When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search for their anc

A dictionary of surnames of the first settlers of New England and 3 successive generations prior to 1692.

Section describes examples of searches using computer databases, federal court records, indexes, justice of the peace records, and law library research, includi

A simple guide to tracing British family tree before the onset of civil registration in 1837 and back to the Middle Ages. The trail that an ancestor leaves thro