Archive CD Books Canada NEWSLETTER V4#7 - 20 November, 2007
Contents:
1 WELCOME
2 WHAT’S IN THE NEWSLETTER
3 NEW CANADIAN RELEASES (1)
4 COMING SOON
5 NEW PARTNER RELEASES
5.1 USA (10)
6 NEWS & GOSSIP
7 FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
8 PREVIOUSLY RELEASED BOOKS
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1 WELCOME:
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2 WHAT’S IN THE NEWSLETTER:
We are proud to announce that this month we are releasing a brand new, never before published, book which promises to be the definitive handbook of early Canadian daguerreotypists. What's a Daguerreotype? Well, it's a photograph taken using one of the two earliest photographic processes and produced a single positive image on a silvered copper plate. These early images are highly prized today by specialists and collectors and good ones change hands for significant amounts of money. What is so special about this process, apart from its historical importance, is that the images it produced are startlingly clear and have an amazing tonal range. In addition the silvered substrate has a reflective quality leading the photographs to be referred to as "mirrors with a memory."
From the genealogists point of view however, other than identifying these particular individuals, their trade placed the ability to record a likeness within the financial reach of almost everyone, and by recognizing the daguerreotype artists who worked in a particular area it may be possible to trace the early images of a family member to one of the collections identified in the index. Look carefully at this book - it will not be available from any other publisher.
There is also an important announcement about one of our CDs released last month.
From our US partner there are 10 new titles. See section 5.
Great news of literally thousands of price reductions and of 15 limited time specials just in time for Christmas. See section 6.
Plus the usual news, gossip and announcements.
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Alternatively you can browse through the catalogue using the drop down headings lists. We have tried to multi-list books where they correspond to more than one category but consider the possibility that the subject you are looking for may be under a related heading.
There is frequently more information about the books available on the web site than that which is included in the following descriptions. All prices in $Cdn.
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3 NEW CANADIAN RELEASES
* A Biographical Index of Daguerreotypists in Canada 1839-1871
CA0246 $55.00
Compiled and written by one of Canada's foremost experts on early photography, Graham W. Garrett, this index provides the most complete and exhaustive listing of people and companies in Canada involved in the making of images using the process invented by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1839, and so known as daguerreotypes. Also referred to as "Sun painting" this early photographic process was immediately in competition with the process announced by William Henry Fox Talbot, in the same year, which produced calotypes, also known as talbotypes, or to use Fox Talbot's own words, "photogenic images."
The first daguerreotype to be taken in Canada was recorded in April of 1840 and soon there was an explosion of entrepreneurial daguerreotypists to fill the demand by people wanting to have an accurate portrait recorded without the high cost of employing an artist for days or weeks. The same growth applied to those engaged in supporting the daguerreotypists by providing supplies and applying post-process colouring to their products. The trade continued for about 30 years before the daguerreotype, also called "the mirror with a memory," was mostly replaced by images made using one of the numerous alternative processes which followed from Daguerre's and Fox Talbot's early breakthroughs.
This index identifies about 780 individuals and companies whose activities related in some way to the daguerreian process and includes all information that could be found about the location of their activities, their lives, their relationships as well as giving references to recorded evidence of their activity.
To further assist researchers the author provides finding aids to help locate listed individuals through their geographical location or by a selection of useful "keywords." Further research background is provided by a bibliography of over 150 contemporary editorials giving the date of publication and identifying the newspaper carrying it. Finally there are nine appendices accumulating listings of nearly all the referenced publications, institutions, exhibitions etc. mentioned in the index.
Everyone interested in tracing the origins of early daguerreotypes, and the daguerreotypists who took them, is going to want to keep this index at hand. It is expected to be the basic key to all research on this subject from now on. Those who have already seen early draft versions of this index have said:
Every time I consult your index I am astonished at its scope and depth - you - Sir are brilliant! -JS.
My lord - what a piece! Your work is really incredible - the minutiae of it all is really humbling. You've spent literally countless hours on this and it shows. This is indeed the place where one must commence. "Get Garrett on dags" is going to be some sort of byword I think. -RA.
This CD is fully searchable using the "search" and / or "find" functions of a PDF reader. Runs on any computer fitted with a CD reader and having a PDF reader application installed. We recommend the use of Adobe Reader™ version 7 or higher. We have enabled the FastFind technology on this CD to speed up your searches.
