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Dodge Family of New Shoreham, Rhode Island
Tristram Dodge was born in about 1607 in England. He married Anne and they had seven children. They immigrated to Rhode Island in about 1660. He died in 1683 in Shoreham, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Rhode Island New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin. Michigan and Washington.
Becoming American, Remaining Jewish
"Becoming American, Remaining Jewish traces the development of Wilmington, Delaware's first Jewish community in order to understand what the Jews created and why, what values were reflected in the institutions they established and the causes they advocated, and what changed over the years. Readers concerned about questions of identity and community today will find much stimulating material in this story." "The appendix, which contains the names of more than two thousand adult Jews lived in Wilmington between 1879 and 1920, is the most comprehensive list of early Jewish Wilmingtonians ever published. With its information on country of birth and first occupation, the list is a valuable resource for historians and genealogists."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Genealogy and the Law in Canada
Digital records and broad access to the Internet have made it easier for genealogists to gather relevant information from distant sources, but the law remains tied to particular geographic locations. This book discusses the specific laws access to information, protection of personal data, and copyright applicable to those working in Canada.
An African Republic
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No...
Colonizing Hawai'i
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i.
A Greene Family History
John Greene (1597-1659) emigrated in 1635 from England to Salem, Massachusetts, moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1636 with Roger Williams, and married twice (once in England). Descendants lived in New England, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to the early 1200s.
A Century of Struggle in Delgany and Kilcoole
In this study, the author examines changing population trends in an area of North-East Wicklow, focusing on the villages of Delgany and Kilcoole, between 1666 and 1779. A variety of methods and crosschecks is used to identify the general trends, with particular attention being given to the Ã?Â?Ã?«difficultÃ?Â?Ã?Â- 1740s.
