Download or read book Chicago Heights written by Dominic Candeloro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Chicago Heights mirrors the growth and struggles of the entire nation. From determined settlers to visionary industrialists, from the power of rail to the vast intercontinental highway system, this Illinois city of hard workers and dynamic ethnic groups persevered through overwhelming obstacles to claim its place at the center of the Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book McCoy Story written by Dianne McCoy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Henry ever wanted was to escape the skinflint soil of his father's farm and make a life for himself, maybe make enough for a wife and children. Ordinary enough ambitions, but big enough to lead him across a continent, through near-fatal illness and betrayal to a shack in Edmonton, a blacksmith job, and finally a future. His determination resembled that of his forebears, and it was reason enough for this family history to be written. While Henry thought he had left the past behind in Quebec, his descendants were busy embroidering the family story. They spoke of Irish roots and leaving Cork for Canada. They stitched up traces of poor brother Will McCoy who had died a spectacular death in the wilds of North Dakota. Or was that South Dakota? Then they traced a long lost sister to California and coloured in a sad tale of how she got there. But how much of what they said was true? It was enough to set us off on a 15-year voyage through archives, libraries, family interviews, and places Henry had been to cobble together an answer.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Wheat Foster McCoy and Connected Families written by Laura Emily Wheat Foster and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical and Genealogical History of Morris and Sussex Counties New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William McCoy and His Descendants written by Lycurgus McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hatfields and the McCoys written by Otis K. Rice and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment. Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, and other documentary evident, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend. He weighs the evidence carefully, avoiding the partisanship and the attitude of condescension and condemnation that have characterized many of the writings concerning the feud. He sets the feud in the social, political, economic, and cultural context of eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining the legacy of the Civil War, the weakness of institutions such as the church and education system, the exaggerated importance of family, the impotence of the law, and the isolation of the mountain folk, Rice gives new meaning to the origins and progress of the feud. These conditions help explain why the Hatfield and McCoy families, which have produced so many fine citizens, could engage in such a bitter and prolonged vendetta
Download or read book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986 written by Library of Congress and published by Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States written by Willis M. Kemper and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genealogy and History of the Guild Guile and Gile Family written by Charles Burleigh and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abridged Biography and Genealogy Master Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy of the Robertson Small and Related Families written by Archibald Robertson Small and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Robertson (1752-1825) was born in Scotland, and in 1762, as an orphan, went to Ireland to live with his bachelor uncle, Gilbert Robertson. They immigrated in 1772 to Washington County, New York. William married Mary Livingston in 1775. Descendants lived throughout most of the United States.
Download or read book Spaid Genealogy from the First of the Name in this Country to the Present Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Nicholas Spaid (Spaht) was born in 1759 in Cassell, Hesse, Germany and was kidnapped for Hessian military service in the American Revolution in 1776. He married Elizabeth Cale (Kale) in 1782 and settled in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia). In 1819 they moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he died in 1833.
Download or read book History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family written by Lucius Egbert Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy of the McMillen and Gilliland Families written by Alonzo B. McMillen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Download or read book The George Washington McCoy Family of Mason County West Virginia written by Chester E. Bartram (Sr.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestors and descendants of George Riley Washington McCoy (1859-195), who was the son of Isaiah and Jane Stewart McCoy. He was born on Galispel Ridge at Capehart, a few miles back of Arbuckle, in Mason Co., Virginia (now West Virginia). In 1878 at the age of nineteen he married (1) Mary Abigail Strait (1858-1894), the daughter of William and Jane Cain Strait. She was born in Wetzel Co., Va. George and Mary McCoy had seven children. In 1903, George McCoy, married (2) Louisa Sayre (1878-1969). She was the daughter of Andrew J. Sayre and Sarah Jacobs. They had five children. Descendants live in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Bean s Cove Blair Clan Genealogy written by Bryce Dixon Blair and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brice Blair was born in about 1720. He married and had four known children by his first wife. He married Susanna and had two children, Rebecca (b. ca. 1759) and Brice (1762-1813). They both married McCoy's and settled in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri.
