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Manuscripts at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, First comprehensive edition

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The American Ancestors manuscript collection holds the largest amount of genealogical material in the country. This guide is an easy means to identify which of the over 5,500 entries have relevant individual bible records, diaries, account books, research notes, and more. This 600+ page guide directs family historians to an unprecedented wealth of resources — most available nowhere except the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department at the Society.

An American Family, 1575-1945

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Author: James Edmond Carbine & Marianne Lemly Carbin
Published: 2007

In this family history book, the authors have integrated the lives of their ancestors with contemporary history of the time. The result is a history of the United States of America from its early colonization through the Second World War viewed through the eyes of the Carbine, Lemly, Walker, Porterfield, Stout, Matthews, Robinson and Brigham families.

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