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This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry. It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, related federal records, and unofficial documents useful in researching Mississippi genealogy. Here the contents of these resources are clearly described, and directions for using them are clearly stated. Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors also introduces many other helpful genealogical resources, including detailed colonial, territorial, state, and local materials. Among official records are census schedules, birth, marriage, divorce, and death registers, tax records, military documents, and...
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling, slaves fashioned their neighborhoods into the locus of slave society. Joining Places is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves. From these deta...
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Publisher Fact Sheet Third in the series of previously unpublished personal letters, beginning in the fall of 1848 when Houston returns to Washington for the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress after the close of the Mexican War.
Duncan Gillies (ca. 1760-1822/1828) married Nancy McCaskill and immi- grated from Scotland to North Carolina or Kershaw District, South Carolina; his widow later lived in Walton County, Florida. John Gillis (b.ca. 1760) immigrated from scotland to Cumberland (now Hoke) County, North Carolina. Descendants of these and other Gilli(e)s immigrants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, California and elsewhere.
Vols. for 1970- include Roster of members, formerly issued separately.
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
Investigates nature, causes, and economic impact of structural, seasonal, and chronic unemployment; Oct. 14 hearing was held in Uniontown, Pa.; Oct. 15 hearing was held in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and Oct. 26 hearing was held in Altoona, Pa., pt.2; Continuation of hearings on unemployment problems in Michigan, particularly in the automotive and mining industries. Nov. 10 hearing was held in Marquette, Mich.; and Nov. 12 and 13 hearings were held in Detroit, Mich., pt.3; Nov. 19 hearing was held in Duluth, Minn.; Nov. 20 hearing was held in Hibbing, Minn.; and Dec. 17 hearing was held in West Frankfort, Ill. Includes "Depressed Industrial Areas -- A National Problem," by the National Planning Assoc...
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)