This weekend Family Roots Publishing is offering one of the greatest works ever published on New England genealogy, along with a female index, which make the 4-volume set all that much more valuable.
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They are:
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England; in four volumes; by James Savage
and
Female Index to Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage; Patty Barthell Myers, compiler
We negotiated a reduced price with the publisher, and are able to offer the 4-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and the Female Index for 20% Off, making the bundle of 5 books only $190.32 (Reg. $237.90). This is a large set of books, so the postage comes to $15.50. Allow about three days for them to be shipped, and anywhere from 3 to 10 days for their arrival in the USA. The sale runs through Monday, March 28, 2016. Click on this link to purchase – or if you need only one or the other, click on the links to the individual books, and get them at 10% off during the sale.
Following are detailed descriptions of each one:
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England; by James Savage; Published: 1860-1862; Reprinted: 2008; Paper; Four Volumes; 2,541 pp total; ISBN: 9780806307596; Item #: GPC5170D.
This four-volume set is the basic genealogical dictionary of early New England settlers, giving the name of every settler who arrived in New England before 1692 regardless of their station, rank, or fortune. Alphabetically arranged for each it gives the dates of his marriage and death, dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and birthdates and names of the grandchildren. According to the author, “nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven-eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642.”
Owners of this series will also want to purchase the Female Index to “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England,” which indexes all the females scattered throughout Savage’s four volumes by both maiden and married names.
“Probably the greatest work on genealogy ever compiled for the New England area.”–P.W. Filby, American & British Genealogy & Heraldry
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
“There is little doubt that this is probably the greatest work on genealogy ever compiled for the New England area…Essential for those with genealogy and history collections.”–AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL (1982).
“We welcome the reprint of this old friend…Comment as to the usefulness of Savage’s work is unnecessary. It is a classic.”–NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 65, No. 4.
“In the field of genealogical research certain standard reference works have come to be regarded as foundation blocks. James Savages’s monumental four-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, for example,…is a work which must be literally at the elbow of every student of genealogy.”–OLD-TIME NEW ENGLAND, Vol. LVII, No. 3.
“…it is one of the best reference works on genealogy, particularly for those tracing New England ancestry. It is also useful for historians and biographers, and should therefore be in most reference collections.”–LIBRARY JOURNAL.
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Female Index to Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage; by Patty Barthell Myers; paper; 2008; 350 pp; ISBN: 9780806317854; Item #: GPC3986D.
It is generally agreed that James Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England is one of the greatest works ever published on New England genealogy. The first edition came out in 1860, and as the four volumes were published in alphabetical sequence by family name, the males were usually found by checking their surname. The females were scattered throughout the four volumes. Some were listed under their fathers’ names, some were listed under their husbands’ names, and many women had three or more spouses. All were difficult to find, and if the husbands’ names were unknown, these ladies could not be found.
In 1884 O.P. Dexter prepared a “Genealogical Cross Index” which appeared in all reprints. However, it is a surname index only and has all the deficiencies of such an index, and it does not make the job of searching for women any easier. This new Female Index, however, published almost 150 years after Savage’s Dictionary first came out, lists all the females alphabetically by maiden name and married names (over 50,000 names altogether), and now they are as easy to locate as the males.
Every researcher of New England genealogy who owns the four-volume Dictionary by Savage, every genealogical society library that has Savage, and every public library that has Savage will want this index.
About the Author
Patty Barthell Myers has been involved in genealogy since the mid-1960s. She is the author of Joseph Barthel and his wife Christina Lutz (1991), Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families (1995), Cargill/Cargile/Cargal of the South and Southwest (1997), The Hughes Family from Virginia to Oregon (1999), and Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice (2003). She has found over three hundred American immigrants in her family tree and descends from five Mayflower passengers and twenty-two Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots.
Again, we negotiated a reduced price with the publisher, and are only able to offer the 4-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and the Female Index for 20% Off, making the bundle of 5 books only $190.32 (Reg. $142.74) for a few days. The sale runs through Monday, March 28, 2016. Click on this link to purchase – or if you need only one or the other, click on the links to the individual books, and get them at 10% off during the sale.
