	R GEN 929.375488 ACK

 

Upcoming Area Events:

Wednesday, February 12 7:00 p.m. at the Haggard Public Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano.  The Collin County Genealogical Society will host Jane Power.  Ms. Power will speak on "Footprints in the Orchard".  This program is free and open to all.

Thursday, February 13 6:45 p.m. at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library 101 East Hunt Street, McKinney.  The North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Ted Wright.  Mr. Wright will present “Dousing For Graves!” A short, introductory class and demonstration on how to locate graves that are unmarked.  Mr. Wright is President of the Collin County Historical Society, has spent over 40 years exploring North Texas history and researching graveyards. He has specifically focused the last 15 years dousing for unmarked burials in Collin County.  This program is free and open to all.

Save the Date! April 26 10:30 a.m. Lynell Moss will be presenting a program on FamilySearch at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library.  She will be informing us of how to use FamilySearch and the exciting updates.

New Items for December 2013

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

December 2013

General:

·         Mastering Family, Library & Church Records

·         Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy Who Lost Their Lives During the World War from April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918: Volumes I and II

·         Origin and History of Irish Names of Places: Volumes I, II, and III

·         Rebel Watchdog

·         The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe (this item may be checked out)

·         Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends (this item may be checked out)

 

Alabama:

·         History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period/Annals of Alabama 1819 – 1900

 

Georgia:

·         Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

 

Kentucky:

·         A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell’s Laws of Kentucky

 

Maryland:

·         History of Talbot County, Maryland 1661 – 1861: Volumes I and II

 

Missouri:

·         Missouri Genealogical Gleanings 1840 and Beyond: Volume 4

 

New York:

·         Heads of Families of the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: New York

·         Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: New York and New Jersey: Volumes I, II, III, IV, and V

 

Ohio:

·         Hamilton County, Ohio Church Death Records 1811 – 1849

·         History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4

·         Ohio Photographers 1839 – 1900

 

Pennsylvania:

·         Index to the 1850 Census of Pennsylvania: Berks County, Bucks County, Lancaster County, Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, Northampton County

 

Tennessee:

·         Marriages of Wilson County, Tennessee 1802 - 1850

·         They Rode With Forrest

 

Virginia:

·         Marriages of Pittsylvania County, Virginia 1806 - 1830

 

West Virginia:

·         A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory

Upcoming Area Events:

Thursday, January 16 7:00 pm in the Basement Program Room of the Richardson Public Library 411 W. Arapaho Rd. Richardson. The Richardson Genealogical and Historical Society will host Paula Perkins. This is a free event open to all.

I hope you all have a happy and healthy New Year - Susan

 

New Items for November and Upcoming Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

November 2013

General:

·         American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence A.D. 1776 - Volumes I-III, IV-VI, VII-IX, and X-XII

·         American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors 1870 – 1960

·         Application for Enrollment of Choctaw Newborn Act of 1905: Volumes XVII, XVIII, XIX, and XX

·         International Vital Records Handbook: 6^th Edition

·         The Name is the Game

·         Osage Indian Bands and Clans

·         Out-of-Style: A Modern Perspective of How, Why, and When Vintage Fashions Evolved

·         Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies

Georgia:

·         Cherokee Valuation Records

·         Methodist Preachers in Georgia 1783 – 1900: A Supplement

 

Kentucky:

·         Kentucky Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782 – 1924: Part 1 and Part 2

 

Maryland:

·         Abstracts of the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland:

o   Charles County:

-       Volume I: Calvert Papers 1750, Liber 13: 1753-1756, Liber 14: 1757

-      Volume II: Liber 14: 1758 – 1761, Liber 15: 1762 – 1763

-      Volume III: Liber 15: 1764 – 1766, Liber 16: 1767 – 1769

-      Volume IV: Liber 16: 1770 – 1771, Liber 17: 1772 – 1774

·         Baltimore county, Maryland Marriage Licenses: May 1, 1798 to February 11, 1815

·         Baltimore county, Maryland Marriage Licenses: February 11, 1815 to April 30, 1823

·         Without Indentures: index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records [Maryland and Virginia]

 

Missouri:

·         Cooper County, Missouri Records

·         Crawford County, Missouri Records

·         Dade County, Missouri Records

·         Ozark County, Missouri Records

 

New Jersey:

·         Genealogies of New Jersey Families: Volume I: Families A – Z and Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families, Volume II: A Genealogy Dictionary of New Jersey Bible Records and Other Family Records

 

North Carolina:

·         North Carolina’s Revolutionary War Navy

 

Tennessee:

·         Early Hamilton Settlers

·         Hamilton county Pioneers

·         History of the Thirteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry U.S.A.

·         Knoxville’s First Graveyard 1800 – 1879

·         Tennessee Taproots: Courthouses of Tennessee

·         Washington County, Tennessee 1836 Civil districts & 1838 Tax Listing

 

Texas:

·         McKinney Courier - Gazette (on microfilm) October 4 - December 30 2012

 

Virginia:

·         Certificates and Rights Accomack County, Virginia 1663 – 1709

·         Marriage License Bonds of Accomack County, Virginia from 1774 to 1806

·         The Marriage License Bonds of Westmoreland County, Virginia From 1786 to 1850

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, December 12 6:45 pm at IHOP: 1960 N Central Expy, McKinney.  The North Collin County Genealogical Society will hold their Holiday Meeting.  If you'd like to find out more about the Society, come join them for food and fun!

Thursday, January 16 7:00 pm in the Basement Program Room of the Richardson Public Library 411 W. Arapaho Rd. Richardson.  The Richardson Genealogical and Historical Society will host Paula Perkins.  This is a free event open to all.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and have a happy and healthy Holiday season - Susan

New Items for October and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

October 2013

Kentucky:

·         The “Cornstalk” Militia of Kentucky 1792 – 1811

Maryland:

·         Baltimore County, Maryland Trader and Ordinary Licenses 1830 – 1832

Texas:

·         Prosper, Texas - Its History and Families: Volume II

Washington D.C:

·         District of Columbia Guardianship Index 1802 - 1928

Although the list of October items is really short, have no fear!  The new fiscal year has started and I am ordering again - Susan

Upcoming Area Events:

Saturday, November 2 8:30 am - 4:00 pm at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2700 Roundrock Trail, Plano, Texas 75075: The Great Family Search Conference.  This event is FREE and open to all.

Wednesday, November 13 7:00 pm at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano.  The Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Mr. Ted Wright.  Mr. Wright will be speaking on "Doodling for Catfish or Dousing for Graves, Only in Texas.  Now They are Both Legal!"  This meeting is FREE and open to all.  For more information, view the CCGS Events Calendar at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcolcgs/calendar.htm

Thursday, November 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 Mr. Lloyd Bockstruck.  Mr. Bockstruck will be speaking about Researching in Southern States (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina).  This meeting is FREE and open to all.

Saturday, November 16 12:30-4:00 pm at the Schimelpfenig Library5025 Custer Road, Plano Collin County Genealogical Society presents a half-day seminar: "Are you interested in DNA testing? Have you taken a DNA test? What now?"  This seminar is FREE and open to all. For more information, view the CCGS Events Calendar at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcolcgs/calendar.htm