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Notable Kin Volume Two

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Notable Kin, Volume Two treats royal descents of 30 tycoon families (including Morgans, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts); "fun" ancestors of numerous folkloric figures and Hollywood actors, actresses, directors, writers and composers; and much of the known, and some conjectured, ancestry of the three major icons in mid-20th century popular culture (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elvis Presley). Mr. Roberts also covers notable descendants of Northern New England and Rhode Island immigrants with royal forebears, and offers a genealogical tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

More Lasting than Brass: A Thread of Family from Revolutionary New York to Industrial Connecticut

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Author: Peter Haring Judd, with forward by Alan Taylor
Published: 2004

A follow-up to the 1999 award winning Hatch and Brood of Time, this new volume treats Peter Haring Judd's Phelps, Haring, and related New York and Connecticut families during the Revolutionary War period. It is a genealogical, cultural, and social history that vividly describes how this accomplished family worked, lived, and reacted to historical events.

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.

The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir

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Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: "If the results were correct, it meant that the family I had spent years documenting was not my own." Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, a quest which will shake his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others--and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past.

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