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Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with Civil War Veteran Records

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Our military expert will show you how to use the 1890 Veterans Schedules and the 1910 and 1930 U.S. Censuses to determine on which side your ancestor fought. Then examine records for the U.S. Army, Confederate Army, and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by using the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) and the National Park Service’s Soldiers and Sailors Database.

Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York; Volume 2: Abbot to Burtch

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Author: Frank J. Doherty
Published: 1993

This important series documents the 18th century settlement of the Beekman Patent by Palatines, Dutch and the English from Long Island and New England. The Beekman Patent was a major entry point from New England to New York and the West.

Beekman Patent Families Abbot to Burtch. These families are traced from the emigrant, in most cases, through about 1810.

Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York; Volume 5: Fackert to Haas

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Author: Frank J. Doherty
Published: 1999

This important series documents the 18th century settlement of the Beekman Patent by Palatines, Dutch and the English from Long Island and New England. The Beekman Patent was a major entry point from New England to New York and the West.

History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York

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Between 1875 and 1879, Edwin Purple contributed several articles to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record on the first three or four generations of some of the ancient families of New York. Those articles, collected in this volume, feature the surnames Van Schaick, Siecken, Tymens, Brevoort, Varleth, Gouverneur, and those of other ancient and allied families. This volume also includes Purple’s instructive list of Dutch aliases and variant surname spellings.

By Edwin R. Purple

Foreword by Richard H. Benson

Published: September 2013

Pioneers of Steuben County, New York: Migrations from New England, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, 1722-1790

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Author: Marian S. Henry

Published: September 2016

Paperback, 200 pages

The first settlers of present-day Steuben County, New York, in the Genesee Country, were among the first wave of migrants moving westward after the Revolutionary War. The family sketches in this work link these early pioneers with their eastern origins—usually New England, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey.

The book contains sketches for the following surnames:

E-book Edition of Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research, 6th Edition

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This new full-color edition is an extensive update of an indispensable resource for those researching in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Research basics, unique resources, repository locations, and county and town information (maps, dates established, parent counties, parent and daughter towns, other names, and more) are now uniformly presented for each state. This user-friendly redesign also restores useful information from the 4th edition such as earlier probate districts in Connecticut.

Edited by Rhonda R. McClure