Books published by Heritage Books

The original book on the ancestors and descendants of Ira Johnson and Abigail Furbush Johnson was accomplished by Gerald Garth Johnson in 1984. The format used at that time to report the names and dates of family members was modeled after the Genealogy of

Woodford County "was first surveyed and shaped in 1788, before the district of Kentucky was admitted to statehood, and was then a part of the county of Fayette..." This interesting account of the county's history is intermingled with biographical sketches o

A table of cases for criminal and civil actions, a full name and subject index, and a glossary of legal terms augment this work.

Captain John Johnson was an "uncommon man" because he devoted his life to the benefit of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the town of Roxbury. Johnson was about forty years old when he and his family immigrated to America aboard the Winthrop Fleet in 1630

Transcriptions of the original records in a volume of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas. This was done by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania.

A system was established in 1812 whereby the District of Columbia courts would record all births, deaths, and marriages in the city. The information presented here is taken from "Marriage Register 1" which contained the names of the bride and groom and th

Abstracts of the only surviving court records for the early years of Monongalia County derived from the District Court which served Monongalia, Harrison, Randolph, and Ohio counties, and the surrounding counties. The cases deal predominantly with civil ma

As found in the Surrogateâ¿¿s Court New York County, New York. The New York Historical Society, 1892-1908, and The Staten Island references found in the New Jersey Colonial Documents.

Genealogical data pertaining to Virginians and West Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War as derived from National Archives materials. It includes all men who the records show resided in Virginia or West Virginia either before or after the war, o

This book offers an important look at the American Revolution through British newspaper abstracts covering the last few years of the war. The abstracts, from January 1780 through September 1782, vary in content and include such things as extracts from let

Provides a master directory to the people who peddled their services and wares in early Alexandria. The entries were compiled from newspapers, property records, city directories, and census records. Each entry gives the name and occupation of the subject,

This latest edition, originally published in 1990, has been expanded to provide significantly more information for those researchers working on their English ancestry. Ms. Mellen describes at great length, and in detail, the major resources for researchin

Charlestown, originally known as No. 4, was first settled in 1740 by three families from Lunenburg by the name of Farnsworth. In 1744 a fort was begun for safety reasons; the Cape Breton war had commenced and the Indians had taken up their hatchets. The c

This reference should prove invaluable to researchers tracing land ownership in Florida because it provides abstracts of claims to lands in the unsettled Florida wilderness between 2 June 1825 and 20 January 1892. The files abstracted here are those of pe

This book identifies those who served in the army, navy, signers of oaths and non-signers. It contains vital statistics from eighty-four different sources; data on 12,000 men and women. "This book is far more than just a list of names, for careful research has been made to obtain genealogical data for many of those named. Data can vary from just one line to a full page, depending on the information at hand, and the prominence of the individual. In the case of officers, in a large majority of cases, it has been possible to establish the dates of their commissions, their promotions, their resignations, their companies, their pay certificates, their bounty lands, their dates of birth, death and marriage, and the names of their wives and children. Similar data is also included for the rank and file soldier, but all too frequently the only information available is the name on a muster or pay roll." Entries are arranged alphabetically. A full-name index completes this work.

In 1904 the Eastern Cherokees won large cash settlements from the United States because of violations of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. Over a million dollars was appropriated by Congress to settle the claims. The payments were to go to all living persons who had been members of the Eastern Cherokee tribe at the time of the treaty, or to their descendants if they were deceased. Over 46,000 people filed claims. This series of volumes presents detailed abstracts of those applications including numerous verbatim transcriptions of affidavits by the applicants, their families and friends. Since most of the applicants were descendants, rather than original tribe members, and had to prove their descent, the quantity of genealogical information in these volumes is staggering. About nine-tenths of the applicants lived west of the Mississippi in the early 1900s when they made their applications, with the balance living predominantly in the southeast. Although the applicants had to have Indian ancestry, the majority were nominally white; a significant number of blacks are also included. There is a complete name index.