* Ottawa Past and Present
CA0260: $23.00
Not strictly a new release but when we first released this great Ottawa Valley history last month we had found that there was a picture missing and mentioned it in the books description. Well, thanks to the generosity of Karen, one of our long time supporters, we have now been able to add the page with the missing pictures of bridges across the Chaudiere and Ottawa River falls to the CD so that the book is now complete and an even better deal.
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4 COMING SOON:
The flurry of activity in getting our original release ready delayed our work on the Gt. War books about the Black Watch, as well as the work on the local history book. We are now back to a more normal schedule and hope to have good news on these releases next month.
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5 NEW RELEASES FROM OUR PARTNERS:
We frequently foreshorten the descriptions of the new releases published in this newsletter. Please check the on-line catalogue on our web site to ensure you are receiving all the available information.
5.1 NEW IRISH RELEASES:
* Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England (My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking)
US0303: $24.90
Author: Ernest Flagg, Pages: 440, Pub. Date: (1926)
The book is structured as an account of the author's own ancestors, but Flagg goes well beyond the title of this volume and provides extensive information on more than one hundred early New England families, in some cases for several generations. He includes extensive biographical information, full lists of children, and, where available, data on their English origins.
An extensive introduction provides historical background on the settling of New England and the conditions of life in colonial times. This is followed by an outline presentation of the author's ancestors in pedigree form. This section is supported by the core of the book, which devotes a page or more to each ancestral couple, including biographical data and the list of children. Flagg is careful to tell us the sources of his information. There are portraits of many of the subjects of the accounts.
Next comes a substantial section presenting what the author had learned of the English origins of more than fifty of the families treated above. In a number of instances, these are the definitive accounts of the English origin, with extensive abstracts from English records, especially parish registers.
The volume concludes with a section that looks more closely at some of the difficult genealogical problems in the book, or presents copies of documents relating to some of the families.
* The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island - Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 (With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation)
US0305: $24.90
Author: John Osborne Austin, Pages: 452, Pub. Date: (1887)
Austin has compiled accounts of more than 460 families who settled in Rhode Island during the seventeenth century, tracing some of the families to the third generation and others to the fourth, including both male and female lines. These accounts include extensive extracts from original sources.
Among the original source material, Austin placed special emphasis on probate records, with full abstracts of the wills and inventories of many first, second and third generation settlers. He made a special effort to summarize the officeholding of each settler, and also included information on land transactions and religious affiliations.
More than 90 of the accounts are taken to the birth of the fourth generation. The families so treated are generally the earliest settlers, and include most of the early religious and civic leaders of the colony. For most sketches, whether of three generations or four, the members of the final generation listed were born from about the 1690s to the 1730s. Some of the accounts include information on the European origins of the settlers, and, where pertinent, on earlier residence in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783
US0308: $14.90
Author: Kegley, F.B., Pages: 850, Pub. Date: (1938)
Through the extensive use of contemporary documents, Kegley traces the westward course of migration into the interior of Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing much detail on the settlement and development of communities in the upper reaches of the James and Roanoke rivers.
The author devotes just a few pages to the developments prior to 1740, reproducing letters and official documents relating to the exploration of the Virginia backcountry. The bulk of the book is devoted to the years from 1740 to 1783, with substantial sections on the land grants and settlements from 1740 to 1760, on the activities during the French and Indian War, on further developments from 1760 to 1770, and finally on the organization and early years of Botetourt County.
As the chronological and topographical treatment proceeds, the author sets forth abstracts of thousands of land grants, organized by time period and by section of the watershed. These basic records are supplemented by militia lists, business records and many other documents.
The text is supported by many maps drawn especially for this volume, some showing the distribution of settlements along the various watercourses, and others platting out groups of land grants at some of the early settlements. Many photographs of surviving early buildings are also included.
* Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England - Made in the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860
US0312: $14.00
Author: Samuel G. Drake, Pages: 143, Pub. Date: (1860)
Drake collected all the passenger lists of emigrants leaving England for New England in the years before 1676. He included lists from the port of London, as well as lists from some of the out-ports, along with a few contemporaneous private compilations.
The largest part of this volume consists of the names of the New England and Caribbean bound passengers found in the London port book for the period from Christmas 1634 to Christmas 1635. Lesser lists are taken from the London port book for 1632, and from surviving 1630s lists from the ports of Yarmouth, Southampton, Ipswich and Sandwich.
