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Narrative of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger

3 Comments / Native American, Pennsylvania / 21 minutes of reading

The Narrative of Mary le Roy and Barbara Leininger. Who for four and a half years were captive among the Indians, and on the 6th May 1759 arrived happy in this city. From her own lips never written and promoted to the Press. This manuscript gives an account of the captivity and escape of these two girls, whose families lived on Penn’s Creek, in the present Union County, Pennsylvania. It also provides a lengthy list of names of other prisoners met by the two ladies in their captivity.

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Appalachian Colonists from the Mediterranean Basin

Leave a Comment / America, Featured NA, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia / / 3 minutes of reading

Last Updated on February 21, 2015 by Dennis Throughout the Southeastern United States can be found “old families” in rural areas whose appearance is not quite the same as the European or African peoples who colonized the region, but also not what a person with substantial indigenous ancestry looks like either. In earlier times they

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Families of Ancient New Haven

Leave a Comment / Connecticut, Featured, Free Genealogy Archives, Genealogy / 12 minutes of reading

The Families of Ancient New Haven compilation includes the families of the ancient town of New Haven, covering the present towns of New Haven, East Haven, North Haven, Hamden, Bethany, Woodbridge and West Haven. These families are brought down to the heads of families in the First Census (1790), and include the generation born about 1790 to 1800. Descendants in the male line who removed from this region are also given, if obtainable, to about 1800, unless they have been adequately set forth in published genealogies.

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Index to Articles found in the El Farol Newspaper 1905-1906

1 Comment / New Mexico / 4 minutes of reading

The Lincoln County New Mexico online archives contains pdf’s of all remaining copies of the El Farol Newspaper of Capitan NM, but doesn’t have an index to the newspaper. C. W. Barnum, an active member of AHGP, and state coordinator for the New Mexico AHGP recently invested his time and energy into providing an every person index to the various extant issues. He has shared this wonderful index with AccessGenealogy in hopes that it will reach a wider audience. Enjoy!

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Bartlett Family Genealogy

Leave a Comment / Free Genealogy Archives, Genealogy, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts / 13 minutes of reading

Typing on six onion skinned papers, Ralph Sylvester Bartlett presented his lineage in the early 1900’s. His Bartlett family were early pioneers in Kittery Maine in the section later known as Eliot Maine. Whether he ever meant to compile these pages into book form is left for you to interpret, but somebody did eventually compile the 6 pages they had of his family tree. We provide the entire 6 pages in digital format below the transcription.

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History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa

Leave a Comment / Free Genealogy Archives, Iowa / 1 minute of reading

History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

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Cattaraugus Indian Reservation Map and Occupants, 1890

Leave a Comment / Native American, New York / 9 minutes of reading

Last Updated on September 28, 2016 by Dennis The Cattaraugus Reservation, in Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Erie Counties, New York, as delineated on the map, occupies both sides of Cattaraugus creek. It is 9.5 miles long on a direct east and west line, averages 3 miles in width at the center, dropping at is eastern line

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