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Subject: Special message brought to you by Family Tree
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:00:00 -0800
From: "Family Tree Newsletter"

December 27, 2005

As part of Family Tree's commitment to bring our e-newsletter subscribers useful information on new products, services, and educational programs, we want to share the following message from one of our marketing partners.

SAMPLE "GENEALOGY POINTERS"

"Genealogy Pointers" is the free weekly e-newsletter produced by www.genealogical.com, the online home of Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company. GPC and Clearfield are the oldest and largest publishers of genealogical reference books in the world.

Every issue of "Genealogy Pointers" is filled with special product offers and excellent tips for tracing your roots. "Pointers" readers are also the first people to learn about new products from our publishing companies. You will find that our books and CDs will supplement the excellent genealogy books you may have already purchased from F&W Publications.

By special arrangement with Family Tree Newsletter, we are providing you with some sample articles from "Genealogy Pointers" that illustrate what our newsletter has to offer. We hope you like what you see and decide to subscribe to "Genealogy Pointers" in your own right. To do so, simply go to our home page (www.genealogical.com) and click on the "sign up" box in the upper right-hand corner. And if you already subscribe to "Genealogy Pointers," be sure to take advantage of the special coupon found in this sample issue.

In this issue:
Is Your Census Research on Track?
State [as Opposed to] Federal Censuses
20% Discount Coupon
Our Top Ten Books & CDs for 2005



IS YOUR CENSUS RESEARCH ON TRACK?

American county (and for that matter city) boundaries have changed with great frequency, especially before 1900. For example, during the territorial stage of a state's existence, the territory was divided among a small number of counties. As populations grew, states subdivided an original county into two or more counties. In 1790, Kentucky had nine counties. Ten years later, it had more than forty. Sometimes parent counties "disappeared" in name entirely, as in the case of Hancock County in Alabama; Delaware County, Indiana; or Dobbs County, New York.

The evolution of counties and county boundaries has a direct bearing, of course, on census research. For example, if your ancestors were living in Ellis County, Oklahoma, in 1910 and you were hoping to find them in the 1900 federal census, you would need to look at the schedules of now-defunct Day County.

By the same token, if your Florida relatives show up in Dade County in 1870 but cannot be found in Dade in 1860, you might find them in either Monroe or Brevard County, each of which encompassed a portion of Florida that wound up in Dade County ten years later.

The author of this newsletter once studied the population of Baltimore from the perspective of the 1850, 1860, and 1870 federal censuses. Throughout that period, Baltimore was divided into twenty wards (political subdivisions); however, as his research revealed, the ward boundaries changed with each census. Had he failed to consider these boundary changes, his conclusions concerning the ethnic and racial makeup of Baltimore's 19th-century neighborhoods would have been incorrect.

Whether because of political gerrymandering, annexation, or some other reason, county boundaries-like ward boundaries-were subject to frequent change. For example, the boundaries of both Somerset and Worcester counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore changed between 1860 and 1870 to make room for the new county of Wicomico. Between 1850 and 1860, the eastern part of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, became part of Calhoun County. Ten years later, the southern part of Yalobusha could be found in Grenada County.

The fact is that throughout the history of the U.S., county boundaries changed from one decennial census to the next, especially before 1900. The best way to know if you're looking in the right county as you crank or scroll through the census is to consult the MAP GUIDE TO THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUSES, 1790-1920, by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. State by state, this highly acclaimed reference work maps out county boundaries for every census from 1790 through 1920 and superimposes modern county boundaries overtop of them. One of the most highly regarded tools in the genealogist's arsenal, the MAP GUIDE also contains a complete list of American counties, a state-by-state history of the session laws that authorized boundary changes, and brief sketches of each of the federal enumerations.

Whether you are a new or experienced census researcher, the MAP GUIDE is the one book you should have in your personal library. Don't get lost in the census without it!
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=5786


STATE [as Opposed to Federal] CENSUS RECORDS

State census records, unlike federal censuses, are among the most under-used (yet extremely valuable) of all genealogical records. When genealogists think of census records, what usually comes to mind are the federal censuses that have been conducted by the U.S. government every ten years since the formation of the country. It's a fact, however, that state governments have also carried out censuses randomly throughout their history to satisfy a variety of purposes. Michigan, for example, took a special Civil War veterans census in 1888. There are also surviving territorial censuses that were taken to demonstrate readiness for statehood.