To these Drake has added Daniel Cushing's private record of the earliest immigrants to Hingham, Massachusetts, and also the lists of Scottish prisoners sent to New England in 1651.
* Reference Gazetteer of the United States of North America (Containing a General View of the United States, and of Each State and Territory, and a Notice of the Various Canals, Railroads, and Internal Improvements)
US0325: $14.90
Author: William Chapin, Pages: 354, Pub. Date: (1839)
Chapin has captured an immense amount of data depicting the topographical organization of the United States at a critical point in its history when the Industrial Revolution was transforming the countryside. There is information on physical features, political divisions and transportation networks.
There are entries for each state, accounts of the cities, towns and villages, even down to the smallest of rural post offices. Population figures are included where available. Chapin gathered his data when the country was on the road to economic recovery after the Panic of 1837.
Despite the promises of his title the building of canals and of national roads had been underway for some time, but the construction of railroads was in its earliest years. As a result, the years around and immediately after the date of this gazetteer would have as great an impact on the economy of the country as the Interstate Highway system of the 1950s and 1960s. In each state account, Chapin takes great care to list each of the canal and railroad building projects recently completed or then underway, with the mileage completed or contemplated for each canal or railroad.
* Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives
US0343: $39.90
Pages: 3408, Pub. Date: (1853-1882)
Historically almost half of the laws passed by Congress have been private acts applying to a single person or a specified group of people from entrepreneurs to destitute soldiers and widows. Beginning with 10 claims in 1789 the petitions escalated to a high of over 6000 in 1905/6. Most frequently initiated by an individual (or a group of his heirs) these petitions ranged from requests to provide pensions for service in military engagements beginning with the Revolution and continuing through the Indian engagements to the present; restitution for property lost, damaged or destroyed due to government actions (or inaction); bounty land; land titles; patent extensions; payment for services rendered; and a myriad of other personal items that its citizens wanted the government to fix.
In 1853 the House of Representatives authorized the publication of a list of the private claims presented to the House from the 1st through the 31st Congress. These three volumes contained over 2200 pages listing over 55,000 claims. A fourth volume was authorized covering the 32nd through the 41st Congresses and a fifth continued the series to the 46th Congress. These added an additional 40,000 claims for a total of almost 100,000 claims. Each individual claim includes the name of the claimant, the nature of the claim, when and how it was brought before the House, to what committee it was referred, the number of the report if printed, if not, the date of the report, how the claim was disposed of by the House and, if passed by both Houses, the date of the Act of Congress.
While the bulk of the claims were for pensions, arrears of pay or compensation for property taken or destroyed, land claims ran a close second-from bounty land claims to right of preemption to a mill seat. No claim was too large or too small -one woman applied for relief for loss of husband in public service. Jonathan Painter, a black man wanted payment for services as a spy in 1812, and J.R. O'Bierne wanted part of the reward for capturing John Wilkes Booth. Some petitioners wanted to double-dip- one woman petitioned for pension as a widow of two Revolutionary soldiers and another petitioned for a pension for Revolutionary services of three brothers. Many of these claims never became law, but even if they didn't they generated paper-paper that provides details about our ancestors. And this index is the first step in getting to the additional paperwork found in the records of the House of Representatives's Claims Committees [NARA Record Group 233].
The text is fully searchable and the search engine searches across all five volumes simultaneously. (Although the lists are presented alphabetically, it can still be laborious to check each of the three time periods and, of course, there is no index to places, events or organizations.) Search capabilities include single words or phrases; and/or searches, proximity and boolean searches; whole words only, case sensitive and stemming searches. Locating your ancestor in one of these volumes will start you on a whole new adventure in your search for your ancestors.
* Historic Towns of New England
US0345: $19.90
Author: Lyman P. Powell, ed., Pages: 630, Pub. Date: (1899)
Powell conceived the idea of a historical tour of old New England towns, with a lecture on each town by a local authority. This volume, the first in a series of such tours, collects those lectures for about a dozen early towns, including Plymouth, Boston, Hartford, New Haven, Newport and Deerfield.
