Family Roots Publishing is excited to announce that Bill Dollarhide’s new A Genealogist’s Guide to the American Colonies: Part II – Middle 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 with the offer code: Colonies25 to be used at Checkout. 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. There are 1,481 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.
This new book identifies the important Middle Colonies resource centers with 1,481 links to Internet websites. In addition, there are samplings of the databases available for the Middle Colonies.
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New Netherland Colony, 1624-1655
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New Sweden Colony, 1638-1655
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Province of New York, 1664-1775
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Province of New Jersey, 1664-1775
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Province of Pennsylvania, 1681-1775
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Delaware Colony, 1681-1775
This volume is the second of 3 volumes. Volume I can be found HERE. Watch for books on the Southern colonies to be published in the near future.
The book relies on the old county boundaries during the colonial era, 1607-1775. All of the colonies are organized and displayed by their colonial counties, and include maps of the earliest settlements. Under each county are the townships that were 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. There are references to counties moving to another colony, e.g., three counties created in the Province of New York were transferred to the Province of Pennsylvania in 1682.
A Genealogist’s Guide to the American Colonies: Part II – Middle Colonies, by William Dollarhide; 2025; 115 pages; 8.5×11; Softbound; Full Color paging, ISBN: 978-1-62859-382-2; Item #FR0433.