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The Nelson Family of Rowley, Massachusetts

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Author: Christopher Challender Child
Published: January 2014

In 1638, Thomas Nelson traveled with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and his company from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, to settle Rowley, Massachusetts. This gene­alogy treats several generations of Nelson descendants and provides new insight into Thomas’s possible ancestry at Drax, Yorkshire. An ahnentafel for Philip Stapleton, the maternal grandfather of Thomas.

Winner of the National Genealogical Society's 2015 award for "Excellence: Genealogy and Family History.”

So Proudly We Hail: Ancestors and Descendants of Harold and Elsie Cole (Whipple) Morgan

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Author: Janice Morgan Seligman, edited by Christopher Challender Child
Published: August 2011

Covering the ancestors behind Harold and Elsie Cole (Whipple) Morgan, this book includes families going back to colonial New England, New Amsterdam, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. Also included are modern descendants of the Morgan, Cole, Whipple, Graham, and Seligman families. An appendix lists family members’ patriotic service in nearly all American military conflicts.

Ringing the Gotchnag: Two American Missionary Families in Turkey 1855–1922

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Author: Jonathan Conant Page

Published: Dec-08

Ringing the Gotchnag tells the stories of the Allens and the Wheelers, American missionary families who served in the Ottoman Empire. Page has drawn heavily on letters, diaries, and papers illuminating the families' experiences as the world changed and missionary policy evolved.

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