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Zijl, Annejet van der

Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJ

Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford

Summary: "Marriages of Some Virginia Residents is a stupendous reference work and a recognized landmark in Virginia genealogy. Not only does it contain the records of approximately 40,000 marriages with references to about a quarter-million individuals, it also draws information from a body of sources altogether unique in genealogy. Unlike other published lists of marriages, traditionally based on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 3755 WUL VOL 1
Call number: R GEN 3755 WUL VOL 2

Smith, Clifford Neal.

Contents: pts. 1, 2, 3, and 4A: Surnames A through J -- 4B: Surnames K through Z -- 4C: Appendices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377177 SMI

Gaddy, K. R.

Summary: "An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8 GAD

Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt.

Summary: "The Name IS the Game" is a collection of illustrations and cautionary tales that can help family historians surmount the obstacles or avert the pitfalls associated with naming practices throughout the centuries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.4 Bockstruck

Mitchell, Brian

Summary: The dynamic history of North West Ireland can be seen in the richness and variety of it surnames. Mitchell has attempted to compile concise but informative histories of those surnames which are most closely associated, through numerical strength or uniqueness, with North West Ireland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 MIT

Meehan, Helen

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Meehan

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