These state censuses are invaluable to genealogists because they fill in gaps left by missing federal censuses. For example, twelve states conducted censuses between 1885 and 1895, any one of which can substitute for that state's missing 1890 federal census. State censuses tend to be opened to the public faster than federal ones; some state censuses taken as recently as 1945 are already available. Many state censuses contain information not found in federal censuses because the census takers asked different questions. For all of these reasons, state censuses can give you a more complete picture of your ancestors and solve genealogical problems. To find out what state censuses exist, what kinds of information they contain, and where they can be found, read STATE CENSUS RECORDS, by Ann Lainhart, the definitive guide to this major, though vastly under-used, genealogical resource.
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20% DISCOUNT COUPON!

Among the most popular features of "Genealogy Pointers" are the periodic sales and price reductions on genealogical.com products that only subscribers hear about. Here's a sale specially created for readers of Family Tree Newsletter. From today through midnight on January 5, 2006, you can order any book(s) or CD(s) available at www.genealogical.com at a SAVINGS of 20% OFF the current selling price.

For example, you can get 20% off on either of the census volumes described in the above articles. You can choose from any of the 150 CD-ROM titles in our collection at http://www.genealogical.com/family_history_cds.asp?afid=. Then there are the hundreds of books in our "Genealogy Warehouse" (http://www.genealogical.com/warehouse.asp) that are already reduced by 40-50% or more. You can take an additional 20% off those reduced prices. As a matter of fact, any of the 2,000 Genealogical Publishing Company or Clearfield Company books available at http://www.genealogical.com are fair game with this coupon.

 

To take advantage of this special discount, simply add the discount code FT1205 ( all capital letters, with no spaces) where requested at the bottom of the Shipping Instructions page at Check Out.

You can use your electronic coupon as many times as you like, as long as you place your final order before the stroke of midnight on Monday, January 5, 2006.


OUR TOP TEN BOOKS & CDs FOR 2005

Finally, if you need a few more ideas for how to use your 20% coupon, you may wish to choose from the following ten books and CDs, which outsold all others on our website in 2005.

1. QUICKSHEET: Citing Online Historical Resources

Based on the premise that online sources are publications that have the same characteristics as printed publications, the QUICKSHEET, a handy four-page reference sheet by Elizabeth Shown Mills, provides rules and models for common record types such as passenger lists, vital records, and newspapers. Since a website is the online equivalent of a book, the QUICKSHEET shows you how to cite author/creator/owner of a website, title of the website, place (URL), date posted, and so forth.
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2. MAGNA CARTA ANCESTRY

This book provides detailed information about descents from the famous Magna Carta barons of 1215 for over 200 individuals who emigrated from the British Isles to the North American colonies in the 17th century. It combines research in original records with the use of published literature to provide well-documented ancestral lines for American colonists with Magna Carta ancestry. It features hundreds of biographical summaries as well as over 18,000 citations to published materials, making it the most documented sourcebook of its kind. In addition, the book contains a massive 93-page bibliography--probably the most exhaustive listing of medieval genealogy and history ever published.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=4887



3. CARMACK'S GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT & CONTRACTS

What is and what is not protected by copyright? What are your rights to your own genealogical discoveries? When do you need to ask someone's permission to reprint their work? Can you use genealogical information you find on the Internet? In this new book, you can find the answers to these and similar questions addressing all aspects of copyright law. Each chapter lays out a specific principle of copyright or contracts and then addresses the topic with situations specifically applicable to genealogists.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=883



4. SCOTTISH IMMIGRANTS TO NORTH AMERICA, 1600s to 1800s. The Collected Works of David Dobson

David Dobson has been trolling for the names of Scottish immigrants to North America for over 20 years. From original records and printed sources in Great Britain, Canada, and the U.S. he has amassed information on all known Scottish immigrants to North America, the majority of whom arrived in America from the earliest colonial times up to the Revolutionary War. This Family Archive CD captures the page images of many of Mr. Dobson's publications at a fraction of the total cost of the books. Thanks to David Dobson's arduous labors in record offices and archives throughout Great Britain and America, we have information pertaining to the identity of approximately 75,000 of these early Scots immigrants.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=7268



5. Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia, 1607-1624/5. Fourth Edition. VOLUME TWO, Families G-P

The purpose of this series of volumes is to establish descents-through the sixth generation-of the approximately 150 individuals who can be identified as (1) Adventurers of Purse (i.e., stockholders in the Virginia Company of London) who either came to Virginia in the period 1607-1625 and had descendants or who did not come to Virginia within that period but whose grandchildren were residents there; or (2) Adventurers of Person, 1607-1625 (i.e., immigrants to Virginia) who left descendants. With roots deeply embedded in the social fabric of the U.S., over 7,800 descendants residing in Virginia (or subsequently in other states) are identified. Family accounts are supported by 10,000 footnote citations to manuscripts or published records. The index contains 19,000 name, place, and subject entries, many with multiple page citations.

Volume Two covers the following families: Gaither, Gaskins, Gilbert, Gookin, Gosnold, Granger, Graves, Gray Grendon, Gundry, Hallom, Hampton, Hansford, Harris (John), Harris (Thomas), Harwood, Holt, Hooe, Hopkins, Johnson-Travis, Jordan (Samuel), Jordan (Thomas), Kent, Kingsmill, Knott, Laydon, Lloyd, Lovelace-Gorsuch, Lukin, Lupo, Macock, Martiau, Mason, Mathews, Menefie, Montague, Moone, Moore, Offley, O'Neil-Robins, Osborne, Pace, Parramore, Pead, Peirce, Peirsey, Perry, Pierce-Bennett, Price, Price-Llewellyn, and Purifoy.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=1497



6. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY

Containing approximately 500,000 entries, this CD consists of images of the pages from all six volumes of William Wade Hinshaw's "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy," along with a complete electronic name index that allows you to search all six volumes quickly and effortlessly! Painstakingly developed from monthly meeting records, the data gathered in the volumes of the "Encyclopedia" is arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically thereunder.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=7192
 


7. COLONIAL FAMILIES of the United States of America

This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of all seven volumes of George Mackenzie's celebrated COLONIAL FAMILIES of the United States of America, an encyclopedic collection of early American genealogies and family histories. More than 13 years in preparation, COLONIAL FAMILIES treats only those families who trace their ancestry back to the colonial period (1607-1776). Ranging from three or four pages to 10 or 20 pages or more, each family history article gives the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, followed by a listing of descendants-generation by generation-up to the time of writing, giving names, birth dates, dates of marriage and death, places of residence, occupation, and a variety of other matter.  http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=7189



8. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1776

With approximately 140,000 names, this CD contains the most comprehensive list ever published of the men, women, and children who emigrated from England to America between 1607 and 1776. It contains virtually every reference to English emigrants that can be found in contemporary English records, such as port books, shipping registers, apprenticeship lists, plantation records, Treasury and Chancery records, and records of forced transportation and exile.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=7350



9. BRITISH EMIGRANTS IN BONDAGE, 1614-1788

This new CD is the definitive record of 48,000 felons carried from the jails of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to help populate colonial America. Peter Wilson Coldham, England's foremost authority on 17th- and 18th-century emigration to America, has abstracted from every surviving record the names and histories of all those sentenced in England and Ireland to be transported to America for their alleged crimes. Also included on this CD are a separate section on transported Irish felons and runaways; a history of the British transportation system; an exhaustive account of the records used in this work; and a complete list of convict ships that sailed to America between 1671 and 1788.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=7012



10. EVIDENCE! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian

Don't know a footnote from an endnote? Need to cite a source from the Internet? Clueless when it comes to figuring out which of your sources is more reliable? Then you need a copy of Elizabeth Shown Mills's EVIDENCE! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. This acclaimed book provides the family history researcher with a reliable standard for both the correct form of source citation and the sound analysis of evidence. In successful genealogical research, these two practices are inseparable, and the author's treatment of this little-understood concept is nothing short of brilliant.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=3846



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