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An exciting new addition to any family historian's library, Family History: Digging Deeper will take your research to the next level. Joined by a team of expert genealogists, Simon Fowler covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. Helping you push back the barriers, this book details how to utilise the internet in your research and suggests some unusual archives and records which might just transform your...

"The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of Massachusetts. Though not without scoundrels and certainly no strangers...

Professor Gates's journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's ethnic mixture.

Kim Cattrall, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Tim McGraw team up with expert historians and genealogists to learn surprising, possibly life-changing truths about their ancestors and themselves. Also included are episodes featuring Steve Buscemi, Lionel Richie, Rosie O'Donnell, and Ashley Judd.

Contains over 3800 marriage records and over 7600 names of persons in the index.

Renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. weaves together genealogical detective work with cutting-edge DNA analysis to trace the ancestry of a diverse array of trailblazing public figures. The result is a captivating cross-section of history, illustrating that diversity is both America's strength and its constant.

Agthe Alken Ludemann, widowed in 1856 in Firrel, Hanover, Germany, came to the United States in 1857 with all but one of her children and located near Eureka, Illinois. Later, she moved with a daughter to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Agthe died in 1888 or 1889 at the age of 92. Descendants of Agthe, through her several sons and daughters, have been successful farmers and orchardists in several states ofa the midwest and the northwest.