Genealogy Update

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27 June 2004 - 03 July 2004

Tribal Migrations East of Mississippi
the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, and several times revised and reprinted, indicates the position of the various groups of tribes when they first became known to Europeans. The map, as its title implies, includes the entire North American continent north of Mexico, but in the present paper, only that portion bordering on the lower Mississippi, and eastward to the Atlantic coast, will be considered.

List of Sioux Indian Prisoners Confined at Camp Kearney, Davenport, Iowa, January 20, 1866 Imprisoned after the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862. List has number, name, age, term of imprisonment, expired. Images only.

Native American Nations

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
Every age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in American history, yet in the true sense they are unknown, because misunderstood. I should like to present some of the greatest chiefs of modern times in the light of the native character and ideals, believing that the American people will gladly do them tardy justice.

Connecticut Genealogy

Windham County, Connecticut Genealogy
The vast majority of information on this website is based upon History of Windham County, Connecticut, Bayles, Richard M.; New York: W.W. Preston, 1889.

Iowa Genealogy

Sac County Iowa Genealogy
This sketch is intended principally as a pen-picture of Sac County as it now is, and will include a short outline of its history and a few incidents of the life of the early settlers.

Miscellaneous Websites

Membership Required Websites

New England Historical and Genealogical Society

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
New Town Addition - Tewksbury

The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Volume 2

Eight New Family Sketches
They continue with their ongoing series of family sketches featured in The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Frank J. Doherty's multi-volume study of the settlers of the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. The following family sketches were added to the database this week:

Brown, Brownell, Browning, Brundage, Bryant, Buck, Buffington, and Bull.

Members of the East India Marine Society, Salem, Massachusetts

The Salem East India Marine Society was "composed of persons who navigated the seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, as masters or supercargoes of vessels belong to Salem. It was founded in October 1799, and obtained an act of incorporation in 1801."

This booklet of members and by-laws of the Society was published in 1870, at which time there were 100 living members out of the 382 admitted to the Society since its formation. The introduction describes the "chief objects of the Institution ... is that of affording relief to disabled seamen, and to the indigent widows and families of deceased members and others, and of promoting a knowledge of navigation and trade to the East Indies."

The list includes the names of all Society members up to 1870, as well as date of admission to the Society, and remarks, which mainly list dates and/or circumstances of death.

Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections

New this week: Transcriptions of the following cemeteries in Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut:
Coleytown Yard, Osborn-Gregory Family Yard, Den Cemetery, and Lyon's Plain Yard

Source: "Weston, Fairfield Co., Conn.: Inscriptions copied from the graveyards arranged with genealogical and historical notes and an index." Compiled by Francis F. Spies, 1934. Call number, MSS CT WES 40.

Vital Records of Surry, Maine, 1766-1823

The town of Surry, located in Hancock County, was established in 1803. These transcriptions of vital statistics were taken from town records and compiled in two volumes by Grace M. Limeburner in 1941.

Ancestry

United States
- Connecticut
  - New Haven Area, Connecticut City Directory, 1942-43
  - Northern Hartford County, Connecticut City Directory, 1980
- Iowa
  - Iowa History Up To the 20th Century
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
  - Central Missouri Counties Biographies
- Nebraska
  - Southeastern Nebraska Biographical and Genealogical History
- Washington
  - Tri City Herald (Pasco, Washington)
England
- Great Britain Army War List, January 1893

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