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Genealogies in the Library of Congress
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Henry Marshall Purifoy Genealogy
Henry Marshall Purifoy (1812-1882) moved from Georgia (via Florida and Alabama) to Ouachita County, Arkansas. Descendants lived in Arkansas, Texas, California and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and elsewhere. Includes some English ancestors.
Sisters, Seeds, and Cedars
History consists mainly of the milestones, the turning points of time. What are often lost in the fray are the details. Thankfully for those who have a hunger for history, books like Sisters, Seeds, and Cedars exist to fill in some of the gaps of history. The book contains letters from two sisters, Cornelia and Clara. Originally from Alabama, Clara moves on to Arkansas, while Cornelia stays where her roots are. Clara eventually puts down roots of her own, and the sisters' continue to converse through letter writing for their entire lives. The letters span the generations and provide insight into everyday life between 1850-1928. Without them, it might not be known that "a dewlarkie is most li...
John Gulley Genealogy
John Gulley was born 4 March 1788 in Duplin Co., North Carolina. He was the youngest son of William Gulley and Bethany Hinnant. John married Nancy Bizzell 13 February 1809. They lived on a family plantation in Duplin Co., North Carolina and were the parents of fourteen children. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
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Clara Cox McDiarmid
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Idlewild
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era’s premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crise...