Powell was able to arrange for some of the leading historians and antiquarians of the late nineteenth century to prepare lectures for his tour group, scholars such as George Sheldon, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Edward Everett Hale. As a result, this volume presents an excellent picture of the state of local historical research of a century ago. Also, by utilizing different experts for each town, we hear a different voice in each chapter, and see these towns in a variety of ways.
Among the more interesting of the portrayals included here are those for some of the less well-known towns, such as Rutland and Deerfield in Massachusetts. Deerfield was famous for suffering one of the more spectacular Indian raids in the late seventeenth century, which is described here. Rutland, which narrowly missed becoming the county seat of Worcester County, was the home of Manasseh Cutler, the organizer of one of the more important companies engaged in the settlement of Ohio in the years around 1800. That story is recounted in the context of the wider picture of Rutland as a typical New England country town.
The volume contains many photographs and engravings of local scenes and of prominent local citizens.
* List of Ex-Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Living in Iowa
US0352: $24.90
Author: William L. Alexander, Pages: 782, Pub. Date: (1886)
Tracking migrating ancestors is often an exercise in frustration. One infrequently used, but often successful, tool is tracking military service.
This volume authorized by the Iowa General Assembly in 1884, lists U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps veterans of the War of 1812, the Black Hawk and Mexican wars, and the War of the Rebellion. The editor chose to list those serving in the War of the Rebellion and the Mexican War, by the state and unit in which they enlisted and served and then alphabetically. The state unit in which they served is noted for those with War of 1812 service. This allows the researcher not only to identify the state of origin of his ancestor, but also the names of other individuals who served with him. Almost 17,000 of the those listed were from Iowa, 3200 were from Ohio, 1600 from Pennsylvania, 1700 from New York while only 14 were from Colorado. Information collected included, the rank, company, regiment, battery or vessel in which they served and the present (then) residence. Occasional footnotes indicate instate moves between the date of information collection and publication.
* Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri
US0354: $24.90
Author: R.A. Campbell, Pages: 806, Pub. Date: (1874)
Although described as a gazetteer, this volume is also a guide to the state detailing its physical, commercial and manufacturing attributes. The material is presented in alphabetical order by county.
A brief history of the beginning of the settlement in the county (often listing the names of the first settlers) sets the stage. The reader is also provided with population figures taken from the federal censuses, a description of the county's physical features including waterways and land forms, its agricultural production, manufacturing interests, wealth, exports, railroads, and educational facilities.
An index of the current (1874) post offices at the beginning of the text identifies the county in which it lies and notes the name of any railroad which served that town. As with most areas, there is some duplication of names, for example, a Thomasville in both Owen and Randolph counties and a Union City in both Atchison and Jasper counties. Information about the counties was solicited from over 500 contributors. These are listed in the front of the book with their occupation and residence.
The last section of the gazetteer includes a general discussion of the topography of the state, its railroads, educational facilities, history, religious denominations, climate, and the physical geography including geology, mines and useful minerals, waters, prairies, timber soils and pottery clays. Surveyors and land entrepreneurs have long been known to gage the quality of the soil by the types of trees found upon it. The geology section gives an extensive discussion of the connection between the two.
* Iowa as it is in 1855; A Gazetteer for Citizens and a Handbook for Immigrants
US0388: $14.00
Author: N. Howe Parker, Pages: map + 285, Pub. Date: (1855)
This "Gazetteer for Citizens and Handbook for Immigrants" contains many details that will help you to understand the conditions and obstacles that were faced by the early immigrants to the prairies of Iowa.
The description of each county includes its physical location, early history, and the main cities and town. Also included in many cases are the early settlers or settlements, churches, schools, streams, mountains, and other physical features, as well as the churches, businesses, schools, banks, and other economic characteristics of the area.
State-wide descriptions of the climate, soil, geology, railroads and a variety of statistics are provided as are detailed descriptions of the government (including a list of political figures from the previous 10 years), education, religion, and banking in the State. Similar descriptive material is provided for Western Iowa and Nebraska.
Fascinating advice is provided for immigrants to the area in relation to the "selection, entry, or purchase, and cultivation of prairie lands." Another section attempts to prepare the immigrant for the realities of pioneer life with a sobering warning.
The original color township map from this book is rarely found in any form but is included on this CD in beautiful high-resolution. Its details include "Streams, Roads, Towns, Post Offices, County Seats, Works of Internal Improvement, &c, &c" as of 1855.
