Download or read book Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

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Download or read book Ancestry s Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry.com. This book was released on 1992 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the middle, Red Book has information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps. In short, the Red Book is simply the book that no genealogist can afford not to have."--Description from Amazon.com.

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Download or read book Appealing for Liberty written by Loren Schweninger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal systemlawyers, judges, juries, and testimonythat made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."

Download or read book District of Columbia Probate Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These probate records include wills, administrations of estates, some appointment of guardians and a few indentures of apprenticeship. This work contains detailed abstracts of 1,260 wills and listings of 3,406 estate records. Data was taken from will books and estate files found in the D.C. Archives and National Archives. Many entries include additional information from newspaper accounts and other sources." -- Cover [p.4].

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