Family Roots Publishing is excited to announce that Bill Dollarhide’s new A Genealogist’s Guide to the American Colonies: Part I – New England Colonies is now shipping.
For a limited time, the book (in all three of its iterations) is available at 15% off at the NEW FamilyRootsPublishing.net website. Click on the illustration or the link is for full information and purchase of this new guidebook.
The volume is available as a soft-bound book, PDF eBook with instant download, and as a bundle of the soft-bound book and the PDF eBook.
This new book identifies the important New England resource centers with over 900 links to Internet websites. In addition, there are samplings of the databases available for the New England colonies.
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Acadia Colony
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Popham Colony
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Plymouth Colony
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Province & District of Maine
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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New Hampshire Colony
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Connecticut Colony
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Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
This volume is the first of 3 volumes. Watch for books on the Middle, and Southern colonies to be published in the near future.
The book relies on the old county boundaries during the colonial era, 1607-1775. All the colonies are organized and displayed by their colonial counties, and include maps of the earliest settlements. Under each county are the towns in place during the colonial era. There are numerous references to county boundary changes throwing towns from one county to another. This is important information for anyone searching for a particular vital record (birth, marriage, death, burial) and needing to know which county to search. Also, there are references to whole towns moving to another colony, e.g., six towns of Old Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, were lost to the Province of New Hampshire in 1680.
There are over 900 links in this printed book, and all are easily copied into a browser’s URL search box. Long URLs have been shortened (via TinyURL) so the copying effort is as painless as possible.