United States of America - Generic Books

THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS; United States of America; Eight Edition; The Everton Publishers, Inc., Logan, Utah; 1991. This book includes listings of where you may purchase various printed sources such as histories, censuses, immigration and naturalization records. Within each of the 50 states in this book is detail on when states formed, when counties formed, addresses for writing for various state/county records, telephone numbers of county offices, and detailed state maps showing county boundaries. Also included are Migration Trail Maps.

A CENSUS OF PENSIONERS FOR REVOLUTIONARY OR MILITARY SERVICES; WITH THEIR NAMES, AGES, AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE... UNDER THE ACT FOR TAKING THE SIXTH CENSUS; Bound with a General Index as prepared by The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Blair and Ives, Washington, D.C.; 1841; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 74-14050; International Standard Book Number 0-8063-0631-9; Reprinted Southern Book Company, Baltimore; 1954; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore; 1974, 1989, and 1996. Information in this book indexed by surname followed by given name of those in military service especially during American Revolution and still living in 1840.

FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF AMERICA INDEX; National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America; Washington, D.C.; 1975; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 88-83887; ISBN: 0-8063-1249-1; Reprinted by arrangement with the Society for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1989; 2003. NOTE: Founder is one who arrived in Colonies between May 13, 1607, and May 13, 1687. Index lists birth and death of each Founder and Patriot plus marriage date and name of wife, if known.

PASSPORTS OF SOUTHEASTERN PIONEERS 1770-1823; Indian, Spanish, and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina; Dorothy Williams Potter; Gateway Press, Inc.; 1982; Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc; Baltimore, Maryland; 1990; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 89-81678; ISBN 0-8063-1272-6; Second Printing 1994; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. in 2001 and 2002.
NOTE: Indexed by surname, followed by given name as well as indexed by various locations such as towns, waterways, etc. Book includes numerous footnotes to show source documentation.

THE YEAR OF DECISION; 1846; Bernard DeVoto; Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Massachusetts; 1943. NOTE: This book begins in January, 1846 and ends in September, 1847. It relates stories of a few pioneers who went west as well as how the U.S.A. was doing politically financially and diplomatically  within our borders and with other nations.

RESOLUTIONS LAWS AND ORDINANCES relating to the PAY, HALF PAY, COMMUTATION OF HALF PAY, BOUNTY LANDS, AND OTHER PROMISES MADE BY CONGRESS TO THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION, to the Settlement of the Accounts Between the United States and the Several States, and to Funding the Revolutionary Debt; Originally published Washington, D.C., 1838; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 97-77442; International Standard Book Number 0-8063-1337-4; Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1998. NOTES: Indexed by Surname followed by Given Name.

THE PENSION LIST OF 1820; (U.S. War Department); Reprinted with an Index by Murtie June Clark; Originally published in 1820 as "LETTER from THE SECRETARY OF WAR, transmitting a Report of the Names, Rank, and Line of Every Person Placed on the Pension List in Pursuance of the Act of the 18th March, 1818 & c"; January 20, 1820 read and placed on the table; Gales & Seaton; Washington, D.C.; 1820; Indexed and Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc; Baltimore, Maryland; 1991 and 2000. NOTES: Indexed by surname, followed by given name. Individual listed under the State for pension, rank, and line (where served during American Revolution).

THE PENSION LISTS OF 1792-1795 With Other Revolutionary War Pension Records; Compiled by Murtie June Clark; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 91-73507; International Standard Book Number 0-8063-1318-8; 1991 and 1996. NOTE: Indexed by surname, followed by given name.

INDEX TO U.S. INVALID PENSION RECORDS 1801-1815; Murtie June Clark; Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 91-70240; International Standard Book Number 0-8063-1304-8; Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1991. NOTE: Indexed by surname, followed by given name. Does not contain any information on any individual; but the Preface contains interesting information as to all the fires the original ledger survived.