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6 NEWS & GOSSIP:
If any of you have genealogy related questions of a general nature - or something specifically related to Archive CD Books - we'd be glad to publish your question in this newsletter to tap into the enormous fund of knowledge which I know is out there.
ALL PRICE CUTS COMPLETED:
We completed making all the price cuts in our catalogue within a week of the last newsletter so now is the time to take advantage of the strong Canadian dollar - while it lasts.
LIMITED TIME SPECIALS:
The following titles are being offered at 20% off their regular price for a limited period:
- Anzac Memorial, AU0029, Reg. $32.30, SPECIAL $25.80
- Queensland (Australia) Police Gazette Compendium 1901-1905, AU4103C-1901, Reg. $81.40, SPECIAL $65.10
- Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918, AU6016, Reg. $28.20, SPECIAL $22.60
- Extracts from Portsmouth (England) Records 1891, BRA004, Reg. $36.40, SPECIAL $29.10
- The Story of Dundas (Ontario, Canada) - 1905, CA0087, Reg. $28.00, SPECIAL $22.40
- The Royal Montreal (Canada) Regiment …., CA0100-S, Reg. $35.00, SPECIAL $28.00
- Anson Gard's "Ottawa Valley" (Canada)- …, CA0196, Reg. $35.00, SPECIAL $28.00
- The Universal Directory of Great Britain - 1791, GB1134, Reg. $59.50, SPECIAL $47.60
- Henderson's Belfast (Ireland) Directory 1850, IET0076, Reg. $30.90, SPECIAL $24.70
- Denvir's The Irish in Britain, 1892, IET0077, Reg. $30.90, SPECIAL $24.70
- Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland, 1894, IET0084, Reg. $74.30, SPECIAL $59.40
- Macfarlane’s Genealogical Collections (Scotland), SCA001, Reg. $40.50, SPECIAL $32.40
- Genealogical Notes on… New England (USA), US0303, Reg. $24.90, SPECIAL $19.90
- The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (USA), US0305, Reg. $24.90, SPECIAL $19.90
- A Catalogue of … Early Puritan Settlers of… Connecticut (USA), US0309, Reg. $24.90, SPECIAL $19.90
7 FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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25 November 2007: The Halton Peel Branch OGS is having its monthly meeting this Sunday. Speaker-J. Brian Gilchrist. Topic-To be annnounced. Chinguacousy Public Library, 150 Central Park Dr., Brampton.
For more info contact Jane Watt 905-281-1701 or jwatt@ica.net
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8 December 2007: The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) will be holding its monthly meeting at the Library & Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington St. Ottawa. Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am. Speaker: David Roger. Topic: Ottawa through the Years. Contact: (613)234-2520 or e-mail queries@bifhsgo.ca . Web site: www.bifhsgo.ca
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28, 29 March 2008: The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is holding their annual "GENE-O-RAMA" Conference and Show. Location; Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepoint Drive, Ottawa. See < http://ogsottawa.on.ca/geneorama/ > for details.
WE ARE PLANNING TO SUPPORT THIS EVENT
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30 May, 1 June 2008: The annual OGS "Conference 2008." Held this year at Fanshaw College, London, Ontario. International speakers, Vendors, 45 Presentations. Contact < www.ogs.on.ca/conference > or e-mail conference@ogs.on.ca .
WE ARE PLANNING TO SUPPORT THIS EVENT
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In September of 2008, the Penetanguishene Museum & Archives will be hosting a reunion of all Drummond Island families. The Beck Memorial Fundraising Dinner and the Settlers' Day events will honour these families. We hope to make it a week-end long event with many activities for all ages. Planning is already underway and volunteers to assist in any way are being sought. Contact: Pam Tessier, Research Coordinator, Genealogy & History research Centre, Penetanguishene Museum & Archives. e-Mail: pamtessier@sympatico.ca
DON’T FORGET WE CAN HELP YOUR GROUP TO SPREAD THE NEWS. E-MAIL US.
8 PREVIOUSLY RELEASED BOOKS:
Archives of this newsletter showing all the previous release announcements are available in the newsletter archive which can be reached through,
http://www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca/NewsletterArchive.html
All our newly released books are listed on our web site in the "New Releases and Special Offers" page. Go to:
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for an instant update on our new products or look through the "New Releases" category in the on-line catalogue.
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