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Book Hidden History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Rainville
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2014-02-12
  • ISBN : 0813935350
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Hidden History written by Lynn Rainville and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people who are typically underrepresented in historical research but whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our national past. Rainville studied above-ground funerary remains in over 150 historic African American cemeteries to provide an overview of mortuary and funerary practices from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Combining historical, anthropological, and archaeological perspectives, she analyzes documents—such as wills, obituaries, and letters—as well as gravestones and graveside offerings. Rainville’s findings shed light on family genealogies, the rise and fall of segregation, and attitudes toward religion and death. As many of these cemeteries are either endangered or already destroyed, the book includes a discussion on the challenges of preservation and how the reader may visit, and help preserve, these valuable cultural assets.

Book Vital records of Danvers

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  • Author : The essex institute
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 5875510021
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Vital records of Danvers written by The essex institute and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

Download or read book A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries written by David Allen Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cemetery names; year of consecration of cemetery or oldest known gravestone or burial; location of cemetery; printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery from New England Historic Genealogical Society, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and official Massachusetts vital records to 1850; and contact information for office affiliated with cemetery.

Book Modern Cemetery

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Modern Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn  1292 1836

Download or read book A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn 1292 1836 written by Lynn, Eng. Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee

Download or read book Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1987 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fabulous work is a county-by-county guide to the genealogical records and resources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville. Based largely on the Tennessee county records microfilmed by the LDS Genealogical Library, it is an inventory of extant county records and their dates of coverage. For each county the following data is given: formation, county seat, names and addresses of libraries and genealogical societies, published records (alphabetical by author), W.P.A. typescript records, microfilmed records (LDS), manuscripts, and church records. The LDS microfilm covers almost every record that could be used by the genealogist, from vital records to optometry registers, from wills and inventories to school board minutes. There also is a comprehensive list of statewide reference works.

Book Fields of Stone

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  • Author : Earl Colvin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780975259504
  • Pages : 734 pages

Download or read book Fields of Stone written by Earl Colvin and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lynn Linn Lineage Quarterly

Download or read book Lynn Linn Lineage Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown  Rhode Island

Download or read book Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown Rhode Island written by Hollis A. Thomas, MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.