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The following is just the opening paragraph for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database website – an amazing resource that recently been expanded by another 11,400 journeys. Check it out. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database now comprises 36,000 individual slaving expeditions Continue reading The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
The following excerpt is from an article posted March 9 at the journal-news.net website. My emphasis added. SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary has awarded Benjamin Bankhurst, assistant Continue reading Loyalist Letters & Petitions to be Digitized
Four new guides in the National Genealogical Society Research in the States Series are now available. They are for the following states: Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee Oklahoma – American Indians And they are 10% off through August 18. Click on Continue reading Four New Research in the States Guides From the NGS
Family Roots Publishing has bundled 3 popular research guides, all dealing with early American history and genealogy. This bundle of 3 items is made of the following: Tracing Your Colonial American Ancestors Tracing Your Revolutionary War Ancestors Tracing Your War Continue reading Bundle of 3 Early American Research Guides – 40% Off thru Feb. 28
Family Roots Publishing has sold thousands of reference books in our time. Two of the most popular guides are the Genealogist’s U.S. History Pocket Reference, and the Family Tree Pocket Reference. These two books are loaded with information helpful to Continue reading Bundle of 2 Genealogy Pocket Reference Guides – 35% off thru December 17, 2016 – Day 2 of the 12 Days of Christmas 2016
Since Family Roots Publishing recently began marketing The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of U.S. History 1790-1900, I figured it was about time to write a more detailed review of the book than I’ve been able to Continue reading The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of U.S. History 1790-1900
The following teaser is from a post August 10, 2016 at Yahoo.com: Paris (AFP) – The first people to reach the Americas could not have passed through the ice sheet-cleaving inland corridor long thought to be the entry point of Continue reading First People to Arrive in the Americas Did So by Way of the Pacific Coast
This morning, a friend here in Orting who is an active member of the local historical society and just happens to be running for reelection to the city council, sent me an email with a link sending me to a Continue reading Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, and So It Goes – A 6-minute Nostalgic Look Back In Time
The following excerpt is from an article by Mark Strauss, posted July 22, 2015 at the National Geographic website: Since the 1930s, it’s been a generally accepted theory that indigenous Americans are descendants of Siberians who came to the New Continue reading Genetic Research Could Rewrite the History of the First Americans
A few days ago, Ben Affleck apologized for the attempt to conceal slave-owning ancestry, which turned up during research for the PBS documentary “Finding Your Roots.” Wikileaks published emails which showed the attempt – which seemed to have worked… for Continue reading Ben Affleck Apologizes for Attempting to Conceal Slave-Owning Ancestry
A Family Roots Publishing Holiday Special: 50% OFF American Place Names Of Long Ago Read the Review: George Cram’s Unrivaled Atlas of the World contains an index of over 100,000 place names of “every county, city, town, village, Continue reading American Place Names Of Long Ago — 50% OFF
A Family Roots Publishing Holiday Special: 50% OFF Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans Read the Review: In his History of New Hampshire, historian Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole attempts to answer the question, “What makes a man prominent?” In his words: Continue reading Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans — 50% OFF
Growing up I read my share of novels. Many of these included fantasy stories where taverns often play a major role as meeting place, rest stop, and center of information. Then there were the stories of the “wild west” where Continue reading Stage-Coach and Tavern Days
Germans are the second largest ethnic group in the United States. Only those of English descent are more numerous. Even so, both groups represent generations of families living in America. These days, around a million people each year legally immigrate Continue reading The Germans in Colonial Times
Steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers changed this young country in dramatic ways, transforming the Ohio-Mississippi River Basin almost overnight. The steamboat brought commerce, quickened immigrations, and began a building frenzy as new town sprung up all along the Continue reading Full Steam Ahead