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Christian C.Z. Zimmerman (ca.1720-1800) emigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, moving later to Anson County, North Carolina, and changed his surname to Carpenter. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Tracing one's African-American ancestry can be uniquely challenging. This guide helps overcome the obstacles and pitfalls of specialized research by offering a proven, three-part approach.
Elites have shaped southern life and communities, argues the distinguished historian Willard Gatewood. These essays—written by Gatewood's colleagues and former students in his honor—explore the influence of particular elites in the South from the American Revolution to the Little Rock integration crisis. They discuss not only the power of elites to shape the experiences of the ordinary people, but the tensions and negotiations between elites in a particular locale, whether those elites were white or black, urban or rural, or male or female. Subjects include the particular kinds of power available to black elites in Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolution; the transformation of a southern secessionist into an anti-slavery activist during the Civil War; a Tenessee "aristocrat of color" active in politics from Reconstruction to World War II; middle-class Southern women, both black and white, in the New Deal and the Little Rock integration crisis; and the different brands of paternalism in Arkansas plantations during the Jacksonian and Jim Crow eras and in the postwar Georgia carpet industry.
A genealogical work covering the origins of one Texas family; Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney. Includes genealogical research, historical photos, personal anecdotes, and register reports.
This collection of William Clark's letters to his brother Jonathan - many published for the first time - reveals important new details about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis's mysterious death, the status of Clark's slave, York, and life in Jeffersonian America.
Brothers, Stephen, Charles and George Heard, who were born in Ireland in about 1689 to 1692, came to America in about 1720. They settled in Sadsbury, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia and Texas.
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