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SULTANA TRAGEDY, THE
Lee Surrenders! "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day is America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a 260-foot, wooden-hulled steamboat-smaller than the Titanic but carrying more passengers-exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. More than 1,800 men, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps, died. On board were over 2,400 passengers-six times the ship's legal capacity. Although jubilant about the war's end, most of the men were weakened by malnutrition and disease from their imprisonment at Andersonville and...
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.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Snead Notebook
Israel Snead (ca. 1700-1788) of North Carolina married Johannah Henley. Many descendants are traced.
Descendants of John Houser, 1709-1763
John Houser, Sr. (ca. 1709-1763) was probably born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the son of Karl Hans von Hauser and his wife Huldricha. John and his wife, Mary, were the parents of six children. Their descendants live throughout the United States.
