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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
Gone, but not Forgotten refers to the author's maternal lineage:
the Ankrom family. She traveled far and wide to courthouses,
cemeteries, and libraries, gathering family information. This book
goes through the tenth generation of the Ankrom family, going back
into the 1700's, when Richard and Elizabeth Ankrom were living in
Frederick County, Maryland.
I just wanted to tell you that I have enjoyed your book "Alsop's
Tables." It's great It has answered some of my questions and also
helped to correct some mistakes in our genealogy lines of research.
I get to reading and cant put it down. We certainly would like to
receive additional volumes as they are published.
-Judd and Kathryn Allsop-Zillah, WA
What a magnificent book. I had no idea your were producing a
work of this magnitude. It is beyond my most sanguine
expectations.
-Benjamin P. Alsop Warthen-Attorney-At-Law-Richmond,
Virginia
Jerry Alsup is a genealogist without peer. His good nature and
devotion to his craft is contagious, one might even say
"Inspiring."
The member of this family lineage are going to enjoy reading
this author's book. It is scholarly, thorough, and yet very
readable.
-Jerry W. Owen, President, Tippah Co., MS Historical and
Genealogical Society
As an avid Alsop researcher and history buff, I have found the
most valuable sources for information on this family are the books
of Jerry Alsup. He provides the family migration patterns, history,
marriages, and wonderful stories of people, and he ties them, when
appropriate, with historical events. He has the unique knack of
narration that makes me feel like I am actually there when family
events happened.
-David Alsup-Long Beach, CA
This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales, by offering a critical account of her status as a media icon from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analyzing the ways in which she has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book goes on to assess the issues at stake in debates over the "meaning" of Diana, such as the gender politics of cultural icon-making and deconstruction, and conflicting notions of cultural value.
The popularity of studying our family history has been fueled by
popular TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and
Who Do You Think You Are? The ability to access records online has
opened up the one time hobby for genealogy enthusiasts to the
mainstream. Companies like Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org,
Findmypast.com, and MyHeritage have spent millions of dollars
making records available around the world. DNA technology continues
to evolve and provides the instant gratification that we have
become use to as a society. But then the question remains, what
does that really mean? Knowing your ancestry is more than just
ethnic percentages it's about creating and building a story about
your family history. The Family Tree Toolkit is designed to help
you navigate the sometimes overwhelming and sometimes treacherous
waters of finding your ancestors. Here is a roadmap to help you on
this journey of discovery, whether you are looking for your African
Asian, European, or Jewish ancestry. The Family Tree Toolkit guides
you on how and where to begin, what records are available both
online and in repositories, what to do once you find the
information, how to share your story and of course DNA discoveries.
This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over
the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some
500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here.
Besides pseudonyms in the narrower sense, initials, nick names,
order names, birth and married names etc. are included. The volumes
1 to 9 list persons by their real names in alphabetical order. To
make the unequivocal identification of a person easier, year and
place of birth and death are provided where available, as are
profession, nationality, the pseudonym under which the person was
known, and finally, the sources used. The names of professions
given in the source material have been translated into English
especially for this encyclopaedia. In the second part, covering the
volumes 10 to 16, the pseudonyms are listed alphabetically and the
real names provided. Approx. 500,000 pseudonyms of about 270,000
persons First encyclopedia including pseudonyms from all over the
world, all times and all occupations Essential research tool for
anyone wishing to identify persons and names for his research
within one single work
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A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, Who Spell the Name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby Family in England, Descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk; 3
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Willard Goldthwaite B 1868 Bixby
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Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary is the first Western language account of medieval landholding and noble society in Hungary. Rady indicates that although all noble land was held by the ruler, a complex web of relationships still permeated the Hungarian nobility. In his discussion of the institutions of lordship, clientage and office-holding, the author draws direct parallels between medieval Hungary and its better-known Western neighbors.
Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unanimously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and continue to reverberate today. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets and dramatists.
This important volume in onomastics, the study of names, presents a
listing of Yiddish first names in the modern period: 1750 to the
present day. Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon resumes, collects,
documents, and corrects the available body of research on Yiddish
given names. It aims to establish the modern corpus and give the
origins of the names therein. Rella Israly Cohn has amassed and
preserved a number of names that have become extremely rare, almost
to the point of disappearing, and correctly identified their
sources using a number of works both commonly available and
difficult to find. The book begins with preliminary material that
orients the reader, explains technical terms and classifications,
and describes the evolution of Yiddish names throughout their
history. Following is the lexicon itself, which is comprised of
over 250 names with variant forms and alphabetized according to the
English transliteration. Each entry relates the Yiddish name to its
source language, shows a source form, and gives the attestations of
the name in its various forms in the earliest written works.
Concluding with several appendixes that offer additional
information and assist in reference and accessibility, this
significant work will serve scholars in onomastics, linguistics,
and Yiddish and will be of interest to both scholars and laypersons
researching their family history or the cultural legacy of the
Jewish community worldwide.
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