Headley, Robert K. (Robert Kirk)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 HEAFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEGilmour, Stephen C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Reisinger 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 CAMPBELL GilmourSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESMoore, J. Staunton (Josiah Staunton)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 MooreSwift, Earl
Summary: On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 BURWeaver, Martin G. (Martin Good)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Publication Board] 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374815 WEAFerguson, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERRussell, Gareth
Summary: Takes us into every room of Hampton Court Palace-the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James's version of the Bible and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation ball, illustrating what was at play politically, socially and economically at the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: The Pioneer Family series of books provided by Helen Lewis is a compilation of family groupings derived from various primary and secondary sources for the county featured. Typically, the book is arranged alphabetically by surname of the families included and provides much information as to the origin of the family, their location in the county and at least a generation of descendants. The book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kinship 1995
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 929.377436 LEWPhillips, Richard Hayes
Summary: " In this groundbreaking work, Richard Hayes Phillips has collected the names of more than five thousand children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England, and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. By English law dated 1659, it was lawful for justices of the peace to kidnap children found begging or vagrant and ship them to the plantations as servants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 PHIContents: v. 1. General Sessions of the Peace, 1686-1721. The Court of Common Pleas, 1686-1702. -- v. 2-4. General Sessions of the Peace, 1719[-1827] -- v. 5-16. The Court of Common Pleas, 1702[-1859]
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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Glazier 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744 KRyan, James G.
Summary: Sligo's population of about 60,000 in 1792 rose to over 180,000 by the mid 1800s when trade was dominated by the flax, wool and linen industries serving the textile trade. This book sets out the records available for Sligo, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect in tracing Sligo families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 RyanMecosta Area History Book Committee
Summary: Presents a look at the centennial celebration of the Mecosta area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morton Township Library 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 929.377452 MECDuffy, Godfrey F.
Summary: Donegal has fewer genealogical records than most Irish counties. Donegal families are a mixture of native Gaelic families and Scots-Irish families who settled in the county from the 17th century onward. The records are both diverse in nature, and also widely scattered. Although the major sources are those within the Republic of Ireland, in which Donegal is situated, there are also some records...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flyleaf Press 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 DUFPotts, Allen L.
Summary: Given by Eugene Edge III."In order to be included in this study one had to have emigrated from a German-speaking region of Europe between 1823 and 1900, and lived in Marion County for a time. The study does not include those who migrated from eastern states two or three generations after the initial emigration from Europe. Mr. Potts has compiled an alphabetical list of immigrants--when possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 PottsSummary: According to author Roland Marmon, "the Turtle Mountain Chippewa are the most prominent of the Plains Chippewa tribes in America with a membership of nearly eighty thousand people. The Turtle Mountain Chippewa were also affiliated with the ethnically European and Indian mixed Métis people, who constitute the largest Indigenous group in Canada, and were caught between national identities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 TurtleRyan, James G.
Contents: Adminsitrative divisions -- Civil registration -- Census and census substitutes -- Church records -- Commercial and social directories -- Wills and administrations -- Gravestone inscriptions -- Newspapers -- Land records -- Family names and histories -- Further reading and miscellaneous sources -- Library, archive and society addresses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 RyanDobson, David
Summary: "Searching for Scotch-Irish Roots is the first book to collect the evidence scattered throughout manuscripts and some published works held in libraries and archives throughout Scotland, especially in the southwest. Mr. Dobson divides the records into five main categories: Church Records, Town (Burgh) Records, Court Records, Miscellaneous Government Records, and University and other private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2007
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3411 DobsonCallanan, Kathleen J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: K. Callanan 1998
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN Census Michigan Kalkaska 1900Buckingham, E. Tolley (Evelyn Tolley)
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.T. Buckingham 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 BuckiBufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 BUF1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 BUF